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Résumé Cet article étudie sur la longue durée la mondialisation de la production et du commerce des diamants. Les centres de cette industrie, du négoce et de la consommation de ses produits n'ont cessé de changer. Différents éléments expliquent ces déplacements : les découvertes géologiques, les coûts de la main-d'œuvre, les coûts de transport, les changements des préférences des consommateurs. L'article analyse les relations sociales liées aux différentes localisations, et leurs changements incessants du XVII e siècle à nos jours.

SummaryIn this article, Moses Maimonides'interpretationof Jewish law on women and work – as reflected in hisMishneh Torah– is contrasted with the daily lives of Jewish working women as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. Later rabbinic writings and European travel accounts are analysed to show how Jewish ethics of women and work were translated into social practice in the late medieval and early modern Arab-Islamic world, where Islamic law and the existence of separate worlds for men and women rather than the contrast between public and private spheres seem to have informed general ideas about women and work.

The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in honor of Marcel van der Linden, presents the latest developments in the global history of labor, work and workers, and of capitalism and its critics. Readership: All interested in (global) history of labor, including all types of work and workers free and unfree and labour protest as well as anyone concerned with the history Marxism and capitalism and its critics.