OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Amah Activism: Domestic Servants and Decolonization in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore	2
Pacifying the Battlefield of Industry: Warfare and Social Rights in 1848 France	2
Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido – Corrigendum	2
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	2
Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan	2
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
ILW volume 101 Cover and Front matter	1
From Natives to Foreigners: Bolivian Migration, Discrimination, and Ethnic-Labor Subsidiarity in Chuquicamata During the Guggenheim Ownership (Chile, 1912–1925)	1
Race at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labor and Empire on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, ca. 1907–1945	1
Mickey Goes to Haiti and Leaves: Disney's Transnational Quest for Cheap Labor in the post-Cold War Era	1
Special Issue on Workers and Obsolescence	1
Going Underground: The Author’s Body and the Mining Workplace in the Writing about Miners in Modern China	1
A “Promise to Preserve Proper Decorum”: Organized Dancers, Filipino Patrons, and the Politics of Night Work in 1920s Seattle	1
Mechanical Harvesting, Globalization, and the Fate of Citrus Farmworkers in Florida and São Paulo, 1965–1985	1
The Future of Strikes and Trade Unions	1
Laboring Femininities: Skill, Body, and Class-making Among Beauty Workers in India	1
The Long Shadow of the Working Class Movement	1
The World We Have Lost: Reflections on Varieties of Masculinity at Work	1
Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s	1
Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan	1
Revisiting the Old Dilemmas	1
Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia	1
ILW volume 104 Cover and Back matter	1
ILW volume 104 Cover and Front matter	1
“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

“We Were Democracy Mad:” Clerical Workers’ Unionism, Antiracism, and Feminism at the University of California, Berkeley, 1966–1972	0
Greenwashing “Modern Day Slavery” through the Mystique of Prison Farm Labor	0
Introduction	0
The (In)conceivability of Real “Workers’ Control” Under Capitalism	0
Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan – ADDENDUM	0
ILW volume 102 Cover and Front matter	0
Special Section on Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics	0
ILW volume 101 Cover and Back matter	0
“Every time, they took more from us”: Privatization and Telecommunications Workers in Rural Argentina, 1969–2000	0
Opportunism for Survival: Steamship Teaboys and China's Wartime Shipping Industry, 1937–1941	0
White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982	0
Intergenerational Learning and Place-making in a Deindustrialized Locality: “Tracks of the Past” in Lanarkshire, Scotland	0
The two grand movements of socialism and their dialectics: A global Retrospect	0
How the Abandonment of Democracy and Internationalism Has Decimated the Socialist Movement	0
Dayaks in a Ledger: A Bornean Labor History and an Oil Town's Indigenous Workers	0
Tunis in the Global Radical Web: Diasporas, Transnational Anarchism, and Labor Movements (1887–1912)	0
Hiring, Firing, Atomizing; Manpower Agencies and Precarious Labor in Kazakhstan's Oil Sector	0
Labor History and Class Violence: A Meditation on the Anniversary of Lochner V. New York	0
“Successful sit-ins seem a particularly Scottish phenomenon”: Gender, Memory and Deindustrialization	0
The Revolution That Did Not Happen. Labor Insurgency in Late Russian Poland	0
Soviet Inflection Points—A Play in Three Acts	0
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Kazakhstan's Civil Society Navigates Precarity	0
Resistance and Resilience: The Nothing Factory and the Workers’ Self-Management of Fateleva	0
Whose Struggle? Armenian Socialist Parties and the Women Workers’ Union in Adapazarı during the Second Constitutional Period	0
ILW volume 102 Cover and Back matter	0
The Troubled Present and Uncertain Future of Academic Labor	0
Against “Normalcy”: A Collective Testimony of Student Workers Organizing During the Pandemic	0
Tilly Reversed? Another Cycle of Labor and Socialism Is Possible	0
Socialism, Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Umbrella Organizations	0
Poetic Expressions of Night Work in Ja-Mnazi Afrika’s “Riziki”	0
The Politics of Health in the Lusophone Libertarian Movement: Portugal and Mozambique, 1910–1935	0
The Origins of the Swedish Wage Bargaining Model	0
War as Work: Labor and Soldiering in History	0
Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World	0
Controlling Bazaar, Fighting Precarity, and Producing the Nation	0
White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982 – CORRIGENDUM	0
“We Were Put Out of Good Jobs”: Women Night Workers in New York and the Origins of the Women’s Equal Opportunity League	0
Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido	0
Worker-led Unionization Sweeps the US	0
