Contents: Jan Lucassen: Introduction – Marcel van der Linden: The «Globalization» of Labour and Working-Class History and its Consequences – Jan Lucassen: Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope – Frederick Cooper: African Labor History – Zachary Lockman: Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa – Sabyasachi Bhattacharya: Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia – Akira Suzuki: The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance – Bryan D. Palmer: Fin-de-Siècle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition – Dick Geary: Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 – John D. French: The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions – Lucy Taksa: What’s in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania – Arif Dirlik: Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China – Andrei Sokolov: The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia – Prasannan Parthasarathi: Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective – Ratna Saptari: Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections – Jan Lucassen: Brickmakers in Western Europe (1700-1900) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons – Ian Phimister: Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts – Lex Heerma van Voss: «Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth»: Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 – Shelton Stromquist: Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns.