Work: The Last 1,000 Years
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786634104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has published on labor, migration, borders and uneven development on a regional, a European and a global scale. . Andrea Komlosy is Professor at the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she is coordinator of the Global History and Global Studies programs. In 2014/15 she was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Whetherhead Center for International Relations at Harvard Uni
As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy’s book provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.. Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in households and commodity chains across the planet—processes that enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer, realized by tapping into households’ subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world—whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world.
“Andrea Komlosy has written an important book on the global history of work during the past 800 years … she thinks about labour on a global scale, thus overcoming a deep Eurocentric bias in much of the labour history as it exists, and she brings feminist conversations on labour into an analysis of virtually all aspects of labour history. Her book is unique, I am not aware of any other such volume.” —Sven Beckert