Work in a Globalising World: Gender, Mobility, Markets

5th Annual Seminar of the BGHS | 8-10 April 2013, Bielefeld University, Germany The concept of work has been a key topic in both history and sociology since the early days of these disciplines. Up to the end of the 20th century the sociology of work as well as social history and the history of labour analysed work within the framework of the nation state and national institutional settings. During the last decade, however, it has become clear that this perspective is too narrow: Global histor..