Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History. Leon Fink (ed.) [Texto en polaco]

Abstract

The aim of this book is to show selected problems of labor history across the American States. Topics range from a comprehensive transnational perspective and provide us with the best way to understand the complicated nature of labor history in American countries. The contributors devote much attention to the theoretical framework of the concept of transnational labor history. The book seems to be particularly useful and extremely important for researchers from other parts of the world dealing with the issue of labor history. In addition to the pioneering nature of the book, the study of social and political changes occurring in the region during the XIXth and XXth centuries is also extremely interesting. The authors draw attention to the more general discussion of legal, political and social issues. The book devotes a considerable number of pages to issues such as: labor politics, immigration control mechanisms, the concepts of empire and internationalism in labor history across the Americas, feminist approaches to labor, and indigenous people and labor systems relations.