%0 Electronic Article %A Eckert, Andreas %I Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG %D 2017 %D 2017 %G German %@ 0340-613X %~ Katalog HGB Leipzig %T Von der „freien Lohnarbeit“ zum „informellen Sektor“? Alte und neue Fragen in der Geschichte der Arbeit %V 43 %J Geschichte und Gesellschaft %V 43 %N 2 %P 297-307 %U https://www.jstor.org/stable/26381342 %X

These comments reflect on the articles of this issue from the perspective of non-Western, and in particular African labor historiography. This contribution emphasizes the fluidity and ambiguity of established, often Eurocentric concepts. Perspectives from the "Global South" not only tend to destabilize notions like wage labor, the working class, or the "standard employment pattern" ("Normalarbeitsverhältnis") that used to be taken for granted. They also provide the opportunity to pose new questions about German and Western developments. Historians of labor working with a global perspective have to confront the challenge of focusing on the necessarily specific historical trajectories of certain localities and specific patterns of regional migration without losing sight of the broader context. They see shared entanglements as being bi- or multi-directional rather than uni-directional and promote an approach that does not exclusively rely on models taken from a single period or nation.

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