International Review of Social History

Papers
(The TQCC of International Review of Social History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory . Ed. by Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto. Bloomsbury Academic, London [etc.] 2023. xii,5
The Politics of the Social Biographical Approach to Working-Class Leaders4
Taylorism, Worker Resistance, and Industrial Relations in Sweden4
Tempered Radicalism: Zhang Dongsun and Chinese Guild Socialism, 1913–19223
Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt3
Gunja Sengupta and Awam Amkpa. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves. America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire. University of California Press, Berkely (CA) 2023. xvi, 359 pp. Ill. Ma3
Kathryn Olivarius. Necropolis. Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) and London 2022. ix, 336 pp. Ill. Maps. $35.00; £30.35; €3
Thomas McStay Adams. Europe's Welfare Traditions since 1500. 2 Vols. Bloomsbury Academic, London [etc.] 2023. Vol 1: 1500–1700, 278 pp. Ill. Vol. 2: 1700–2000, 451 pp. Ill. £200.00.3
Moving to Your Place: Labour Coercion and Punitive Violence against Minors under Guardianship (Charcas, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries)2
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Classifying Occupational Hazards: Narratives of Danger, Precariousness, and Safety in Indian Mines, 1895–19702
“Red Housekeeping” in a Socialist Factory: Jiashu and Transforming Reproductive Labor in Urban China (1949–1962)2
Daniel Agbiboa. They Eat Our Sweat. Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. [Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies.] Oxfo2
Epilogue: Authoritarianism and the Specter of Democracy2
The World of Sugar and Its Implications for Agrarian and Environmental Justice2
Danelle Van Zyl-Hermann. Privileged Precariat. White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule. [The International African Library, Vol. 63.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [e2
“Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice – ERRATUM2
Transnational Activism through the Prism of Anarchism, and Vice Versa2
A.K. Baiburin The Soviet Passport. The History, Nature, and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR (Transl. from Russian by Stephen Dalziel.) [New Russian Thought.] Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 22
Bertel Nygaard. History and the Formation of Marxism. [Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.] Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2022. xvii, 251 pp. € 108.99. (E-book: € 85.59.)2
Household Matters: Engendering the Social History of Capitalism2
Huaiyin Li. The Master in Bondage. Factory Workers in China, 1949–2019 . Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2023. x, 318 pp. $95.00. (Paper, E-book2
Martine Jean. Policing Freedom. Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. [Afro-Latin America.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2023. xvii, 347 pp. Ill. Ma1
The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe . Ed. by Catriona Macleod, Alexandra Shepard, and Maria Ågren. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2023. i1
Nicholas Radburn. Traders in Men. Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) 2023. xii, 341 pp. Ill. $35.00. (E-book: $35.00.)1
“Side by Side with Fighting Nations”: Making the New Culture of Pro-African Solidarity in the Campaigns of the Czechoslovak Committee for Solidarity with African and Asian Peoples1
D. Van Lente (Ed.). Prophets of Computing. Visions of Society Transformed by Computing. [ACM Books, Vol. 50.] Association for Computing Machinery, s.l. 2022. xviii, 537 pp. Ill. $80.00. (Paper: $60.001
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Alessandro Stanziani. Les métamorphoses du travail contraint. Une histoire globale XVIIIe-XIXe siècles. [Domaine Histoire.] Presses de Sciences Po, Paris 2020. 328 pp. € 24.00.1
Ian Angus. The War Against the Commons. Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. Monthly Review Press, New York 2023. 277 pp. $26.00. (Cloth: $89.00; E-book: $26.00.)1
Brian J. Burke Social Exchange. Barter as Economic and Cultural Activism in Medellín, Colombia. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (NJ) 2022. xiii, 224 pp. Ill. $37.95.1
Who Moves the Sugar Frontier? A Comment on The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by 1
Fabrice Bensimon. Artisans Abroad. British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815–1870. Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] 2023. xiii, 286 pp. Ill. Maps. £83.00. (Open Access.)1
Reflections on Activism across Borders: A Response1
Andrea C. Mosterman Spaces of Enslavement. A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York Cornell University Press, Ithaca (NY) 2021. xiii, 230 pp. Ill. $39.95. (E-book: $25.99.)1
Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries. Atlas of Material Life. Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th Century. Leiden University Press, Leiden 2020. 340 pp. Ill. Maps. € 49.50.1
Shlomo Sand. A Brief Global History of the Left. Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. 264 pp. € 20.40. (E-book: € 15.99.)†1
Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari (eds). Rituals of Migration. Italians and Irish on the Move [Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series.] New York University Pre1
Introduction: Wage Systems and Inequalities in Global History1
Wages, Gender, and Coercion: Socio-Economic Stratification and Labour Practices among the Khoe in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony1
