Since the mid-1990s, global commodity chain (GCC) analysis has contributed much to our
understanding of processes of globalization and development. It has however, broadly failed …

This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity
have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about …

We, the workers of the fully industrialized,“civilized” countries of the West, can no longer
“isolate” ourselves from the remainder of the world. Our movements are no longer (and our …

This article develops a conceptual pattern of the reasons and scope of business
responsibility for modern slavery. It introduces modern slavery as either relation or structure …

This chapter argues that to accurately describe the historical evolution of working-class
movements, we need to (1) extend our definition of workers beyond the full-time, blue-collar …

EP Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class was a landmark publication for the
discipline of social history. David Brody (2005: 15) rightly concluded that this work, first …

Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where
reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and …

Este trabajo hace una síntesis de los aportes realizados por la teoría transnacional-
fundamentalmente sociológica y antropológica-para comprender los fenómenos sociales …

This book contains 14 studies on the nineteenth-and twentieth-century labour history of
Southern Europe (expanded to include Austria, the subject of one of the chapters where we …

This paper seeks to problematise the historical significance of the EU for British governing
strategy with reference to immigration policy and the concept of depoliticisation. Situating …