Labour History Beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations
Edited by Marcel van der Linden (with assistance of Eva Himmelstoss)
ITH Conference Proceedings, vol. 44
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt 2010
280 pages, ISBN 978-3-931982-68-3
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Labour History Beyond Borders: Concepts
and Explorations
The eleven essays collected in this volume deal with important aspects of
the historical and contemporary development of the world working class.
They attempt to transcend the geographical, temporal and disciplinary boundaries
between historiography, anthropology, and other social sciences. The essays
discuss four central themes: methodological and theoretical questions; the
development of the global textile industry since 1650; the connections between
labour migration on the one hand and the integration of rural/agricultural
regions into the capitalist world economy on the other hand; and ideological
and religious reorientations accompanying processes of (partial) proletarianization.
Contents
Preface: Der Weg des Konferenzzyklus der ITH
in den Jahren 2007-2009
Berthold Unfried
Introduction
Marcel van der Linden
1. The State of Labour History
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Labour History
across National Boundaries
Dick Geary
Changing Paradigms of South Asian Labour Historiography
Rana P. Behal
2. Global Entanglements of Textile Industries and their Implications for
Labour Relations and Struggles
Die Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen: Standortkombinationen,
Arbeitsverhältnisse und Protestformen in der Textilindustrie, 1700-2000
Andrea Komlosy
Covering the World: Textile Workers and Globalization,
1650-2000. Experiences and Results of a Collective Research Project
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Labor Regimes after Emancipation: The Case of Cotton
Sven Beckert
3. Labour Migration and Rural Transformation
Capitalization of Agriculture, 1850s to 1960s: Rural
Migrations in a Global Perspective
Dirk Hoerder
Constructing Legality: The Management of Irregular
Labour Migration in Thailand and Malaysia
Michele Ford
Home Connections of Senegalese Migrants in Europe
and the United States: Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River
Valley
Abdoulaye Kane
Urbanization and Migrant Workers in Yiwu, China
Minjie Zhang
4. Religion and Class Formation in Global Perspective
Competing Identities: Religion and Working-Class Formation
in North-Western Europe
Lex Heerma van Voss
Soziale Krise und Ausbreitung des evangelikalen Fundamentalismus
in Lateinamerika
Juliana Ströbele-Gregor
Notes on Contributors