The job crisis and its concrete issues are inseparable from political thought and from political action which lead national and international-level governments and markets, national or supranational economic and financial institutions as well as the new job markets. Labour history by itself, whose contents are in continuous and swift flux, risks to become irrelevant if it fails to innovate its analytical tools. Global history allows us to improve these analytical tools by showing us a wider overview, which is not solely geographical, of the interconnections linking formal and informal job markets which distinguish economies of developing countries and not only those. This course is the one followed by the Authors of the essays included in this collection, which belong to different branches of knowledge and combine to outline the whole overview, which is rife of new starting points concerning the researched issue.
