https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182422 2026-09-21T19:59:34Z 2026-09-21T19:59:34Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281242 2024-01-26T02:48:42Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community Editors: Schöneich, Svenja Abstract: Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Meskill, David https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182434 2023-11-27T02:55:14Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Optimizing the German workforce: Labor administration from Bismarck to the economic miracle Authors: Meskill, David Abstract: During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country's human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author's account of the broad support for this program challenges the standard historical accounts that focus on disagreements over the German political-economic order and points instead to an important area of consensus. These advances are explained in terms of political policies of corporatist compromise and national security as well as industry's evolving production strategies. By tracing the development of these policies over the course of a century, the author also suggests important continuities in Germany's domestic politics, even across such different regimes as Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, and post-1945 West Germany.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanziani, Alessandro https://hdl.handle.net/10419/182433 2023-12-03T02:28:20Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Bondage: Labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries Authors: Stanziani, Alessandro Abstract: For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards via indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the 17th and the 19th centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less.

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