2022
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
Abstract | Tags: architecture, contemporary, socialism, yugoslavia
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This text scrutinizes the concept of luxury in the context of self-governing socialism as the subject matter of particular importance in challenging and unsettling contemporary thought, thus making it transgressive.
Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, feminism, gender, labour movements, socialism, yugoslavia
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The chapter explores the relationship between women's activism and peasant women in interwar Yugoslavia, arguing that peasant women's work was the main focus of feminist activists who proposed different changes in peasant women's lives. By exploring the asymmetrical relationship between educated activist women and mostly uneducated peasant women, the chapter further addresses the question of the character of feminist activism in a predominantly agrarian country in Southeastern Europe.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
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This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery
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Over the past century, the late imperial Chinese nubi system has been the subject of numerous studies. Depicted as a highly exploitative mode of labor coercion, it has nonetheless been radically differentiated from slavery. In this article, I explore how nubi were conceptualized in late imperial China through the lens of lineages’ domestic regulations and admonitions. Nubi bondage was first and foremost a living experience of strong asymmetric dependency. However, as a de jure institution, its conceptual and normative dimensions do matter as they justified the enslavement of human beings and contributed to shaping household practices. Domestic regulations reveal a process that transformed outsiders into absolute inferiors. This consideration alone is an incentive to reconsider the alleged disqualification of nubi as a form of “slavery” and to engage broader comparisons with slavery in a more global perspective.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity
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abstract = {Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
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Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Collection
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, nation state, ottoman empire, turkey
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and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, punishment, runaways, slavery, united states
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abstract = {Despite the successful maneuvers of many runaways to escape slavery in the slaveholding South, considerable numbers did not make it and were apprehended by slave patrols, civilians, or watchmen. What happened to those among them who were subsequently not reclaimed by their legal owners? To answer this question, this paper focuses on the punishment and forced employment of runaway slaves by city and state authorities rather than by individual slaveholders. It follows enslaved southerners into workhouses, chain gains, and penitentiaries, thereby connecting different institutions within the nineteenth-century penal system. Exploring collaboration and clashes between slaveholders and the authorities, it will discuss how the forced employment of runaways fitted in with the broader understanding of Black labor and the restructuring of labor demands in the antebellum US South.
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Despite the successful maneuvers of many runaways to escape slavery in the slaveholding South, considerable numbers did not make it and were apprehended by slave patrols, civilians, or watchmen. What happened to those among them who were subsequently not reclaimed by their legal owners? To answer this question, this paper focuses on the punishment and forced employment of runaway slaves by city and state authorities rather than by individual slaveholders. It follows enslaved southerners into workhouses, chain gains, and penitentiaries, thereby connecting different institutions within the nineteenth-century penal system. Exploring collaboration and clashes between slaveholders and the authorities, it will discuss how the forced employment of runaways fitted in with the broader understanding of Black labor and the restructuring of labor demands in the antebellum US South.
Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery
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abstract = {This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
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This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
Tags: 19th century, convict labour, latin america, punishment, slavery, united states
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Perreaux, Nicolas
Les lieux de stockage dans les textes diplomatiques (VIIe-XIIIe siècles): Enquête lexicale, sémantique et numérique Book Chapter
In: Schneider, Laurent; Lauwers, Michel (Ed.): Mises en réserve: Production, accumulation et redistribution des céréales dans l‘Occident médiéval et moderne., 2022.
Abstract | Tags: economic development, europe, medieval history, spatial history
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abstract = {This article studies the evolution of references to grain storage places in the diplomatic texts of medieval Europe. In contrast to archaeology, it shows that these do not appear in the texts until the 11th century, and develop strongly in the 12th-13th centuries. This evolution is therefore not only due to an increase in production and increased pressure on producers, but to a new look at the relations of production, a seigneurialisation of the medieval system, which goes hand in hand with a stronger spatial anchorage.
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This article studies the evolution of references to grain storage places in the diplomatic texts of medieval Europe. In contrast to archaeology, it shows that these do not appear in the texts until the 11th century, and develop strongly in the 12th-13th centuries. This evolution is therefore not only due to an increase in production and increased pressure on producers, but to a new look at the relations of production, a seigneurialisation of the medieval system, which goes hand in hand with a stronger spatial anchorage.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, economic development, globalisation, labour markets, nation state
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The article argues that labor markets emerged in close relation to a far-reaching societal transformation at the turn of the twentieth century: the largely intertwined consolidations of the nation state and of a new mode of conceptualizing and institutionalizing labour as “work”. Against this background it further argues that labour markets were at most partially denationalized in the course of the past few decades.
Akdemir, Ayşegül
“Put me on to a male agent”: Emotional labour and gender in call centres. Journal Article
In: Current Sociology, Online First, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: emotional labour, gender, qualitative research, sociology, turkey
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abstract = {This article aims to shed light on the gender dynamics in the context of performing emotional labor in Turkish call centers. Based on qualitative interviews, this study aimed to illuminate how gender is done and undone, providing a perspective on the relationship between gender and emotional labor in call centers, a highly gendered and interactional line of work. Gender relations are complex and gender performativity in call center work allows us to observe different ways in which employees do and undo gender. This study reveals that female employees are more inclined to undo gender and display competence as a work strategy to elevate their position, whereas male employees struggle between job demands and adhering to masculine norms.
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This article aims to shed light on the gender dynamics in the context of performing emotional labor in Turkish call centers. Based on qualitative interviews, this study aimed to illuminate how gender is done and undone, providing a perspective on the relationship between gender and emotional labor in call centers, a highly gendered and interactional line of work. Gender relations are complex and gender performativity in call center work allows us to observe different ways in which employees do and undo gender. This study reveals that female employees are more inclined to undo gender and display competence as a work strategy to elevate their position, whereas male employees struggle between job demands and adhering to masculine norms.
2021
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
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abstract = {A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
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A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: gender, italy, medieval history, slavery
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Why did fifteenth-century Genoese slaveholders insure the lives of enslaved pregnant women? I argue that their assessment of the risks associated with childbirth reflected their views on the connection between slavery, property, and lineage. Genoese slaveholders saw the reproductive labor of enslaved women as a potential contribution to their lineage as well as their property. Because their children by enslaved women might become their heirs, Genoese slaveholders were inclined to worry about and seek protection against the risk of maternal mortality. In the context of the commercial revolution and the rise of third-party insurance, they developed life insurance for enslaved pregnant women to complement the fines already required of those who illegally impregnated enslaved women and thereby endangered their lives.
Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery
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issue = {3},
pages = {343–368},
abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
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In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
Østhus, Hanne; Toplak, Matthias S. (Ed.)
Viking Age Slavery Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, scandinavia, slavery
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The existence of slaves in Viking Age society and the slave trade of the Vikings has been a matter of long debates. While the actual fact has now been established beyond any doubt, many questions remain. The possibilities of an archaeological approach to slavery and slave trade, the extent of slaves in Scandinavia and their importance for the economy as well as the scope of the slave trade and the implications for Viking Age society still need to be discussed. These aspects are the topic of ten recent papers united in this volume.
Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour
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van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, indian ocean, slavery
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Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of slavery were shaped.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China Book Chapter
In: Allen, Richard B. (Ed.): Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900, pp. 150-177, 2021.
Tags: china, forced labour, human trafficking
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Heinsen, Johan
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 66, iss. 1, pp. 111-133, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, europe, punishment
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abstract = {New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taking a view of Europe's own penal history from which the focus is less on origins and more on how the landscape of punishment evolved through a continuous and largely contingent process of assemblage. In this process, a few key elements – labour, displacement, pain, and confinement – were combined and mixed to different effects in specific contexts. Along with that approach comes the need to historicize the process by relating it to other practices of labour coercion, both within the penal field and outside it.
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New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taking a view of Europe's own penal history from which the focus is less on origins and more on how the landscape of punishment evolved through a continuous and largely contingent process of assemblage. In this process, a few key elements – labour, displacement, pain, and confinement – were combined and mixed to different effects in specific contexts. Along with that approach comes the need to historicize the process by relating it to other practices of labour coercion, both within the penal field and outside it.
Perreaux, Nicolas
Œuvrer, servir, souffrir. A propos de quelques termes médiolatins Book Chapter
In: Lauwers, Michel (Ed.): Labeur et production au sein des monastères de l‘Occident médiéval, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: historical semantics, medieval history
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abstract = {The purpose of this article is threefold: a) to show that work could not structurally exist in the Middle Ages, unless it is considered that all organized human activity constitutes work; b) to attempt to grasp the articulation of the main mediolatin terms usually translated as (or considered to belong to) “work”, by showing both the bridges between these terms and the numerous aporias that their listing generates; c) to shift the question, by insisting on the imperative of reconstructing the relations of production in medieval Europe – relations which had complex and partly indirect links with the above-mentioned Mediolatine terms.
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The purpose of this article is threefold: a) to show that work could not structurally exist in the Middle Ages, unless it is considered that all organized human activity constitutes work; b) to attempt to grasp the articulation of the main mediolatin terms usually translated as (or considered to belong to) “work”, by showing both the bridges between these terms and the numerous aporias that their listing generates; c) to shift the question, by insisting on the imperative of reconstructing the relations of production in medieval Europe – relations which had complex and partly indirect links with the above-mentioned Mediolatine terms.
Perreaux, Nicolas
Des «seigneuries» laïques aux territoires ecclésiaux? Dynamique du processus de spatialisation dans les actes diplomatiques numérisés (VIIe-XIIIe siècles) Book Chapter
In: Martine, Tristan; Schneider, Jens (Ed.): Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques: Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècle), 2021.
Abstract | Tags: europe, medieval history, spatial history
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This article examines the construction of the system of spatial organisation of medieval Europe as a whole. By analysing the evolution of the main spatial entities of this area (villa, pagus, comitatus, parochia, etc.) it draws up a general outline. This then allows various reflections on the specific dynamics of medieval Europe and its links with the Church.
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, religion, slavery, Tanganjika, Zanzibar
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The findings expose how missionaries, as some of earliest examples of Europeans who tried to control African labour, supported and undermined certain livelihood trajectories. Despite the abolition of slavery in 1897 in Zanzibar and the fact that the UMCA was closely linked with the anti-slavery movement, ex-slaves continued to struggle with their social status.
2020
Rydén, Göran; Evans, Chris
Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Weiss, Holger (Ed.): Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, pp. 117-146, 2020.
Tags: atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery
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date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century},
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Chevaleyre, Claude
The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China Book Chapter
In: Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): pp. 57-82, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, abolition, china, slavery
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Chevaleyre explores ‘slavery’ in late imperial China by focusing on two commonly overlooked elements. First, he explores the original abolition process that emerged from Sino-Western confrontations in the context of the Shanghai Settlement and its Mixed Court in the first decade of the twentieth century. Second, he attempts to shed light on the conceptualization of ‘slavery’ as it surfaces from early Ming legislative sources and to question its impact on the shaping of social practices. In so doing, Chevaleyre considers ‘China’ as a global normative space and approaches the issue of ‘slavery’ in this global space ‘from above’, that is, by focusing on the abstraction of ‘slavery’ rather than on the concrete situation of ‘slaves’.
Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery
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From 1698, colonial officers and investors from France forged a conglomerate of companies for transforming Saint-Domingue into a sugar colony, thus augmenting incomes of tax farmers and of the crown. Capital was also captured from enemy colonies and generated through trade with Spanish possessions. The most important capital were slaves, both as laborers and mortgageable property—crucial during the War of Spanish Succession, which brought price volatility and speculation in land and sugar. In order to secure the colony’s development, authorities restricted rights of owners over their slaves, preventing their sale or abuse. Only around 1715 was such protection of slaves suppressed.
Schiel, Juliane
The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, labour markets, medieval history, mediterranean, service, sla
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Zimmermann, Susan
“It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, But a Lived Reality.” Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State-Socialist Europe: Contributions to a Global History of Work, pp. 337-372, 2020.
Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, gender, hunga, socialism
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Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class
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This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.
Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: africa, bonded labour, forced labour, humanitarianism, indian ocean, longue duree
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In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system—and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of unfree labour in Africa and Asia along with its contemporary manifestations. It takes an innovative longue durée perspective in order to link the local and global, the past and present. Contributors trace shifting forms of forced labour in the region since circa 1800, connecting punctual shocks such as environmental crisis, conflict, market instability, and crop failure to human security threats such as impoverishment, violence, migration, kidnapping, and enslavement. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia.
Siefert, Marsha (Ed.)
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, socialism
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The Introduction and 16 essays offer new conceptual and empirical ways to understand the history of labor regimes from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global.
Seppel, Marten
The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 45, iss. 1, pp. 48-70, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, scandinavia, serfdom, sweden
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While serfdom did not exist in Sweden and Finland, it was accepted in the Baltic and German provinces. The main aim of the paper is to explore how the institution of serfdom was understood and interpreted in Stockholm. It will argue that there were clichés, stereotypes, and prejudices that have shaped the discourse on serfdom.
Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, global labour history, historical semantics, methodology, new history of work
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This article explores the possibility of a new, empirically based analytical and methodological framework for the study of labour relations and the reinterpretation of contemporary issues, including precariousness, „modern slavery,” social inequality, and dependence. It proposes a contextualized, interrelational and transepochal approach and discusses the potential of three research strategies.
Ruoss, Matthias; Ludi, Regula
Die Großmütter und wir: Freiwilligkeit, Feminismus und Geschlechterarrangements in der Schweiz Journal Article
In: L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. 31, iss. 1, pp. 87-104, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, feminism, gender, switzerland, voluntarism
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da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro; Carvalhal, Hélder
Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal Journal Article
In: Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, vol. 38, iss. 1, pp. 45–77, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, economic development, gender, portugal
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Challenging current ideas in mainstream scholarship on differences between female labour force participation in southern and north-western Europe and their impact on economic development, this article shows that in Portugal, neither marriage nor widowhood prevented women from participating in the labour market of mid-eighteenth-century. Our research demonstrates that marriage provided women with the resources they needed to work in various capacities in all economic sectors.
Prisac, Lidia; Gumenâi, Ion
Between Separation an Unity in the Context of the Great Union. Armenians from Bessarabia Book Chapter
In: Bolovan, Ioan; Tămaș, Oana Mihaela (Ed.): World War I and the Birth of a New World Order: The End of an Era, pp. 184-203, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe
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This article tells about national minorities behaviour, such as Armenians, in dificult event of World War I in a “contested” space of Eastern Europe.
Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
Migration Book Chapter
In: Hermans, Erik (Ed.): A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages, pp. 477-510, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, migration and mobility
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This chapter provides an overview how migration connected different region of early medieval Afro-Eurasia between 600 and 900 CE, with a special focus on occupation mobility, trade diasporas and the migration of labour forces.
Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes; Reinfandt, Lucian; Stouraitis, Yannis (Ed.)
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: ancient history, medieval history, migration and mobility, slavery
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Piqueras, José Antonio
The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery, pp. 79-103, 2020.
Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery
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Papastefanaki, Leda
Family, Gender, and Labour in the Greek Mines, 1860–1940 Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 65, iss. 2, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, gender, greece, mining
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abstract = {To date, research on work in the mines in Greece has ignored the significance of gender in the workplace, since mining is associated exclusively with male labour. As such, it is considered, indirectly, not subject to gender relations. The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities. Sources include: official publications of the Mines Inspectorate and the Mines and Industrial Censuses, the Greek Miners’ Fund Archive, British and French consular reports, various economic and technical reports by experts, literature and narratives, the local press from mining regions, and the Archive of the Seriphos Mines.
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To date, research on work in the mines in Greece has ignored the significance of gender in the workplace, since mining is associated exclusively with male labour. As such, it is considered, indirectly, not subject to gender relations. The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities. Sources include: official publications of the Mines Inspectorate and the Mines and Industrial Censuses, the Greek Miners’ Fund Archive, British and French consular reports, various economic and technical reports by experts, literature and narratives, the local press from mining regions, and the Archive of the Seriphos Mines.
Barragán, Rossana Romano; Papastefanaki, Leda
Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 65, iss. 2, pp. 191-231, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: gender, global labour history, mining
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The role of women as mineworkers and as household workers has been erased. Here, we challenge the masculinity associated with the mines, taking a longer-term and a global labour history perspective. We foreground the importance of women as mineworkers in different parts of the world since the early modern period and analyse the changes introduced in coal mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the masculinization and mechanization, and the growing importance of women in contemporary artisanal and small-scale mining. The effect of protective laws and the exclusion of women from underground tasks was to restrict women’s work more to the household, which played a pivotal role in mining communities but is insufficiently recognized. This process of “de-labourization” of women’s work was closely connected with the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. This introductory article therefore centres on the important work carried out in the household by women and children. Finally, we present the three articles in the Special Theme in International Review of Social History and discuss how each of them is in dialogue with the topics addressed here.
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, Erdem M. (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Bachelor Thesis
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, ottoman empire, turkey
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Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
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Hackett, Sarah
Britain’s Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, contemporary, migration and mobility, muslims, oral history, qualitative research, united kingdom
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This study draws upon archival documentation and oral history interviews, and explores the integration of Muslim migrant communities in an English rural county across the post-1960s period. It focuses on a range of topics, including local government policy and migrants’ experiences in the labour and housing markets, education, and religious practice and recognition.
Gluchman, Vasil
Slovak Marxist-Leninist Philosophy on Work: Experience of the Second Half of the 20th Century Journal Article
In: Studies in East European Thought, vol. 72, iss. 1, pp. 43-58, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, marxism, philosophy, slovakia, socialism
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de Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes
Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century] Journal Article
In: 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery
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date = {2020-01-01},
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This article explores, in part, the coercive work of Moorish slaves in Setúnal (Portugal) in the 16th century and how that work is reproduced after freedom.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, consumption history, germany, history of everyday life, modernity
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abstract = {In the decades around 1900, the German-speaking societies underwent profound changes affecting both work and consumption. Based on more than one hundred diaries, the book examines how people perceived their everyday life. In their eyes, life should above all be fun and provide diversions – in leisure time as well as at work. The bourgeois value of a general industriousness however, by which so many diaries of the 19th century were characterized, played only a subordinate role.
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Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden
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abstract = {This article explores a dataset of verb-phrases culled from early modern Swedish sources, all of which describe work in vague terms. The analysis shows that vaguely described work (e.g. ‘to work’, ‘to serve’) often appeared together with information on for whom, where and under what conditions the work in question had taken place. In other words, work was neither described as a concrete task nor as an occupation; instead, it was the labour relation that people tended to describe.
