Mediating Labour : Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Paperback)

1. Mediating labour: an introduction Ulbe Bosma, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Aditya Sarkar; 2. The 'bargain' of collaboration: African intermediaries, indirect recruitment, and indigenous institutions in the Ghanaian gold mining industry, 1900?6 Cassandra Mark; 3. Clandestine recruitment networks in the Bight of Biafra: Fernando Po's answer to the labour question, 1926?45 Enrique Martino; 4. Making and breaking the working class: worker recruitment in the national textile industry in interwar Egypt Hanan Hammad; 5. The League of Nations and the moral recruitment of women Magaly Rodriguez Garcia; 6. South American tours: work relations in the entertainment market in South America Cristiana Schettini; 7. The making of public labour intermediation: job search, job placement, and the state in Europe, 1880?1940 Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner and Alexander Mejstrik; 8. Temporary labour migration and state-run recruitment of foreign workers in Europe, 1919?75: a new migration regime? Christoph Rass; 9. Labour brokers in migration: understanding historical and contemporary transnational migration regimes in Malaya/Malaysia Amarjit Kaur.