Labor History

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Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities	22
Correction	12
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism	10
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?	9
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor	8
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective	7
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 1924	7
Emotion, production, and institutional mobilization: shaping the political consciousness of Wuhan workers during the Korean War (1950–1953)	7
A big deal: the Hyundai battery plant raid and the deeper labor history of the foreign-owned auto sector in the U.S.	6
Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers	6
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit	6
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag	6
Plantation patriarchy and gendered leadership: women’s political voice in tea plantations of Assam	6
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?	6
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power	5
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–22	5
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)	5
Labor challenging AI-driven market creation: the case of South Korea’s AI-based digital textbooks	5
The youth power in the revolutionary furnace: the multi-dimensional contribution and historical limitation of the youth workers in the Central Soviet Area to the consolidation of the revolutionary bas	5
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market	5
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change	4
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community	4
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)	4
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire	4
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s	4

The limits of the marginality thesis: women’s and children’s proto-industrial earnings in Norfolk County’s straw bonnet industry, 1800–1825	4
Correction	4
Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary	4
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle	4
The evolving roles of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, 1925–present	3
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh	3
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka	3
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940)	3
Defeat capital with capital: how reformed SOE workers in contemporary China leverage shareholder mobilization to sustain collective rights	3
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history	3
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period	3
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy	3
Legal origins, labor regulations, and labor market outcomes	3
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	3
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]	2
Inside the upsurge: historical continuity and the Blue Bird Bus and Daimler Truck victories in the U.S. South	2
Insuring women’s work: exploring the rationale for women’s enrollment in early twentieth-century Swedish health insurance societies	2
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–1981	2
Invisible labor: youth digital labors and value creation in online circle field	2
From workers to working class: the North-China Daily News’ dismissal controversy and identity cultivation of Chinese workers in 1951	2
Three strikes, uneven repertoires: labor struggles and the limits of contention in Zonguldak, 1923–1991	2
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching	2
Forged in conflict: a comparative history of labor, the state, and the Cold War in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia	2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	2
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century	2
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)	2
Dual precarity in South-South migration: experiences and uncertainty of Bangladeshi temporary labor migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers	2
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity	2
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias	2
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)	2
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform	2
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 repression	2
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems	2
State logic and local agency in labor regime transformation: the making of entrepreneurial citizens in Yuanjia Village, 1949–2025	2
Flickering agency: How algorithmic management shapes workers’ agency in the platform economy in India?	2
From subjects of the empire to citizens of newly independent Vietnam: rethinking the Vietnamese labor governance in the Pacific Islands in the postcolonial era	2
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh	2
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model	2
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties	2
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–1910	2
Care, social rights, and labor integration of the war-disabled, chronically ill patients, and retirees among Greek Civil War refugees in socialist Czechoslovakia	2
Working as Rickshaw Pullers in modern Shanghai, 1920s–1940s	2
Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas	1
The Socialist Party of America and the ‘yellow peril’ (1904–1908)	1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO	1
I am a worker, and also a cultural constructor: factory art practices and the construction of labor identity in twentieth-century China	1
In the shadow of war and empire. Industrialisation, nation-building, and working-class politics in Turkey	1
‘I will see that something is done’: African American women and organizing against workplace bullying, harassment, and violence in the San Francisco Bay Area shipyards during World War II	1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930	1

Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country	1
Constructing modern slavery: law, capitalism, and unfree labour	1
Women labourers under British health policy in Malaya: from neglect to protection, 1900–1955	1
White man’s work: race and middle-class mobility into the progressive era	1
On the Legitimacy of the Striver’s Agreement in China	1
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey	1
Review of youth, masculinity and the labour market: precarious transitions in post-industrial Britain	1
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 century	1
Delivering food, navigating stigma: the social experience of gig workers in urban India	1