Co-Operative Citizens? Development, Work and Protest in Guyana, c. 1970–19851
Biographies of Labor Activists: Trajectories, Daringness, and Challenges1
Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds). Rethinking Global History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. x, 280 pp. Ill. Maps. € 93.31
Niki J.P. Alsford Taiwan Lives. A Social and Political History. [Taiwan and the World.] University of Washington Press, Seattle (WA) 2024. 285 pp. $110.00. (Paper: $35.00.)1
George Roberts. Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam. African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974. [African Studies Series.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. xv, 3291
Working-Class Leaders and Their Political Work Between Civil-Societal Engagement and Class Conflicts: The Case of August Bebel – A Comment to John D. French1
Radoslav Yordanov. Our Comrades in Havana. Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 [Cold War International History Project Series.] Stanfor0
Forging a Peripheral Inter-nationalism: The Argentine Socialist Party’s Relationship with the Internationals (1889–1940)0
John Harris. The Last Slave Ships. New York and the End of the Middle Passage. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) [etc.] 2020. ix, 300 pp. Ill. Maps. € 30.00.0
Kübra Zeynep Sariaslan. Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey. Gender, State and Development. I.B. Tauris, London [etc.] 2023. xviii, 210 pp. £85.00. (Paper: £28.99; Open Access.)0
John Green. Willi Münzenberg. Fighter against Fascism and Stalinism. [Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics.] Routledge, London [etc.] 2019. xiii, 288 pp. Ill. £120.00. (Paper, E-book: £340
Dagmar Herzog. The Question of Unworthy Life. Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2024. 312 pp. Ill. $35.00/£30.00. (E-book: $35.00/£30.00.)0
The Cambridge World History of Violence Volume I. The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Ed. by Garrett G. Fagan et al. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020. xvii, 739 pp. Ill. Maps. £120.000
Peter Kenez. Before the Uprising. Hungary under Communism, 1949–1956. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2022. viii, 281 pp. Ill. £75.00. (E-book: $99.99.)0
Abhinav Sinha. In the Valley of Historical Time. Towards the History of the Working Class Movement in Delhi . [Studies in Political Economy of Global Lab0
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From Careful Observation to Experimental Interpretation: An Introduction0
Epilogue – ERRATUM0
Proletarianization and Working-Class Formation in Romania’s Chemical Industry (1959–1989)0
Tad Skotnicki. The Sympathetic Consumer. Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture. [Culture and Economic Life.] Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2021. x, 267 pp. $90.00. (Paper: $28.00.)0
Global Labor Migrations. New Directions. Ed. by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham. [Studies of World Migrations.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2023. 0
Mark Stoll. Profit. An Environmental History. [Environmental History.] Polity Press, Cambridge 2023. 280 pp. Ill. $35.00. (E-book: $28.00.)0
The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. West Goodwin's Law and Order League, and the Blacklisting of Martin Irons0
Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik. Solidarische Praxis in Allianz mit der Natur. Marx’ dialektische Praxisphilosophie für das 21. Jahrhundert. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2022. 205 pp. € 25.00.0
James Hoke Sweet. Mutiny on the Black Prince. Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World . Oxford University Press, O0
British Punjab and the Dialectics of Primitive Accumulation0
Michele di Donato and Mathieu Fulla, Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History [New Approaches to International History.] Bloomsbury A0
The Value of Work: Petitions and Public Servants in Zwolle, c.1550–17000
Vitor Eduardo Schincariol, and Joana Salém Vasconcelos. Cuba and the Economic Policies of Peripheral Socialism. Recent Reforms in a Historical Perspective. [Routledge Studies in Development Economics,0
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John Sanders, Workers of Their Own Emancipation. Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829–1839 . Breviary Stuf0
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Workers Reconstituting the Factory0
Gunvor Jónsson. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. An Anthropology of Endings . [Urban Africa.] UCL Press, London 2024. xv, 230 pp. Ill0
“You Are Not Alone”: Angela Davis and the Soviet Dreams of Freedom0
Murat Metinsoy. The Power of the People. Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–38. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. xi, 405 pp. Ill. Maps. £29.99. (E-b0
In-kind Wages: Understanding Workers’ Strategies to Cope with Inflation and Poverty0
The World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: An Introduction – ERRATUM0
Tariq D. Khan. The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean. How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression. University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2023. xiii, 253 pp. $110.00. (Paper: $30.00;0
The Prohibition of Child Labour in Factories Revisited: Towards a Social History of Decommodification in the Early Nineteenth Century0
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Arturo Zoffmann Rodríguez. The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24. Anguish and Enthusiasm. [Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, Vol. 30.] Routledge, London [etc.0
Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–18340
Paul van Trigt. Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s [Columbia Studies in International and Global His0
Chris Gilbert. Commune or Nothing! Venezuela's Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press, New York 2023. 216 pp. $89.00.0
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Tim Graßmann. Marx gegen Moskau. Zur Außenpolitik der Arbeiterklasse [Black Books.] Schmetterling Verlag, Stuttgart 2024. 220 pp. Ill. € 16.80.0
Daniel J. Clark, Listening to Workers. Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s . [The Working Class in American History.] University of 0
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden – ADDENDUM0
Magdalena Candioti. Una historia de la emancipación negra. Esclavitud y abolición en la Argentina. Siglo veintiuno editores, Buenos Aires 2021. 272 pp. Arg. $2,630.0
On the Artistic Representation of Industrial Disputes in the Shadow of Repression in European Art, from 1870 to 1914 and Beyond. Ed. by Filip Dorssemont. [Law and Visual Jurisprudence, Vol. 15.] Sprin0
The Women of Viharsarok: Peasant Women's Labour Activism in 1890s Hungary0
Anarchisme en Méditerranée orientale et occidentale (1860–1920). Dir. par Isabelle Felici et Costantino Paonessa. Atelier de création libertaire, Lyon 2024). 191 pp. Maps. € 12.00.0
The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World. Ed. by Francisca de Haan. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2023. xxiv, 701 pp. Ill. € 217.99. (E-book: € 160.49.)0
International Labour Unity during the 1980s and 1990s: Perspectives from the WFTU0
Matteo Battistini. Middle Class: An Intellectual History through Social Sciences. An American Fetish from Its Origins to Globalization. [Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 220.] Brill, Leiden [0
Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History. Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest . Ed. by Stefan Berger and Christian Koller. [Palgrave Stud0
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Matt Myers. The Halted March of the European Left. The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989 [Oxford Historical Monographs.] Oxford Univ0
Sven Van Melkebeke. Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers. Mobilizing Labor and Land in the Lake Kivu Region, Congo and Rwanda (1918–1960/62). [African History, Vol. 9.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2020. xiv, 335 pp. 0
David M. Emmons, History’s Erratics. Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism 1870–1930 [The Working Class in American His0
Jean Pfaelzer. California, a Slave State. [The Lamar Series in Western History.] Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) [etc.] 2023. x, 509 pp. Ill. Maps. $45.00. (E-book: $35.00.)0
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Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar : Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas0
Peter Good. The East India Company in Persia. Trade and Cultural Relations in the Eighteenth Century. I.B. Tauris, London [etc.] 2022. xvii, 199 pp. Ill. Maps. £85.00. (Paper: £28.99; E-book: £26.50.)0
Nira Wickramasinghe. Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Columbia University Press, New York 2020. xi, 299 pp. Ill. Maps. $140.00; £117.00. (Paper, E-book: $35.00; £30
Onur İnal, Gateway to the Mediterranean. An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. xviii, 228 pp. Ill0
“I Reserve the Right to Criticize My Friends”: The International Committee for Political Prisoners and ItsLetters from Russian Prisons0
Marx, Orientalism, and the Nation State0
Caught In-Between: Coerced Intermediaries in the Jails of Colonial India0
Investigating Agricultural Labour through Commodity Frontiers, Environment, and Im/mobility0
Alain Prigent. Madeleine Marzin. Bretonne, résistante et élue communiste de Paris. Editions Manifeste/Le Merle Moqueur, Paris 2022. 388 pp. Ill. € 23.00.0
Henry Dee. Militant Migrants. Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896–1951 . Liverpool University Press0
Maya Wind. Towers of Ivory and Steel. How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom . Verso, London [etc.] 2024. x, 278 pp. $21.00; £19.99.0
Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor: Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller, 1890–19140
Locating British Imperialism in Combatting the World Federation of Trade Unions in Iran and Malaya0
Sara Caputo. Foreign Jack Tars. The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2023. xiii, 295 pp. Ill. £75.00.0
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Lutz Raphael, Beyond Coal and Steel. A Social History of Western Europe after the Boom . Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2023. xiii, 410 pp. Ill. € 67.90 0
Imperial Inequalities. The Politics of Economic Governance across European Empires. Ed. by Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure. [Postcolonial International Studies.] Manchester University Press, Ma0
Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)0
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Margarite Poulos. Refugee to Revolutionary. A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe . Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville 0
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Jean-Numa Ducange. Les marxismes . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2025. 123 pp. Ill. € 10.00.0
