Mediating labour : worldwide labour intermediation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Title
: 
Mediating labour : worldwide labour intermediation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Series
: 
International review of social history, Special issue ; 20
 
International review of social history. Special issue ; 20

Publication Information
: 
Cambridge : Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 2012

Physical Description
: 
252 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

ISBN
: 
9781107647374

Abstract
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"Focuses on labour intermediaries, the persons or agencies who interceded between employers and workers, for which they received payments and commissions. Their practices played a crucial role in the recruitment of both free and forced labour, and frequently blurred the boundaries between the two"--Page 2.

Subject Term
: 
Labor supply
 
Employees -- Recruiting
 
Employment agencies
 
Human trafficking
 
Slavery
 
Emigration and immigration

Added Author
: 
Bosma, Ulbe, 1962-
 
Nederveen Meerkerk, Elise van
 
Sarkar, Aditya


LibraryItem BarcodeCall NumberMaterial TypeItem Category 1
PSZ JB30000010328949HD5706 M44 2012Open Access BookBook