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Global labour history is a latecomer to historical science. It has only developed in the last three decades. This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, with prominent representatives of the discipline discussing its fundamental methodological and conceptual aspects. In addition, the volume contains field and case studies from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and China. In these studies, the local, regional, and continental constitutive processes of the working class are discussed from a global-historical perspective. The anthology has been composed as a Festschrift dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the leading theoretician of, and networker for, global labour history.
“Without doubt Marcel has played a pioneering role in writing manifestos and mapping out the promise of a new global history of the working classes and labour relations, especially in its economic aspects. He is also an extremely efficient and enthusiastic organizer and networker. Whether in Europe, Asia, the Americas, or Australasia, he has inspired a new interest in and helped to set up organizations committed to the study of labour history.”
—Neville Kirk, Labour / Le Travail
“This inspiring Festschrift for historian Marcel van der Linden is aptly titled On the Road to Global Labour History, recognising the pivotal role that Marcel played in developing this field.”
—Julia Martinez, Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History
Karl Heinz Roth, M.D. (1986), Ph.D. (1992), is member of the executive board of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Bremen, Germany). He has published monographs and many articles on European global history of the twentieth century.
Preface
Karl Heinz Roth
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Marcel van der Linden – Networker
1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account
Karin Hofmeester
2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)
Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal
3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
David Mayer and Berthold Unfried
4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century
Angelika Ebbinghaus
Field and Case Studies
5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective
Michael Zeuske
6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Rossana Barragán Romano
7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946
Touraj Atabaki
8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory
Görkem Akgöz
9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance
Jenny Chan
Methodological and Conceptual Aspects
10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison
Peter Alexander
11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments
Dirk Hoerder
12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations
Christian G. De Vito
13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism
Andrea Komlosy
Marcel van der Linden – His Intellectual Development
14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History
Karl Heinz Roth
Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography
Bibliography
Index