"Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and … conditions in the past, and what opportunities exist for them today? Global Labor Migration presents new multidisciplinary …, transregional perspectives on issues surrounding global labor migration. The essays go beyond disciplinary boundaries, with …

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Margaret Walsh -- 1 New Entry Points from USA Women's Labour History … the Labour History of Nineteenth-century British Shipping -- Valerie Burton 84 -- 6 Gendering the Stories of Socialism: An … History: Marriage Bars in Clerical Employment -- Robert Bennett 191 -- 12 'Treading the Double Path': American Women …

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the … past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources … and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We …