On (And Off) the Waterfront: The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Its Place in Labor History	0
Gender and the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France: Women, Mobility, and Economic Restructuring Beyond the Industrial Heartlands	0
Strategies or Opportunities. Trade Union’s International Quest for Social Justice	0
The Night of the Proletarian Families: Child Labor, Compulsory Education, and the Making of the Working Class around 1830	0
In Search of Shelter: Precarity, Protest, and Pronatalism among Laboring Women in Kazakhstan	0
Spatializing the Factory: Studying Place, Space, and Scale at the Point of Production in Bulgaria, India, and Turkey	0
Evolving or Disappearing? Italian Trade Unions in the 2010s	0
Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan: Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market?	0
Made in South Asia: Centering Labor in Textile and Garment Manufacturing Work, 1970s to 2020s	0
Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914	0
Broken Circle: Premature Deindustrialization, Chinese Capital Exports, and the Stumbling Development of New Territorial Industrial Complexes	0

Like a Meteorite: The Life of Mike Davis	0
Gender and the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France: Women, Mobility, and Economic Restructuring Beyond the Industrial Heartlands – ERRATUM	0
Team–Work: The Olympics 1925 and 1931	0
A Stethoscope to the World: The Fault Lines Between Marxism and Afropessimism	0
Trajectories of Resistance and Shifting Forms of Workers’ Activism in Iran	0
From Neoliberal Dreams to Precarity: Micro-Entrepreneurs and Family Debt in Kyrgyzstan	0
The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s	0
Rethinking Political Agency in the Russian Revolution: A View from the Russian Empire's Borderlands	0
Black Women's Domestic Labor at Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) during Jim Crow	0
Invisible Miners in a Mountain of Mercury: Negotiation, Health, and Night Work in Late 16th Century Huancavelica, Peru	0
Laboring Lives: New Approaches to Biography and Labor History in Latin America	0
The two grand movements of socialism and their dialectics: A global Retrospect – CORRIGENDUM	0
The Worlds of Labor in Ghana’s Gold Mining Industry, c. 1895–1957	0
A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya	0
The Entangled Nature of Work: Histories of Humans and Nonhuman Labor	0
Introduction	0
“We don't need no education”: Lessons from the (Un)making of Lahore's Proletarian Vanguard (ca. 1920–2000)	0
Residual Culture Embodied: Narrating Health and Illness in a Coalfield Community	0
“We won't go back home!” Women's Experiences with Deindustrialization and Unemployment at Fiat and LIP, a Comparative Perspective	0
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic’s Resolution on the Benefits of Night Shift Work: Its Context, Contradictions, and Realities	0
Centering Black Women’s Labor History in Latin America	0
From Corporations to Companies: The Development of Capitalism in Maritime Cargo Handling in the Port of Barcelona (ca. 1760–1873)	0
Working for Fuyao	0
State Regulation and Class Struggle in the Beedi Industry of Post-Colonial Malabar, 1947–1970	0
The Myth of Black Obsolescence	0
ILW volume 103 Cover and Front matter	0
Gendered Work, Skill, and Women's Labor Activism in Romanian Tobacco Factories from the 1920s to the 1960s	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
The City, the Neighborhood, and the Street: Toward a Global Urban Labor History?	0
Between Arrogance and Despondency: The Shanghai Workers, the Communists, and the Strikes at the Japanese Cotton Mills of 1926	0
ILW volume 103 Cover and Back matter	0
Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen in U.S. Industrial Sewing Schools, 1862–1872—An Opening Foray	0
Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey	0
Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads	0
Never Obsolete: Private Household Workers and the Transaction of Domestic Work	0
“Workers’ Way”: Moments of Labor in Late 1940s Calcutta	0
Gender and Deindustrialization: A Transnational Historiographical Review	0
Wages and Labor Relations during Francoist Developmentalism: The Role of the New Unionism	0
Putting a Human Face on It: Gender and Photographic Meaning in a Canadian Women's Coal Mine Campaign	0
On the Auction Block: The Garment Industry and the Deindustrialization of New York City	0
The Labor of Care in Carceral Spaces: The Work of Resistance in the New York City Jails	0
The Myth of the Classless Society: Henry Carey and the Anti-Labor Origins of U.S. Political Economy (1820s–1830s)	0
Gender, Ethnicity, and Circulation of Children: Domestic Service in the City of Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	0
Kautsky’s Unexpected Comeback: Understanding the Re-emergence of the Second International in Contemporary Debates	0
Racialized Obsolescence: Multinational Corporations, Labor Conflict, and the Closure of the Imperial Typewriter Company in Britain, 1974–1975	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