Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Re:work Lectures

Edited by: Felicitas Hentschke and Andreas Eckert

ISSN: 2625-0071

e-ISSN 2625-0098

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Die Januar Lecture von re:work, dem IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive, ist ein öffentlicher Festvortrag, der im Anschluss in einer kleinen Buchreihe des Kollegs auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wird. Am Ende der Laufzeit von re:work werden somit sechs Bücher aus verschiedenen einschlägigen und intensiv diskutierten Themenfeldern aus der re:work Arbeit repräsentiert. Ihre Funktion ist zum einen eine Dokumentation der Arbeit. Zum anderen sollen aber wichtige Fragestellungen in die Universität und deutsche Forschungslandschaft getragen werden. Insbesondere Studierende können davon profitieren. Langfristig sollen re:work-Themen stärker in den normalen Curricula der Lehre Eingang finden. Diese Buchreihe soll ein Anfang sein.

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Book 2020

Familie, Arbeit und soziale Mobilität

Ghanaische Perspektiven

Carola Lentz

Volume 4 in this series

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Families have played an important role in the radical socioeconomic transformation that societies in the global south have undergone since the Second World War. Using the example of North Ghana, this work describes the dynamics of social mobility and work along the coordinates of “biographical time–family time–historical time” (T. Hareven).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679168
ISBN:: 9783110679168
ISBN:: 9783110679243
ISBN:: 9783110679090
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2020

Immer mittendrin

Gewerkschafterinnen und linke Aktivistinnen zwischen Arbeiterbewegung und Frauenbewegung

Susan Zimmermann

Volume 3 in this series

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This volume in the re:work book series presents the history of the Socialist Women’s International Trade Union Confederation (Amsterdam International) in the new global history of labor.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679144
ISBN:: 9783110679144
ISBN:: 9783110679236
ISBN:: 9783110679113
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2019

Von der Sklaverei in die Prekarität?

Afrikanische Arbeitsgeschichte im globalen Kontext

Frederick Cooper, Felicitas Hentschke, Andreas Eckert

Volume 1 in this series

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Recently, there has been renewed interest in the history of African labor. Moreover, this interest comes with a new perspective. A new analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and the development of institutions across categorical boundaries helps explain successful labor movements in the past and the possibilities for the future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618105
ISBN:: 9783110618105
ISBN:: 9783110615425
ISBN:: 9783110615319
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2019

Deliverance Revisited

Der Triumph von Trump, die liberalen Eliten und die weiße Zombie-Arbeiterklasse

Leon Fink

Volume 2 in this series

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The often-cited shift of the electorate in the election of Trump has its roots not in a global trend toward anti-politics or a sudden shift to the right, as is often claimed. Rather, the shift is attributable to a process of transformation in the United States that began decades earlier – at the end of the 1960s.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638745
ISBN:: 9783110638745
ISBN:: 9783110634655
ISBN:: 9783110634280
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2021

Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei

Seth Rockman

Volume 5 in this series

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Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike," the language of labor history has informed scholarly understandings of slavery. While the analogy of the plantation to the factory has its obvious limitations, historians have understood slaves and slaveholders as engaged in recognizable struggles over the speed of work, the ownership of time and expertise, and the informal rights and privileges that governed the labor process. However, an older materialist history rooted in marxist categories has not always succeeded in capturing the dynamics of racial dominance and human commodification at the heart of the American slave system. A "new history of capitalism" has offered one remedy, namely to embed slavery firmly within a capitalist mode of production whose investment in "free" labor was always more rhetorical than real. A different response may now be emerging through what scholars call "the new materialism"—an approach organized around human/non-human entanglements and drawing on recent theoretical work on things, networks, and assemblages. This talk considers the implications of this "new materialism" for the history of slavery, and by extension, for the field of labor history more generally.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749137
ISBN:: 9783110749137
ISBN:: 9783110749236
ISBN:: 9783110748963
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Labour History
Subject:: Colonial and Postcolonial History
Subject:: Theories, Methods, and Auxiliary Sciences
Subject:: Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg