143169 KU Africa and/within Global Labour History - Approaches, Debates, Sources (2022W)

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Für einen ersten Eindruck siehe folgende Auswahl:

Boris, Eileen. Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Cooper, Frederick. Decolonization and African Society. The Labor Question in French and British Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

———. “Industrial Man Goes to Africa.” In Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher, 128–37. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003.

———. “African Labor History.” In Global Labour History. A State of the Art, edited by Jan Lucassen, 91–116. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006.

Eckert, Andreas. “Why All the Fuss about Global Labour History?” In Global Histories of Work, edited by Andreas Eckert, 3–24. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016.

Eckert, Andreas, and Marcel van der Linden. “New Perspectives on Workers and the History of Work: Global Labour History.” In Global History, Globally, edited by Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier, 145–62. London and Oxford and New York and New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2018.

Guthrie, Zachary Kagan. Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.

Harisch, Immanuel R. „‚Mit gewerkschaftlichem Gruß!‘ Afrikanische GewerkschafterInnen an der FDGB-Gewerkschaftshochschule Fritz Heckert in der DDR“. Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies 18, Nr. 43 (2018): 77–109.

Harisch, Immanuel R. “Nkrumahism, East Germany, and the South-East Ties of Ghanaian Trade Unionist J.A. Osei during the Cold War 1960s.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 54, no. 3 (2021): 309–32.

Richards, Yevette. “Transnational Links and Constraints: Women’s Work, the ILO and the ICFTU in Africa, 1950s-1980s.” In Women’s ILO. Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present, edited by Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker, and Susan Zimmermann, 149–75. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018.

Rizzo, Matteo. Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Sackeyfio-Lenoch, Naaborko. “The Ghana Trades Union Congress and the Politics of International Labor Alliances, 1957–1971.” International Review of Social History 62, no. 2 (August 2017): 191–213.

Schenck, Marcia C. “A Chronology of Nostalgia: Memories of Former Angolan and Mozambican Worker Trainees to East Germany.” Labor History 59, no. 3 (2018): 352–74.

———. “From Luanda and Maputo to Berlin: Uncovering Angolan and Mozambican Migrants’ Motives to Move to the German Democratic Republic (1979–1990).” African Economic History 44, no. 1 (2016): 202–34.

Schler, Lynn, Louise Bethlehem, and Galia Sabar. “Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present.” African Identities 7, no. 3 (2009): 287–98.

Siracusano, Gabriele. “Trade Union Education in Former French Africa (1959–1965): Ideological Transmission and the Role of French and Italian Communists.” Third World Quarterly 42, no. 3 (2021): 483–502.

Bülow, Mathilde von. “Beyond the Cold War: American Labor, Algeria’s Independence Struggle, and the Rise of the Third World (1954–62).” Journal of Social History 53, no. 2 (2019): 454–86.

Linden, Marcel van der. Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History. Studies in Global Social History, v. 1. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Linden, Marcel van der. “The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History.” In Global Histories of Work, edited by Andreas Eckert, 25–48. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016.

Onselen, Charles van. Chibaro. African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia. 1900-1933. London: Pluto Press, 1976.