Bücher der Reihe International Review of Social History Supplements

Recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history are revealing why guilds were established, and why they could maintain themselves for such a long time. This volume attempts to set up a comparative framework to analyse guilds in the period between Classical Antiquity and the Industrial Revolution.

This volume considers the intricate dynamics of ethnic identifications, interracial relations, labour relations and class formation in coal mining communities. It takes a global perspective, covering cases from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Soviet Union and Western Europe, and a broad range of topics, from ethnic paternalism to sports.

This volume considers the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, in the context of globalisation and the evolution of capitalism. The focus is on workers from the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America), a previously neglected field of enquiry.

This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and ran until the 1840s. The central theme of the volume is mutiny in its full geographic extent from the Atlantic to the South China Sea.

This collection of essays explains the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour intermediation is examined here as a global phenomenon, present for centuries in most countries of the world and taking a wide range of forms from outright trafficking to job placement policies.

From 1500 to 1650 many societies underwent profound social and economic changes, resulting in the transformation of human labour and ideas about work. This volume explores how ideas about working (and not working) evolved over time in the early modern period and are still resonant today.

Throughout all ages, changes to the environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. In this volume, social and environmental historians assess the extent to which transnational agents changed socioecological space as a consequence of globalization since the Late Middle Ages.

This collection of essays looks at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning in both western and non-western history. As a collection it provides new insights into the historical and cross-cultural development of the male breadwinner family and its determinants, and as such, it provides an important contribution to the ongoing debate on patterns of breadwinning.

Focuses on'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality and speak in the name of the popular classes to inspire collective action. It looks at experiences in non-western societies of those operating within social-movement networks linking local, regional, and international arenas, connecting to a global flow of ideas.

This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, this volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.

This book considers the 'labouring poor' as actively pursuing a whole range of strategies for survival. Building and maintaining networks of kinship and neighbourhood was equally important, as was negotiating support from institutions. This illuminating book examines the European past using case studies from present-day situations in Asia and Africa.

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.

This 1999 collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of the research methods developed by sociologists for social historians. Topics covered include event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, fuzzy logic, and recursive regression. All essays are written by outstanding experts and address non-initiated readers.

De-industrialization processes have accompanied industrialization from the start, both regionally and globally. Most historical studies of de-industrialization focus on economic issues, including structural causes and forms of unemployment. Less attention is usually paid to social and cultural aspects. This volume proposes a wider scope for the study of industrial devolution.

The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their subjects.

This book looks at petitions from all over the globe over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. The grievances of ordinary people, stored by the authorities to which they were submitted, are now rich and valuable sources for social historians.

The volumes seeks to explore the interrelationships between race, class and gender - an urgent concern in contemporary scholarship, but one rarely undertaken. The volume pays attention to 'hot issues' such as sexuality, nation building and citizenship. The volume considers a wide historical range from pre-colonial Africa to twentieth-century India.

This volume explores the role, position and divisions of information and communication labour through periods of revolutionary technological change. Contributions range from eighteenth-century German clerical work, through Indian telegraph workers' actions in 1908 to the role of volunteer work in the early development of the World Wide Web.

This innovative collection explores the competing and sometimes conflicting roles of citizenship and identity, be it racial, class, ethnic, in popular politics.