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2019
Almagro-Vidal, Clara
“Our Moors”: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile Book Chapter
In: Morton, Nicholas (Ed.): The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, pp. 139-148, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, military, muslims, spain
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abstract = {Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile had taken over as administrators of the Order in 1487 and had also instituted the forced baptism of Muslims, thereby creating the problem. The military orders present in the Kingdom of Castile during the Middle Ages have been chosen as a case study. This chapter discusses a bigger project that aims to study the relationship between military orders and Muslims living in their Iberian lands during the Middle Ages. A significant number of the Muslims mentioned in association with military orders were slaves. Although undoubtedly many Muslim captives of the orders ended up as slaves and were appreciated for the potential role, they also held value in themselves as leverage for the liberation of Christians who had suffered the same fate. The interpretation of the partial exemption, and also the status of Muslims living under the rule of the Order, becomes even more muddled because of another contradictory account.
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Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile had taken over as administrators of the Order in 1487 and had also instituted the forced baptism of Muslims, thereby creating the problem. The military orders present in the Kingdom of Castile during the Middle Ages have been chosen as a case study. This chapter discusses a bigger project that aims to study the relationship between military orders and Muslims living in their Iberian lands during the Middle Ages. A significant number of the Muslims mentioned in association with military orders were slaves. Although undoubtedly many Muslim captives of the orders ended up as slaves and were appreciated for the potential role, they also held value in themselves as leverage for the liberation of Christians who had suffered the same fate. The interpretation of the partial exemption, and also the status of Muslims living under the rule of the Order, becomes even more muddled because of another contradictory account.
Özbek, Müge Telci
"Disorderly Women" and the Politics of Urban Space in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul, 1900-1914 Book Chapter
In: Cronin, Stephanie (Ed.): Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' since 1800, pp. 51-64, 2019.
Tags: 20th century, gender, ottoman empire, turkey, urbanity
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Zammit, William
The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798 Book Chapter
In: Morton, Nicholas (Ed.): The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, pp. 160-171, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, early modern history, malta, muslims, religion
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A study upon the motivations and mechanisms of Muslim conversion to Catholicism in Hospitaller Malta. Both Muslim slaves but also free Muslims periodically opted for conversion in Malta. The paper provides statistical data of such conversions from untapped primary sources.
Hotson, Howard; Wallnig, Thomas (Ed.)
Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship Bachelor Thesis
2019.
Abstract | Tags: digital humanities, early modern history, historical semantics
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Viitaniemi, Ella
Muurarimestari Kustaa Stenman ja katumaton maailma. Pietismi, kirjoittaminen ja kokemuksen siirtäminen länsisuomalaisella maaseudulla 1700-jälkipuoliskolla [Master mason Kustaa Stenman and the unrepentant world. Piestism, Literacy and the Transition of Experience in the Western Finland] Book Chapter
In: Annola, Johanna; Kivimäki, Ville; Malinen, Antti (Ed.): pp. 75–112, 2019.
Tags: early modern history, finland, religion
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Valuch, Tibor
The World of Labor and Workers in Modern East-Central Europe: Introduction to the Thematic Issue Journal Article
In: East Central Europe, vol. 46, pp. 1-8, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, global labour history, historiography
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In this special issue we are going to focus on answering the following questions: Why is East-Central European labor history peculiar or special? How and why has the situation of labor history been changing during the last decades? What is the relation between global labor history and ece labor history? What kind of gaps are there in the research and what are the most important Research trends?
Ulrich, Nicole
“Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility and Capitalism, 1600-1850, pp. 115-134, 2019.
Tags: africa, early modern history, runaways, South Africa
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Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: business history, contemporary, development, ethnography, gender, informality, qualitative research, sociology
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This monograph explores corporate initiatives to empower women in the Global South through the promotion of micro entrepreneurship within informal economic sectors. From an ethnographic approach, it scrutinizes how the political imperative of “creating jobs” is intertwined with individual risks for women in precarious economic positions as well as with the increasing authority of global corporations in development and gender politics.
Tornhill, Sofie
The Business of Women’s Empowerment. Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: business history, contemporary, development, ethnography, gender, informality, qualitative research, sociology
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Popinigis, Fabiane; Terra, Paulo Cruz
Classe, raça e a história social do trabalho no Brasil (2001-2016) Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: brazil, gender, historiography, latin america, race, working class
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Suodenjoki, Sami
Turning the landless into socialists: Agrarian reforms and resistance as drivers of political mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1914 Book Chapter
In: Regan, Joe; Smith, Cathal (Ed.): Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914, pp. 170-184, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, finland, labour movements, socialism, working class
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This article addresses how the rise of the socialist movement in the Finnish countryside was linked with the agrarian relations and the changes in agriculture and landownership in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Štofaník, Jakub
The Religious Life of the Industrial Working Class in the Czech Lands Journal Article
In: East Central Europe, vol. 46, pp. 99-110, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, czechia, history of everyday life, religion, working class
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Škobla, Daniel; Filčák, Richard
Mundane Populism: Politics, Practices and Discourses of Roma Oppression in Rural Slovakia Journal Article
In: Sociologia Ruralis, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, contemporary, roma, slovakia, sociology
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In this article authors explore populist politics, discourses and social practices of antiziganism in rural regions of eastern Slovakia. The authors came to the conclusion that essential components of contemporary right-wing populism rest on what is characterised as ongoing racialized stigmatisation of Roma, reconfiguring previously racially uncategorised issues into ethnic problems and thus reinforcing the oppression of the disempowered Roma.
Sarti, Raffaella
Can Historians Speak? A Few Thoughts and Proposals on a Possible Global History of Domestic Service/Work Book Chapter
In: Sinha, Nitin; Varma, Nitin (Ed.): Servants Pasts. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. South Asia, vol. 1., 2019.
Abstract | Tags: domestic service, early modern history, gender, historical semantics, household
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Sarti, Raffaella
Le “nom de domestique” est un “mot vague”. Débats parlementaires sur la domesticité pendant la Révolution française Journal Article
In: Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, vol. 131, iss. 1, pp. 39-52, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: domestic service, france, gender, historical semantics, service
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Ruoss, Matthias
Die neuen Freiwilligen. Gemeinnützigkeit in der Schweiz, 1970-1990 Journal Article
In: Historische Zeitschrift, iss. Beihefte 76, pp. 153-168, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, economic and social policy, feminism, switzerland, voluntarism
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This article examines the crisis of the Swiss welfare state and the renegotiation of social responsibility since the 1970s. It focuses on the discovery of volunteers by non-profit organizations and the reinterpretation of their work with the help of the feminist movement.
Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.)
