Work in Times of Slavery, Colonialism, and Civil War: Labor Relations in Angola from 1800 to 2000

Vos, Jelmer

doi:10.1017/hia.2014.8

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“…Population figures directly underlie, any statement about per-capita GDP or its growth rate and are thus central to understanding the Industrial Revolution. We can do much better than MJ’s guesses for many countries, especially in the period since 1500 (e.g., Vos 2014, pp. 366–69).…”

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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

Guinnane

2023

J. Econ. Hist.

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Economists have reported results based on populations for every country in the world for the past two thousand years. The source, McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History, includes many estimates that are little more than guesses and that do not reflect research since 1978. McEvedy and Jones often infer population sizes from their view of a particular economy, making their estimates poor proxies for economic growth. Their rounding means their measurement error is not “classical.” Some economists augment that error by disaggregating regions in unfounded ways. Econometric results that rest on McEvedy and Jones are unreliable.“… we haven’t just pulled the figures out of the sky. Well, not often.”—McEvedy and Jones (1978, p. 11)

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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

Guinnane

2023

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…At the beginning of the twenty-first century wage labour had decreased, while subsistence farming had returned and the majority of the urban population tried to survive by self-employment in the informal economy. 13 The shifts in these two examples are both vertical (caused by external, political, factors) and horizontal in nature. The latter, the aggregate result of numerous individual decisions, is understudied and explains the often gradual transition from one type of labour relation to another.…”

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Working together: new directions in global labour history

Lucassen¹

2016

Journal of Global History

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The aim of this article is to show the added value of global history that puts labour and labour relations as independent variables in the centre and uses structured long-term data by collaborating closely with historians in various parts of the world. The first part focuses primarily on the global labour relations approach, within the broader debate on social inequality and migration. The second part illustrates the potential of labour as an independent variable by reflecting on recent innovative work pertaining to labour-intensive industrializations in East Asia and Europe. The third part employs the perspective of migration to show the interrelated nature of labour relations and labour. Using the insights from the global labour relations approach and by taking labour seriously, the article will help to address core questions in labour history in a more structural way: why has work been valued and compensated in very different ways over the past five centuries? And how have people individually or collectively influenced these conditions? To find answers, it is crucial to make use of standardized empirical data, structured global comparisons, and more intensive collaborations.

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Historical Background to the Reconstruction of Post-war Labour Markets in Southern Africa

Inaka

Nshimbi

Tshimpaka

2023

The Reconstruction of Post-War Labour Markets in the Southern African Development Community

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Work in Times of Slavery, Colonialism, and Civil War: Labor Relations in Angola from 1800 to 2000

Abstract: In Angola, a trend towards labor commodification, set in motion under the impact of the nineteenth-century produce trade and colonial rule, has been reversed in the decades since independence.

Cited by 7 publications

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We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years

Working together: new directions in global labour history

Historical Background to the Reconstruction of Post-war Labour Markets in Southern Africa

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