Product Description: The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world...read more

Product Description: There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is only by comparing and contrasting the experiences across time and space that a true understanding of the subject can be attempted...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What are the consequences of de-industrialization for working-class families and their communities? How does it affect working-class culture, trade unions traditional labor parties, and the regional social, educational and cultural infrastructure? Are gender relations changed by de-industrialization? These essays cover a broad range of topics relevant to the study of industrial devolution...read more

Product Description: This book argues that the rules of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and those of the EC governing working time can be seen as examples of transnational labour regulation, and can be compared on that basis. Contrary to certain orthodoxies about the rule-making roles of each institution, there has been a significant degree of convergence between the institutions, having regard to the nature and purpose of their rules...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The essays in this book are written by recognised experts and provide a comparative overview of the development of labour law in different countries. The book aims to give a concise account of the history of labour law and goes on to provide a critical historiography for each country with supplementary essays on international dimensions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Despite labour history's flourishing since the 1960s an essential aspect of workers' lives has been virtually overlooked: their constant struggle for protection from threats to their way of life, such as illness, unemployment, disability and old age...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)