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 Collection
2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, capitalism, early modern history, global labour history, migration and mobility, runaways
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Prisac, Lidia
Sub ocrotirea “fratelui mai mare” sau despre “naţionalităţile conlocuitoare” din R(A)SS Moldovenească Book Chapter
In: Corobca, Liliana (Ed.): Panorama comunismului în Moldova sovietică. Context, surse, interpretări,, pp. 414-436, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, ethnic and religious minorities, soviet union
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This article explores the situations of national/ethnic minorites in the Soviet Union and especialy in Moldavian SS(A)R, the assimilation and russification problem.
Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
From one edge of the (post)Sasanian world to the other. Mobility and migration between the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Persian Gulf in the 4th to 9th centuries CE Book Chapter
In: Asutay-Effenberger, Neslihan; Daim, Falko (Ed.): Sasanian Elements in Byzantine, Caucasian and Islamic Art and Culture, pp. 9-17., 2019.
Abstract | Tags: caucasus, islamic world, medieval history, migration and mobility
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The chapter also discusses cases of non-elite mobility of artisans and other professionals within the Sasanian and Early Islamic Empire, especially towards and from the South Caucasus region.
Özkoray, Hayri Gökşin
From Persecution to (Potential) Emancipation: Female Slaves and Legal Violations in Ottoman Istanbul according to Court Registers (16th-17th Centuries) Journal Article
In: Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, vol. 17, iss. 2-3, pp. 257-280, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, ottoman empire, slavery
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Ongaro, Giulio
Il lavoro militare nella prima età moderna (xvi-xvii sec.): soldati, guastatori e galeotti tra subordinazione e agency Journal Article
In: MEFRIM: Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines, vol. 131, iss. 1, pp. 15-27, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, military
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Müller, Viola
Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 60, pp. 865-868, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, race, runaways, slavery, united states
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Between 1800 and 1860, thousands of people escaped slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the US South. There, runaway slaves joined free African Americans, of whom many were undocumented residents of their states. This ‘undocumentedness’ placed them in a liminal status between free and unfree. The increasingly disadvantageous socio-economic position of the free black population created opportunities for runaway slaves to blend in in large numbers, as well as for the undocumented as a whole to make ends meet.
Mocarelli, Luca; Ongaro, Giulio
Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800 Book
2019.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, italy, mediterranean
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The book considers the whole Italian peninsula as one geographical unit of analysis, encompassing all of the features that characterize labour cultures during the early modern period. It details the evolution of forms of labour in both agriculture and manufacture and the role of labour as an economic, social and cultural factor in the evolution of the Italian area.
Mitsiou, Ekaterini; Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
Mercantile and Religious Mobility between Byzantines, Latins and Muslims, 1200-1500: On the Theory and Practice of Social Networks Journal Article
In: Medieval Worlds, vol. 9, pp. 187-217, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: byzantium, medieval history, mercantile relations, muslims, network analysis
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This paper combines documentary evidence with concepts and tools of historical network science and social theory in order to explore phenomena of (especially) mercantile mobility and religious conversion in Late Byzantium (13th to 15th centuries), a period which is characterized by the intensification of commercial exchange and the multiplication of contact zones due to the growth of the activity of Italian merchant communities as well as due to the Mongol expansion across entire Asia.
Mironov, Alexandru-Murad
Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik in Rumänien [Economic and Social Policy in Romania] Book Chapter
In: Backes, Uwe; Heydemann, Günther; Vollnhals, Clemens (Ed.): Staatssozialismen im Vergleich: Staatspartei – Sozialpolitik – Opposition, pp. 327-346, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, economic and social policy, romania, socialism
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title = {Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik in Rumänien [Economic and Social Policy in Romania]},
author = {Alexandru-Murad Mironov},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Staatssozialismen im Vergleich: Staatspartei – Sozialpolitik – Opposition},
pages = {327-346},
abstract = {This chapter explores the 1980s in Socialist Romania from a social and economic point of view. During this period, the state continued to improve the living conditions and to grant rights to a population that experienced modernization quite late. However, its requirements changed dramatically after 1980 as the early influences of consumerism began to be felt. Despite having two relatively good decades – probably the best in the whole of the twentieth century – the 80s practically placed Romania last in Europe in almost all development indicators. The economic crises, all sorts of shortages and growing discontent led to the Revolution of December 1989, succeeding to unite the workers, peasants, retirees, and the urban population against the political regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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This chapter explores the 1980s in Socialist Romania from a social and economic point of view. During this period, the state continued to improve the living conditions and to grant rights to a population that experienced modernization quite late. However, its requirements changed dramatically after 1980 as the early influences of consumerism began to be felt. Despite having two relatively good decades – probably the best in the whole of the twentieth century – the 80s practically placed Romania last in Europe in almost all development indicators. The economic crises, all sorts of shortages and growing discontent led to the Revolution of December 1989, succeeding to unite the workers, peasants, retirees, and the urban population against the political regime of Nicolae Ceausescu.
Kaarsholm, Preben; Frederiksen, Bodil Folke
Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya Journal Article
In: African Studies, vol. 79, iss. 1, pp. 51-73, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: africa, contemporary, informality, kenya, qualitative research, South Africa, urbanity
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title = {Amaoti and Pumwani: Studying Urban Informality in South Africa and Kenya},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = { African Studies},
volume = {79},
issue = {1},
pages = {51-73},
abstract = {Based on the authors’ parallel projects of research and fieldwork inurban informal settlements in Durban and Nairobi, the article usescomparison to bring out similarities and differences in thedynamics of informality in a South African and Kenyan setting. Thearticle examines three dimensions of informality – the informal economy, informal housing and informal politics – as they play intothe lives of youth, popular culture, moral debate, and local politicalcontestations. The two historical trajectories of settler colonial statebuilding and urban influx control and segregation in South Africaand Kenya are contrasted, together with the struggles that accompanied decolonisation and the transitions to democracy. The article discusses the ways in which informal entrepreneurship has different weight and possibilities in the South African and theKenyan case, and shows the impact of different expectations ofstate delivery in the two environments. In conclusion, the authorstry to assess comparatively whether developments in the two cases of urban informal settlement in Durban and Nairobi are converging,or whether they exhibit different patterns of urban integration.
