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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Financing women’s entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: bank, microfinance and mobile money26
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data13
Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees?8
COVID-19 and remote work inequality: Evidence from South Korea8
‘The factory of the future’ Historical continuity and labor rights at Tesla7
Global internationalism: An introduction6
Labor migration programs within the socialist bloc. cuban guestworkers in late socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary6
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions4
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe4
From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China4
Contextualizing precarious work: labor dispatch, boundary-drawing, and the politics of labor regulation in post-socialist China4
Collective agreements against labor market risks in Sweden: the case of the PTK-SAF employment secu rity agreement4
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers3
The inequality of opportunity and youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa3
‘Encroaching upon trade union preserves’: the 1950s fight over global labor norms between the international confederation of free trade unions and moral re-armament3
Challenging the trade union agenda: migrants’ interest representation and German trade unions in Hamburg in the 1970s and 1980s3
The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project3
Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–19933
The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future3
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)3
A journey beyond colonial history: coolies in the making of an ‘adivasi identity’ in Assam3
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-20233
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency: A social dialectical approach to the field3
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry2
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh2
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market: an analysis of the gender wage gap2
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions2
International trade-unionism and migration: European integration and the post-war ‘Free’ movement of labour2
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre2
A new left teachers’ union: participatory democracy and the 1970s New Haven federation of teachers2
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context2
Theory and process of socialist migration: local enmities and international friendships in the Vietnam-Bulgaria relations (1975-1985)2
Repressing worker dissent: lethal violence against strikers in the early American labor movement2
Dodgy labour market dichotomy: the repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights2
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes2
The ‘iron law of oligarchy’ and North-South relations in global union organisations: a case study of the International Dockworkers Council’s expansion in the Global South2
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland2
Part-time employment versus underemployment of mothers and women in Spain2
Sex, sahibs and bodies: women workers in the tea plantations of colonial Assam2
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)2
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)2
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance1
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-19001
Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italianoperaismofrom Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-19301
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War1
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain1
‘Class Against Class’: The leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Comintern’s Third Period, 1928–19341
Migration as class struggle: refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity1
Were slaves cheap laborers? A comparative study of labor costs in the antebellum U.S. South1
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–19121
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada1
South Australia’s employment relief program for assisted immigrants: promises and reality, 1838-18431
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S1
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-451
Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-19601
The transformation of labor force dualism in South Korea’s Shipyards, 1974 to the present1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO1
Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period1
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh1
Macroeconomic indicators of regular workers in postwar Japan1
‘Shameful forms of oppression’: Anglo-American activism and the slow decline of Chinese indentured labour in British North Borneo, 1920s–1940s1
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 19161
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia1
Regulation and resistance: defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–19411
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China1
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire1
‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-19720
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit0
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)0
Running a mainstream revolutionary newspaper: Guangdong Qunbao and socialist propaganda in 1920s South China0
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–19200
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China0
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-19140
‘“The most troubled time in our history”: the presidency of Douglas Fraser and the decline of the UAW.’0
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor0
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy0
Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers0
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–19810
‘A female voice is instrumental’: gender, propaganda, and coerced labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-19450
Becoming coolies and supervisors: continued indebtedness, coercive intermediaries and new governmentalities in colonial South Indian plantations (1830 –1895)0
Orientalist discourses that have justified suppression of labor after liberation in India (1947-2010) and South Africa (1993-2010)0
Winning battles but losing the war? Labor in the age of finance0
From social policy to labour economics and industrial relations in Turkey: a critical history of an academic discipline0
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.0
Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis0
The last generation of dairymaids: gender, skill, and occupational identity in Sweden0
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 repression0
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-19820
Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras0
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period0
International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry0
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France0
Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–19390
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend0
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain0
Generational politics: revolution versus production in Shanghai factories in the early years of the people’s republic of China0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914,0
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The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective0
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)0
Labor History symposium: Jacoby, Labor in the age of finance: pensions, politics, and corporations from deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank0
Labour relations in the online ride-hailing industry: evidence from China0
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im / mobility and the environment0
The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation0
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century0
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The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?0
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)0
Divided Unions by Alexis N. Walker and The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman0
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 Pres0
The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948)0
Labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the case of Turkish apparel industry0