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers	1
From vanguards to rearguards: the evolution and challenges of Bolivian railway workers, c . 1907–1964	1
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions	1
From post-conflict reconstruction to transnational labor mobility: a political-economic history of Cambodian labor migration, 1975–2019	1
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 Pres	1
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-2023	1
Monastic women and secular economy in later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500	1
State as a place of reproducing “crisis of representativeness” –A dialogue between Miliband and Mao	1
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.	1
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China	1
Precarious resistance movements and the transformation of labour mobilisation in Madrid’s informal sectors	1
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)	1
Biopolitics, immaterial labor, and subjective dilemmas of China’s data annotators	1
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–1920	1
From the policy of humanization to labour flexibilization: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (from the 1970s to the 1980s)	1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh	1
Making meaning, making a living: historical transformations of handicraft labor and cultural identity in China	1
Proud to be union? Queer work(ers) and the Australian trade union movement, 1970s–80s	1
Dining halal under socialism: halal canteens and Hui workers in Beijing and Shanghai (1949–1980s)	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 century	1
The emergence of state-led unionism in Turkey following World War II	1
Co-operative enterprise in comparative perspective: exceptionally un-american?	1
Blue-Collar empire: the untold story of US labor’s global anticommunist crusade	1
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-1982	1
Labor to leadership : trade unions and political awakening in tea plantations of Assam	1
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)	1
Shock troops of capitalism: how the Coors family crushed unions and hastened the collapse of the New Deal order	1
Correction Notice	1
Building the migration industry: socialist Yugoslavia’s agenda for labour migrants’ pre-departure training	1
Trade unionism and decolonisation in Africa: the Zambian experience, 1949–1964	1
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data	1
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China	1
Wage gap between the State and non-State sectors in China: a study from the perspective of the Housing Provident Fund Scheme	1
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France	1
The great standardisation: working hours around the world	1
Politicized precarity: labor dynamics and agency of outsourced workers in China (1958–1983)	1
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region	1
Managing strikes and racial issues in the South China Morning Post	0
Reforming China’s labor and personnel system: the institutionalization of identity segregation within danwei	0
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain	0
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–1912	0
“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure	0
Japanese publishing workers at the forefront: combating historical denialism with social movement unionism	0
Powderly and the worker awakening: speaking to the South in 1885	0
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre	0
Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities	0
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and	0
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)	0
Iron and steel workers acquiring a factory in exchange for a single coin: a genuine people’s sector	0
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
Resilient labour networks among female coffee pickers in Yunnan: a case study of self-organised rural cooperation	0
Grassroot conception of labor and production in Maoist Dongbei, 1958–1978	0
Experiential fairness and power dynamics: an experimental study of labor dispatch in China	0
‘Strangled in infancy’: affirmative action, Executive Order 10925, and the unfulfilled promises to black labor, 1961–1964	0
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?	0
Military strikebreaking and the making of state–labor relations in early Israel	0
The last generation of dairymaids: gender, skill, and occupational identity in Sweden	0
Global internationalism: An introduction	0
Nationalising oil and knowledge in Iran: labour, decolonisation and colonial modernity, 1933–51	0
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions	0
Trained to serve: vocational education and colonial subordination in the “Shkolla Bujtinore ne Shqipni” (1939–1943)	0
The revolutionary left in Comisiones Obreras: an introduction	0
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China	0
Labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the case of Turkish apparel industry	0
Class, race, and power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee	0
More-than-class struggle. Disaster at the Nelson III mine in North Bohemia 1934	0
Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective	0
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–80	0
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China	0
Breaking the cocoon, empowering and breaking through: a study on the labor participation and rights protection of women workers in the Central Soviet Area (1931–1934)	0
The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China	0

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, 1936–1949	0
Once upon a time in Gültepe (socialists, grassroots and the TARİŞ resistance)	0
Laborers, educators, and the struggle for liberation in post-independence Libya	0
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 Sicilies	0
The politics of solidarity: the International Working Men’s Association 1873	0
‘The labor movement should be treated as a partner, not a special interest’ - organized labor and the 1980 U.S. Presidential election	0
‘A female voice is instrumental’: gender, propaganda, and coerced labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945	0
Knowledge as a weapon. Parisian workers quantitative surveys and epistemic theory (1840–1848)	0
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain	0
Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history	0
Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU	0
Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–1939	0
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956)	0
Long haul unionism: Southern labor history and the struggle to organize Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee	0
The evolution of individual and collective rights in the Chinese workplace	0
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 Australia	0
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings	0
Can cultural labor empower women in the context of intangible cultural heritage? A case study of Jian’ou Tiaofan	0
Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh	0
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend	0
Employment Discrimination for People Living with HIV in China: The Challenges of Law vs. Practice	0
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-1900	0
Digital capitalists in code: investment practices among Chinese AI engineers and the transcendence of proletarianization	0
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im / mobility and the environment	0
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia	0
Railway school in Douala and vocational training for local staff in Cameroon under French administration (1922–1960)	0
Unitary unionism in the transition: a general approach from Navarre	0
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor	0
Flying high on stipends: a historical analysis of flight attendant union struggles in (neoliberal) Canada	0
Coercive patriotism: gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II	0
From McCarthyism to Bostock: the judicial evolution of anti-discrimination in employment for sexual minorities in the United States	0
‘Alcoy under the Commune’. The most important labor revolt in nineteenth-century Spain, 150 years on	0
Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955)	0
Generational politics: revolution versus production in Shanghai factories in the early years of the people’s republic of China	0
Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt	0
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland	0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914,	0
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
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-1914	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
The post-indenture of Chi, New South Wales, Australia, 1857–1908	0
Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario)	0
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature	0
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s	0
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond	0
Domestic service in the Soviet Union: women’s emancipation and the gendered hierarchy of labor	0
Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-1952	0
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–1939	0
Legal frameworks for workforce mobility and employment regulations in ASEAN: challenges and efforts in aligning domestic labour laws with regional standards	0
Can an individual worker make institutional changes in the workplace? Luke Ching’s narrative on reworking the workplaces in Hong Kong	0
A new exploration of cloth-fulling workers’ strikes in Suzhou during the early and middle Qing Dynasty: the crisis of strikes in the ‘high Qing’ and government-social responses	0
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China	0
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector	0
The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation	0
International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry	0
Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal	0
The Cold War of Labor Migrants: Opportunities, Struggles and Adaptations across the Iron Curtain and Beyond	0
Social movements to ban asbestos in Japan: influence of trade unions and the late development of grassroots mobilization	0
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance	0
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–1945	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 1960s	0
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India	0
Beyond the ‘Red Rock’: the Ikarian Revolution (1912), political radicalism, and the Ikarian diaspora	0
‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism	0
My life, my rules: subjectivity construction of rural female workers under local employment	0
Minimum wage and income inequality among the migrant population in China	0
‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–1920	0
“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire	0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914	0
The hiring hall, the farm labor contractor, and the state: the United Farm Workers’ struggle for control over the labor supply	0
Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis	0
Introduction	0
Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras	0
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry	0
Class dynamics and workplace democracy: a tripartite analysis of workers’ management in China’s state-owned enterprises	0
National security discourse, excluding operation mechanisms, and resistance of homosexual federal employees during the Lavender Scare	0
North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-1945	0
Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”	0
Navigating institutional transitions: the trajectory of collective contracts in China, 1979–1992	0
Rank-and-file revolt: insurgency, power, and democracy in the UAW, 2019–25	0
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context	0
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14	0
Freeman’s challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit	0
Productivity, the humanization of work, and the future of labor: insights from industrial psychology in late socialist Yugoslavia and Romania	0
Cow, union buster! Identitarianism and organizing in Bombay’s mills, 1850s-1990s	0
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)	0
Contract labour in India: history, evolution, judicial interpretation and critical analysis	0
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia	0
The imposition of penalties within the framework of the system of employee discipline during the period of socialism in Poland	0
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy	0
Labor migration and agrarian reform in post-war Italy: the case of the Marsica (1950–1965)	0
The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948)	0
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector	0
Running a mainstream revolutionary newspaper: Guangdong Qunbao and socialist propaganda in 1920s South China	0