Early Modern Debts: 1550-1700 makes an important contribution to the history of debt and credit in Europe, creating new transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on problems of debt, credit, trust, interest, and investment in early modern societies. The collection includes essays by...

A delegation of labour scholars and practitioners first came to our university, the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in 2006, to engage with colleagues about establishing the Global Labour University on our campus. It was to be the second site after Germany, and we were all...

Introduction: Liquid borders. Migrancy as resistance / Mabel Moraña -- Proliferating borders in the battlefield of migration. Rethinking freedom of movement / Sandro Mezzadra -- Fugitives of the impossible life : transborders, migrations and displacements / José Manuel Valenzuela Arce -- The...

"Migration, participation, and citizenship are central political and social concerns in democratic societies and beyond. From the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and RegularMigration, international agreements portray individuals and...

The Great Divergence in standards of living for populations around the world occurred in the late 18th century. Prior to that date evidence suggests that real wages of most Europeans, many living in China and India were similar. Some a little higher and some a little lower but with a low...

In this study, we examined the differences between smoking and drinking in regard to their associations with socioeconomic factors among about 7,000 Japanese workers. Using microdata from nationwide surveys in Japan, we estimated bivariate probit models to jointly explore how smoking and...