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Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction /Magaly Rodríguez García , Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss -- Urban Overviews -- Europe -- Selling Sex in Amsterdam /Marion Pluskota -- Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges /Maja Mechant -- Sex for Sale in Florence /Michela Turno -- A Global History of Prostitution: London /Julia Laite -- Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia /Philippa Hetherington -- The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris /Susan P. Conner -- Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change /Yvonne Svanström -- Africa and the Middle East -- Prostitution in Cairo /Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani -- Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca /Liat Kozma -- Selling Sex in Istanbul /Mark David Wyers -- Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria's Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective /Mfon Umoren Ekpootu -- Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010 /Deborah Bernstein , Hila Shamir , Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir -- The Americas -- A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires /Cristiana Schettini -- Prostitution in the us: Chicago /Mary Linehan -- Prostitution in Havana /Amalia L. Cabezas -- Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006 /Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes -- The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosí (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries /Pascale Absi -- Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation /Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini -- Section 4Asia-Pacific -- Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present /Satarupa Dasgupta -- Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954) /Isabelle Tracol-Huynh -- Prostitution in Shanghai /Sue Gronewold -- Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt /Shawna Herzog -- Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788 /Raelene Frances -- Thematic Overviews -- "We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers' Rights"*: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010 /Marion Pluskota -- Working and Living Conditions /Raelene Frances -- Migration and Prostitution1 /Nicole Keusch -- Prostitution and Colonial Relations /Liat Kozma -- Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work /Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette -- Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work /Mark David Wyers -- A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk -- The Social Profiles of Prostitutes /Maja Mechant -- Conclusion -- Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project /Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk , Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss.

This open access book charts how South Africa's gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world's largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a system of medical surveillance and workers' compensation which compromised the health of black gold miners, facilitated the spread of tuberculosis, and ravaged the communities and economies of labour-sending states. The culmination of two decades of meticulous archival research, this book exposes the making, contesting, and unravelling of the companies' capacity to shape – and corrupt – medical knowledge.

Much has been written on the history of the railways and other transport forms in Ireland, from technological, economic, social and labour history viewpoints. However, the history of another important nineteenth-century transport form, the hackney carriage, remains neglected. In this article, it will be argued, using the hackney carriage business in Cork as a case study, that the hackney carriage was an important vehicle (both literal and metaphorical) in facilitating Cork's development as a modern city with an urban centre surrounded by a suburban hinterland. Further, by examining in detail the workings of the Hackney Carriage Committee of the Cork Corporation, I will argue that the hackney carriage drivers, colloquially referred to as ginglemen or jinglemen, were for the most part a precarious working class who were policed by the Corporation, the Hackney Carriage Committee and the by-law governing their livelihoods. As such, the bye-law and the apparatus that implemented it was a form of liberal governmentality and social control over a portion of Cork's working class.

"Despite the abundance and quality of recent historical writing on consumerism, it cannot be said that the modern Co-operative movement (Co-op) has been well served. It has also been by-passed in studies that locate Britons' identity in their consumption. The reasons for this can be found in the widely perceived decline of the Co-op since the 1950s, but also in various historiographical agendas that have resulted in its relative invisibility in modern British history. This book, by demonstrating the variety of broader issues that can be addressed through the Co-op and the vibrancy of new historical research into consumption, seeks to remedy this. Taking stock, both of the Co-op in a broader context and of new approaches to the history of consumption, combines the work of leading authorities on the Co-op with recent scholarly research. It explores the Co-op's distinctive interface between everyday issues and grander idealistic concerns." "The chapters intersect to examine a broad range of themes, notably: the politics of consumerism including consumer protection, ethical and fair trading and alternatives to corporate commerce; design and advertising; the Co-op's relations with other components of the labour movement; and its ideology, image and memory. The collection looks at the Co-operative movement locally (through specific case studies), nationally and also in comparison to the European movement. This collection will appeal to academics, researchers, teachers and students of the economic, cultural and political history of twentieth-century Britain. It will also be of interest to academics and students of business studies, and co-operative members themselves."--BOOK JACKET

