Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective; 19
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Open Access

This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion.

The contributions in this book are based on extensive archival research and span Europe and North America over the past 500 years. They provide fresh historical perspectives on the various regimes of coercion, mobility, and immobility as constituent parts of the political economy of labour.

Moving Workers shows that all struggles relating to the mobility of workers or its restriction have the potential to reveal complex configurations of hierarchies, dependencies, and diverging conceptions of work and labour relations that continuously make and remake our world.　

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Figures, Maps and Tables
Introduction: Moving Workers in History
Chapter 1 Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
Chapter 2 Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System
Chapter 3 Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader
Chapter 4 Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s
Chapter 5 Keeping Domestic Workers Dependent in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul
Chapter 6 Lives between Forced Labour Measures: The Case of Kulaks Deported from Estonia, 1940‒1960
Chapter 7 Empalmado y Contratado: The Valorisation and Coexistence of Labour Mobility and Immobilisation in the Experience of Mexican ‘Braceros’, 1940s–1960s
Chapter 8 From Peasants in Romania to the Global Care Class in Spain, 1949–2019
Afterword: Coercion and Historical Patterns of Motion
Bibliography
Contributors
Index