Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-90-04-42802-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions;
- challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions;
- the long-term impact of revolutions on the evolution of labour relations.
The volume examines a wide range of revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering examples from South-America, Africa, Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The volume goes beyond merely examining the place of industrial workers, paying attention to the position of slaves, women working on the front line of civil war, colonial forced labourers, and white collar workers.
Contributors are: Knud Andresen, Zsombor Body, Pepijn Brandon, Dimitrii Churakov, Gabriel Di Meglio, Kimmo Elo, Adrian Grama, Renate Huertgen, Peyman Jafari, Marcel van der Linden, Tiina Lintunen, Joao Carlos Louca, Stefan Mueller, Raquel Varela, and Felix Wemheuer.
- changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions;
- challenges to existing labour relations as a motivating factor during revolutions;
- the long-term impact of revolutions on the evolution of labour relations.
The volume examines a wide range of revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering examples from South-America, Africa, Asia, and Western and Eastern Europe. The volume goes beyond merely examining the place of industrial workers, paying attention to the position of slaves, women working on the front line of civil war, colonial forced labourers, and white collar workers.
Contributors are: Knud Andresen, Zsombor Body, Pepijn Brandon, Dimitrii Churakov, Gabriel Di Meglio, Kimmo Elo, Adrian Grama, Renate Huertgen, Peyman Jafari, Marcel van der Linden, Tiina Lintunen, Joao Carlos Louca, Stefan Mueller, Raquel Varela, and Felix Wemheuer.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
662 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-42802-7 (9789004428027)
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Pepijn Brandon, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and an Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of Social History.
Peyman Jafari, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where he is working on a book on the post-1973 history of oil and labor in Iran. He is the author of Der andere Iran (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2010).
Stefan Mueller, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focusses on labour history and oral history in the 20th century.
Peyman Jafari, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where he is working on a book on the post-1973 history of oil and labor in Iran. He is the author of Der andere Iran (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2010).
Stefan Mueller, Ph.D., is a Researcher at the Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focusses on labour history and oral history in the 20th century.