Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities 9783111137155, 9783111136516

Open Access This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. C

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Contents
Figures, Maps and Tables
Introduction: Moving Workers in History
Chapter 1 Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
Chapter 2 Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System
Chapter 3 Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader
Chapter 4 Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s
Chapter 5 Keeping Domestic Workers Dependent in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul
Chapter 6 Lives between Forced Labour Measures: The Case of Kulaks Deported from Estonia, 1940‒1960
Chapter 7 Empalmado y Contratado: The Valorisation and Coexistence of Labour Mobility and Immobilisation in the Experience of Mexican ‘Braceros’, 1940s–1960s
Chapter 8 From Peasants in Romania to the Global Care Class in Spain, 1949–2019
Afterword: Coercion and Historical Patterns of Motion
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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