"Kevin Murphy has written an important book. It steers a course between the prevailing historical orthodoxy that dismisses the Russian Revolution of October 1917 as a disastrous aberration and the so-called 'revisionists' who have portrayed Stalinism as a phenomenon with strong popular roots." --Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, King's College London and member of Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee "Kevin Murphy has produced an outstanding and original work that is a must-read for all those interested in Soviet history.The judges of the annual Isaac and Tamara...
"Kevin Murphy has written an important book. It steers a course between the prevailing historical orthodoxy that dismisses the Russian Revolution of O...
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomenon, as an 'incomplete contract' in need of legal and institutional enforcement mechanisms. The contributors to this volume have adopted a broader perspective. They regard learning on the shop floor as a complex social and cultural process, to be situated in an ever-changing historical context. The results are surprising. The authors convincingly show that research on apprenticeship and learning on the shop floor is intimately associated with...
Apprenticeship or vocational training is a subject of lively debate. Economic historians tend to see apprenticeship as a purely economic phenomeno...
I would strongly recommend reading this book both as an historical account of past trade union responses to migrant workers and as a base for further investigation into the current situation in Europe. - CLR News
In spite of the great complexity of the subject matter this empirical study impresses the reader with its simple and clear structure ... Highly recommended. - Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte
European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in...
I would strongly recommend reading this book both as an historical account of past trade union responses to migrant workers and as a base for furth...
This is an interesting and stimulating collection of articles which, taken together, cover both conceptional/theoretical and empirical aspects of the role and features of charisma in general, and charisma in social movements in particular. The range of case studies is impressive. - Dieter Rucht, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialwissenschaft (WZB)
Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness-and therefore its...
This is an interesting and stimulating collection of articles which, taken together, cover both conceptional/theoretical and empirical aspects o...
"I would strongly recommend reading this book both as an historical account of past trade union responses to migrant workers and as a base for further investigation into the current situation in Europe." - CLR News
"In spite of the great complexity of the subject matter this empirical study impresses the reader with its simple and clear structure ... Highly recommended." - Gewerkschaftliche Monatshefte
European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in...
"I would strongly recommend reading this book both as an historical account of past trade union responses to migrant workers and as a base for further...
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were...
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and ...
