A comprehensive overview of the discipline of global labour history, including wide-ranging case studies which take into account the local, regional, and continental processes of the working class.

Karl Heinz Roth, M.D. (1986), Ph.D. (1992), is member of the executive board of the Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Bremen, Germany). He has published monographs and many articles on European global history of the twentieth century.

Preface
 Karl Heinz Roth
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account
 Karin Hofmeester
2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)
 Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal
3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
 David Mayer and Berthold Unfried
4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century
 Angelika Ebbinghaus

5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective
 Michael Zeuske
6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
 Rossana Barragán Romano
7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946
 Touraj Atabaki
8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory
 Görkem Akgöz
9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance
 Jenny Chan

10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison
 Peter Alexander
11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments
 Dirk Hoerder
12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations
 Christian G. De Vito
13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism
 Andrea Komlosy

14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History
 Karl Heinz Roth
Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography
Bibliography
Index