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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt5
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
The Politics of the Social Biographical Approach to Working-Class Leaders3
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
Tempered Radicalism: Zhang Dongsun and Chinese Guild Socialism, 1913–19222
The World of Sugar and Its Implications for Agrarian and Environmental Justice2
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
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
Household Matters: Engendering the Social History of Capitalism2
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
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
Classifying Occupational Hazards: Narratives of Danger, Precariousness, and Safety in Indian Mines, 1895–19702
“Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice – ERRATUM2
Moving to Your Place: Labour Coercion and Punitive Violence against Minors under Guardianship (Charcas, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries)1
“Red Housekeeping” in a Socialist Factory: Jiashu and Transforming Reproductive Labor in Urban China (1949–1962)1
Shlomo Sand. A Brief Global History of the Left. Polity Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. 264 pp. € 20.40. (E-book: € 15.99.)†1
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: $21
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
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
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
Transnational Activism through the Prism of Anarchism, and Vice Versa1
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Biographies of Labor Activists: Trajectories, Daringness, and Challenges1
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
Reflections on Activism across Borders: A Response1
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
“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
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
Epilogue: Authoritarianism and the Specter of Democracy1
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
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
Wages, Gender, and Coercion: Socio-Economic Stratification and Labour Practices among the Khoe in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony1
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
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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
Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel (eds). Rethinking Global History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2024. x, 280 pp. Ill. Maps. € 93.31
Introduction: Wage Systems and Inequalities in Global History1
Co-Operative Citizens? Development, Work and Protest in Guyana, c. 1970–19851
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.] Oxfo1
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
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
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden0
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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
A Communist Ambassador of Labour: Abdoulaye Diallo, the World Federation of Trade Unions, and Unionism in Francophone West Africa, 1947–19570
Catherine Besteman. Militarized Global Apartheid. [Global Insecurities.] Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2020. 197 pp. $89.95. (Paper: $23.95.)0
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Capitalism, Democracy, and the Welfare State0
Şebnem Eroğlu. Poverty and International Migration. A Multi-Site and Intergenerational Perspective. Policy Press, Bristol 2022. v, 126 pp. £47.00.0
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
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
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Jonas M. Albrecht. The Moral and Market Economies of Bread. Regulation and Reform in Vienna, 1775–1885 . [Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovati0
“The Very Soul Must Be Held in Bondage!”: Alice Victoria Kinloch's Critical Examination of South Africa's Diamond-Mining Compounds0
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
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
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
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
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
The 1886 Southwest Railroad Strike, J. West Goodwin's Law and Order League, and the Blacklisting of Martin Irons0
Ralf Ruckus. The Left in China. A Political Cartography. Pluto Press, London [etc.] 2023. viii, 232 pp. £16.99. (E-book: £16.99.)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
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
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China, the WFTU, and Communist Internationalism: Labour Diplomacy and Transnational Networks, 1949–19660
British Punjab and the Dialectics of Primitive Accumulation0
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
David Lay Williams. The Greatest of All Plagues. How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx . Princeton University Press, Prince0
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
Onur İnal, Gateway to the Mediterranean. An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025. xviii, 228 pp. Ill0
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
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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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
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
Locating British Imperialism in Combatting the World Federation of Trade Unions in Iran and Malaya0
Akinobu Kuroda. A Global History of Money. [Routledge Explorations in Economic History.] Routledge, London [etc.], 2020, xiv, 213 pp. £120.00. (Paper: £36.99; E-book: £33.29.)0
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
Women’s Work and the Occupational Structure in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden – ADDENDUM0
Navigating Labour Shifts: Early Modern Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean (1521–1563)0
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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
A Decade after the Arab Revolutions: Reflections on the Evolution of Questions about the SWANA Region0
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. x0
Elena Borisova. Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan. Locating the Good Life. [Economic Exposures in Asia.] UCL Press, London 2024. xviii, 244 pp. Ill. £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
Mercenary Punishment: Penal Logics in the Military Labour Market0
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
Workers’ Proto-diplomacy: Early Contacts between Zambian and Yugoslav Trade Unions, 1959–19620
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
The Distinct Seasonality of Early Modern Casual Labor and the Short Durations of Individual Working Years: Sweden 1500–18000
“Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay's Late Colonial Textile Industry0
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
For the Many: A Review Dossier0
“A Feminism For the Many”: Response to the Comments0
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
The Political Economy of Punishment: Slavery and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and the United States0
Crystal Marie Moten. Continually Working. Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. [Black Lives & Liberation.] Smithsonian National Museum of American His0
Giusi Russo. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975. [Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.] University of Nebraska 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
Epilogue – ERRATUM0
Investigating Agricultural Labour through Commodity Frontiers, Environment, and Im/mobility0
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
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
