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Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen: 9
Author(s): Marcel van der Linden (Editor, Contributor), Leo Lucassen (Editor, Contributor), Karin Hofmeester (Contributor), Willem van Schendel (Contributor), Chitra Joshi (Contributor), Ratna Saptari (Contributor), Danielle van den Heuvel (Contributor), Lex Heerma van Voss (Contributor), Erik-Jan Zürcher (Contributor), C.A. Davids (Contributor), Jaap Bruijn (Contributor), Femme Gaastra (Contributor), Maarten Prak (Contributor), Jelle van Lottum (Contributor), Richard W. Unger (Contributor), Catharina Lis (Contributor), Hugo Soly (Contributor), Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Contributor), Gijs Kessler (Contributor), Ulbe Bosma (Contributor), Jaap Kloosterman (Contributor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 9 Aug. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 452 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004229523
- ISBN-13: 9789004229525
Book Description
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam.
Leo Lucassen (1959), is Professor of Social History and Chair of the History Department at Leiden University.
