On the road to global labour history: a festschrift for Marcel van der Linden

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Global Labour History is a latecomer to historical science. It has only developed in the last three decades. This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art. Prominent representatives of the discipline discuss its fundamental methodological and conceptual aspects. In addition, the volume contains field and case studies from Africa and Latin America, as well as from the Middle East and China. In these studies, the local, regional and continental constitutive processes of the working class are discussed from a global-historical perspective. The anthology has been composed as a Festschrift dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the leading theoretician of, and networker for, Global Labour History. Preface / Karl Heinz Roth -- Part 1. Marcel van der Linden -- networker. 1. Macel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the road to global labour history: a personal account / Karin Hofmeester -- 2. Dialogues across borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) / Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal -- 3. Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) / David Mayer and Berthold Unfried -- 4. Marcel van der Linden -- friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century / Angelika Ebbinghaus -- Part 2. Field and case studies. 5. Slaveries and the enslaved in Spanish America: thoughts on the 'World Working Class' in a historical global perspective / Michael Zeuske -- 6. Potosi's silver and the global world of trade (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) / Rossana Barragán Romano -- 7. Chronicles of a calamitous strike foretold: Abadan, July 1946 / Touraj Atabaki -- 8. Petitioning as industrial bargaining in a Turkish state factory: the changing nature of petitioning in early republican Turkey / Görkem Akgöz -- 9. Assessing working-class power in postsocialist China / Jenny Chan -- Part 3. Methodological and conceptual aspects. 10. On the road to global labour history -- via comparison / Peter Alexander -- 11. Migration research in a global perspective: recent developments / Dirk Hoerder -- 12. Labour flexibility and labour precariousness as conceptual tools for the historical study of the interactions among labour relations / Christian G. De Vito -- 13. Re-assessing labour and value transfer under capitalism / Andrea Komlosy -- Part 4. Marcel van der Linden -- his intellectual development. 14. An encyclopaedist of critical thought: Marcel van der Linden, heterodox marxism and global labour history / Karl Heinz Roth.