This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789004229525
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-04-22952-5
- Verlag: Brill
- Erscheinungstermin: 09.08.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2012
- Serie: Studies in Global Social History
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1840 g
- Seiten: 436
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 241 x 30 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Geschichtswissenschaft
- Geschichtliche Themen
- Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Geschichtswissenschaft
- Geschichtliche Themen
- Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte