Mediating Labour: an introduction

U. Bosma; E. van Nederveen Meerkerk; A. Sarkar

doi:10.1017/S0020859012000430

Mediating Labour: an introduction

U. Bosma, E. van Nederveen Meerkerk, A. Sarkar

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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. 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-15
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Review of Social History
Volume	57
Issue number	Special Issue S20
Early online date	24 Aug 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859012000430
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Special issue: Mediating Labour: Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

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