Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities

by Claudia Bernardi (Editor), Viola Franziska Müller (Editor), Biljana Stojic (Editor), Vilhelm Vilhelmsson (Editor)

Overview

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.　

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783111137681
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/04/2023
Series:	Work in Global and Historical Perspective , #19
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Claudia Bernardi, Padua, Italy; Viola F. Müller, Bonn; Biljana Stojić, Belgrade, Serbia; Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Skagaströnd, Iceland.