The study sketches out the great intellectual tradition of labour history writing accompanied with well selected bibliography. He sets the milestones for historians and laymen interested in the topic with a focus beyond Europe. He presents that the old school labour history was basically Europe centred but the new labour history is especially interested in global context and understanding the world outside of Europe.

This chapter of the series is examining questions related to the establishment and demolition of a comprehensive horizon. Namely, the situation when the position reached intellectually – due to various reasons – becomes temporarily or permanently untenable in practical behaviour (thus as result also intellectually untenable). The trajectory consists of a rise and a decline or retreat.