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Volume 51 - December 2006

Contents

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Research Article

  • Stretching Labour Historiography: Pointers from South Asia

  • Willem van Schendel
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    03 November 2006, pp. 229-261
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  • Studies of working people have long been framed by the concepts of “free” and “unfree” labour, a pair that distinguishes workers who are fully proletarianized from those who are not. Proletarians are working people without property, and therefore compelled to sell their capacities for money, but at the same time personally free to choose whom to sell their capacities to. Such (double-) free labour is contrasted with labour that is unfree, either because workers are compelled to offer their capacities to specific takers – under conditions established by those takers rather than by means of a labour market – or because these workers are not completely propertyless. Throughout the twentieth century, a dominant assumption among labour historians has been that the two concepts of free and unfree labour also reflect a basic trend in modern world history: the progressive replacement of unfree labour by free labour – or the progressive proletarianization of the world's workers.

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Document with Editorial Introduction

  • The War on the Shopfloor

  • Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
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    03 November 2006, pp. 263-277
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  • The outbreak of World War II accentuated, and its conduct and immediate aftermath sustained, the mounting pressures on the jobber system and exposed its weaknesses more fully. These pressures upon the jobber emanated from three sources. First, the imperatives of the war economy facilitated the more intensive exploitation of labour. The jobber's traditional task, to reconcile workers to the demands of the mill-owners, became almost impossible to sustain. Indeed, it drew the full wrath of the workers upon the jobber.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    21 July 2006, pp. 321-356
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    01 November 2006, pp. 505-544
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Addendum

  • Select Bibliography

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    03 November 2006, pp. 279-286
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GUIDE TO THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS AT THE IISH: SUPPLEMENT OVER 2005

  • GUIDE TO THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND COLLECTIONS AT THE IISH: SUPPLEMENT OVER 2005

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    21 July 2006, pp. 357-365
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RÉSUMÉS

  • RÉSUMÉS

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    01 November 2006, pp. 545-546
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN

  • ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN

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    01 November 2006, pp. 547-548
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RÉSUMÉS

  • RÉSUMÉS

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    21 July 2006, pp. 367-368
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ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN

  • ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN

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    21 July 2006, pp. 369-370
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    30 March 2006, pp. 139-177
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