| Mediating Labour: Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Contributor(s): Bosma, Ulbe (Editor), Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise Van (Editor), Sarkar, Aditya (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107647371 ISBN-13: 9781107647374 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Business & Economics | Labor |
| Dewey: 331.128 |
| LCCN: 2013370622 |
| Series: International Review of Social History Supplements |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this volume aim to explain the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour intermediation is understood as a global phenomenon, present for many centuries in most countries of the world and taking on a wide range of forms: varying from outright trafficking to job placement in the context of national employment policies. The contributions cover a broad geographical scope, including case studies from Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Europe. By focusing on the actual practices of different types of labour mediators in various regions of the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and by highlighting both the national as well as the international and translocal contexts of these practices, this volume intends to further a historically informed global perspective on the subject. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise Van: - Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. In 2007, she completed her PhD thesis on women's work in the early modern Dutch textile industry. She has published several articles on the history of women's and children's work, including in The Economic History Review (2010), Continuity and Change (2008) and International Review of Social History (2006). She co-edited two extensive volumes on the global history of child labor from 1650 2000 (2011) and on textile workers around the world from 1650 2000 (2010). She is an Editorial Board member of the International Review of Social History. |