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Based on the authors’ parallel projects of research and fieldwork inurban informal settlements in Durban and Nairobi, the article usescomparison to bring out similarities and differences in thedynamics of informality in a South African and Kenyan setting. Thearticle examines three dimensions of informality – the informal economy, informal housing and informal politics – as they play intothe lives of youth, popular culture, moral debate, and local politicalcontestations. The two historical trajectories of settler colonial statebuilding and urban influx control and segregation in South Africaand Kenya are contrasted, together with the struggles that accompanied decolonisation and the transitions to democracy. The article discusses the ways in which informal entrepreneurship has different weight and possibilities in the South African and theKenyan case, and shows the impact of different expectations ofstate delivery in the two environments. In conclusion, the authorstry to assess comparatively whether developments in the two cases of urban informal settlement in Durban and Nairobi are converging,or whether they exhibit different patterns of urban integration.
Jarska, Natalia
Female Breadwinners in State Socialism: The Value of Women’s Work for Wages in Post-Stalinist Poland Journal Article
In: Contemporary European History, vol. 4, pp. 469-483, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, gender, poland, public opinion, socialism, sociology
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Contemporary European History},
volume = {4},
pages = {469-483},
abstract = {This article examines popular opinion about women’s wage work in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Poland, using letters to institutions and sociological research from this period. It introduces the notion of female breadwinning as a useful category to describe the understanding of women’s wage work under state socialism. Opinions on women’s wage work varied, but all of them were based on gender assumptions. Women’s and men’s work were valued differently. Men’s work had an indisputable, independent position. Women’s work was evaluated in the context of family.
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This article examines popular opinion about women’s wage work in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Poland, using letters to institutions and sociological research from this period. It introduces the notion of female breadwinning as a useful category to describe the understanding of women’s wage work under state socialism. Opinions on women’s wage work varied, but all of them were based on gender assumptions. Women’s and men’s work were valued differently. Men’s work had an indisputable, independent position. Women’s work was evaluated in the context of family.
Jarska, Natalia
Unemployment in State Socialism: An Insight into the Understanding of Work in 1950s Poland Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to to a History of Work, pp. 27-47, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, poland, socialism, unemployment
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The chapter explores how “joblessness” was described, defined and perceived by workers, economists and policy-makers, and what measures and policies were taken against it by the party-state. This analysis offers an insight into the understanding of work in state socialism and the so-called “socialist economy”. My research shows that labour relations were defined by the principles of the Marxist economy implemented by the state institutions, but they were not static, being related to – among other factors – labour shortages, gender norms, memory of prewar (capitalist) relations, and the party-state’s search for legitimization.
Heinsen, Johan
Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672-1687 Book Chapter
In: Rediker, Marcus; Chakrabort, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, pp. 40.57, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, convict labour, denmark, early modern history, forced labour, punishment, runaways, scandinavia
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author = {Johan Heinsen},
editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakrabort and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
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abstract = {An examination of the ways in which convicts in the Danish colony of St. Thomas challenged colonial order and exploitation through practices of escape. Through a close study of a particular group of convict runaways, the article unearths the minutiae of antagonisms in a system of coerced displacement and punishment.
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An examination of the ways in which convicts in the Danish colony of St. Thomas challenged colonial order and exploitation through practices of escape. Through a close study of a particular group of convict runaways, the article unearths the minutiae of antagonisms in a system of coerced displacement and punishment.
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, dependency, forced labour, labour markets, new history of work, slavery
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title = {(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘},
author = {Judy Fudge},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
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volume = {10},
issue = {2},
pages = {108-122},
abstract = {Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
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Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
Egry, Gábor; Barna, Ábrahám (Ed.)
Összeomlás uralomváltás, nemzetállam-építés, 1918-1925 [Collapse, change of government, nation-state building]. Collection
2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, hungary, nation state, romania
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
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The collection of documents sheds light on the process of transition from Hungary to Romania at the end of the WWI with a local focus. The documents cover the most pressing social issues of this period and attempt to reveal the concerns of ordinary people.
Caracausi, Andrea
Fashion, Capitalism and Ribbon-Making in Early Modern Europe Book Chapter
In: Safley, Thomas Max (Ed.): Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism, pp. 48-69, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, early modern history, europe, textile industry
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title = {Fashion, Capitalism and Ribbon-Making in Early Modern Europe},
author = {Andrea Caracausi},
editor = {Thomas Max Safley},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and Their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism},
pages = {48-69},
abstract = {This book-chapter shows the nexus between consumer-surplus and worker-surplus in the early-modern garment industry, the growing exploitation of female and child labour in low-skilled and export-oriented manufacturing and how labour and labour regimes were strongly embedded in social structures and power relations within respective communities.
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This book-chapter shows the nexus between consumer-surplus and worker-surplus in the early-modern garment industry, the growing exploitation of female and child labour in low-skilled and export-oriented manufacturing and how labour and labour regimes were strongly embedded in social structures and power relations within respective communities.
Brgles, Branimir
Ljudi, prostor i mijene. Susedgradsko i donjostubičko vlastelinstvo 1450.–1700. Prilog istraživanju ranonovovjekovnih ruralnih društava [People, space and time. Susedgrad and Donja Stubica manorial estate 1450-1700. Contribution to the research of early modern rural societies]. Book
2019.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, early modern history, medieval history
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author = {Branimir Brgles},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
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Bartha, Eszter
“This Workers’ Hostel Lost Almost Every Bit of Added Value It Had”: Workers’ Hostels, Social Rights and Legitimization in Hungary and the German Democratic Republic Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State-Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to a History of Work, pp. 167-194, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, german democratic republic, housing, hungary, socialism
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor in State-Socialist Europe after 1945: Contributions to a History of Work},
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abstract = {Workers’ hostels have been a relatively understudied area of the social history of the 1970s. In this chapter – apart from presenting two case studies, one in the GDR and the other one in Hungary – I argue that the contemporary literature produced in connection with the social rights (or rather, the lack of social rights, as many workers, who had to spend years in these “temporary” accommodation, experienced) can offer an insight into the decline of trust in the so-called “welfare dictatorships” and the crisis of their legitimacy. I call these regimes welfare dictatorships because they were based on the recognition that the dictatorship of the proletariat could not change either human needs or the ways of satisfying these needs. Thus, the decline of state socialism – from the perspective of labor – started well before the actual collapse of these regimes when even low-level functionaries formulated – at least in Hungary – a strong criticism of a socialism, which could not afford to provide workers with minimal levels of housing comfort (Housing was provided, but comfort was not). I argue that this slow erosion of legitimacy went hand in hand with the economic weakening of the state socialist regimes.},
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Workers’ hostels have been a relatively understudied area of the social history of the 1970s. In this chapter – apart from presenting two case studies, one in the GDR and the other one in Hungary – I argue that the contemporary literature produced in connection with the social rights (or rather, the lack of social rights, as many workers, who had to spend years in these “temporary” accommodation, experienced) can offer an insight into the decline of trust in the so-called “welfare dictatorships” and the crisis of their legitimacy. I call these regimes welfare dictatorships because they were based on the recognition that the dictatorship of the proletariat could not change either human needs or the ways of satisfying these needs. Thus, the decline of state socialism – from the perspective of labor – started well before the actual collapse of these regimes when even low-level functionaries formulated – at least in Hungary – a strong criticism of a socialism, which could not afford to provide workers with minimal levels of housing comfort (Housing was provided, but comfort was not). I argue that this slow erosion of legitimacy went hand in hand with the economic weakening of the state socialist regimes.
