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070151 SE Commodity Chains and Global Labour History - Interactions and Entanglements (2011W)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

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  • Freitag 13.01. 15:00 - 20:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Samstag 14.01. 09:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 2 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This seminar will explore work and labour in a global context. Labour is not restricted to wage labour, but includes all types of work from free to unfree, paid to unpaid, formal to informal, terms and meanings differing from culture to culture. The combination of different types of labour and labour regimes within commodity chains, or global production networks, allows to gain profits for those on top of the chain, while those at the bottom contribute without proper benefit. Commodity chains are therefore used as a key concept to global labour arrangements, characterized by the non-synchronicity of labour-relations in the different parts and places of the chain; transfer of value is used as a key concept to analyse unevenness and inequality in a globalized world.

After getting familiar with the concepts (with the help of readings), the students will explore the uneven and unequal combination of labour regimes, taking specific arrangements of global commodity chains as a case study.

Students from different part of the world are invited to contribute to the seminar by approaching the topic from their region, language, and culture. Research topics and questions will be chosen and developed by the students, cooperating in groups.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Grading is on the basis of the quality of: participation in class, assignments
presentations and comments and of the research paper
Final paper (due to February 28)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

11.10. Introduction, Programme and Working Plan
Assignment 1: Komlosy, Space (reading text, guiding choice of topic)
Assignment 2: Work and labour: Meanings and notions in different cultures and languages (preparation for 18.10.)

18.10. Work and Labour: Meanings and notions in different cultures and languages (group work and discussion)
Assignment 3: Van der Linden, Global Labour (read ch. 1, review chapter 1,2 or 3)
Choice of topic (1)

25.10. Labour-Relations: Definitions, types, manifestations (plenary discussion; material: IISG-labour collaboratory scheme)
Choice of topic (2)
Assignment 4: input preparation Commodity Chains - concepts (group work, texts: Wallerstein, Gereffi, Van Voss et.al. & Komlosy, Gereffi/Humphrey/Sturgeon)

8.11. Commodity Chains: Presentation of Concepts (1 page abstract per group):
World System Approach (-> Wallerstein)
Global Production Chain (Network) Approach (-> Gereffi)
Global Value Chains Approach (-> Gereffi et.al.)
Sychronicity of the Non-Synchronous Approach (Van Voss et.al. & Komlosy)

Assignment 5: input preparation Transfer of Value - concepts (group work: texts: Marx, Denemark et.al., Bock/Duden, Werlhof)

15.11. Transfer of Value: Presentation of Concepts (1 page abstract per group):
Added value in Marxist interpretation (-> Marx)
Transfer of value in a world system interpretation (-> Denemark et.al.)
Transfer of value from a feminist perspective (-> Bock/Duden)
Transfer of value from a subsistence perspective (-> Werlhof)

22.11. Exhibition "In Arbeit" (At work) (guided tour with curator Hubert Weitensfelder)
Where: Technisches Museum Wien, 1150, Mariahilferstraße 212 (Tram 52, 58, U4 Schönbrunn)

29.11. Reports from the working groups, preparation of the group presentations

Prüfungsstoff

After a general introduction, students will choose a topic for research (groups) and present progress and results in class. In the meanwhile key texts will be read and discussed in class.

Literatur

Komlosy Andrea (2010): Spatial Division of Labour, Global Inter-Relations and Imbalances in Regional Development, in: Lex Heerma van Voss/Els Hiemstra/Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000. Aldershot, GB, 621-646.

Van der Linden Marcel (2008): Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History. Leiden - Boston (read intro + choose a chapter (1, 2, or 3)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA Globalgeschichte & Global Studies, Vertiefung 2; MWG11 (2 SSt), MWG12; Dipl. Studium:P2; Lehramt: Vertief. 1; BA-Modul 2 (10 ECTS); MA WISO Vert. 2 (4 ECTS)

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:30