Andrea Komlosy

Work (eBook, ePUB)

The Last 1,000 Years
Übersetzer: Watson, Jacob; Balhorn, Loren

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786634115
• Artikelnr.: 51525252

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Terms and Concepts
2 Work Discourses
3 Work and Language
4 Categories of Analysis
5 Divisions of Labour: The Simultaneity and Combination of (Different)
Labour Relations
6 Historical Cross-Sections
7 Combining Labour Relations in the Longue Durée
Appendix: A Lexical Comparison Across European Languages
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

As Andrea Komlosy argues in Work: The Last 1,000 Years, our conception of what constitutes work has changed markedly over time. The professor of social history at the University of Vienna writes that our commonly accepted definitions are too narrow, too European, too male and too modern John Thornhill Financial Times