Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies

Professor Cohen's book is a study of the control methods which the state and employers seek to impose over laborers. Includes case studies, both historical and contemporary, drawn from North America, Britain, and parts of Africa. Robin Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, University of Oxford. He was Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and served as Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town (2001-3). He has held full-time teaching appointments at the Universities of Ibadan, Birmingham and the West Indies and short-term appointments at Stanford, Toronto and Berkeley. He is editor of the Routledge series on Global Diasporas, the Elgar International Library of Studies on Migration and the Cambridge Survey of World Migration. He writes on on the sociology and politics of developing areas, ethnicity, international migration, transnationalism, creolization and globalisation. He was Principal Investigator on the Oxford Diasporas Programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011-5).