Work
The Last 1,000 Years
$30.99
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2018
Summary
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world—whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of value to remunerated employment has never been convincing.
Andrea Komlosy argues in this important interventio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786634108 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786634104 |
| Author: | Andrea Komlosy, Jacob Watson, Loren Balhorn |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 539g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
Andrea Komlosy has written an important book on the global history of work during the past 800 years … she thinks about labour on a global scale, thus overcoming a deep Eurocentric bias in much of the labour history as it exists, and she brings feminist conversations on labour into an analysis of virtually all aspects of labour history. Her book is unique, I am not aware of any other such volume. – Sven Beckert
Andrea Komlosy
Andrea Komlosy is a professor at the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is the coordinator of the Global History and Global Studies programs. Her research focuses on labor, migration, borders, and uneven development on regional, European, and global scales. In 2014⁄15, she was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Relations at Harvard University.
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