Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters - States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500-2000

This volume considers the role of states in explaining patterns of continuity and change in labour relations around the world.

List of contents

Introduction Karin Hofmeester, Gijs Kessler and Christine Moll-Murata; 1. Tributary labour relations in China during the Ming-Qing transition (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries) Christine Moll-Murata; 2. Tributary labour in the Russian Empire in the XVIII century: factors of development Dmitry Khitrov; 3. Colonial organization of the mining labour force in Charcas (present-day Bolivia): its consequences (sixteenth to seventeenth centuries) Raquel Gil Montero and Paula C. Zagalsky; 4. Dynamics of continuity and change: shifts in labour relations in the Potosí mines (1680-1812) Rossana Barragan; 5. Political changes and shifts in labour relations in Mozambique, 1820s-1920s Filipa Ribeiro da Silva; 6. Grammar of difference? The Dutch colonial state, labour policies and social norms on work and gender, c.1800-1940 Elise van Nederveen-Meerkerk; 7. The labour recruitment of local inhabitants as R¿musha in Japanese-occupied South East Asia Takuma Melber; 8. The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, nineteenth to twenty-first centuries Fernando Mendiola; 9. Working for the state in the urban economies of Ankara, Bursa and Salonica: from empire to nation state, 1840s-1940s M. Erdem Kabaday¿; 10. The role of the state in employment and welfare regulation: Sweden in European context Max Koch; 11. State policies towards precarious work: employment and unemployment in contemporary Portugal Raquel Varela.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Hofmeester, Karin (Internationaal Instituut Voor S Hofmeester, Karin Kessler Hofmeester
• Assisted by: Karin Hofmeester (Editor), Karin (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Hofmeester (Editor), Gijs Kessler (Editor), Gijs (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Kessler (Editor), Christine Moll-Murata (Editor), Christine (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Moll-Murata (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9781316642528
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64252-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: International Review of Social History Supplements; International Review of Social; International Review of Social History Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous