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On coerced labor : work and compulsion after chattel slavery

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Anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world, 1870 - 1940 : the praxis of national liberation, internationalism, and social revolution ; european social science...

Hirsch, Steven W. (contributor); … - 2010

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A global radical waterfront : the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, 1921-1937

Weiss, Holger - 2021

"This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers...

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A global history of consumer co-operation since 1850 : movements and businesses

Hilson, Mary (ed.); Neunsinger, Silke (ed.); … - 2017

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...

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Women's ILO : transnational networks, global labour standards and gender equity, 1919 to present

Boris, Eileen (ed.); Hoehtker, Dorothea (ed.); … - 2018

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Worlds of labour turned upside down : revolutions and labour relations in global historical perspective

Brandon, Pepijn (ed.); Jafari, Peyman (ed.); … - 2021

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...

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Home-based work and home-based workers (1800-2021)

Nilsson, Malin (ed.); Mazumdar, Indrani (ed.); … - 2022

workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes …

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Global agricultural workers from the 17th to the 21st century

Bauer, Rolf (ed.); Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van (ed.) - 2023

Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the...

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Potosí in the global silver age (16th-19th centuries)

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Potosi (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still nowadays, boasts the … world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and circulation … knowledge in the first section; environmental history and labor in the second section; silver flows, the heterogeneous world of …

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