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
Mark Stoll. Profit. An Environmental History. [Environmental History.] Polity Press, Cambridge 2023. 280 pp. Ill. $35.00. (E-book: $28.00.)0
Radoslav Yordanov. Our Comrades in Havana. Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 [Cold War International History Project Series.] Stanfor0
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
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
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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
The Value of Work: Petitions and Public Servants in Zwolle, c.1550–17000
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
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
“You Are Not Alone”: Angela Davis and the Soviet Dreams of Freedom0
Off Grid: The Problem of Early-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Sinew Populations0
Corporal Punishment at Work in the Early Middle Ages: The Frankish Kingdoms (Sixth through Tenth Centuries)0
Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International's Migration Debate (1889–1914)0
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The Mutualist Universe and the Politics of Dignity: A Perspective from Skilled Workers at the Paris Universal Exposition, 18670
Hartfrid Krause. Arthur Crispien. Vom Spartakusanhänger zum sozialdemokratischen Reformsozialisten . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2022. 269 pp. Ill. 0
Beyond the Great Divergence: Household Income in the Indian Subcontinent, 1500–18700
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The Women of Viharsarok: Peasant Women's Labour Activism in 1890s Hungary0
Activism across Borders: A Human Rights Perspective0
Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–18340
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
Black Women Activists: Embracing the Struggle for Intertwined Freedoms on Multiple Fronts0
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
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
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
Silvio Pons. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party . A Transnational History . Transl. [from It0
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
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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
From Careful Observation to Experimental Interpretation: An Introduction0
Memory and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary History. Remembering Past Struggles and Resourcing Protest . Ed. by Stefan Berger and Christian Koller. [Palgrave Stud0
Gunvor Jónsson. Urban Displacement and Trade in a Senegalese Market. An Anthropology of Endings . [Urban Africa.] UCL Press, London 2024. xv, 230 pp. Ill0
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 World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: An Introduction – ERRATUM0
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
Status, Power, and Punishments: “Household Workers” in Late Imperial China0
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
An Apology for Unreal Wages: Building Labourers and Living Standards in the Southern Low Countries (1290–1560)0
The World of Sugar and the Commodity Frontiers Initiative: An Introduction0
Full-Rights Feminists and a History of the Care Crisis0
The Social Welfare System in Bata Company Towns (1920s–1950s): Between Transnational Vision and Local Settings0
Activism across Borders since 1870: A Review Dossier0
Workers Reconstituting the Factory0
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
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
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
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
Anna Sailer, Workplace Relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s–1930s [Critical Perspectives in South Asian History.] Bloomsbury Academic, London 2022. xiv, 298 pp. £90.0
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David M. Emmons, History’s Erratics. Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism 1870–1930 [The Working Class in American His0
The Power of the Anecdotal: Enlightening Work Practices in Premodern Eurasia using Word and Image0
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Margarite Poulos. Refugee to Revolutionary. A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe . Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville 0
Jean-Numa Ducange. Les marxismes . Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2025. 123 pp. Ill. € 10.00.0
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
So Rich, So Poor: Household Income and Consumption in Urban Spain in the Early Twentieth Century (Zaragoza, 1924)0
Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)0
Antwerp's Joys: Diamonds, Jewish Immigrant Workers, and Labour Organization in the Interwar Period0
Discontinuation of Print Edition0
Forced Labour and the System of Overburdening in the Interwar Middle Congo: Congolese Populations between Administrative Violence and Local Runaway Schemes, 1918–19480
Alain Prigent. Madeleine Marzin. Bretonne, résistante et élue communiste de Paris. Editions Manifeste/Le Merle Moqueur, Paris 2022. 388 pp. Ill. € 23.00.0
Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor: Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller, 1890–19140
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
“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
Forging a Peripheral Inter-nationalism: The Argentine Socialist Party’s Relationship with the Internationals (1889–1940)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
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
Samira Saramo. Building that Bright Future. Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2022. x, 267 pp. Ill. Maps. Cad. $85.00. (Paper, E-book: 0
A Note on Sugar in Nineteenth-Century South India0
Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept0
Introduction to the Review Dossier on The Digital Factory: Continuing a Long-Standing Debate0
Winter-Quartering Tribes: Nomad–Peasant Relations in the Northeastern Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire (1800s–1850s)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
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
Anti-imperialism in the Confederation of Latin American Workers and the Early WFTU (1938–1953)0
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
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
“Each of Us is an Other”0
Old Wine in New Bottles, or Novel Challenges? A Labour History Perspective on Digital Labour0
For a Better World. The Winnipeg General Strike & the Workers' Revolt. Ed. by James Naylor, Rhonda L. Hinther, and Jim Mochoruk. University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg 2022. x, 394 pp. Ill. CAN $30
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
Misioneros del capitalismo. Aventureros, hombres de negocios y expertos transnacionales en el siglo XIX. Ed. by Darina Martykánová and Juan Pan-Montojo. [Comares Historia.] Comares, Granada 2023. xxxi0
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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
Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory: Response to the Comments0
Zhanna Popova, Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s–1930s . [Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion.] Amsterdam Uni0
Absolute Obedience: Servants and Masters on Danish Estates in the Nineteenth Century0
“I Reserve the Right to Criticize My Friends”: The International Committee for Political Prisoners and ItsLetters from Russian Prisons0
In-kind Wages: Understanding Workers’ Strategies to Cope with Inflation and Poverty0
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
Connie Goddard, Learning for Work. How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity . University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) [etc.] 2024. xxii0
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