The World Wide Web of Work: A History in the Making

by Marcel van der Linden

Overview

Exploring links between labourers across the world, the book argues that globalisation and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South. It highlights inequalities through which workers in wealthy countries benefit from exploitation of those in poor countries, and problematises workers' resistance and aquiescence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800084568
Publisher:	U C L Press, Limited
Publication date:	07/06/2023
Series:	Work Around the World
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marcel van der Linden is a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, where he served for fourteen years as research director.

Table of Contents

List of tables and
figures


Provenance of the
texts


Acknowledgments

Preface, Sven
Beckert


Introduction

Challenges

1 Tree bark mysteries, or the invisible workers

2 Caribbean radicals, a new Italian saint, and a feminist challenge

3 Six insights from Gujarat

Concepts

4 Capitalism

5 Workers

6 Coerced labour

7 Household strategies

8 Labour markets

Connections

9 Global cash-crop transfers, ecology and labour

10 Slavery and convict labour: training-grounds for modern labour management

11 The abolition of the slave trade and slavery: intended and unintended consequences

12 The International Labour Organization: an appraisal

13 How some workers benefit from the exploitation of other workers

Conflicts

14 Walking fish: how conservative behaviour generates and processes radical change

15 Mass exits: who, why, how?

16 Workers and revolutions: a historical paradox

17 1968: the enigma of simultaneity

18 Epilogue: Global labour history and the crisis of workers’ movements

References

Index