From Colonial to Imperial Employers
Klein, Jean-François
From Colonial to Imperial Employers - 2012.
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This paper focuses on employers in the “colonial moment”. Until recently, historiography used the term “colonial employers” in opposition to “metropolitan” employers to define the corporate heads involved in overseas markets. This general term masks the diversity of business situations and practices. Who were these employers? A rapid survey shows a complex world where the qualifier, “colonial”, leads to more misunderstanding than to understanding. With the emerging imperial history movement and the debates it sparks, we suggest using the imperial scale to work out a typology that would better grasp this diversity and employer strategies within the framework of the first globalization resulting from colonial empires.
From Colonial to Imperial Employers - 2012.
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This paper focuses on employers in the “colonial moment”. Until recently, historiography used the term “colonial employers” in opposition to “metropolitan” employers to define the corporate heads involved in overseas markets. This general term masks the diversity of business situations and practices. Who were these employers? A rapid survey shows a complex world where the qualifier, “colonial”, leads to more misunderstanding than to understanding. With the emerging imperial history movement and the debates it sparks, we suggest using the imperial scale to work out a typology that would better grasp this diversity and employer strategies within the framework of the first globalization resulting from colonial empires.
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