Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer, realized by tapping into households' subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.
Andrea Komlosy is professor at the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she is coordinator of the Global History and Global Studies programs. She has published on labor, migration, borders and uneven development on a regional, a European and a global scale. In 2014/15 she was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Whetherhead Center for International Relations at Harvard University.
Introduction1 Terms and Concepts2 Work Discourses3 Work and Language4 Categories of Analysis5 Divisions of Labour: The Simultaneity and Combination of (Different) Labour Relations6 Historical Cross-Sections7 Combining Labour Relations in the Longue DuréeAppendix: A Lexical Comparison Across European LanguagesNotesIndex
Capturing this churn [in both work itself and our ideas about it] is the difficult task that historian Andrea Komlosy attempts in her new book Work: The Last 1,000 Years..Komlosy attempts the monumental task of writing a large-scale global history of labor adequate to the growing instability in how we define and participate in work.
Hannes Hofbauer, Jochen Scholz, Peter Wahl, Florian Warweg, Peter Weibel, Stefan Kraft, Ralph Bosshard, Erhard Crome, Andrej Hunko, Sabine Kebir, Andrea Komlosy, Werner Rügemer, Sabine Schiffer, Hannes Hofbauer, Stefan Kraft
Hannes Hofbauer, Jochen Scholz, Peter Wahl, Florian Warweg, Peter Weibel, Stefan Kraft, Ralph Bosshard, Erhard Crome, Andrej Hunko, Sabine Kebir, Andrea Komlosy, Werner Rügemer, Sabine Schiffer, Hannes Hofbauer, Stefan Kraft