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Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers
from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their
services. The author identifies seven major systems of migrant
labour: the North Sea System (mainly Westphalian workers heading
for the German and Dutch North Sea Coast and Walloon/French workers
bound for the Belgian and Zeeland coasts); the area between London
and the Humber; the Paris Basin; Provence, Languedoc and Catalonia;
Castile; Piedmont; and central Italy with Corsica. A detailed study
of the first of these systems, tracing its development and changes,
is brought into a synchronic relation with data for the other
regions. The evidence shows major waves of immigration in the
seventeenth century, and a rapid diminution of migratory labour to
the North Sea in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a time
when new 'pull areas' were created by the expanding industrial
complexes of Germany and labour began to come in from areas outside
Europe.
Established in 1935, the International Institute of Social History
(IISH) is one of the world's leading research institutes focused on
social history and holds one of the richest collections in the
field. This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of
the IISH's longtime director Jaap Kloosterman, who built the
institute into a world leader in the field.
These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen
movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The
phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European
nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia.
The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often
unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants'
identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates
about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The
contributors explore the historical background and contemporary
significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class
composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant
population.
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from
the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day "Beginning in the
hunting-and-gathering past, this long view of work shows how little
has changed over millennia. Progressing through the rise of cities,
wages and markets for labour, it traces a perennial cycle of
injustice and resistance-and the age-old desire for more."-The
Economist, "Best Books of 2021" "Absolutely fascinating. . . .
Lucassen's own compassion shines through this magisterial
book."-Christina Patterson, The Guardian We work because we have
to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering more than
700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have
always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan
Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor
throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas,
and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes
work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He
examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the
watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action
of workers; and the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of
leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to
the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising
account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws
essential light on the opportunities we face today.
Every age has had its rebels: socialists, peace activists, sexual
reformers, fundamentalists, and more. The collections of the
International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam are
full of them. The IISH is the world's largest documentation centre
in the field of social history and emancipation movements. This
book looks back on seventy-five years of the IISH and its
collections, with a focus on creative ideas and people who fought
for radical change, from Karl Marx to Aung San Suu Kyi, the French
Revolution to the Chinese student revolt of 1989, from the early
modern world explorers to today's anti-globalists.
In the celebrated words of Sir William Temple, the Dutch Republic
of the United Provinces was 'the fear of some, the envy of others,
and the wonder of all their neighbours'. This 1996 book looks at
the history of the Dutch Republic from a comparative perspective,
and provides a comparative study of key issues in Dutch history
from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Contributors
examine political, cultural, economic and social developments in
the Netherlands in an interrelated way, and in doing so shed light
on historical developments in other parts of west and central
Europe. In contrast with previous comparative studies in European
early modern history, this book concentrates on comparisons within
the central belt of Europe running from north Italy through
southern Germany, Flanders, the Dutch Republic and England. An
editorial introduction and conclusion place the individual chapters
within a coherent framework.
New approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional
history have re-examined guilds - not least within the framework of
a re-appraisal of the classic distinction between the "capitalist"
and "pre-capitalist" modes of production. These fresh approaches
are unravelling the reasons why guilds were established, and why
they could maintain themselves so long. International comparisons
have fostered this rejuvenation of guild studies; awareness is
growing that guilds are not just a European phenomenon, but have
been prominent all over Northern Africa and the Middle East, as
well as in many parts of Asia, including China and Japan. This
volume attempts to set up a comparative framework to analyse the
functioning of guilds from West to East, in the period between
Classical Antiquity and the Industrial Revolution.
The recent wave of globalization has a profound impact on labour.
Consequently, research in the field of labour and working-class
history has become less Eurocentric and more global over the last
twenty years. Outstanding specialists take stock of the
globalization of the field in eighteen essays. Two introductory
essays discuss the theoretical consequences of this development as
well as the early historiography of labour and working-class
history. Next, ten essays provide an exceptionally complete
coverage of recent historiographical trends in the labour history
of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America,
Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia.
Finally, six case studies research worldwide and comparative
aspects of global labour history, developing best practices in this
new and difficult field. They include a wide variety of occupations
and economic sectors: agricultural labour, domestic labour, brick
making, coal mining and the work done in the docks and on the
railways on different continents.
In the celebrated words of Sir William Temple, the Dutch Republic
of the United Provinces was 'the fear of some, the envy of others,
and the wonder of all their neighbours'. This book looks at the
history of the Dutch Republic from a comparative perspective, and
provides the first comparative study of key issues in Dutch history
from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Contributors
examine political, cultural, economic, and social developments in
the Netherlands in an interrelated way, and in doing so shed new
light on historical developments in other parts of west and central
Europe. In contrast with previous comparative studies in European
early modern history, this book concentrates on comparisons within
the central belt of Europe running from north Italy through
southern Germany, Flanders, the Dutch Republic, and England. An
editorial introduction and conclusion place the individual chapters
within a coherent framework.
During the last decade studies have indicated that migration has
been a normal, structural element of human societies throughout
history. Progress in migration and settlement studies under this
new paradigm has been so substantial that a new state of the art is
needed. This book presents a reconsideration of current theoretical
perspectives encompassing enlightened insights in diverging
specialisms in the field of migration history, such as slavery
studies, ethnic history, macro-economic migration studies, and
gypsy studies. The seventeen essays in this volume, written by
leading scholars in the field, collectively represent a pioneering
effort in migration and settlement studies. They address the
problems of ongoing specialization (and hence the need for
synthesis) and the difficulties of integrating the consequences of
this new paradigm into general histories.
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