Labor History

Papers
(The median citation count of Labor 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
ILO’s actions and workers’ voices against state terrorism in South America20
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities11
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-459
Giving meaning to ‘division of labour’: is Malaysia sliding into ethnic labour caucuses?7
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)7
Correction6
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism6
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S6
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?5
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 19245
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit4
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor4
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power4
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective4
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag4
Managing industrial discontent in Britain, 1927-1930: the industrial cooperation talks and the segregation of the national unemployed workers’ movement4
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?3
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)3
Correction3
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community3
Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers3
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market3
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe3
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire3
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)3
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–223
Education in black and white: Myles Horton and the Highlander center’s vision for social justice3
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle3
Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary3
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history2
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike, by Leigh Campbell-Hale Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine: the 1927-1928 Colorado coal 2
Inside the upsurge: historical continuity and the Blue Bird Bus and Daimler Truck victories in the U.S. South2
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes2
Insuring women’s work: exploring the rationale for women’s enrollment in early twentieth-century Swedish health insurance societies2
Dual precarity in South-South migration: experiences and uncertainty of Bangladeshi temporary labor migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940)2
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka2
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period2
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War2
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)2
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]2
Defeat capital with capital: how reformed SOE workers in contemporary China leverage shareholder mobilization to sustain collective rights2
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change2
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s2
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy2
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 19162
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–19812
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh2
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh2
Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period2
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–19201
The great standardisation: working hours around the world1
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)1
Trade unionism and decolonisation in Africa: the Zambian experience, 1949–19641
From vanguards to rearguards: the evolution and challenges of Bolivian railway workers, c . 1907–19641
Politicized precarity: labor dynamics and agency of outsourced workers in China (1958–1983)1
From Indochinese convict to indentured laborers: a dream and reality of building a colonial empire in the Asia-Pacific by the French Empire from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century1
Vietnamese indentured labourers: The intervention of the French colonial government in regulating the flow of Vietnamese labourers to the Pacific Islands in the early twentieth century1
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-19821
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China1
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers1
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–19101
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform1
History and political legacy of the International Working Men’s Association1
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-19301
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)1
From subjects of the empire to citizens of newly independent Vietnam: rethinking the Vietnamese labor governance in the Pacific Islands in the postcolonial era1
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey1
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region1
Proud to be union? Queer work(ers) and the Australian trade union movement, 1970s–80s1
‘The human ocean of the colored races’: interwar Black internationalism, Marxism, and permanent revolution1
The Socialist Party of America and the ‘yellow peril’ (1904–1908)1
From workers to working class: the North-China Daily News’ dismissal controversy and identity cultivation of Chinese workers in 19511
On the Legitimacy of the Striver’s Agreement in China1
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model1
Wage gap between the State and non-State sectors in China: a study from the perspective of the Housing Provident Fund Scheme1
Radical Seattle: the general strike of 19191
Correction Notice1
From the policy of humanization to labour flexibilization: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (from the 1970s to the 1980s)1
Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt1
Invisible labor: youth digital labors and value creation in online circle field1
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity1
In the shadow of war and empire. Industrialisation, nation-building, and working-class politics in Turkey1
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada1
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.1
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century1
Three strikes, uneven repertoires: labor struggles and the limits of contention in Zonguldak, 1923–19911
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh1
Winning battles but losing the war? Labor in the age of finance1
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data1
The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression1
The compensation law and its antagonistic administration: The Indian coalfield of Raniganj, 1923-711
Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s1
The Master in Bondage: factory workers in China, 1949-2019 The Master in Bondage: factory workers in China, 1949-2019 , by Huaiyin Li, Stanford, Stanford University Pres1
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France1
The emergence of state-led unionism in Turkey following World War II1
Making meaning, making a living: historical transformations of handicraft labor and cultural identity in China1
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)1
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties1
Monastic women and secular economy in later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 15001
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching1
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers1
State logic and local agency in labor regime transformation: the making of entrepreneurial citizens in Yuanjia Village, 1949–20251
Precarious resistance movements and the transformation of labour mobilisation in Madrid’s informal sectors1
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–19390
Labor migration and agrarian reform in post-war Italy: the case of the Marsica (1950–1965)0
Port Arthur’s post-probation labour gangs, 1856-1877: the aged and ailing remnants of the convict system or skilled and productive workers?0
Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-19520
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain0
Unitary unionism in the transition: a general approach from Navarre0
The limits of organized capital: labor in the age of finance0
Japanese publishing workers at the forefront: combating historical denialism with social movement unionism0
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland0
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond0
‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism0
The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China0
Iron and steel workers acquiring a factory in exchange for a single coin: a genuine people’s sector0
The post-indenture of Chi, New South Wales, Australia, 1857–19080
Class, race, and power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee0
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-19140
Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal0
Global internationalism: An introduction0
Between labour and moral duty: social conflicts, volunteer work and the moral economy of life-boating in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (1850–1914)0
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–19450
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-19000
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and 0
International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry0
Experiential fairness and power dynamics: an experimental study of labor dispatch in China0
‘The boys’: work, identity and the constructing of class experience among immigrant boys from Asian and African Countries in Young Israel0
