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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and	17
J. V. Stalin and The British Road to Socialism	8
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War	7
Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960)	6
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)	6
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend	4
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916	4
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45	4
The downfall of the New York city taxi fleet industry: 1973-1983	4
Giving meaning to ‘division of labour’: is Malaysia sliding into ethnic labour caucuses?	4
The education trap: schools and the remaking of inequality in Boston	3
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s	3
Data and Democracy at Work by Rogers and Your Boss is an Algorithm by Aloisi and De Stefano	3
From social policy to labour economics and industrial relations in Turkey: a critical history of an academic discipline	3
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930	3
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China	3
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)	3
Subbotniks: from the great to the meaningless (the evolution of the Soviet labor phenomenon)	3
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]	3
Cow, union buster! Identitarianism and organizing in Bombay’s mills, 1850s-1990s	2
Labor History symposium: Jacoby, Labor in the age of finance: pensions, politics, and corporations from deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank	2
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	2
Response	2
One Hundred Years of Servitude by Rana P. Behal and Tea Environments and Plantation Culture by Arnab Dey	2
ILO’s actions and workers’ voices against state terrorism in South America	2

Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective	2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	2
‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-1972	2
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	2
Labor’s capital in the twenty-first century	2
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia	2
Against the rules: collective and individual resistance on the Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán, 1910-1935	2
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre	2
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings	2
History and political legacy of the International Working Men’s Association	2
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–1945	2
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain	2
‘The factory of the future’ Historical continuity and labor rights at Tesla	2
Port Arthur’s post-probation labour gangs, 1856-1877: the aged and ailing remnants of the convict system or skilled and productive workers?	1
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region	1
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature	1
The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China	1
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S	1
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-1914	1
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-1982	1
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)	1
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities	1
Mass strikes and social movements in Brazil and India: popular mobilisation in the long depression	1
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit	1
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)	1
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector	1
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform	1
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers	1
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh	1
The making of labour precarity: three explanatory approaches and their relationship	1
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–1939	1
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity	1
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)	1
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–80	1
Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italianoperaismofrom Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti	1
Managing industrial discontent in Britain, 1927-1930: the industrial cooperation talks and the segregation of the national unemployed workers’ movement	1
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector	1
Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras	1
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–1981	1
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond	1