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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.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 436
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Global Social History
Publication Date:
09 August 2012
ISBN: 9789004229525
Format: Hardcover
Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam.
Leo Lucassen (1959), is Professor of Social History and Chair of the History Department at Leiden University.
Leo Lucassen (1959), is Professor of Social History and Chair of the History Department at Leiden University.