In Search of the Global Labor Market. Ed. by Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp, and Anna Zaharieva. [Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 219.] Brill, Leiden and Boston (MA) 2022. xvii, 3050
Katherine L French. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (PA) 2021. xvii, 314 pp. Il0
Corporal Punishment at Work in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Kingdoms (Sixth through Tenth Centuries)0
From Forced to Voluntary Labour in Rural Africa: The Transition to Paid Voluntary Labour on the Roads of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast0
Alexander Wakelam. Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England. An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons. [Perspectives in Economic and Social History, Vol. 61.] Routledge, London [etc.] 2021. xi, 250
Forced Labour and the System of Overburdening in the Interwar Middle Congo: Congolese Populations between Administrative Violence and Local Runaway Schemes, 1918–19480
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Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory: Response to the Comments0
Law, Labour and Lunch in France at the Turn of the Twentieth Century0
Agnieszka Sobocinska. Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex. [Global and International History.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. 0
Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934. Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation Around the World . Ed. by Stefan Berger [and] Klaus Weinhauer. [Palgrave Studies 0
Thomas Fleischman. Communist Pigs. An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall. University of Washington Press, Seattle (WA) 2020. xviii, 268 pp. Ill. $40.00.0
Anti-imperialism in the Confederation of Latin American Workers and the Early WFTU (1938–1953)0
Jonas M. Albrecht. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread. Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775–1885 . [Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovati0
Alejandro García-Montón. Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650–1700. [Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions.] Routledge, New York [etc.] 2022. xvi, 294 pp. £0
William H. SewellJr. Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France. [Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning.] The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (IL) [etc.] 2021. 0
Andrew B. Liu Tea War. A History of Capitalism in China and India. [Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Colombia University.] Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) [etc.] 2020. xi, 344 pp0
Elisabeth Anderson. Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. [Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology.] Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) 2021. 384 pp0
Görkem Akgöz. In the Shadow of War and Empire. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey. [Studies in Global Social History, Vol. 52, Studies in the Social History of th0
Forging Socialist Internationalism: The Adler-Vandervelde Dynamic of the Second International, 1900–19070
Migration in Africa. Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century. Ed. by Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema. Routledge, New York [etc.] 2022. xx, 400 pp. Maps. £130.00. (Paper: £350
Gustavo Martín Asensio. The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War. Red Tide Rising. Bloomsbury Academic, London [etc.] 2024. xviii, 235 pp. £85.00 (E-book: £76.50.)0
The Militarization of Labour Politics in Interwar South Asia: Paramilitaries and Claims-Making among Bombay’s Textile and Dalit Workers, c.1920–19400
Absolute Obedience: Servants and Masters on Danish Estates in the Nineteenth Century0
Daria A. Arincheva, and Alexander V. Pantsov , Transl. by Steven I. Levine. The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard. Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917–1940. [Chinese Worlds, Vol. 38.] Rou0
Mercenary Punishment: Penal Logics in the Military Labour Market0
“Solidarity Is a Matter of the Heart”: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Donations in GDR Children's Magazines0
Status, Power, and Punishments: “Household Workers” in Late Imperial China0
Sanjeev Routray. The Right to be Counted. The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi . [South Asia in Motion.] Stanford University Press, S0
Klaus Leesch. Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932). Leben und Werk . 2 vols. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2024. 1788 pp. € 189.00. (E-book: € 179.99.)0
Zhanna Popova, Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s–1930s . [Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion.] Amsterdam Uni0
Francis O'Connor. Understanding Insurgency. Popular Support for The PKK in Turkey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. xv, 280 pp. Maps. £75.00. (E-book: $80.00.)0
Robert Bruno. What Work Is [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) 2024. 232 pp. $110.00. (Paper: $24.95; E-bo0
An Apology for Unreal Wages: Building Labourers and Living Standards in the Southern Low Countries (1290–1560)0
The Distinct Seasonality of Early Modern Casual Labor and the Short Durations of Individual Working Years: Sweden 1500–18000
Pursuing Empire. Brazilians, the Dutch, and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620–1660. Ed. by Cátia Antunes. [European Expansion and Indigenous Response, vol. 41.] Brill, Leiden and0
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Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman. Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. x, 284 pp. £85.00. (P0
