Mediating Labour

Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Ulbe Bosma editor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk editor Aditya Sarkar editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:31st Jan '13

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A cutting-edge collection of essays explaining global labour intermediation.

This collection of essays explains the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour intermediation is examined here as a global phenomenon, present for centuries in most countries of the world and taking a wide range of forms from outright trafficking to job placement policies.The essays in this volume aim to explain the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour intermediation is understood as a global phenomenon, present for many centuries in most countries of the world and taking on a wide range of forms: varying from outright trafficking to job placement in the context of national employment policies. The contributions cover a broad geographical scope, including case studies from Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Europe. By focusing on the actual practices of different types of labour mediators in various regions of the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and by highlighting both the national as well as the international and translocal contexts of these practices, this volume intends to further a historically informed global perspective on the subject.

ISBN: 9781107647374

Dimensions: 227mm x 152mm x 11mm

Weight: 380g

262 pages