OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labor History is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
Financing women’s entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: bank, microfinance and mobile money	26
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data	13
Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees?	8
COVID-19 and remote work inequality: Evidence from South Korea	8
‘The factory of the future’ Historical continuity and labor rights at Tesla	7
Global internationalism: An introduction	6
Labor migration programs within the socialist bloc. cuban guestworkers in late socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary	6
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions	4
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe	4
From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China	4
Contextualizing precarious work: labor dispatch, boundary-drawing, and the politics of labor regulation in post-socialist China	4
Collective agreements against labor market risks in Sweden: the case of the PTK-SAF employment secu rity agreement	4
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers	3
The inequality of opportunity and youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
‘Encroaching upon trade union preserves’: the 1950s fight over global labor norms between the international confederation of free trade unions and moral re-armament	3
Challenging the trade union agenda: migrants’ interest representation and German trade unions in Hamburg in the 1970s and 1980s	3
The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project	3
Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–1993	3
The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future	3
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 Assam	3
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-2023	3
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency: A social dialectical approach to the field	3
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

The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry	2
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh	2
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market: an analysis of the gender wage gap	2
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions	2
International trade-unionism and migration: European integration and the post-war ‘Free’ movement of labour	2
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre	2
A new left teachers’ union: participatory democracy and the 1970s New Haven federation of teachers	2
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context	2
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 movement	2
Dodgy labour market dichotomy: the repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights	2
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor	2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	2
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 South	2
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland	2
Part-time employment versus underemployment of mothers and women in Spain	2
Sex, sahibs and bodies: women workers in the tea plantations of colonial Assam	2
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China	1
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire	1
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance	1
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-1900	1
Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italianoperaismofrom Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti	1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930	1
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War	1
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain	1
‘Class Against Class’: The leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Comintern’s Third Period, 1928–1934	1
Migration as class struggle: refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity	1
Were slaves cheap laborers? A comparative study of labor costs in the antebellum U.S. South	1
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–1912	1
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada	1
South Australia’s employment relief program for assisted immigrants: promises and reality, 1838-1843	1
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S	1
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45	1
Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-1960	1
The transformation of labor force dualism in South Korea’s Shipyards, 1974 to the present	1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO	1
Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period	1
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China	1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh	1
Macroeconomic indicators of regular workers in postwar Japan	1
‘Shameful forms of oppression’: Anglo-American activism and the slow decline of Chinese indentured labour in British North Borneo, 1920s–1940s	1
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916	1
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia	1
Regulation and resistance: defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941	1