Hakutulokset: Sarja international studies in social history
yhteensä 28 hakutulosta
Rescuing the Vulnerable
In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges …
Sugarlandia Revisited
Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar …
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993
European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations …
Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements
Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it …
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected …
What is Work?
Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of …
Working in Greece and Turkey
As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national …
Bondage
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It …
Rebellious Families
Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no …
Class and Other Identities
With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the …
Supervision and Authority in Industry
The number of studies discussing the labour relationship under industrial capitalism is overwhelming, but the literature on labour and its concrete, day-today shop-floor …
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach …