Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters. States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500-2000, Paperback/***

This volume considers the role of states in explaining patterns of continuity and change in labour relations across the globe and throughout time, from the sixteenth-century silver mines of Potosi in the Andes to twentieth-century colonial Mozambique, exploring their impact in three roles, as conquerors, employers and arbiters.