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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.