global history of work - a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book … motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the …

This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle … broader issues such as labor markets, the regulation and institutions of seafaring, and industrial relations on the waterfront …. But at all points there is a common theme of sea-related labor, and a common objective of better understanding what have …