Work out of Place

All work is free work or is it?

Rooted in the historical and theoretical debates over the status of labor, this volume analyzes the relationship between free and forced work, migration, and the role that states play in producing un-freedom. With contributions among others from Stephen Castles, Cindy Hahamovitch, Vincent Houben and William G. Martin, the book explores constrained labor forms across the world from the mid-19 th century to today.

Auteur

Mahua Sarkar , Binghamton University, State University of New York.

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This book series is interested in tracing at the example of work the historical connections between regions and in critically engaging with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional and in need of explanation . Books to be published in the series should address the history of commodified labor and investigate one or more of its many forms on a global scale: wage labor, but also serfdom and slavery, self-employed, domestic and reproductive labor and the various forms of subsistence and cooperative labor - paid and unpaid work beyond wage labor that constantly has been made invisible. These various labor forms need to be studied both in their specifities and as elements in a linked history of labor. The history and current situation of Africa offer rich examples for. If one of the virtues of labor history in recent decades has been its microhistorical focus on workers and work in relation to the range of social processes in a particular milieu, this series mainly attempts to look beyond both locality and region toward wider spatial relationships. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change. Advisory Board: Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) Ravi Ahuja (University of Göttingen) Susan Zimmermann (Central European University Budapest) Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi) Marsha Siefert (Central European University Budapest) Kim Priemel (University of Oslo) If you want to submit your manuscript, please contact rabea.rittgerodt@degruyter.com