ABSTRACT
Global labour history is the attempt to understand the uneven and combined development of the world’s working class, and it allows for many different approaches. We may write biographies of workers who lived “transcontinental lives”; we may study commodity chains in order to understand the connections between groups of workers in different parts of the world; we may analyse transcontinental waves of protest (1916-1921, 1965-1975) or international labour movements; and we may study separate occupational groups or segments of the working class across the globe. The present collection of essays belongs to the last-mentioned category, and is part of a larger number of explorations. 1
