Jan Lucassen presents a truly inclusive history of humanity's endless labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen examines the ways in which labor is split between men, women, and children, the watershed moment of the invention of money, and the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure.
Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The author identifies and analyses seven major systems of migrant labour in Europe.
Globalizing Migration History presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium.
The recent wave of globalization has a profound impact on labour. Consequently, research in the field of labour and working-class history has become less Eurocentric and more global over the last twenty years. Outstanding specialists take stock of the globalization of the field in eighteen essays. Two introductory essays discuss the theoretical consequences of this development as well as the early historiography of labour and working-class his...