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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
ILO’s actions and workers’ voices against state terrorism in South America18
Giving meaning to ‘division of labour’: is Malaysia sliding into ethnic labour caucuses?10
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-458
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities7
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)6
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism6
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor5
Managing industrial discontent in Britain, 1927-1930: the industrial cooperation talks and the segregation of the national unemployed workers’ movement4
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective4
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit4
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 19244
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S4
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?4
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–223
Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers3
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)3
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag3
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe3
Education in black and white: Myles Horton and the Highlander center’s vision for social justice3
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s3
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power3
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?3
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle3
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market3
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history2
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire2
Correction2
Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–19932
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh2
Inside the upsurge: historical continuity and the Blue Bird Bus and Daimler Truck victories in the U.S. South2
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–19812
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change2
Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period2
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
Dual precarity in South-South migration: experiences and uncertainty of Bangladeshi temporary labor migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy2
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]2
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
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community2
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka2
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)2
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period2
The making of labour precarity: three explanatory approaches and their relationship2
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity1
Macroeconomic indicators of regular workers in postwar Japan1
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
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias1
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)1
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform1
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century1
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems1
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War1
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching1
Radical Seattle: the general strike of 19191
Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s1
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada1
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties1
Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italianoperaismofrom Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti1
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)1
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh1
‘The factory of the future’ Historical continuity and labor rights at Tesla1
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–19101
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model1
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France1
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 question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes1
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers1
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 19161
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)1
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–19120
Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history0
Generational politics: revolution versus production in Shanghai factories in the early years of the people’s republic of China0
Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas0
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China0
Once upon a time in Gültepe (socialists, grassroots and the TARİŞ resistance)0
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-140
Orientalist discourses that have justified suppression of labor after liberation in India (1947-2010) and South Africa (1993-2010)0
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy0
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions0
Knowledge as a weapon. Parisian workers quantitative surveys and epistemic theory (1840–1848)0
Integrated laborers but marginal figures: the untold story of early Syrian-American factory workers0
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and 0
Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-19140
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China0
Employment Discrimination for People Living with HIV in China: The Challenges of Law vs. Practice0
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
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–19450
Unitary unionism in the transition: a general approach from Navarre0
Sex, sahibs and bodies: women workers in the tea plantations of colonial Assam0
Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal0
Labor History symposium: Jacoby, Labor in the age of finance: pensions, politics, and corporations from deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank0
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
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
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 evolution of individual and collective rights in the Chinese workplace0
The use of accounting information for the sugar business operations of the South Seas Development Company0
‘Strangled in infancy’: affirmative action, Executive Order 10925, and the unfulfilled promises to black labor, 1961–19640
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-19820
Port Arthur’s post-probation labour gangs, 1856-1877: the aged and ailing remnants of the convict system or skilled and productive workers?0
‘Encroaching upon trade union preserves’: the 1950s fight over global labor norms between the international confederation of free trade unions and moral re-armament0
The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project0
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s0
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)0
Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis0
From vanguards to rearguards: the evolution and challenges of Bolivian railway workers, c . 1907–19640
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 South0
One Hundred Years of Servitude by Rana P. Behal and Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by Arnab Dey0
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO0
Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”0
Proud to be union? Queer work(ers) and the Australian trade union movement, 1970s–80s0
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market: an analysis of the gender wage gap0
Labor’s capital in the twenty-first century0
Trade unionism and decolonisation in Africa: the Zambian experience, 1949–19640
Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh0
The great standardisation: working hours around the world0
Managing strikes and racial issues in the South China Morning Post0
Flying high on stipends: a historical analysis of flight attendant union struggles in (neoliberal) Canada0
Precarious resistance movements and the transformation of labour mobilisation in Madrid’s informal sectors0
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
‘The human ocean of the colored races’: interwar Black internationalism, Marxism, and permanent revolution0
Were slaves cheap laborers? A comparative study of labor costs in the antebellum U.S. South0
The revolutionary left in Comisiones Obreras: an introduction0
The emergence of state-led unionism in Turkey following World War II0
The imposition of penalties within the framework of the system of employee discipline during the period of socialism in Poland0
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature0
“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure0
‘Class Against Class’: The leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Comintern’s Third Period, 1928–19340
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data0
Against the rules: collective and individual resistance on the Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, 1910-19350
Divided Unions by Alexis N. Walker and The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman0
Class, race, and power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee0
The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation0
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?0
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China0
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond0
The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948)0
My life, my rules: subjectivity construction of rural female workers under local employment0
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions0
Modernization and innovation in Neapolitan artillery: the contribution of Carlo Filangieri in the 19th century0
Data and Democracy at Work by Rogers and Your Boss is an Algorithm by Aloisi and De Stefano0
From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China0
Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–19390
Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955)0
The downfall of the New York city taxi fleet industry: 1973-19830
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region0
The last generation of dairymaids: gender, skill, and occupational identity in Sweden0
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance0
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland0
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)0
North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-19450
Repressing worker dissent: lethal violence against strikers in the early American labor movement0
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
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia0
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–800
History and political legacy of the International Working Men’s Association0
The education trap: schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston0
Social movements to ban asbestos in Japan: influence of trade unions and the late development of grassroots mobilization0
Contract labour in India: history, evolution, judicial interpretation and critical analysis0
Public order and the fear of the ‘outsider’: porosity of labour politics in late colonial India0
Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt0
Labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the case of Turkish apparel industry0
“A Road to Peace and Freedom”: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930–19540
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers0
Cow, union buster! Identitarianism and organizing in Bombay’s mills, 1850s-1990s0
On the Legitimacy of the Striver’s Agreement in China0
From McCarthyism to Bostock: the judicial evolution of anti-discrimination in employment for sexual minorities in the United States0
Becoming coolies and supervisors: continued indebtedness, coercive intermediaries and new governmentalities in colonial South Indian plantations (1830 –1895)0
Labour relations in the online ride-hailing industry: evidence from China0
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The Socialist Party of America and the ‘yellow peril’ (1904–1908)0
Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960)0
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)0
Anti-communism, labour exploitation, and racism at the thermoelectric plant of the world’s largest copper mine (Tocopilla, Chile, 1948-1958)0
‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–19200
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey0
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-19000
Winning battles but losing the war? Labor in the age of finance0
Theory and process of socialist migration: local enmities and international friendships in the Vietnam-Bulgaria relations (1975-1985)0
Migration as class struggle: refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity0
Part-time employment versus underemployment of mothers and women in Spain0
Minimum wage and income inequality among the migrant population in China0
The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future0
Contextualizing precarious work: labor dispatch, boundary-drawing, and the politics of labor regulation in post-socialist China0
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain0
Coercive patriotism: gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II0
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency: A social dialectical approach to the field0
Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras0
“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire0
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry0
Global internationalism: An introduction0
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector0
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
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914,0
Powderly and the worker awakening: speaking to the South in 18850
‘The boys’: work, identity and the constructing of class experience among immigrant boys from Asian and African Countries in Young Israel0
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-20230
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain0
‘A female voice is instrumental’: gender, propaganda, and coerced labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-19450
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings0
Experiential fairness and power dynamics: an experimental study of labor dispatch in China0
Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario)0
Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country0
International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry0
Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU0
Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective0
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im / mobility and the environment0
Running a mainstream revolutionary newspaper: Guangdong Qunbao and socialist propaganda in 1920s South China0
Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-19600
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context0
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend0
‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism0
Mass strikes and social movements in Brazil and India: popular mobilisation in the long depression0
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India0
Iron and steel workers acquiring a factory in exchange for a single coin: a genuine people’s sector0
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre0
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector0
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-19300
The politics of solidarity: the International Working Men’s Association 18730
Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities0
Long haul unionism: Southern labor history and the struggle to organize Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee0
International trade-unionism and migration: European integration and the post-war ‘Free’ movement of labour0
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.0
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China0
Japanese publishing workers at the forefront: combating historical denialism with social movement unionism0
State as a place of reproducing “crisis of representativeness” –A dialogue between Miliband and Mao0
‘“The most troubled time in our history”: the presidency of Douglas Fraser and the decline of the UAW.’0
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia0
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers0
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh0
Beyond the ‘Red Rock’: the Ikarian Revolution (1912), political radicalism, and the Ikarian diaspora0
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956)0
Correction Notice0
The post-indenture of Chi, New South Wales, Australia, 1857–19080
Wage gap between the State and non-State sectors in China: a study from the perspective of the Housing Provident Fund Scheme0
COVID-19 and remote work inequality: Evidence from South Korea0
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From the policy of humanization to labour flexibilization: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (from the 1970s to the 1980s)0
Producer co-operatives of the Knights of Labor: seeking worker independence0
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–19200
Reticence, gender, and deindustrialisation: oral history challenges emerging within deindustrialisation studies and labour history0
Navigating institutional transitions: the trajectory of collective contracts in China, 1979–19920
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China0
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)0
‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-19720
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor0
The birth of Soviet workers-dissidents0
The compensation law and its antagonistic administration: The Indian coalfield of Raniganj, 1923-710
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–19390
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-19140
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