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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt5
The Politics of the Social Biographical Approach to Working-Class Leaders4
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,4
Taylorism, Worker Resistance, and Industrial Relations in Sweden3
“Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice3
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. Ma2
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
“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
Classifying Occupational Hazards: Narratives of Danger, Precariousness, and Safety in Indian Mines, 1895–19702
Tempered Radicalism: Zhang Dongsun and Chinese Guild Socialism, 1913–19222
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
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. £200.00.2
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; €2
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
The World of Sugar and Its Implications for Agrarian and Environmental Justice2
Household Matters: Engendering the Social History of Capitalism2
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
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
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
Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds). Rethinking Global History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. x, 280 pp. Ill. Maps. € 93.31
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
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
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
Epilogue: Authoritarianism and the Specter of Democracy1
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
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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
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
Introduction: Wage Systems and Inequalities in Global History1
“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
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Moving to Your Place: Labour Coercion and Punitive Violence against Minors under Guardianship (Charcas, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries)1
Wages, Gender, and Coercion: Socio-Economic Stratification and Labour Practices among the Khoe in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony1
Biographies of Labor Activists: Trajectories, Daringness, and Challenges1
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
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
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
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
Co-Operative Citizens? Development, Work and Protest in Guyana, c. 1970–19851
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.] 21
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
Shlomo Sand. A Brief Global History of the Left. Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. 264 pp. € 20.40. (E-book: € 15.99.)†1
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
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
Gender Pay Gap. Vom Wert und Unwert von Arbeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart . Ed. by Wiebke Wiede, Johanna Wolf, and Rainer Fattmann. [Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Frie0
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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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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
Andrew G. Walder Civil War in Guangxi. The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2023. xvii, 276 pp. Maps. $90.00. (Paper: $30.00.)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
Ralf Ruckus. The Left in China. A Political Cartography. Pluto Press, London [etc.] 2023. viii, 232 pp. £16.99. (E-book: £16.99.)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
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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
Absolute Obedience: Servants and Masters on Danish Estates in the Nineteenth Century0
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
“The Very Soul Must Be Held in Bondage!”: Alice Victoria Kinloch's Critical Examination of South Africa's Diamond-Mining Compounds0
Jonas M. Albrecht. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread. Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775–1885 . [Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovati0
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
Onur İnal, Gateway to the Mediterranean. An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. xviii, 228 pp. Ill0
Marc-William Palen. Pax Economica. Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. Princeton University Press, Princeton [etc.] 2024. 309 pp. Ill. $35.00; £30.00. (E-book: $24.50/£21.00.)0
Guy Dechesne. Un siècle d'antimilitarisme révolutionnaire. Socialistes, anarchistes, syndicalistes et féministes 1849–1939. Atelier de création libertaire, Lyon 2021. 206 pp. € 12.00.0
Alain Prigent. Madeleine Marzin. Bretonne, résistante et élue communiste de Paris. Editions Manifeste/Le Merle Moqueur, Paris 2022. 388 pp. Ill. € 23.00.0
The Social Welfare System in Bata Company Towns (1920s–1950s): Between Transnational Vision and Local Settings0
The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. West Goodwin's Law and Order League, and the Blacklisting of Martin Irons0
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Activism across Borders: A Human Rights Perspective0
The Power of the Anecdotal: Enlightening Work Practices in Premodern Eurasia using Word and Image0
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
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
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