AbstractThe economic, political and social imperative of reforming working conditions in agriculture, improving rural living standards and promoting rural development emerged as an international issue in the inter-war years. Despite a growing interest in the history of international organisations, historical research has hitherto made little reference to co-operative efforts and standard-setting in agriculture before the Second World War. This article seeks to fill the gap by examining the process whereby the International Labour Organization (ILO) learned about the specificities of the agricultural sector. It illustrates the ILO's early interest in rural workers and agricultural issues, which it addressed through special committees. Hampered by the challenging diversity of agricultural work and the perceived lack of national organisations and legislation, it was not until the late 1930s that the ILO carried out proper surveys on social issues in agriculture. Set up in the late 1930s, the history of the ILO's Permanent Agricultural Committees illustrates the results of a learning process which eventually positioned the ILO as a focal point of technical expertise, and enabled it to embrace an ever widening and interdisciplinary vision of agricultural labour and labour relations.

We examine the significance of leadership, economic problems and immigration for defection from voting Labour over the period 2005-10. Vote switching at different points throughout the electoral cycle is estimated using discrete-time event history analysis models. Contrary to established expectations about the impact of the financial crisis and weaknesses in Gordon Brown's premiership, political leadership and economic evaluations had similar effects on defection during the early part of the electoral cycle, when Tony Blair was still in place, and the economy was still growing. In contrast, during the later period the economic crisis failed to impact on vote switching, which derived more noticeably from concerns over immigration or dislike of Brown. The emergence of immigration as a source of electoral punishment for Labour appears to derive from a particular dissatisfaction with the government's performance on an issue of rising salience; by comparison the economic crisis may well have been sufficiently global to have weakened attributions of responsibility to the government. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractDrawing on evidence from research interviews, workers' memoirs, oral histories, and a range of secondary sources, the development of popular workers' education is traced over a thirty year period, 1955 to 1985, and is rooted in the proletarian culture of South Yorkshire, UK. The period is seen as an historical conjuncture of Left social movements (trade unions, the Communist and Labour parties, tenants' movements, movements of working-class women, and emerging autonomous black movements) in a context of trade union militancy and New Left politics. The Sheffield University extramural department, the South Yorkshire Workers' Educational Association (WEA), and the public intellectuals they employ as tutors and organizers are embedded in the politics and actions of the labor movement in the region, some becoming Labour MPs. They develop distinctive programs of trade union day release courses and labor movement organizations (Institute for Workers' Control, Conference of Socialist Economists, Society for the Study of Labour History). Workers involved in the process of popular workers' education become organic intellectuals having key roles in local and national politics, in the steel and miners' strikes of the 1980s, and in the formation of Northern College. The article draws on the language and insights of Raymond Williams and Antonio Gramsci through the lens of social movement theory and the praxis of popular education.

"Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced, distributed, controlled, and sold around the globe. Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for the highly conductive, corrosion-resistant metal--essential for light, power, and communication--have demanded ever-increasing quantities of copper. From copper cartels and the futures market to the consequences of resource nationalism, Born with a Copper Spoon has a global scope. However, this is not simply a narrative of ever-increasing and deepening global connections, as global history often is. It is also about periods of deglobalization, fragmentation, and attempts to sever connections, as was the case in the mid-twentieth century, when a bitter contest over ownership of mineral resources briefly threatened to cause a major realignment of the world economy. Throughout history, copper production has spawned its own practices, technologies, and a constantly changing political economy. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. The first president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, once remarked that Zambians were "born with a copper spoon in our mouths," but few societies managed to profit from copper's abundance. Contributors to this far-reaching collection cover the finance, technology, labour, business, politics, and environmental impact of what is one of the world's most important metals."--