Notes on Contributors
is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He has published widely on colonial migrations and plantation economies. His publications in English include “Being Dutch” in the Indies. A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500–1920 (2008, together with Remco Raben), The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia. Industrial Production 1770–2010 (2013), and Revisiting the Periphery, to be published by Columbia University Press.
Pepijn Brandon
is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Assistant Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. In 2013, he obtained his Ph.D., which was co-supervised by Marcel van der Linden, and subsequently published as War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588–1795) (2015). With Marcel, he shares an interest in the relevance of Marx’ work for studying the interconnected histories of war, capitalism, and slavery. He has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Huntington Library in California, and has received two of the most prestigious early-career grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Jan Breman
has been Professor Emeritus of Comparative Sociology at the University of Amsterdam since 2001, and is continuing his academic work in South and Southeast Asian studies as Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. His latest books include At Work in the Informal Economy of India; A Perspective from the Bottom Up (2013/2015), Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market; Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java (2015), and On Pauperism in Present and Past (2016).
Sidney Chalhoub
is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published three books on the social history of Rio de Janeiro: Trabalho, lar e botequim (1986), on working-class culture in the early twentieth century; Visões da liberdade (1990), on the last decades of slavery; and Cidade febril (1996), on tenements and epidemics in the second half of the nineteenth century. He also published Machado de Assis, historiador (2003), about the literature and political ideas of Machado de Assis. His latest book is A força da escravidão (2012), on illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil.
Andreas Eckert
is Professor of African History at Humboldt University in Berlin and Director of the International Research Center “Work and Human Life Course in Global History,” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. He has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century African history, colonialism, labor, and global history. Eckert also regularly contributes to German newspapers including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit. His most recent book is Global Histories of Work (2016) (ed.). He is currently working on a Short History of Colonialism, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Karin Hofmeester
is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and Professor of Jewish Culture at the University of Antwerp. Her publications include The Joy and Pain of Work. Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500–1650 (2012, with Christine Moll-Murata, eds.), Luxury in Global Perspective. Objects and Practices, 1600–2000 (2016, with Bernd Grewe, eds.), Conquerors, Employers, and Arbiters: States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500–2000 (2016, with Gijs Kessler and Christine Moll-Murata, eds.), Colonialism, Institutional Change and Shift in Labour Relations (2017, with Pim de Zwart, eds), and Handbook Global History of Work (2017, with Marcel van der Linden, eds.).
Jürgen Kocka
taught modern history, especially social and comparative history, in Bielefeld, at the Free University of Berlin, and at UCLA. He was president of the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB), and is a Permanent Fellow of the Center “Work and Life Course in Global History,” Humboldt University Berlin. His publications in English include Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society. Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany (1999), Civil Society and Dictatorship in Modern German History (2010), and Capitalism: A Short History (2016). Together with Marcel van der Linden, he edited Capitalism. The Reemergence of a Historical Concept (2016).
Jan Lucassen
is Professor Emeritus International and Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. At the International Institute in Amsterdam he was Research Director (1988–2000) Senior Researcher (2000–2011), and Honorary Fellow from 2012. He is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on global migration and labor history, including Migrant Labour in Europe 1600–1900 (1986), A Miracle Mirrored. The Dutch Republic in European perspective (1995, with Karel Davids, eds.), Global Labour History (2006, ed.) Wages and Currency. Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (2007, ed.), and Globalising Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th–21st centuries) (2014, with Leo Lucassen, eds.).
Magaly Rodríguez García
Ph.D. (2008), is Lecturer at the KU Leuven. Her main publications include “The League of Nations and the Moral Recruitment of Women,” in International Review of Social History (2012), On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor (2016, with Marcel van der Linden, eds.), “On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor” (ibid), “Morality Politics and Prostitution Policies in Brussels: A Diachronic Comparison,” in Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2017), and Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s–2000s (2017, with Lex Heerma van Voss and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, eds.).
Willem van Schendel
is Professor Emeritus Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. He works in the fields of history, anthropology, and sociology of Asia. His recent publications include Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using Historical Evidence, 1840s–1940s (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India (2015, with Joy L.K. Pachuau), and The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2013, with Meghna Guhathakurta, eds.).