So Rich, So Poor: Household Income and Consumption in Urban Spain in the Early Twentieth Century (Zaragoza, 1924)0
Christopher Ehret. Ancient Africa. A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ) [etc.] 2023. xii, 210 pp. Ill. Maps. $27.95; £22.00. (Paper, E-book: $19.95; £14.95.)0
Constructing Proletarian Nation(s): PSOE Internationalism in the Second Republic (1931–1932)0
Antwerp's Joys: Diamonds, Jewish Immigrant Workers, and Labour Organization in the Interwar Period0
David Lay Williams. The Greatest of All Plagues. How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx . Princeton University Press, Prince0
Introduction: Punitive Perspectives on Labour Management0
Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter (eds). Statelessness after Arendt. European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War [Cultural History of0
Bernhard C. Schär and Mikko Toivanen (eds). Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe. At the Margins of Empire (1800–1950) . Bloomsbury0
Maanik Nath. Capital Shortage. Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920–1960 . [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge University Press, C0
Aurelie Dianara Andry. Social Europe, the Road not Taken. The Left and European Integration in the Long 1970s. [Oxford Studies in Modern European History Series.] Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.0
Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier0
Solidarity and the Aesthetics of Pain: Soviet Documentary Film and the Vietnam War0
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind. Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 2023. 290 pp. Ill. $35.00. (E-book: $20
SAND, SHLOMO. A Brief Global History of the Left. Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. 264 pp. € 20.40. (E-book: € 15.99.) – ERRATUM0
Activism across Borders: A Human Rights Perspective0
The Power of the Anecdotal: Enlightening Work Practices in Premodern Eurasia using Word and Image0
Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830. Ed. by Jan C. Jansen and Kirsten McKenzie. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. xii, 303 pp. Ill.0
“Like we would help brothers or sisters”? Practising Solidarity with Greek Civil War Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the GDR in the Shadow of World War II0
The Hidden Labour of Digital Capitalism: Changes, Continuities, Critical Issues0
Suraiya Faroqhi. Women in the Ottoman Empire. A Social and Political History. I.B. Tauris, London [etc.] 2023. xxiv, 304 pp. Ill. £65.00. (Paper: £21.99; E-book: £19.79.)0
Brigitte Studer. Travellers of the World Revolution. A Global History of the Communist International. Verso, London and New York 2023. xiv, 476 pp. Ill. £30.00.0
Wage Earners in India, 1500–1900. Regional Approaches in an International Context. Ed. by Jan Lucassen and Radhika Seshan. [Politics and Society in India and the Global South.] Sage, New Delhi 2022. 30
Introduction to Everyday Internationalism: Socialist–South Connections and Mass Culture during the Cold War0
Rodrigo Finkelstein. Lost-Time Injury Rates. A Marxist Critique of Workers’ Compensation Systems [Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 216/ New Scholarship in Political Economy, Vol. 17.] Brill, 0
Leta E. Miller. Union Divided. Black Musicians’ Fight for Labor Equality . University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2024. xiv, 232 pp. Ill. $110.0
Sean M. Kelley American Slavers. Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) [etc.], 2023. 479 pp. Ill. Maps. $35.00. (E-book: $350
Rachel Hynson. Laboring for the State. Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959–1971. [Cambridge Latin American Studies, Vol. 117.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2019. xvii, 0
Aurora Almada e Santos and Yvette Santos (eds), The League of Nations Experience. Overlapping Readings . De Gruyter, Berlin [etc.] 2025. viii, 314 pp. Il0
Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo The Lettered Barriada. Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2021. xiii, 261 pp. Ill. $102.95. (Pa0
Elena Borisova. Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan. Locating the Good Life. [Economic Exposures in Asia.] UCL Press, London 2024. xviii, 244 pp. Ill. £0
Catherine Besteman. Militarized Global Apartheid. [Global Insecurities.] Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2020. 197 pp. $89.95. (Paper: $23.95.)0
The Political Economy of Punishment: Slavery and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and the United States0
Yonca Köksal Özyaşar and Can Nacar. Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire . Leiden University Press, Leiden 2024. 194 pp. Ill. € 104.00.0
Women, Workers, and Women Workers: Connections and Tensions in Transnational Activism0
Who Moves the Sugar Frontier? A Comment on The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by 0
Navigating Labour Shifts: Early Modern Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean (1521–1563)0
Migrations d’élites. Une histoire-monde XVIe–XXIe siècle. Ed. by Marianne Amar and Nancy L. Green. [Migrations.] Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, Tours 2022. 304 pp. € 26.00.0
Mark A. Lause. Counterfeiting Labor’s Voice. William A.A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics [The Working Class in American History.] Uni0
A Note on Sugar in Nineteenth-Century South India0
Hartfrid Krause. Arthur Crispien. Vom Spartakusanhänger zum sozialdemokratischen Reformsozialisten . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2022. 269 pp. Ill. 0
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