In The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more...

Introduction: revisiting the genealogy of consumer capitalism through liminality -- On the threshold of a new era : making way for modernity -- A new economic life -- Souls in transition -- Making the consumer city : the theatricalization of urban life -- The chicago world's fair of 1893 and the...

Introduction -- The Mexican textile industry: an overview -- CIVSA : the nature of the firm -- The nature of the labor force -- Labor organization during the porfiriato -- Textile workers and the Mexican revolution -- Labor and the first postrevolutionary regimes -- A revolution in work : real...

Introduction : Competing visions of world order : global moments and movements, 1880s-1930s / Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier -- Global civil society and the forces of empire : the Salvation Army, British imperialism and the "prehistory" of NGOs (ca. 1880-1920) / Harald...