Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen

Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century to the present.

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam.

Leo Lucassen (1959), is Professor of Social History and Chair of the History Department at Leiden University.