OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Labor and Working-Class 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
And the Virus Rages on: “Contingent” and “Essential” Workers in the Time of COVID-19	5
“Inoculations: The Social Politics of Time, Labor, and Public Good in COVID-America”	4
Service Work in the Pandemic Economy	4
Notes on Essential Labor	4
Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone	3
Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945	2
The Myth of Black Obsolescence	2
Never Obsolete: Private Household Workers and the Transaction of Domestic Work	2
Karl Marx and the Global History of the Civil War: The Slave Movement, Working-Class Struggle, and the American State within the World Market	2
Sartre as prosecutor of occupational murder: notes from a People's Tribunal in a French mine (1970)	1
Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914	1
Gender, Ethnicity, and Circulation of Children: Domestic Service in the City of Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	1
From Corporations to Companies: The Development of Capitalism in Maritime Cargo Handling in the Port of Barcelona (ca. 1760–1873)	1
A Failed Experiment: Okinawan Indents and the Postwar Torres Strait Pearlshelling Industry, 1958–1963	1
White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982	1
‘Building the Internationalist City from Below’: The Role of the Czechoslovak Industrial Cooperative “Interhelpo” in Forging Urbanity in early-Soviet Bishkek	1
The Ten Hours Movement and the Working-Class Family in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain	1
The “most revolutionary” banner in British trade union history? Political identities and the birth, life, purgatory, and rebirth of the “red” Follonsby miners’ banner	1
Hiring, Firing, Atomizing; Manpower Agencies and Precarious Labor in Kazakhstan's Oil Sector	1
Working-Class Women, Gender, and Union Politics in Turkey, 1965–1980	1
The Labor of Care in Carceral Spaces: The Work of Resistance in the New York City Jails	1
The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s	1
The Labor Movement As an Educational Movement: A Conceptual History of Sivistys Within the Finnish Workers’ Educational Association 1920s–1960s	1
The Troubled Present and Uncertain Future of Academic Labor	1
The (In)conceivability of Real “Workers’ Control” Under Capitalism	0

Black Women's Domestic Labor at Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) during Jim Crow	0
Trajectories of Resistance and Shifting Forms of Workers’ Activism in Iran	0
Controlling Bazaar, Fighting Precarity, and Producing the Nation	0
ILW volume 100 Cover and Back matter	0
Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World	0
Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan	0
ILW volume 99 Cover and Back matter	0
Gender and the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France: Women, Mobility, and Economic Restructuring Beyond the Industrial Heartlands	0
Working for Fuyao	0
Amah Activism: Domestic Servants and Decolonization in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore	0
The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s	0
The Entangled Nature of Work: Histories of Humans and Nonhuman Labor	0
ILW volume 102 Cover and Back matter	0
Against “Normalcy”: A Collective Testimony of Student Workers Organizing During the Pandemic	0
Racialized Obsolescence: Multinational Corporations, Labor Conflict, and the Closure of the Imperial Typewriter Company in Britain, 1974–1975	0
The Humanization of Nature and Half-Earth Socialism	0
Renegotiating Skills, Wages, and the Right to Work: On the Gender of Labor Activism around Rationalization in the Bulgarian Tobacco Industry in the Early 1930s	0
Gendered Work, Skill, and Women's Labor Activism in Romanian Tobacco Factories from the 1920s to the 1960s	0
The World We Have Lost: Reflections on Varieties of Masculinity at Work	0
Putting a Human Face on It: Gender and Photographic Meaning in a Canadian Women's Coal Mine Campaign	0
Laboring Lives: New Approaches to Biography and Labor History in Latin America	0
“We won't go back home!” Women's Experiences with Deindustrialization and Unemployment at Fiat and LIP, a Comparative Perspective	0
Dayaks in a Ledger: A Bornean Labor History and an Oil Town's Indigenous Workers	0
A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya	0
From Natives to Foreigners: Bolivian Migration, Discrimination, and Ethnic-Labor Subsidiarity in Chuquicamata During the Guggenheim Ownership (Chile, 1912–1925)	0
Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey	0
ILW volume 99 Cover and Front matter	0
Politics of Life and Labor: French Colonialism in China and Chinese Coolie Labor During the Construction of the Yunnan–Indochina Railway, 1898–1910	0
