Book
Working on Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
- Author
- Leo Lucassen (eds.)
- Date
- 01 June 2012
- Links
- Brill Publishers
The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.
Contributors
Marcel van der Linden, Leo Lucassen, Karin Hofmeester, Willem van Schendel, Chitra Joshi, Ratna Saptari, Danielle van den Heuvel, Lex Heerma van Voss, Erik-Jan Zürcher, C.A. Davids, Jaap Bruijn, Femme Gaastra, Maarten Prak, Jelle van Lottum, Richard W. Unger, Catharina Lis, Hugo Soly, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Gijs Kessler, Ulbe Bosma, and Jaap Kloosterman.