Stefano Bellucci

Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South, c.1750–1950 - International Review of Social History Supplements Stefano Bellucci

Marc Notes: Exploring the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, in the context of globalisation and the evolution of capitalism, this volume focuses on workers from the global south (Africa, Asia and Latin America). Brief Description: This volume considers the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, focusing on workers from the Global South. Table of Contents: Introduction: labour in transport: histories from the global south (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950 Stefano Bellucci, Larissa Rosa Correa, Jan-Georg Deutsch and Chitra Joshi; 1. Contract, work and resistance: boatmen in early colonial eastern India, 1760s 1850s Nitin Sinha; 2. Getting away with murder: the wrongful deaths of Lascars aboard the Union in 1802 James W. Frey; 3. Holy rollers: monasteries, Lamas, and the unseen transport of Chinese-Russian trade, 1850 1911 Devon Dear; 4. Empire on their backs: coolies in the Eastern borderlands of the British Raj Lipokmar Dzuvichu; 5. Free and unfree labour and ethnic conflicts in the Brazilian transport work: Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century Paulo Cruz Terra; 6. Rickshaws and Filipinos: transnational meanings of technology and labor in American-occupied Manila Michael D. Pante; 7. The first great railway strike: a new perspective on the early labour movement in Sao Paulo Guilherme Grandi; 8. Motor transportation, trade unionism and the culture of work in colonial Ghana Jennifer Hart; 9. 'Human telephone lines': flag post mail relay runners in British Southern Cameroon (1916 1955) and the establishment of a modern communications network Walter Gam Nkwi and Mirjam de Bruijn."

Contributor Bio:  Deutsch, Jan-Georg Jan-Georg Deutsch is Lecturer in Commonwealth History in the University of Oxford and the coeditor of African Modernities: Entangled Meanings in Current Debate. Contributor Bio:  Joshi, Chitra Chitra Joshi obtained her PhD in labour history from Jawaharlal Nehru University and teaches History at Indraprastha College, Delhi University. She has published essays in a wide range of international academic journals.