Labour in Transport by Stefano Bellucci, Larissa Rosa Corra,... - 9781107521179

Labour in TransportHistories from the Global South, c.17501950\nAuthor(s): Stefano Bellucci, Larissa Rosa Corra, Jan-Georg Deutsch, Chitra Joshi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107521179, 978-1107521179\nSynopsis\nTransport labour has been a fundamental feature in every economic system and in every epoch of humanity worldwide. This volume considers the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, in the context of globalisation and the evolution of capitalism. The nine articles presented in this collective work span these two centuries and address a largely neglected aspect of labour history in transport: the stories from the Global South (Africa, Asia and Latin America). The transport sectors touched upon in these studies are wide-ranging, encompassing a variety of workers, from porters to boatmen in India, from Mongolian caravanners to Filipino rickshaw drivers, from truck drivers to p.