Dirk Hoerder has taught US and Canadian social history, global migration studies, and sociology of migrant acculturation at the University of Bremen (1977-2008) and Arizona State University (2007-2011). His publications include Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2002) and What is Migration History? (2009).Lukas Neissl was General Secretary of the International Conference of Labour and Social History from 2014 to 2020 and has worked for and been active in trade unions in Austria, Peru, and Venezuela. Currently, he is working at Central European University (CEU) in Austria.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Introduction Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-Wing StrategiesDirk Hoerder and Lukas NeisslPart 1Perspectives, Approaches, Frames2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International ApproachesDirk Hoerder3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and MigrationChristof Parnreiter and Dirk HoerderPart 2Class/Classes: Formations, Outsourcing, Informalizing, Global Hierarchies4 IntroductionDirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl5 Outsourcing the Working Class Guestwork in Turbulent TimesMahua Sarkar6 Is There Informal Labour? The Concept, the ilo’s Ideology, and Greece as an ExampleAliki Vaxevanoglou7 Utilizing Population Movements How States Use Emigration to Regulate National EconomiesCecilia Bruzelius8 The Quest for Chinese Labour Colonial Competition for Coolies and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese WorkerSelda Altan9 African Agency versus State and Capital Control Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960sDácil JuifPart 3Empires and Labour Regimes – and “the Left”10 IntroductionDirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl11 Organizable and Unorganizable Migrants Racism and Internationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century Social DemocracyLucas Poy12 Labour Migration Regimes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian FederationLewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch13 Producing (Im-)mobile Capital and Labour in the Arab-Gulf Region From the British Empire to Independent StatesRadhika Kanchana14 The Making of a Neoliberal Labour Regime in California Immigration, American Empire, and Union Organizing in the 1980s and 1990sRichard SaichPart 4Regional Migration Patterns, Work Regimes, and Worker Agency15 IntroductionDirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl16 Foreign Polish Labour Migrants in the German Empire A ReassessmentBeate Althammer17 Colonial Boom Towns Migration and Insecure Urban Tenure in Industrializing Southern RhodesiaKatharine Frederick18 “Ceylon for Sinhalese!” “Depression Politics” and Indian Migrants in CeylonRitesh Kumar JaiswalPart 5Workingmen’s and -women’s Agency in Globally Interconnected Spaces19 IntroductionDirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl20 Between Migrants and States Japanese Entrepreneurs and Professionals in Two Port Cities in the Pacific World, 1880s to 1920sYukari Takai21 Deterring Free and Deploying Interned Migrant Ukrainian Workers The Catholic Church, the Canadian State, and the Quebec Asbestos Strikes of 1915 and 1916Geoffrey Ewen22 A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally Migrant Women Workers, Trade Union Activists, and the Textile Industry, 1960s to 1980sVeronika Helfert23 Filipina Chambermaids in Denmark Organizing within and Outside the Copenhagen Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, 1960s to 1990sNina Trige AndersenSelective BibliographyIndex