Global Labour History

Contents: Jan Lucassen: Introduction - Marcel van der Linden: The «Globalization» of Labour and Working-Class History and its Consequences - Jan Lucassen: Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope - Frederick Cooper: African Labor History - Zachary Lockman: Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa - Sabyasachi Bhattacharya: Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia - Akira Suzuki: The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance - Bryan D. Palmer: Fin-de-Siècle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition - Dick Geary: Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 - John D. French: The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions - Lucy Taksa: What's in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania - Arif Dirlik: Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China - Andrei Sokolov: The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia - Prasannan Parthasarathi: Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective - Ratna Saptari: Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections - Jan Lucassen: Brickmakers in Western Europe (1700-1900) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons - Ian Phimister: Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts - Lex Heerma van Voss: «Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth»: Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 - Shelton Stromquist: Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns.

The Editor: Jan Lucassen (1947) is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Professor of International and Comparative Social History, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.