“Workers’ Way”: Moments of Labor in Late 1940s Calcutta	0
On the Auction Block: The Garment Industry and the Deindustrialization of New York City	0
‘Building the Internationalist City from Below’: The Role of the Czechoslovak Industrial Cooperative “Interhelpo” in Forging Urbanity in early-Soviet Bishkek – ADDENDUM	0
Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen in U.S. Industrial Sewing Schools, 1862–1872—An Opening Foray	0
ILW volume 103 Cover and Front matter	0
ILW volume 101 Cover and Back matter	0
State Regulation and Class Struggle in the Beedi Industry of Post-Colonial Malabar, 1947–1970	0
British Workers and Ottoman Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul	0
Foxconn, Ciudad Juárez, and the Trials of Solidarity	0
Evolving or Disappearing? Italian Trade Unions in the 2010s	0
“We don't need no education”: Lessons from the (Un)making of Lahore's Proletarian Vanguard (ca. 1920–2000)	0
The Origins of the Swedish Wage Bargaining Model	0
Rethinking Political Agency in the Russian Revolution: A View from the Russian Empire's Borderlands	0
Tunis in the Global Radical Web: Diasporas, Transnational Anarchism, and Labor Movements (1887–1912)	0
From Guild Artisans to Entrepreneurs: The Long Path of Italian Marble Mosaic and Terrazzo Craftsmen (16th c. Venice – 20th c. New York City)	0
Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan	0
Gender and the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France: Women, Mobility, and Economic Restructuring Beyond the Industrial Heartlands – ERRATUM	0
Greenwashing “Modern Day Slavery” through the Mystique of Prison Farm Labor	0
ILW volume 102 Cover and Front matter	0
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Kazakhstan's Civil Society Navigates Precarity	0
The Etymology of Despair in the Americas	0
Laboring Femininities: Skill, Body, and Class-making Among Beauty Workers in India	0

White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982 – CORRIGENDUM	0
A Stethoscope to the World: The Fault Lines Between Marxism and Afropessimism	0
“Workers do not liberate themselves other than with their own hands”—The Political Experience of Workers' Committees in the Industrial District of Beirut (1970–1975)	0
“Every time, they took more from us”: Privatization and Telecommunications Workers in Rural Argentina, 1969–2000	0
Special Issue on Workers and Obsolescence	0
Team–Work: The Olympics 1925 and 1931	0
ILW volume 101 Cover and Front matter	0
“We Were Democracy Mad:” Clerical Workers’ Unionism, Antiracism, and Feminism at the University of California, Berkeley, 1966–1972	0
From Neoliberal Dreams to Precarity: Micro-Entrepreneurs and Family Debt in Kyrgyzstan	0
Opportunism for Survival: Steamship Teaboys and China's Wartime Shipping Industry, 1937–1941	0
Introduction	0
Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan – ADDENDUM	0
ILW volume 100 Cover and Front matter	0
Wages and Labor Relations during Francoist Developmentalism: The Role of the New Unionism	0
Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia	0
Between Arrogance and Despondency: The Shanghai Workers, the Communists, and the Strikes at the Japanese Cotton Mills of 1926	0
ILW volume 104 Cover and Back matter	0
ILW volume 103 Cover and Back matter	0
Resistance and Resilience: The Nothing Factory and the Workers’ Self-Management of Fateleva	0
The Politics of Health in the Lusophone Libertarian Movement: Portugal and Mozambique, 1910–1935	0
Like a Meteorite: The Life of Mike Davis	0
De-centering the Revolution: Class Composition in the Making and Defeat of the Bavarian Council Republic	0
When Do Trade Unions Support Universal Demands? Organizational Context and Trade Union Strategies in the US and UK at the Turn of the 20th Century	0
In Search of Shelter: Precarity, Protest, and Pronatalism among Laboring Women in Kazakhstan	0
“Successful sit-ins seem a particularly Scottish phenomenon”: Gender, Memory and Deindustrialization	0
Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan: Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market?	0
Special Section on Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics	0
War as Work: Labor and Soldiering in History	0
Intergenerational Learning and Place-making in a Deindustrialized Locality: “Tracks of the Past” in Lanarkshire, Scotland	0
Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s	0
ILW volume 104 Cover and Front matter	0
Mickey Goes to Haiti and Leaves: Disney's Transnational Quest for Cheap Labor in the post-Cold War Era	0
Mechanical Harvesting, Globalization, and the Fate of Citrus Farmworkers in Florida and São Paulo, 1965–1985	0
Broken Circle: Premature Deindustrialization, Chinese Capital Exports, and the Stumbling Development of New Territorial Industrial Complexes	0