{"id":54844,"date":"2026-07-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54844"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:25:02","slug":"marcel-van-der-linden-the-world-wide-web-of-work-a-history-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54844","title":{"rendered":"Marcel van der Linden, &#8220;The World Wide Web of Work: A history in the making&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the broad perspective and the effort to perceive connections between global trends over time in work and labour relations, incorporating slaves, indentured labourers and sharecroppers, housewives and domestic servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casting this sweeping analytical gaze, <em>The World Wide Web of Work <\/em>discusses the core concepts \u2018capitalism\u2019 and \u2018workers\u2019, and refines notions such as \u2018coerced labour\u2019, \u2018household strategies\u2019 and \u2018labour markets\u2019. It explores in new ways the connections between labourers in different parts of the world, arguing that both \u2018globalisation\u2019 and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South and were only later introduced in Northern industrial settings. It reveals that 19th-century chattel slavery was frequently replaced by other forms of coerced labour, and it reconstructs the laborious 20th-century attempts of the International Labour Organisation to regulate labour standards supra-nationally. The book also pays attention to the relational inequality through which workers in wealthy countries benefit from the exploitation of those in poor countries. The final part addresses workers\u2019 resistance and acquiescence: why collective actions often have unanticipated consequences; why and how workers sometimes organise massive flights from exploitation and oppression; and why \u2018proletarian revolutions\u2019 took place in pre-industrial or industrialising countries and never in fully developed capitalist societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>List of tables and figures<br>Provenance of the texts Acknowledgments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foreword<br><em>Sven Beckert<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>CHALLENGES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Tree bark mysteries, or the invisible workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Caribbean radicals, a new Italian saint, and a feminist challenge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Six insights from Gujarat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>CONCEPTS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Capitalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Coerced labour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 Household strategies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8 Labour markets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>CONNECTIONS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9 Global cash-crop transfers, ecology and labour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 Slavery and convict labour: training-grounds for modern labour management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11 The abolition of the slave trade and slavery: intended and unintended consequences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12 The International Labour Organization: an appraisal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13 How some workers benefit from the exploitation of other workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>CONFLICTS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">14 Walking fish: how conservative behavior generates and processes radical change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15 Mass exits: who, why, how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 Workers and revolutions: a historical paradox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 1968: the enigma of simultaneity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 Epilogue: Global labour history and the crisis of workers\u2019 movements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>References<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Index<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marcel van der Linden<\/strong> is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, where he served for fourteen years as research director. 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Essays toward a Global Labor History (Leiden: Brill, 2008; French, German, Portuguese and Spanish translations), and the two-volume The Cambridge History of Socialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series: Work Around the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publication date: 9 May 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Open Access PDF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uclpress.co.uk\/book\/the-world-wide-web-of-work\">https:\/\/uclpress.co.uk\/book\/the-world-wide-web-of-work<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6aee75f763b91&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6aee75f763b91\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"980\" data-attachment-id=\"54845\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?attachment_id=54845\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Linden.jpg?fit=652%2C980&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"652,980\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Linden\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Linden.jpg?fit=652%2C980&amp;ssl=1\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Linden.jpg?resize=652%2C980&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Linden.jpg?w=652&amp;ssl=1 652w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Linden.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\"Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. 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