1.
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.)
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities Collection
De Gruyter, 2023.
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2.
Schiel, Juliane; Chevaleyre, Claude
Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 9-17, 2023.
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available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
3.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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4.
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Introduction: Moving Workers in History Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Collection
2022.
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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.
6.
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.
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7.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
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8.
Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
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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.
9.
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.
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10.
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.
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11.
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.
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12.
Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.)
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 Collection
2019.
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13.
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.
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14.
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
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After 1945, Polish historiography was circumscribed by political and ideological considerations; however – except during the brief Stalinist period (1951–56) – Marxist methodology was not imposed or applied uncritically. In fact, discussions about the role of the working class in history that began after 1956 generated research interest in new groups of workers and labour relations. Much of this research concerns recently highlighted aspects of labour history, such as marginal groups of workers or free versus unfree labour.
15.
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
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Heute ist das, was wir unter Arbeit verstehen, in Bewegung geraten. Die Lohnarbeit, die sich mit der Industrialisierung durchgesetzt hat, wird durch neue Formen des Arbeitens verdrängt. Zunehmend lösen sich die vertraglich abgesicherte "Normalarbeit" und deren betriebszentrierte Organisation auf. Eingespielte Definitionen von Arbeit werden porös - auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Fünf Fallstudien und drei methodisch-konzeptionelle Reflexionen lenken in diesem Heft den Blick auf die vielfältigen Formen und Deutungen von Arbeit jenseits des westlichen Industriebetriebs: "vormoderne" Organisationsformen, transnationale Verflechtungen, globale Produktionsregimes und koloniale Imaginarien.
16.
Hofmeester, Karin; Lucassen, Jan; da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
No Global history without Africa: Reciprocal Comparison and Beyond Journal Article
In: History in Africa. A Journal of Method, iss. 41, pp. 249-276, 2014.
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This introduction explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History. It suggests that the approach of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500–2000 – with its taxonomy of labour relations – is a feasible method for applying this approach to the historiography on labor history in Africa.
2023
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.)
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities Collection
De Gruyter, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, longue duree, migration and mobility
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This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion. The contributions in this book are based on extensive archival research and span Europe and North America over the past 500 years. They provide fresh historical perspectives on the various regimes of coercion, mobility, and immobility as constituent parts of the political economy of labour. Moving Workers shows that all struggles relating to the mobility of workers or its restriction have the potential to reveal complex configurations of hierarchies, dependencies, and diverging conceptions of work and labour relations that continuously make and remake our world.
Schiel, Juliane; Chevaleyre, Claude
Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 9-17, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, historical semantics, historiography, methodology
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available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
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Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Introduction: Moving Workers in History Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: global labour history, migration and mobility
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2022
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.
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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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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2021
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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2020
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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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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issue = {2},
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abstract = {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.
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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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2019
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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editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakraborty and Matthias van Rossum},
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abstract = {During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. "A Global History of Runaways" compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
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During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. "A Global History of Runaways" compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
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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volume = {46},
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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?
2018
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, global labour history, historiography, poland, socialism, working class
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After 1945, Polish historiography was circumscribed by political and ideological considerations; however – except during the brief Stalinist period (1951–56) – Marxist methodology was not imposed or applied uncritically. In fact, discussions about the role of the working class in history that began after 1956 generated research interest in new groups of workers and labour relations. Much of this research concerns recently highlighted aspects of labour history, such as marginal groups of workers or free versus unfree labour.
2016
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: colonialism, fordism, global labour history, historical anthropology, methodology
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year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Historische Anthropologie},
volume = {24},
issue = {2},
abstract = {Heute ist das, was wir unter Arbeit verstehen, in Bewegung geraten. Die Lohnarbeit, die sich mit der Industrialisierung durchgesetzt hat, wird durch neue Formen des Arbeitens verdrängt. Zunehmend lösen sich die vertraglich abgesicherte "Normalarbeit" und deren betriebszentrierte Organisation auf. Eingespielte Definitionen von Arbeit werden porös - auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Fünf Fallstudien und drei methodisch-konzeptionelle Reflexionen lenken in diesem Heft den Blick auf die vielfältigen Formen und Deutungen von Arbeit jenseits des westlichen Industriebetriebs: "vormoderne" Organisationsformen, transnationale Verflechtungen, globale Produktionsregimes und koloniale Imaginarien.},
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Heute ist das, was wir unter Arbeit verstehen, in Bewegung geraten. Die Lohnarbeit, die sich mit der Industrialisierung durchgesetzt hat, wird durch neue Formen des Arbeitens verdrängt. Zunehmend lösen sich die vertraglich abgesicherte "Normalarbeit" und deren betriebszentrierte Organisation auf. Eingespielte Definitionen von Arbeit werden porös - auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Fünf Fallstudien und drei methodisch-konzeptionelle Reflexionen lenken in diesem Heft den Blick auf die vielfältigen Formen und Deutungen von Arbeit jenseits des westlichen Industriebetriebs: "vormoderne" Organisationsformen, transnationale Verflechtungen, globale Produktionsregimes und koloniale Imaginarien.
2014
Hofmeester, Karin; Lucassen, Jan; da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
No Global history without Africa: Reciprocal Comparison and Beyond Journal Article
In: History in Africa. A Journal of Method, iss. 41, pp. 249-276, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: africa, global labour history, longue duree
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issue = {41},
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abstract = {This introduction explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History. It suggests that the approach of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500–2000 – with its taxonomy of labour relations – is a feasible method for applying this approach to the historiography on labor history in Africa.
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This introduction explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History. It suggests that the approach of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500–2000 – with its taxonomy of labour relations – is a feasible method for applying this approach to the historiography on labor history in Africa.