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?0
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature0
The birth of Soviet workers-dissidents0
Managing strikes and racial issues in the South China Morning Post0
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector0
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
The post-indenture of Chi, New South Wales, Australia, 1857–19080
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity0
Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario)0
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)0
Data and Democracy at Work by Rogers and Your Boss is an Algorithm by Aloisi and De Stefano0
Mass strikes and social movements in Brazil and India: popular mobilisation in the long depression0
Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s0
Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal0
Unitary unionism in the transition: a general approach from Navarre0
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s0
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers0
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers0
Long haul unionism: southern labor history and the struggle to organize Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee0
Radical Seattle: the general strike of 19190
‘The human ocean of the colored races’: interwar Black internationalism, Marxism, and permanent revolution0
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond0
Correction Notice0
Education in black and white: Myles Horton and the Highlander center’s vision for social justice0
Anti-communism, labour exploitation, and racism at the thermoelectric plant of the world’s largest copper mine (Tocopilla, Chile, 1948-1958)0
Class, race, and Power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee0
The education trap: schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston0
Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt0
A history of progressive Doxa : an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power0
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey0
‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism0
Port Arthur’s post-probation labour gangs, 1856-1877: the aged and ailing remnants of the convict system or skilled and productive workers?0
Against the rules: collective and individual resistance on the Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, 1910-19350
The revolutionary left in Comisiones Obreras: an introduction0
Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”0
Iron and steel workers acquiring a factory in exchange for a single coin: a genuine people’s sector0
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956)0
Giving meaning to ‘division of labour’: is Malaysia sliding into ethnic labour caucuses?0
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia0
Global sweatshops: the history and future of North-South solidarity campaigns in Bangladesh and beyond0
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market0
Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country0
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 19240
J. V. Stalin and The British Road to Socialism0
Labor’s capital in the twenty-first century0
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy0
Minimum wage and income inequality among the migrant population in China0
Powderly and the worker awakening: speaking to the South in 18850
Inflation and the negotiation of wages. Comparative responses to monetary changes in Germany and the United States during the Gold Standard Era, 1876–19260
History and political legacy of the International Working Men’s Association0
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag0
Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history0
Economic development, cargo handling methods and labour process change: the place of the Vietnamese dock worker in the ‘global’ history of dock work0
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings0
Integrated laborers but marginal figures: the untold story of early Syrian-American factory workers0
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching0
Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities0
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–800
Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU0
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle0
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform0
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940)0
Wage gap between the State and non-State sectors in China: a study from the perspective of the Housing Provident Fund Scheme0
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector0
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region0
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 century0
Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas0
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias0
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]0
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–19390
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s0
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China0
Against all odds: achieving collective action among home care workers in Oregon0
The making of labour precarity: three explanatory approaches and their relationship0
The current social protection discourse, gig economy within the advent of COVID-19: some emerging legal arguments0
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
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka0
The limits of organized capital: labor in the age of finance0
Subbotniks: from the great to the meaningless (the evolution of the Soviet labor phenomenon)0
Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective0
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
“A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930–19540
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 0
Dismantaling the confederation of Latin American workers during the Cold War (1943-1953)0
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)0
Coercive patriotism: gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II0
Employment Discrimination for People Living with HIV in China: The Challenges of Law vs. Practice0
From migrant to worker: global unions and temporary labor migration in Asia0
Productivity, the humanization of work, and the future of labor: insights from industrial psychology in late socialist Yugoslavia and Romania0
The downfall of the New York city taxi fleet industry: 1973-19830
ILO’s actions and workers’ voices against state terrorism in South America0
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)0
The great standardisation: working hours around the world0
“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure0
The compensation law and its antagonistic administration: The Indian coalfield of Raniganj, 1923-710
Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960)0
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–19450
Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt0
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-140
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India0
Public order and the fear of the ‘outsider’: porosity of labour politics in late colonial India0
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and 0
One Hundred Years of Servitude by Rana P. Behal and Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by Arnab Dey0
‘The boys’: work, identity and the constructing of class experience among immigrant boys from Asian and African Countries in Young Israel0
Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955)0
‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–19200
Producer co-operatives of the Knights of Labor: seeking worker independence0
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
North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-19450
The evolution of individual and collective rights in the Chinese workplace0
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)0
The use of accounting information for the sugar business operations of the South Seas Development Company0
Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh0
“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire0
Managing industrial discontent in Britain, 1927-1930: the industrial cooperation talks and the segregation of the national unemployed workers’ movement0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-19140
The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China0
Reticence, gender, and deindustrialisation: oral history challenges emerging within deindustrialisation studies and labour history0
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China0
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