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Speaking Globally

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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The recent growth of the working classes in various parts of the Global South (or what was called the Tricontinent of Africa, Asia, and Latin America some years ago) has important consequences for labor historians. For a very long time labor history was mainly based in the North Atlantic region, though there have also been important nuclei in the so-called socialist countries, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and some institutional labor history could also be found in other parts of the world at least since the 1920s. Now, however, the Global South is playing an increasingly important role in the development of working class historiography.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , Spring 2009 , pp. 184 - 188
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2009

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NOTES

1. See www.indialabourarchives.org/ailh.htm.

2. Bonner, Phil, “New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977–1994,” The Journal of American History, 18 (December 1994), 977–985CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See also: http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/Humanities/SocialSciences/HistoryWorkshop.

3. See www.ifch.unicamp.br/mundosdotrabalho (October 28, 2008).

4. See www.ifch.unicamp.br/ael (December 22, 2006).

5. A selection of the papers presented can be found in van der Linden, Marcel and Mohapatra, Prabhu (eds.), Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories (New Delhi: Tulika, 2009)Google Scholar.

6. A selection of the Johannesburg papers has appeared in Bonner, Philip, Hyslop, Jonathan, and van der Walt, Lucien (eds.), Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on Southern African Labour History, a special issue of African Studies, 66 (August–December 2007)Google Scholar.