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Labour in Transport offers a groundbreaking examination of transport workers’ experiences and contributions across the Global South during a transformative period from 1750 to 1950. The volume brings together leading historians to explore how labourers—from porters and dock workers to railway employees and drivers—navigated colonial hierarchies, reshaped infrastructure development, and built modern transport systems.
Rather than treating transport as merely technical history, this collection centres working people’s agency, resistance, and creativity. The contributors analyse transport labour across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Indian Ocean world, examining how global capitalism, colonialism, and technological change affected workers’ lives and communities. The book reveals how transport workers organised collectively, adapted to changing conditions, and left lasting imprints on the spaces they inhabited.
Essential reading for historians of labour, colonialism, technology, and the Global South, this work challenges conventional narratives by demonstrating transport’s centrality to understanding global historical processes and working-class formation.
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