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Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive
occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded
so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated
in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project
goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop
a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long
historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports
worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port
studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour,
their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers
and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter.
The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour,
patterns of strike action and involvement in political
organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and
descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of
investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies
which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the
port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring
themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the
rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various
approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several
configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future
research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most
sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international
history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this
essential reference work.
This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on
the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world
during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending
to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out
to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action.
The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution
of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from
South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America.
Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this
collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism
of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which
integrates political, social and cultural history. Chapter 8 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via Link.springer.com
During the last four decades the German Revolution 1918/19 has only
attracted little scholarly attention. This volume offers new
cultural historical perspectives, puts this revolution into a wider
time frame (1916-23), and coheres around three interlinked
propositions: (i) acknowledging that during its initial stage the
German Revolution reflected an intense social and political
challenge to state authority and its monopoly of physical violence,
(ii) it was also replete with "Angst"-ridden wrangling over its
longer-term meaning and direction, and (iii) was characterized by
competing social movements that tried to cultivate citizenship in a
new, unknown state.
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