Micro-spatial histories of global labour. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christian G. De Vito, Anne Gerritsen, editors.
• Editors: De Vito, Christian G; Gerritsen, Anne
• Contents: Micro-spatial histories of labour: towards a new global history / Christian G. De Vito and Anne Gerritsen -- Moving hands: types and scales of labour mobility in the late medieval eastern Mediterranean (1200-1500 CE) / Ekaterini Mitsiou and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller -- Catholic missions and native subaltern workers: connected micro-histories of labour from India and Brazil, ca. 1545-1560 / Giuseppe Marcocci -- Prisoners of war, captives or slaves? The Christian prisoners of Tunis and La Goleta in 1574 / Cecilia Tarruell -- Making the place work: managing labour in early modern China / Anne Gerritsen -- Woollen manufacturing in the early modern Mediterranean (1550-1630): changing labour relations in a commodity chain / Andrea Caracausi -- Connected singularities: convict labour in late colonial Spanish America (1760s-1800) / Christian G. De Vito -- Keeping in touch: migrant workers' trans-local ties in early modern Italy / Eleonora Canepari -- Spatiality and the mobility of labour in pre-unification Italy (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) / Laura Di Fiore and Nicoletta Rolla -- Oil and labour: the pivotal position of Persian oil in the First World War and the question of transnational labour dependency / Touraj Atabaki -- 'On the unwary and the weak': fighting peonage in wartime United States: connections, categories, scales / Nicola Pizzolato -- From traces to carpets: unravelling labour practices in the mines of Sierra Leone / Lorenzo D'Angelo.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 357 pages)
• Subjects: 331.0722; History; Working class -- History; Labor -- History; World history; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Historiography; History; Labor; World history; History; World History, Global and Transnational History; Labor History; Historiography and Method; History -- Historiography; Social & cultural history; Historiography; Historiography; History -- World; General & world history; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319584904; 3319584901
• Related ISBNs: 9783319584898; 3319584898
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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