The aim of this article is to show the added value of global history that puts labour and
labour relations as independent variables in the centre and uses structured long-term data …

For the populations of the developing economies–the vast majority of humanity–the present
century offers the prospect of emulating Western standards of living. This hope is combined …

This paper reflects on'late development', or more precisely,'late industrialization': the idea
that the industrialization of one part of the world altered the possibilities for industrialization …

This article reflects on modernism from 1900 to 1940 on globalist terms. The turn of the
twentieth century was a period of rapid urbanization, pronounced intellectual foment, labor …

In this book Peer Vries is the first scholar to provide an extensive test of the claim that
industrialization in East Asia, in particular in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and World …

Since I was a child, the fact that a few people are very wealthy, while, so many live in great
misery left me astonished and irritated. When I grew to be a teenager, the question of why …