Histories of labour: national and international perspectives

A survey of the global trajectory of labour history.
Specially commissioned essays by labour historians of international repute consider:
early labour history traditions
new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community and power.
whether the 1960s can be regarded as turning point in labour history
the general historiographical climate in the mid-twentieth century
the institutional context (e.g. the evolution of labour history societies, historical associations and journals)
links between labour history and the labour movement

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