This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to...

The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

Introduction -- A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : introduction / Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore -- Co-operative history : movements and businesses / Mary Hilson -- Origins and models -- Rochdale and beyond : consumer co-operation in Britain before 1945 / Mary...

""Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move - often in large numbers - to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour". This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour,...