The latest issue of the International Review of Social History (vol 57 no 20) is a special issue entitled Mediating Labour. Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
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. Three contributors focus on African labour:
Cassandra Mark, The "Bargain" of Collaboration: African Intermediaries, Indirect Recruitment, and Indigenous Institutions in the Ghanaian Gold Mining Industry, 1900-1906
Enrique Martino, Clandestine Recruitment Networks in the Bight of Biafra: Fernando Pó’s Answer to the Labour Question, 1926-1945
Hanan Hammad, Making and Breaking the Working Class: Worker Recruitment in the National Textile Industry in Interwar Egypt
The latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (volume 9 no 4) presents two leading articles.
The debate on the impact of Dutch Slave Trade on the economy is continued by the first authors, Matthias van Rossum en Karwan Fatah-Black, and Piet Emmer.
Catia Antunes & Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Amsterdam Merchants in the Slave Trade and African Commerce, 1580s-1670s
Samuël Kruizinga, 'Wie varen wil, zij onvervaard, doch wake voor gevaar'. Het beleid van de Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland' en de Rotterdamsche Lloyd tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog (1914-1918)
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