Preface
Karl Heinz Roth
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Marcel van der Linden – Networker
1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account
Karin Hofmeester
2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)
Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal
3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
David Mayer and Berthold Unfried
4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century
Angelika Ebbinghaus
Field and Case Studies
5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective
Michael Zeuske
6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Rossana Barragán Romano
7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946
Touraj Atabaki
8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory
Görkem Akgöz
9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance
Jenny Chan
Methodological and Conceptual Aspects
10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison
Peter Alexander
11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments
Dirk Hoerder
12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations
Christian G. De Vito
13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism
Andrea Komlosy
Marcel van der Linden – His Intellectual Development
14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History
Karl Heinz Roth
Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography
Bibliography
Index
