Migrant actors worldwide : capitalist interests, state regulations, and left-wing strategies / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl

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Most chapters in this volume were first discussed at the 56th Conference of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ith) in Linz, Austria, 23–25 September 2021

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left- Wing Strategies -- 1 Research Approaches to Labour Migration and Capital Investment Strategies -- 2 Labour Demand and Migration in the Present -- 3 The Role of States in Historical Perspective: Empires, Multi- Ethnic Conglomerates, Self- Declared Nations -- 4 Portable Working Populations in Historical Perspective -- 5 Capitalist Investment Strategies, Mass Migrations, and Segmented Labour Markets since the Nineteenth Century -- 6 Class and Organization: How Do Left Unions and Parties React to Labour Migration? -- 7 Workingmen's and - women's Struggles "from the Bottom Up" - but Why Are They at the Bottom? -- Part 1 Perspectives, Approaches, Frames -- Chapter 2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International Approaches -- 1 The Poverty of Political Theory - of European Origin -- 2 Universal Human Rights - Including Migration -- 3 States and Migration -- 4 Colonizing States, Capital Accumulation and Mobility, Colonized Working Populations -- 5 Jobs in Platform Economies and Forbes' List of "The Richest People in the World" -- 6 State-Side Legal Frames, Facilitating Factors, Migrant Agency -- Chapter 3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and Migration -- 1 World-Systems Approaches -- 2 Racism -- 3 Migration in a Racialized World -- 4 Global Inequalities: Examples -- Part 2 Class/Classes: -- Chapter 4 Introduction -- Chapter 5 Outsourcing the Working Class: Guestwork in Turbulent Times -- 1 What Is Guestwork? -- 2 COVID-19 and Guestworkers: Vulnerabilities -- 2.1 UK and US -- 2.2 The Gulf -- 2.3 Southeast Asia -- 3 What Do We Learn about Guestwork from the COVID-19 Crisis?.

This volume contributes to global labour, working-class, and migration history by illuminating the lives of working people over the 19th and 20th centuries.