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Long haul unionism: southern labor history and the struggle to organize Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Timothy J. Minchin
In April 2024, workers at Volkswagen’s huge plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers. The victory was highly-significant; the union had organized the fi...
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Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Eyram Dzitrie
Economic insecurity represents an existential threat to many workers, not least those in the Creative and Cultural Sector (CCS). Based on recent survey data from Ghanaian musicians gathered between...
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Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”] Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Thomas Klikauer
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Data and Democracy at Work by Rogers and Your Boss is an Algorithm by Aloisi and De Stefano Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Thomas Klikauer, Thu Nguyen
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 5, 2024)
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The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Patrick Witzak
Working conditions in a global context reveal a dramatic reality for workers in the Global South. In conjunction with the prevailing process of capital accumulation and economic growth and the new ...
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Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)1 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Paolo Raspadori
Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) was for a good part of the twentieth century Italy’s largest industrial company. Historians and sociologists have extensively investigated its productive ...
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Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Miguel Artola Blanco
This paper presents a significant revision of the evolution of labor incomes in Spain, challenging previous assumptions about the effect of Francoist institutions in the postwar era. Administrative...
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Trade union renewal against a background of national conflict: the strategies of the trade unions ELA and LAB in the Basque country (1976–2008) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Eki Etxebarria, Ane Larrinaga
The structural transformations of the world of work, together with certain strategic choices, have caused a crisis in unionism in Western Europe and distanced them from their social origins. As a r...
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Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Robayet Ferdous Syed, Ridoan Karim
Labor welfare, aligned with the standards set by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and effectively practiced, plays a vital role in ensuring the optimal functioning and protection of the l...
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Powderly and the worker awakening: speaking to the South in 1885 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Jerry Prout
Throughout his 1885 speaking tour across the South, Terence Powderly both respected and challenged the region’s color line. Dedicated to growing the Knights of Labor (KOL) membership in the rapidly...
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The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Canan Özcan Eliaçık
This article aims to demonstrate how the working class evolved and was organised in Palestine and Lebanon between 1920 and 1948. Palestine and Lebanon, which share characteristics such as being a p...
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Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-1982 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mario Venegas
This life history account illustrates the covert politics of sabotage, purging, and the defeat of defecting and rival factions that occurred within the United Farm Workers in Texas. I draw on Rober...
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Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 1924 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Francisco J. Marco-Gracia
Several recent European studies conducted over the past 50 years have documented a positive connection between a person’s height and their salary. However, there are very few studies for earlier pe...
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‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–1920 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Constantin Torve
This paper evaluates the prevalence and impact of nativist and anti-labor narratives built on the claim that the ‘Molly Maguires’, a vague 1860s and 70s militant Irish labor phenomenon of the Penns...
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Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Md Nazrul Islam, Md Al-Amin
This study sets out to investigate the human development situation of ethnic tea workers in Bangladesh against the underpinnings of human development theories by employing a qualitative research ap...
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Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Chengkun Huang, Hong Xu, Hui Li
The expansion of the tourism industry has generated a plethora of informal job opportunities. However, existing literature has not thoroughly explored the extensive involvement of local residents i...
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Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Janine Giordano Drake
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Claudio Llanos-Reyes, José Antonio González-Pizarro, Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera
This article explores the response of the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) during the challenging period of economic crisis coinciding with Spain’s transition to democracy and concurre...
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The current social protection discourse, gig economy within the advent of COVID-19: some emerging legal arguments Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Luyando Martha Katiyatiya, Nombulelelo Lubisi
Gig workers are classified as independent contractors, a designation often accompanied by limited rights – a recurring theme within employment laws across diverse jurisdictions. The advent of the C...
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Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Lucas Poy
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce? Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Kamil Matuszczyk, Sara Bojarczuk
The migration industry consists of actors and organisations (e.g. agents, brokers, agencies, corporations) through which migration is facilitated, organised, and accelerated. Although the migration...
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Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Grant Mongin
Between 1924 and 1955 factory managers introduced personality tests as a new tool to discriminate amongst large pools of potential employees. The new worker protections granted by New Deal legislat...
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San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Gerardo Cringoli, Andrea Pomella
San Leucio was an interesting experiment for the territorial development of Southern Italy before the Unification of the country. At that time, Southern Italy was a developing region. San Leucio wa...
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Labor history symposium: Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-1914 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Craig Phelan
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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Introduction Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Marion Fontaine, Steven High, Lauren Laframboise
Far from simply being a ‘bookend’ of the industrial age, deindustrialization is an integral part of capitalist development and thus has a long history. In the North American context, the early scho...
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A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S. Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Timothy J. Minchin
This article explores the labor upsurge of the early 2020s and places it in an historical context. In the early 2020s, workers across the U.S. protested, organized, and walked out, part of an upsur...
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“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Magdalena Novoa, Daniela Morales Fredes
This paper explores the racialized experiences of industrial closure and economic restructuring of the former Pilpilco coal mine through oral histories and feminist arts-based methods. We argue tha...
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“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Gülhan Balsoy
This article will explore the experiences of working women in the late 1920s as expressed by themselves. It will reflect on women’s experiences in work in the early years of the Republic through th...
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Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Dimitry Anastakis, Steven High
Job security has always been a paramount concern for the trade union movement. This article explores the ways that unions used collective bargaining to gain a measure of job security for their memb...
