Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

List of Figures and Tables

pp.：  11 – 14

Acknowledgments

pp.：  15 – 16

Introduction

pp.：  17 – 32

Work Processes

pp.：  33 – 34

Working for Diamonds from the 16th to the 20th Century

pp.：  35 – 62

Green Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal’s Indigo Industry

pp.：  63 – 90

Dak Roads, Dak Runners and the Re-ordering of Communication Networks

pp.：  91 – 114

Production Systems and Forms of Labor Control in the Javanese Cigarette Industry, 1920s–1930s

pp.：  115 – 138

Occupations

pp.：  139 – 140

Selling in the Shadows: Peddlers and Hawkers in Early Modern Europe

pp.：  141 – 168

The Worst Class of Workers: Migration, Labor Relations and Living Strategies of Prostitutes around 1900

pp.：  169 – 186

Fighting for a Living in Europe and Asia

pp.：  187 – 206

White Collar Workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602–1795

pp.：  207 – 228

Mobilities

pp.：  229 – 230

The Career Ladder to the Top of the Dutch East India Company: Could Foreigners also Become Commanders and Junior Merchants?

pp.：  231 – 252

Demographic Change and Migration Flows in Holland between 1500 and 1800

pp.：  253 – 262

The Economic Contribution of Labor Migrants in the European Maritime Labor Market of the Long Eighteenth Century

pp.：  263 – 284

Income Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century

pp.：  285 – 312

Contextualizations

pp.：  313 – 314

Labor Laws in Western Europe, 13th–16th Centuries: Paterns of Political and Socio-economic Rationality

pp.：  315 – 338

The First “Male Breadwinner Economy”? Dutch Married Women’s and Children’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe Perspective, c. 1600–1900

pp.：  339 – 368

Wage Labor and the Household Economy: A Russian Perspective, 1600–2000

pp.：  369 – 386

Cane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930s: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics

pp.：  387 – 408

Sources

pp.：  409 – 410

Unwritten Autobiography: Labor History Libraries before World War I

pp.：  411 – 432

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  433 – 438

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp.：  439 – 440

Index

pp.：  441 – 449