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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
ILO’s actions and workers’ voices against state terrorism in South America	20
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities	11
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45	9
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)	7
Giving meaning to ‘division of labour’: is Malaysia sliding into ethnic labour caucuses?	7
A defining battle: the fight for $15 campaign and labor advocacy in the U.S	6
Correction	6
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism	6
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?	5
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 1924	5
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective	4
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag	4
Managing industrial discontent in Britain, 1927-1930: the industrial cooperation talks and the segregation of the national unemployed workers’ movement	4
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit	4
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor	4
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power	4
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)	3
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–22	3
Education in black and white: Myles Horton and the Highlander center’s vision for social justice	3
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle	3
Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary	3
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?	3
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)	3
Correction	3
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community	3

Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers	3
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market	3
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe	3
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire	3
Defeat capital with capital: how reformed SOE workers in contemporary China leverage shareholder mobilization to sustain collective rights	2
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change	2
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s	2
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy	2
Did statutory insurance improve the welfare of Swedish workers? The statutory workplace accident insurance act of 1916	2
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–1981	2
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh	2
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh	2
Rethinking the Robe River dispute 1986-7 – de-unionisation in Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry in the early neoliberal period	2
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history	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
Inside the upsurge: historical continuity and the Blue Bird Bus and Daimler Truck victories in the U.S. South	2
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems	2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	2
Insuring women’s work: exploring the rationale for women’s enrollment in early twentieth-century Swedish health insurance societies	2
Dual precarity in South-South migration: experiences and uncertainty of Bangladeshi temporary labor migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
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
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka	2
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period	2
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War	2
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)	2
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]	2
Three strikes, uneven repertoires: labor struggles and the limits of contention in Zonguldak, 1923–1991	1
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties	1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO	1
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching	1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh	1
Winning battles but losing the war? Labor in the age of finance	1
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data	1
The compensation law and its antagonistic administration: The Indian coalfield of Raniganj, 1923-71	1
Trade unionism and decolonisation in Africa: the Zambian experience, 1949–1964	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
The emergence of state-led unionism in Turkey following World War II	1
Politicized precarity: labor dynamics and agency of outsourced workers in China (1958–1983)	1
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)	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
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers	1
Monastic women and secular economy in later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500	1
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China	1
State logic and local agency in labor regime transformation: the making of entrepreneurial citizens in Yuanjia Village, 1949–2025	1
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–1910	1
Precarious resistance movements and the transformation of labour mobilisation in Madrid’s informal sectors	1
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias	1
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–1920	1
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)	1
The great standardisation: working hours around the world	1

Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)	1
From vanguards to rearguards: the evolution and challenges of Bolivian railway workers, c . 1907–1964	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
From workers to working class: the North-China Daily News’ dismissal controversy and identity cultivation of Chinese workers in 1951	1
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-1982	1
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers	1
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model	1
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform	1
History and political legacy of the International Working Men’s Association	1
Radical Seattle: the general strike of 1919	1
From subjects of the empire to citizens of newly independent Vietnam: rethinking the Vietnamese labor governance in the Pacific Islands in the postcolonial era	1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930	1
From the policy of humanization to labour flexibilization: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (from the 1970s to the 1980s)	1
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey	1
Invisible labor: youth digital labors and value creation in online circle field	1
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region	1
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada	1
Proud to be union? Queer work(ers) and the Australian trade union movement, 1970s–80s	1
‘The human ocean of the colored races’: interwar Black internationalism, Marxism, and permanent revolution	1
The Socialist Party of America and the ‘yellow peril’ (1904–1908)	1
On the Legitimacy of the Striver’s Agreement 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
Correction Notice	1
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	1
Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt	1
Workers of the empire, unite: radical and popular challenges to British imperialism, 1910s-1960s	1
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity	1
In the shadow of war and empire. Industrialisation, nation-building, and working-class politics in Turkey	1
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France	1
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 ^th century	1
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.	1
Making meaning, making a living: historical transformations of handicraft labor and cultural identity in China	1