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Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jill Harsin
Uber came to Paris late in 2011, bringing with them a widely accepted narrative of their necessary ‘disruption’ of a stagnant taxi industry. They presented themselves as part of the ‘Sharing Econom...
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Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Chris Wrigley
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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Class, race, and Power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Michael Biddick
The summer of 1922 was characterized by disturbing acts of violence when a group of over 100 armed White men attacked Black workers brought in as strikebreakers during the Chicago and Northwestern ...
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Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Patrick Cooper-McCann, Andrew Guinn
This paper examines the divergent trajectories of automotive investment and employment in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. Located on opposite shores of the Detroit River, in the United Stat...
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Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Michael Bianchi
Through historical and anthropological inquiry, this paper addresses the issue of memory antagonisms involving cultural landscapes in the context of a former mining region: the Belgian Black Countr...
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Reticence, gender, and deindustrialisation: oral history challenges emerging within deindustrialisation studies and labour history Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shonagh L. Joice
This article presents a reflective review of the challenges of interviewing hard-to-reach and marginalised groups when employing an oral history methodology. Using Belfast, Northern Ireland, as a c...
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From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh, Suffian Mansor
Mental illness was a common sickness in the Straits Settlements. The British established mental hospitals in order to treat the patients. The women labourers working under the Straits Settlements w...
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Author’s response to “Labor History Symposium: Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914” Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ralph Darlington
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Md Al-Amin, Md Nazrul Islam
This study focuses on the underlying causes of aspirations failure among young children of Bangladesh’s tea workers and how this aspirations failure hinders their future career plans and entraps th...
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Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Gregory Wilson, Steven High
During the last quarter of the 20th century, worker ownership emerged as a popular option for North American workers trying to save their mills or factories from closing. Most of these efforts even...
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International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Sivan Balslev
This article examines child labor in the Iranian carpet industry, from around 1890 to 1930. During this period, child labor was shaped by a combination of local and global factors, including the in...
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Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914, Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Lewis Mates
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Karen Hunt
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2024)
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The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 David Chambers, Raphael Chambers
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 1, 2024)
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Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Shina Alimi
In the analysis of decolonization process and nationalist struggles for political independence of Africa, labour agitations and the press activism for human rights are common features. But most stu...
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Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–1945 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Timothy J. Minchin
This article examines the struggle to build the United Automobile Workers in the years after the sit-down strike of 1936–37 in Flint, Michigan. The strike, which historian Sidney Fine has called ‘t...
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‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu
The birth of labor law in Argentina is as intricate as it is fascinating. The emergence of a regulatory mosaic in the country occurred in the shadow of extreme institutional instability and ideolog...
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Correction Notice Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Lara Khattab
Under which conditions can combative labor in the Global South negotiate state and society relations and constrain the encroachment of their respective militaries on politics? This article argues t...
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A history of progressive Doxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Abdul Aziz
This discussion paper is presented to be read in three simultaneous and different modalities. At one level, it is a historiography of British Bengali women’s labour power and hence an exploration o...
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The great standardisation: working hours around the world Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Magnus B. Rasmussen
This paper introduces a novel dataset on working-time regulation for 197 territories between 1789 and 2010 to document how working hours have become globally standardised through public policy. Des...
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The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Md Abdul Jalil, Apu Gauala
This study aims to investigate the predicament of young widows residing in the tea estates of Bangladesh. The study used qualitative methods to understand how young widows perceive and interpret th...
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Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-1952 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Oded Marck
In the early years following Israel’s establishment, the country’s stone industry was set to advance key Zionist objectives: supplying construction materials to house Jewish immigrants and creating...
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Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ferruccio Ricciardi
In colonial French Congo, one of the main challenges for labor relations was the need to reconcile contradictory efforts to promote the mobility of native workers while also stabilizing (or immobil...
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Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Adwitiya Mishra, Aasheerwad Dwivedi
This study carries out a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape of labour laws in India, with a particular focus on the recent labour codes introduced in 2020. Through a historical ana...
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The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Tingting Qian, Jiale Bian, Jianing Chen
The employment of college graduates is related to social stability, and graduates with difficulties are at a disadvantage when seeking jobs, therefore they should be given greater concern. Based on...
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Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-2023 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Marko Valenta, Jo Jakobsen, Margareta Gregurović, Drago Župarić-Iljić
This article explores the recent history of labour migration in post-independence Croatia. The time period under investigation is 1990–2023, which encompasses three decades during which the country...
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Between labour and moral duty: social conflicts, volunteer work and the moral economy of life-boating in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (1850–1914) Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nebiha Guiga
The history of humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, and more specifically of the lifeboat movement, has so far paid limited attention to the role of rank-and-file, working-class volunteers an...
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Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Selin Çağatay
This article explores the relationship between the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) from the 1960s until the 1990s wi...
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‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-1972 Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Kevin E. Grimm
Between 1953 and 1972 the International Labor Film Institute (ILFI), affiliated with yet organizationally separate from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), spread knowledg...
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Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh Labor History (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Robayet Ferdous Syed
The International Labor Organization (ILO) labor standard is crucial for ensuring labor rights, making it imperative for member states to adopt labor policies that align with and comply with the IL...