Workers of the World
Essays toward a Global Labor History
Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Biographical note
Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of social movement history at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on labor and working-class history and on the history of ideas.
Readership
Social historians, labor historians, historians of slavery, historians of colonialism, historical sociologists
Reviews
"[The author] relies on a wealth of selective examples to lay out a rich set of frameworks for the undertaking of transnational, comparative, and/or global labor analyses - that means plans for future historical inquiries."
Leon Fink, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, reviewed for geschichte.transnational and H-Soz-u-Kult (09-07-2010)
"Marcel van der Linden’s book ‘Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History’ is an encyclopaedic, thought provoking, tour de force on the field of labour relations that scholars from different disciplines should read (and possibly internalise)."
Maurizio Atzeni, Reviews in History, (review no. 908)
Winner of the René Kuczynski Prize for the best book on social and economic history of 2008.
"a great book"
Matthias Middell in International Review of Social History
"a work of considerable theoretical depth and empirical novelty yet structured, presented and written with admirable clarity"
Peter Waterman in Development and Change
Leon Fink, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, reviewed for geschichte.transnational and H-Soz-u-Kult (09-07-2010)
"Marcel van der Linden’s book ‘Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History’ is an encyclopaedic, thought provoking, tour de force on the field of labour relations that scholars from different disciplines should read (and possibly internalise)."
Maurizio Atzeni, Reviews in History, (review no. 908)
Winner of the René Kuczynski Prize for the best book on social and economic history of 2008.
"a great book"
Matthias Middell in International Review of Social History
"a work of considerable theoretical depth and empirical novelty yet structured, presented and written with admirable clarity"
Peter Waterman in Development and Change
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
1.Introduction
Conceptualizations
2. Who are the workers?
3. Why `free’ wage labor?
4. Why chattel slavery?
Varieties of mutualism
5. The mutualist universe
6. Mutual insurance
7. Consumer cooperatives
8. Producer cooperatives
Forms of resistance
9. Strikes
10. Consumer protest
11. Unions
12. Internationalism
Insights from adjacent disciplines
13. World systems theory
14. Entangled subsistence labor
15. The Iatmul experience
16. Outlook
Bibliography
Index
1.Introduction
Conceptualizations
2. Who are the workers?
3. Why `free’ wage labor?
4. Why chattel slavery?
Varieties of mutualism
5. The mutualist universe
6. Mutual insurance
7. Consumer cooperatives
8. Producer cooperatives
Forms of resistance
9. Strikes
10. Consumer protest
11. Unions
12. Internationalism
Insights from adjacent disciplines
13. World systems theory
14. Entangled subsistence labor
15. The Iatmul experience
16. Outlook
Bibliography
Index
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