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Punishing Workers, Managing Labour: Volume 31

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 This volume addresses the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, examining a variety of cases across space and time. The editors claim that the effective management of labour required the systematic differentiation of the workforce, with diversified forms of punishment not merely reflecting but creating labour distinctions.
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Women'S Rights And Global Socialism: Volume 30, Part 1

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 Women's emancipation was a central but contested pillar of socialist and communist internationalism in the 20th century. This volume explores the history of transnational socialist feminisms during the Cold War from the perspective of those involved in international communist and left-revolutionary movements in Europe and the postcolonial world.
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Urban Slavery In The Age Of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1

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 When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world, the institutional arrangements that underpinned it changed dramatically. This volume explores how cities were part and parcel of slave societies, and how methods of control as well as routes to emancipation changed in the century before emancipation.
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Brazilian Labour History - New Perspectives In Global Context

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 This volume examines Brazilian labour history, offering articles that enter into conscious dialogue with the debates and findings of scholarship in other world regions. Contributions engage with issues such as free and unfree labour in the nineteenth-century Amazon, the transnational contexts of urban sex work, and revolutionary syndicalism in Rio.
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Transportation, Deportation And Exile - Perspectives From The Colonies In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

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 The ten contributions to this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies, demonstrating that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a critical period in the reconfiguration of empires, imperial governmentality and punishment, including through extensive punitive relocation and associated extractive labour.
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Migration And Ethnicity In Coalfield History - Global Perspectives

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 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.
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Labour In Transport - Histories From The Global South, C.1750â€“1950

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 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.
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Mutiny And Maritime Radicalism In The Age Of Revolution - A Global Survey

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 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.
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Mediating Labour - Worldwide Labour Intermediation In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

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 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.
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The Joy And Pain Of Work - Global Attitudes And Valuations, 1500â€“1650

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 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.
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Globalization, Environmental Change, And Social History

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 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.
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Learned And Applied Soil Mechanics - A Tribute To Dr Arnold Verruijt, Tud

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 A tribute to Professor Dr Arnold Verruijt, on the occasion of his retirement as professor in soil mechanics at the Technical University of Delft, this book is divided into five chapters covering: groundwater flow, consolidation, numerical methods, geodynamics and geostatics.
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Stormwater Retention Basins

by J.-M. Bergue e Y. Ruperd

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 This translation of "Guide technique des bassins de retenue d'eaux pluviales", Paris 1994, provides information about planning, construction, maintenance and management, and costs of stormwater retention basins.
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The Return Of The Guilds: Volume 16 - Towards A Global History Of The Guilds In Pre-Industrial Times

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 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.
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Coolies, Capital And Colonialism - Studies In Indian Labour History

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 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.
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Marriage Choices And Class Boundaries - Social Endogamy In History

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 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.
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New Methods For Social History

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 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.
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The Rise And Decline Of The Male Breadwinner Family? - Studies In Gendered Patterns Of Labour Division And Household Organisation

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 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.
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Popular Intellectuals And Social Movements - Framing Protest In Asia, Africa, And Latin America

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 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.
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Peripheral Labour - Studies In The History Of Partial Proletarianization

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 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.
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De-Industrialization - Social, Cultural, And Political Aspects

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 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.
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Petitions In Social History

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 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.
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The End Of Labour History?

by Marcel Van Der Linden

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 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.
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Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race And Ethnicity

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 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.
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