Micro-spatial histories of global labour / Christian G. De Vito, Anne Gerritsen, editors.
De Vito, Christian G., editor.; Gerritsen, Anne, editor.
2018
D1-DX301
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Title Micro-spatial histories of global labour / Christian G. De Vito, Anne Gerritsen, editors.
ISBN 9783319584904 (electronic book)
3319584901 (electronic book)
9783319584898
3319584898
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58490-4
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 357 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-58490-4 doi
Call Number D1-DX301
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.0722
Summary This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a 'micro-spatial'approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers'own agency and social networks. The individual chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone, through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman empire and Spain. The result is a highly readable volume that addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in historiography.
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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.

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