Understanding the support from the Australian far-left and ALP-Left for Greek Cypriot enosis during the EOKA period (1955-59): migrant workers, anti-imperialism and national liberation in Australia0
Railway school in Douala and vocational training for local staff in Cameroon under French administration (1922–1960)0
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China0
Navigating institutional transitions: the trajectory of collective contracts in China, 1979–19920
Trade union renewal against a background of national conflict: the strategies of the trade unions ELA and LAB in the Basque country (1976–2008)0
Textile crisis at home and trade union internationalism overseas: the International Textile and Garment Workers’ Federation and the unionising campaign in Hong Kong in the 1960s0
Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history0
Shock troops of capitalism: how the Coors family crushed unions and hastened the collapse of the New Deal order0
Freeman’s challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit0
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–19120
Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960)0
From recreation to revolution: the Shanghai Bankers Recreation Association and white-collar mobilization in Republican China, 1936–19490
Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country0
The birth of Soviet workers-dissidents0
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia0
Producer co-operatives of the Knights of Labor: seeking worker independence0
State as a place of reproducing “crisis of representativeness” –A dialogue between Miliband and Mao0
Running a mainstream revolutionary newspaper: Guangdong Qunbao and socialist propaganda in 1920s South China0
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?0
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)0
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre0
‘Strangled in infancy’: affirmative action, Executive Order 10925, and the unfulfilled promises to black labor, 1961–19640
Reforming China’s labor and personnel system: the institutionalization of identity segregation within danwei0
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China0
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions0
Domestic service in the Soviet Union: women’s emancipation and the gendered hierarchy of labor0
Social movements to ban asbestos in Japan: influence of trade unions and the late development of grassroots mobilization0
The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948)0
Data and Democracy at Work by Rogers and Your Boss is an Algorithm by Aloisi and De Stefano0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914,0
Once upon a time in Gültepe (socialists, grassroots and the TARİŞ resistance)0
Can cultural labor empower women in the context of intangible cultural heritage? A case study of Jian’ou Tiaofan0
Integrated laborers but marginal figures: the untold story of early Syrian-American factory workers0
‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-19720
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im / mobility and the environment0
Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective0
“A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930–19540
Rank-and-file revolt: insurgency, power, and democracy in the UAW, 2019–250
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956)0
My life, my rules: subjectivity construction of rural female workers under local employment0
Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis0
Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”0
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)0
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance0
The hiring hall, the farm labor contractor, and the state: the United Farm Workers’ struggle for control over the labor supply0
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature0
Minimum wage and income inequality among the migrant population in China0
Coercive patriotism: gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II0
The current social protection discourse, gig economy within the advent of COVID-19: some emerging legal arguments0
Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955)0
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context0
The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation0
Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt0
Flying high on stipends: a historical analysis of flight attendant union struggles in (neoliberal) Canada0
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India0
Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU0
Modernization and innovation in Neapolitan artillery: the contribution of Carlo Filangieri in the 19th century0
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions0
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry0
Repressing worker dissent: lethal violence against strikers in the early American labor movement0
Cow, union buster! Identitarianism and organizing in Bombay’s mills, 1850s-1990s0
The imposition of penalties within the framework of the system of employee discipline during the period of socialism in Poland0
Becoming coolies and supervisors: continued indebtedness, coercive intermediaries and new governmentalities in colonial South Indian plantations (1830 –1895)0
‘Class Against Class’: The leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Comintern’s Third Period, 1928–19340
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency: A social dialectical approach to the field0
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-20230
The last generation of dairymaids: gender, skill, and occupational identity in Sweden0
Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario)0
Response0
Stratified workers, competing units and football development in the early years of the People’s Republic of China0
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend0
Sex, sahibs and bodies: women workers in the tea plantations of colonial Assam0
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s0
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector0
North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-19450
Can an individual worker make institutional changes in the workplace? Luke Ching’s narrative on reworking the workplaces in Hong Kong0
The evolution of individual and collective rights in the Chinese workplace0
‘A female voice is instrumental’: gender, propaganda, and coerced labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-19450
Knowledge as a weapon. Parisian workers quantitative surveys and epistemic theory (1840–1848)0
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-140
Contract labour in India: history, evolution, judicial interpretation and critical analysis0
Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities0
National security discourse, excluding operation mechanisms, and resistance of homosexual federal employees during the Lavender Scare0
Trained to serve: vocational education and colonial subordination in the “Shkolla Bujtinore ne Shqipni” (1939–1943)0
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector0
Productivity, the humanization of work, and the future of labor: insights from industrial psychology in late socialist Yugoslavia and Romania0
From McCarthyism to Bostock: the judicial evolution of anti-discrimination in employment for sexual minorities in the United States0
‘The labor movement should be treated as a partner, not a special interest’ - organized labor and the 1980 U.S. Presidential election0
The politics of solidarity: the International Working Men’s Association 18730
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings0
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–800
Migration as class struggle: refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity0
Labor History symposium: Jacoby, Labor in the age of finance: pensions, politics, and corporations from deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank0
Employment Discrimination for People Living with HIV in China: The Challenges of Law vs. Practice0
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia0
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China0
Labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the case of Turkish apparel industry0
Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas0
More-than-class struggle. Disaster at the Nelson III mine in North Bohemia 19340
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-19140
Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh0
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market: an analysis of the gender wage gap0
Labor to leadership : trade unions and political awakening in tea plantations of Assam0
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy0
Introduction0
One Hundred Years of Servitude by Rana P. Behal and Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by Arnab Dey0
Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras0
Building the migration industry: socialist Yugoslavia’s agenda for labour migrants’ pre-departure training0
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain0
Laborers, educators, and the struggle for liberation in post-independence Libya0
Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–19390
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China0
Legal frameworks for workforce mobility and employment regulations in ASEAN: challenges and efforts in aligning domestic labour laws with regional standards0
‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–19200
Political and economic evolution of post-unification Italy and the working conditions in the steel industry. Some case studies in the kingdom of the two Sicilies0
Managing strikes and racial issues in the South China Morning Post0
The revolutionary left in Comisiones Obreras: an introduction0
Labor’s capital in the twenty-first century0
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