ABSTRACT Factories remain significant sites of employment, crucial to capitalism. In the twentieth century, scholars registered achievements in documenting their history, but since the late 1980s, and for a generation, the field lost impetus within labour history although insights continued to accumulate through work in adjacent disciplines. The factory has not featured on the agenda of ‘transnational’ and ‘global’ labour history, but we suggest that it can and should contribute to that broader global project, reinvigorating labour history, not least by contributing a dimension close to workers’ everyday experience.

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回到工厂：工业工作场所历史的持续突出

摘要 工厂仍然是重要的就业场所，对资本主义至关重要。在 20 世纪，学者们在记录他们的历史方面取得了成就，但自 1980 年代后期以来，这一领域在劳动史中失去了动力，尽管通过相邻学科的工作不断积累见解。工厂没有出现在“跨国”和“全球”劳工史的议程上，但我们建议它可以而且应该为更广泛的全球项目做出贡献，重振劳工史，尤其是通过贡献一个接近工人日常经验的维度.