Karin Hofmeester (PhD, University of Amsterdam, 1999) is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of Jewish Culture at Antwerpen University.< br> Pim de Zwart (PhD, Utrecht University, 2015) is Lecturer in Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University.

• 1. Introduction: Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations. Karin Hofmeester and Pim de Zwart Part I: Labour in the Production of Global Commodities 2. The Industrialization of the Developing World and its Impact on Labour Relations, 1840s to 1940s William G. Clarence-Smith 3. Economic Institutions and Shifting Labour Relations in the Indian, Brazilian, and South African Diamond Mines Karin Hofmeester 4. The Global Detour of Cane Sugar: from Plantation Island to Sugarlandia Ulbe Bosma 5. Threads of Imperialism. Colonial Institutions and Gendered Labour Relations in the Textile Industry in the Dutch Empire Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 6. The Triumph of the Peasant Option and the Parasitic Cotton Sector in Malawi, 1891 to 1995 Elias C. Mandala Part II: Changing Labour and Land Market Institutions 7. Extractive Economy and Institutions? Technology, Labour, and Land in Potosí, the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Rossana Barragan 8. Changing Tides: Maritime Labour Relations in Europe and Asia M. van Rossum 9. Wage Labour and Slavery on the Cape Frontier: the Impact of the Abolition of Slave Imports on Labour Relations in the Graaff-Reinet District Johan Fourie and Erik Green Part III: Monetization and the Payment of Work 10. Paying in Cents, Paying in Rupees: Colonial Currencies, Labour Relations, and the Payment of Wages in Early-Colonial Kenya Karin Pallaver 11. Labour and Deep Monetization in Eurasia, 1000 to 1900 Jan Lucassen.