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Afterword: Reflections on the Motley Crew as Port City Proletariat
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Marcus Rediker
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This essay reflects on the workers in Atlantic and Indian Ocean port cities who made possible the rapidly expanding system of global capitalism between 1650 and 1850. In all of the ports treated in this volume, a mixture of multi-ethnic, male and female, unskilled, often unwaged laborers collectively served as the linchpins that connected local hinterlands (and seas) to bustling waterfronts, tall ships, and finally the world market. Although the precise combination of workers varied from one port to the next, all had an occupational structure in which half or more of the population worked in trade or the defense of trade, for example in shipbuilding/repair, the hauling of commodities to and from ships, and the building of colonial infrastructure, the docks and roads instrumental to commerce. This “motley crew” – a working combination of enslaved Africans, European/Indian/Chinese indentured servants, sailors, soldiers, convicts, domestic workers, and artisans – were essential to the production and worldwide circulation of commodities and profits.

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John Newsinger. Hope Lies in the Proles. George Orwell and the Left. Pluto Press, London2018. vi, 186 pp. £75.00. (Paper: £12.99.)
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Victor Bailey. The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970. Routledge, London [etc.] 2019. xix, 549 pp. Ill. £125.00. (Paper: £39.99; E-book: £35.99.)
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Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain. Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid. [Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements.] Palgrave Macmillan, London2016. xvii, 354 pp. € 96.29. (E-book: € 74.96.)

Global Perspectives on Workers’ and Labour Organizations. Ed. by Maurizio Atzeni and Immanuel Ness. [Work, Organization, and Employment.] Springer, Singapore [etc.] 2018. xvi, 173 pp. € 125.34. (E-book: € 95.19)

Tobias Higbie. Labor's Mind. A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life. University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL)2019. 208 pp. $99.00. (Paper: $25.00.)

Barbara Weinstein. The Color of Modernity. São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil. Duke University Press, Durham, NC [etc.] 2015. xiii, 458 pp. Ill. $104.95. (Paper: $29.95.)

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Donald Reid. Opening the Gates. The Lip Affair, 1968–1981. Verso, London [etc.] 2018. xvi, 492 pp. Ill. £32.00.

Cole Peter. Dockworker Power. Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL)2018. xiii, 286 pp. $99.00. (Paper: $35.00.)

Hans Ramsoedh. Surinaams onbehagen. Een sociale en politieke geschiedenis van Suriname 1865–2015. Verloren, Hilversum2018. 368 pp. Ill. € 29.00.

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Enda Brophy. Language Put to Work. The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce. [Dynamics of Virtual Work.] Palgrave Macmillan, London [etc.] 2017. xii, 306 pp. € 117.69. (E-book: € 91.62).

Jan Willem Stutje. Hendrik de Man. Een man met een plan. Polis, Kalmthout2018. 230 pp. Ill. € 35.00.

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Guide to the International Archives and Collections at the Iish: Supplement for 2018

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John Newsinger. Hope Lies in the Proles. George Orwell and the Left. Pluto Press, London2018. vi, 186 pp. £75.00. (Paper: £12.99.)

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ISH volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Victor Bailey. The Rise and Fall of the Rehabilitative Ideal, 1895–1970. Routledge, London [etc.] 2019. xix, 549 pp. Ill. £125.00. (Paper: £39.99; E-book: £35.99.)

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