Angelova, Milena
Тhe Transfer of Modern Agricultural Knowledge among the Bulgarians in the Danube Province (1860s–1870s) Book Chapter
In: Iakovos D. Michailidis, Antoniou Giorgos (Ed.): Institution Building and Research under Foreign Domination Europe and the Black Sea Region (early 19th–early 20th centuries), pp. 93-106, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, agrarian labour and rural history, bulgaria, central and eastern europe
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Institution Building and Research under Foreign Domination Europe and the Black Sea Region (early 19th–early 20th centuries)},
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abstract = {This article discusses some problems related to the introduction of “agricultural enlightenment” among Bulgarians in the second half of the 19th century. This paper is structured in several accents. It firstly demonstrates the relationship between “the enlightened peasant” and the agricultural education in Western Europe during the 18th-19th centuries. This research mainly focuses on the first generation of Bulgarians who received agricultural education abroad. These graduates, the first generation of Bulgarian agronomists who graduated from European schools and universities, were regarded as “agents” for the transfer of agricultural knowledge, which acquainted Bulgarians with the “modern” West.
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This article discusses some problems related to the introduction of “agricultural enlightenment” among Bulgarians in the second half of the 19th century. This paper is structured in several accents. It firstly demonstrates the relationship between “the enlightened peasant” and the agricultural education in Western Europe during the 18th-19th centuries. This research mainly focuses on the first generation of Bulgarians who received agricultural education abroad. These graduates, the first generation of Bulgarian agronomists who graduated from European schools and universities, were regarded as “agents” for the transfer of agricultural knowledge, which acquainted Bulgarians with the “modern” West.
Narlı, Nilüfer; Akdemir, Ayşegül
Female Emotional Labour in Turkish Call Centres: Smiling Voices Despite Low Job Satisfaction Journal Article
In: Sociological Research Online, vol. 24, iss. 3, pp. 278-296, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: emotional labour, gender, qualitative research, sociology, turkey, working conditions
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This study examines emotional labour practices of Turkey’s growing call centre business in which mainly women are employed in precarious conditions. The findings reveal that providing emotional labour to customers is an important but undervalued aspect of work and that the external conditions of work life (especially unemployment threat) diminish the workers’ power to resist the work conditions.
2018
Rahi-Tamm, Aigi
Forced Migration of Estonian Citizens to the East 1941-1951: Some Similarities with the Accounts of People Who Fled to the Fest Book Chapter
In: Saueauk, Meelis; Hiio, Toomas (Ed.): Proceedings of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. Eesti Mälu Instituudi toimetised, pp. 271-304, 2018.
Tags: 20th century, baltic states, fascism, migration and mobility
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author = {Aigi Rahi-Tamm},
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year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-02},
urldate = {2018-01-02},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. Eesti Mälu Instituudi toimetised},
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Pizzolato, Nico
Harvests of shame: enduring unfree labour in the twentieth-century United States, 1933–1964 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 59, iss. 4, pp. 1-19, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, migration and mobility, race, united states
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issue = {4},
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abstract = {This article reframes the discussion on vulnerable and exploited agricultural labour in twentieth-century United States using the overarching category of unfree labour. In order to do so, it bridges two usually distinct historiographies by linking the phenomenon of ‘peonage’ during the New Deal, with the one of immigrant contract labour in southern Florida, under the H2 visa. Archival research on the practices at the U.S. Sugar Corporation in southern Florida illustrates this link. The article draws on Federal archives, U.S. Government proceedings, papers of political activists and legal and labour scholarship to argue: firstly, that unfree labour has been an enduring feature of agricultural labour relations at regional level during the twentieth century, through both a transmission and a transformation of practices that had their origin in the control of black emancipated labour; secondly, that the introduction of `guest workers’ under the H2 and Bracero programme meant a modernisation in the practices of unfree labour, pivoting on the lack of citizenship rights, racial discrimination, debt at home and threat of deportation; and, finally, that the failure to recognise forms of legal and economic deprivation and coercion as unfree labour has hurt the ability of the United States to enforce protection of human rights at home.
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This article reframes the discussion on vulnerable and exploited agricultural labour in twentieth-century United States using the overarching category of unfree labour. In order to do so, it bridges two usually distinct historiographies by linking the phenomenon of ‘peonage’ during the New Deal, with the one of immigrant contract labour in southern Florida, under the H2 visa. Archival research on the practices at the U.S. Sugar Corporation in southern Florida illustrates this link. The article draws on Federal archives, U.S. Government proceedings, papers of political activists and legal and labour scholarship to argue: firstly, that unfree labour has been an enduring feature of agricultural labour relations at regional level during the twentieth century, through both a transmission and a transformation of practices that had their origin in the control of black emancipated labour; secondly, that the introduction of `guest workers’ under the H2 and Bracero programme meant a modernisation in the practices of unfree labour, pivoting on the lack of citizenship rights, racial discrimination, debt at home and threat of deportation; and, finally, that the failure to recognise forms of legal and economic deprivation and coercion as unfree labour has hurt the ability of the United States to enforce protection of human rights at home.
Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran
‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact Journal Article
In: Past & Present, vol. 239, iss. 1, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden
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volume = {239},
issue = {1},
abstract = {An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
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An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
Živković, Predrag
Ideological ornamentation of postmodern geography. The case of Zagreb and Podgorica Journal Article
In: Annales. Series Historia et Sociologia, vol. 28, iss. 2, pp. 399-414, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, post-socialism, sociology, urbanity
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volume = {28},
issue = {2},
pages = {399-414},
abstract = {Relying on comparative sociological research of transition transformations of the capitals of Croatia and Montenegro (Zagreb and Podgorica), the paper recognizes their stages of development from the socialist to the neoliberal city from the standpoint of thanatopolitics. The paper discusses the thanatosociological inequalities that appear in the neoliberal city, as well as the awakening of cargo cults in post-socialist societies. Based on these research findings, we arrive at the phenomenon of chronocide as a key determinant of post-socialist societies.
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Relying on comparative sociological research of transition transformations of the capitals of Croatia and Montenegro (Zagreb and Podgorica), the paper recognizes their stages of development from the socialist to the neoliberal city from the standpoint of thanatopolitics. The paper discusses the thanatosociological inequalities that appear in the neoliberal city, as well as the awakening of cargo cults in post-socialist societies. Based on these research findings, we arrive at the phenomenon of chronocide as a key determinant of post-socialist societies.
Viitaniemi, Ella
Urban seasonal workers and rural church constructions in eighteenth-century Finland Book Chapter
In: Ojala-Fulwood, Maija (Ed.): Migration and Multi-ethnic Communities. Mobile People from the Late Middle-Ages to the Present, pp. 147–168, 2018.
Tags: early modern history, finland, wage labour
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Viitaniemi, Ella
Hyödyn aikakauden talouspolitiikka, vuokraviljely ja tilattomuuden kasvu [Utilitarian economic policy, tenant farming and growth of landless people] Book Chapter
In: Miettinen, Riikka; Viitaniemi, Ella (Ed.): Reunamailla. Tilattomat Länsi-Suomen maaseudulla 1600–1800 [On the Fringes. The Landless in Rural Western Finland 1600–1800], pp. 380–417, 2018.
Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, economic and social policy, economic development, finland
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editor = {Riikka Miettinen and Ella Viitaniemi},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
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Uppenberg, Carolina
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860] PhD Thesis
2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden
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title = {I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860]},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
institution = {University of Gothenburg},
abstract = {In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.},
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In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.
Tolino, Serena
Eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire: Ambiguities, Gender and Sacredness Book Chapter
In: Höfert, Almut; Matthew M. Mesley, Matthew; Tolino, Serena (Ed.): Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World, pp. 246-266, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: gender, islamic world, medieval history, religion
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date = {2018-01-01},
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abstract = {Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World, pp. 246-266. This article explores the interconnection between gender and sacredness in relation to eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire (909-1171), a dynasty that ruled in particular over North Africa, Egypt and Yemen. The article explores different discourses on eunuchs in the Islamicate world (lexicography, law, adab). Following the life of specific eunuchs, the article also argues that gender is a fundamental category of analysis when looking eunuchs in the Fatimid empire and, more generally in Islamicate courts.},
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Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World, pp. 246-266. This article explores the interconnection between gender and sacredness in relation to eunuchs in the Fatimid Empire (909-1171), a dynasty that ruled in particular over North Africa, Egypt and Yemen. The article explores different discourses on eunuchs in the Islamicate world (lexicography, law, adab). Following the life of specific eunuchs, the article also argues that gender is a fundamental category of analysis when looking eunuchs in the Fatimid empire and, more generally in Islamicate courts.
Stojić, Biljana
Kordun od razvojačenja do ujedinjenja (1881-1918) Book Chapter
In: za savremenu istoriju, Institut (Ed.): Kordun – od Vojne granice do Republike Srpske Krajine 1881-1995, pp. 19-134, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, central and eastern europe, ethnic and religious minorities, habsburg empire, serbia
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year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
urldate = {2018-01-01},
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abstract = {The chapter deals with the Serbian minority living in Austria-Hungary, most precisely in Kordun, a region of Croatia. As a research time frame, it was chosen in 1881 when Austria-Hungary decided to dissolute the last parts of the Military border and to incorporate them into civil societies. The end of research served the end of WWI and integration of Kordun and Croatia into the new state of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). The main topic was the social and political transformation of Kordun accompanying social inequality of minorities as against the majority. I was most interested in research forms of social dependences, mobility of people within the Empire and abroad, the position of Serbian Orthodox Church, oppressions of the state to enforce its policy, mobilization of the minority into army forces during WWI.
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The chapter deals with the Serbian minority living in Austria-Hungary, most precisely in Kordun, a region of Croatia. As a research time frame, it was chosen in 1881 when Austria-Hungary decided to dissolute the last parts of the Military border and to incorporate them into civil societies. The end of research served the end of WWI and integration of Kordun and Croatia into the new state of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). The main topic was the social and political transformation of Kordun accompanying social inequality of minorities as against the majority. I was most interested in research forms of social dependences, mobility of people within the Empire and abroad, the position of Serbian Orthodox Church, oppressions of the state to enforce its policy, mobilization of the minority into army forces during WWI.
Stanziani, Alessandro
Labor on the Fringes of Empire. Voice, Exit and the Law Book
2018.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, africa, bonded labour, india, indian ocean, slavery
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author = {Alessandro Stanziani},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
abstract = {After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland.},
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After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland.
Sarti, Raffaella; Bellavitis, Anna; Martini, Manuela (Ed.)
What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Collection
2018.
Abstract | Tags: gender, household, longue duree
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date = {2018-01-01},
abstract = {Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. “What Is Work?” offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
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Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. “What Is Work?” offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
Rahi-Tamm, Aigi
Homeless for Ever: The Contents of Home and Homelessness on the Example of Deportees from Estonia Book Chapter
In: Davoliute, Violeta; Balkelis, Tomas (Ed.): Narratives of Exile and Identity in Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, pp. 65-84, 2018.
Tags: 20th century, baltic states, deportation, housing
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Rahi-Tamm, Aigi
Doubly Marginalized People: The Hidden Stories of Estonian Society (1940-1960) Book Chapter
In: Lazar Fleishman,; Weiner, Amir (Ed.): War, Revolution, and Governance: The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century, 2018.
Tags: 20th century, baltic states
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Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.)
Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, Gainesville Collection
2018.
Abstract | Tags: canada, caribbean, mexico, slavery, united states
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year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
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This volume contains 11 original essays that introduce a new way of studying the experiences of runaway slaves by defining the different “spaces of freedom” they inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view of fugitive slave migration, moving beyond the usual regional or national approaches to explore locations in Canada, the U.S. North and South, Mexico, and the Caribbean.