First paperback ed.: 2011.
Conceptualizations. Who are the workers? ; Why "free" wage labor? ; Why chattel slavery?
Varieties of mutualism. The mutualist universe ; Mutual insurance ; Consumer cooperatives ; Producer cooperatives
Forms of resistance. Strikes ; Consumer protest ; Unions ; Labor internationalism
Insights from adjacent disciplines. World-system theory ; Entangled subsistence labor ; The Iatmul experience ; Outlook.
Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history by Marcel van der Linden. ISBN 9789004184794. Published by Brill in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.