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
“They Have No Property to Lose”: The Impasse of Free Labour in Lombard Silk Manufactures (1760–1810)0
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Forging a Peripheral Inter-nationalism: The Argentine Socialist Party’s Relationship with the Internationals (1889–1940)0
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar : Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas0
Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)0
“Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay's Late Colonial Textile Industry0
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
Lara Montesinos Coleman. Struggles for the Human. Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights. [Global & Insurgent Legalities.] Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2024. xiv, 250 pp. $104.950
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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
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
Introduction: Punitive Perspectives on Labour Management0
Maanik Nath. Capital Shortage. Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920–1960 . [Cambridge Studies in Economic History.] Cambridge University Press, C0
Atticus Bagby-Williams and Nsambu Za Suekama. Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition. Moving Beyond Racial Capitalism. Ed. by Shannon Fauwkes and Howard Waitzkin. Daraja Press, Cantley 2022. 0
Antwerp's Joys: Diamonds, Jewish Immigrant Workers, and Labour Organization in the Interwar Period0
A Note on Sugar in Nineteenth-Century South India0
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
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
Decolonizing Labour Internationalism: Shripad Amrit Dange and the World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945–19570
Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept0
Anti-imperialism in the Confederation of Latin American Workers and the Early WFTU (1938–1953)0
Karl Marx, [und] Friedrich Engels. Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), Erste Abteilung, Band 4, Werke – Artikel -Entwürfe Ende August 1844 bis April 1846. Bearb. von Regina Roth und Christine Weckwerth. De Gruyter 0
Catherine Besteman. Militarized Global Apartheid. [Global Insecurities.] Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2020. 197 pp. $89.95. (Paper: $23.95.)0
Off Grid: The Problem of Early-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Sinew Populations0
Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor: Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller, 1890–19140
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
Radoslav Yordanov. Our Comrades in Havana. Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 [Cold War International History Project Series.] Stanfor0
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
Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–18340
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
Samuel K. Cohn jr. Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy Oxford University Press, Oxford 2022. xx, 260 pp. Ill. £75.00.0
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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
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Workers Like All the Rest of Them. Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2021. xviii, 206 pp. Ill. $990
China, the WFTU, and Communist Internationalism: Labour Diplomacy and Transnational Networks, 1949–19660
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
Beyond the Great Divergence: Household Income in the Indian Subcontinent, 1500–18700
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden0
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
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
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
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
“You Are Not Alone”: Angela Davis and the Soviet Dreams of Freedom0
The World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: An Introduction0
Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International's Migration Debate (1889–1914)0
Towards Global Communisms? The World Federation of Trade Unions and Labour Internationalism: An Introduction0
Connie Goddard, Learning for Work. How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity . University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2024. xxii0
Punishment, Patronage, and the Revenue Extraction Process in Pharaonic Egypt0
Hartfrid Krause. Arthur Crispien. Vom Spartakusanhänger zum sozialdemokratischen Reformsozialisten . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2022. 269 pp. Ill. 0
Lorenzo Costaguta. Workers of All Colors Unite. Race and the Origins of American Socialism. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) 2023. 254 pp. Ill. $110.00
Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter (eds). Statelessness after Arendt. European Refugees in China and the Pacific during the Second World War [Cultural History of0
The Women of Viharsarok: Peasant Women's Labour Activism in 1890s Hungary0
An Apology for Unreal Wages: Building Labourers and Living Standards in the Southern Low Countries (1290–1560)0
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
Proletarianization and Working-Class Formation in Romania’s Chemical Industry (1959–1989)0
Black Women Activists: Embracing the Struggle for Intertwined Freedoms on Multiple Fronts0
Karen Cook Bell. Running from Bondage. Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. viii, 248 pp. Ill. £18.99. (Pa0
John Sanders, Workers of Their Own Emancipation. Working-Class Leadership and Organisation in the West Riding Textile District, 1829–1839 . Breviary Stuf0
