Work around the Globe: Historical Comparisons
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World: Case Studies 1950-2010
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By Raquel Varela, Hugh Murphy, Marcel van der Linden
January 10, 2026
Maritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined ...
Transformations of Trade Unionism: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Workers Organizing in Europe and the United States, Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
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By Ad Knotter
January 10, 2026
The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers' resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will not be uniformly duplicated or copied from their present form in the global ...
A Usable Collection: Essays in Honour of Jaap Kloosterman on Collecting Social History
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By Jan Lucassen, Aad Blok, Huub Sanders
January 09, 2026
Established in 1935, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the world’s leading research institutes focused on social history and holds one of the richest collections in the field. This volume brings together thirty-five essays in honor of the IISH’s longtime director Jaap ...
Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations
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By Karin Hofmeester, Pim de Zwart
January 09, 2026
This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions. How did growing demand for colonial commodities affect labour in the Global South? How did colonial interference with...
Fighting for a Living: A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000
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By Erik-Jan Zürcher
January 09, 2026
Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East...