Taming the Mobility and Immobility Dilemma in Labour History: A Short Introduction

The article introduces the special issue "Mobility, Labour, Right: Historical Trajectories and Interactions in the Americas and Europe (XVII-XX Centuries)"....

The Perimeters of Mobility in Early Modern Construction Sites (Savoy States, 18th Century)

This contribution is focused on work in building sites in pre-industrial period, where different forms of mobility and immobility of...

Runaway Heuristics: A Micro-Spatial Study of Immobilizing Chains c. 1790

This article presents a micro-spatial study of the trajectories of two prison breakers in 18th-century Denmark-Norway reconstructed from court documents...

Enslaved Labour and Im/Mobility in the Mediterranean: The Italian Case (1752-1885)

The objective of this article is to illustrate the tension between mobility and immobility that existed in the slave labour...

Slavery, Mobility, and Freedom in the Spanish Atlantic During the Age of Revolutions

This article illustrates the strong connection between slave mobility and freedom in the late 18th and early 19th century Spanish...

Ejidatario and Bracero: The Troublesome Relation Between Land and Mobility in Mexico (1940s-1950s)

This paper aims to investigate the role of the land reform and labour recruitment systems in governing farmworkers mobility and...

Introduction: Economics, History and Economic History in Stefano Fenoaltea’s Cliometrics

The article introduces the symposium "Economics, History and Economic History in Stefano Fenoaltea’s Cliometrics", intended to reassess Fenoaltea’s legacy, and...

Opening Address

In Search for Another “Fish Story”: Stefano Fenoaltea’s Last (Unfinished) Revolution

Stefano Fenoaltea devoted more than five decades of great scientific activity (1967-2020) to more than five decades of Italy’s economic...

Rome and the Polis: Tradition and Change in the Financial Accounts of Tauromenion, 1st Century B.C.

Ancient historians provide us a partial, mostly favourable to Rome, picture of the expansion during the Republic. However, not much...