Locating British Imperialism in Combatting the World Federation of Trade Unions in Iran and Malaya0
From Careful Observation to Experimental Interpretation: An Introduction0
Elena Borisova. Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan. Locating the Good Life. [Economic Exposures in Asia.] UCL Press, London 2024. xviii, 244 pp. Ill. £0
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
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
Mercenary Punishment: Penal Logics in the Military Labour Market0
Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier0
“Solidarity Is a Matter of the Heart”: Anti-Imperialist Solidarity Donations in GDR Children's Magazines0
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
Anna Suranyi. Indentured Servitude. Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies. [States, People, and the History of Social Change, Vol. 4.] McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [etc.] 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
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
David M. Emmons, History’s Erratics. Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism 1870–1930 [The Working Class in American His0
The Hidden Labour of Digital Capitalism: Changes, Continuities, Critical Issues0
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
The Prohibition of Child Labour in Factories Revisited: Towards a Social History of Decommodification in the Early Nineteenth Century0
Forced Labour and the System of Overburdening in the Interwar Middle Congo: Congolese Populations between Administrative Violence and Local Runaway Schemes, 1918–19480
Jean Stubbs. Tobacco on the Periphery. A Case Study in Cuban Labour History, 1860–1958. New Expanded Edition. Amaurea Press, London 2023. xxxii, 344 pp. Ill. Maps. £39.95; €44.95; $49.95. (Paper: £24.0
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
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
David P. Bresnahan. Inland from Mombasa. East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean . University of California Press, Oakland (CA) 2025. xii, 229 pp.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
The History of Trade Unionism and Working Class Politics as Social Movement History: Three Volumes on the Nordic Countries0
Marx, Orientalism, and the Nation State0
David Lay Williams. The Greatest of All Plagues. How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx . Princeton University Press, Prince0
Solidarity and the Aesthetics of Pain: Soviet Documentary Film and the Vietnam War0
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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
The World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: An Introduction – ERRATUM0
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
Şebnem Eroğlu. Poverty and International Migration. A Multi-Site and Intergenerational Perspective. Policy Press, Bristol 2022. v, 126 pp. £47.00.0
The Militarization of Labour Politics in Interwar South Asia: Paramilitaries and Claims-Making among Bombay’s Textile and Dalit Workers, c.1920–19400
Matt Wilde. A Blessing and a Curse. Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela. Stanford University Press, Stanford (CA) 2023. 222 pp. $103.00. (Paper: $30.00.)0
David Domínguez Cabrera. Trabajo portuario y segunda esclavitud en Cuba (1763–1886). [Comares Historia.] Editorial Comares, Granada 2023. 213 pp. Ill. € 22.80.0
Introduction to Everyday Internationalism: Socialist–South Connections and Mass Culture during the Cold War0
Jasper Heinzen. Prisoners of War and Military Honour, 1789–1918 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2025. vi, 347 pp. Ill. $67.60. (E-book: $129.99.)0
Daniel Oviedo Silva. El enemigo a las puertas. Porteros y prácticas acusatorias en Madrid (1936–1945). Comares, Granada 2022. lii, 286 pp. Ill. € 33.00.0
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
Status, Power, and Punishments: “Household Workers” in Late Imperial China0
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
From Travel to Imprisonment: Remembering Cold War Trade Unionism and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) in Adam Soepardjan's Prison Notebooks0
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
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Gunvor Jónsson. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. An Anthropology of Endings . [Urban Africa.] UCL Press, London 2024. xv, 230 pp. Ill0
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
Crystal Marie Moten. Continually Working. Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. [Black Lives & Liberation.] Smithsonian National Museum of American His0
Zhanna Popova, Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s–1930s . [Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion.] Amsterdam Uni0
Forging Socialist Internationalism: The Adler-Vandervelde Dynamic of the Second International, 1900–19070
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
Meng Zhang. Timber and Forestry in Qing China. Sustaining the Market. [Culture, Place, and Nature.] University of Washington Press, Seattle (WA) 2021. xxi, 255 pp. Ill. Maps. $99.00. (Paper: $30.00.)0
British Punjab and the Dialectics of Primitive Accumulation0
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
Old Wine in New Bottles, or Novel Challenges? A Labour History Perspective on Digital Labour0
Enrique Martino. Touts. Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea. [Work in Global and Historical Perspective, vol. 14.] De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin [etc.] 2022. x, 271 pp. Ill. Maps. € 84.90
Silvio Pons. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party . A Transnational History . Transl. [from It0
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