OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Labor and Working-Class 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan	6
Amah Activism: Domestic Servants and Decolonization in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore	3
Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido – Corrigendum	3
Pacifying the Battlefield of Industry: Warfare and Social Rights in 1848 France	3
“Called Upon to Collaborate Effectively in the Economic Progress of the Colony”: Measuring Algerian Women’s Work in the Interwar Period	2
The Long Shadow of the Working Class Movement	2
ILW volume 104 Cover and Back matter	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	2
Revisiting the Old Dilemmas	2
ILW volume 104 Cover and Front matter	2
Exploitation, Elimination, and Rebellion in Israel/Palestine: Introduction	2
Going Underground: The Author’s Body and the Mining Workplace in the Writing about Miners in Modern China	2
Laboring Femininities: Skill, Body, and Class-making Among Beauty Workers in India	2
Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia	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
The World We Have Lost: Reflections on Varieties of Masculinity at Work	2
Labor Discipline and Domestic Service during the Late Franco Dictatorship in Spain: An Approach in Three Stages (1960–1975)	2
The Future of Strikes and Trade Unions	2
Dayaks in a Ledger: A Bornean Labor History and an Oil Town's Indigenous Workers	1
Tilly Reversed? Another Cycle of Labor and Socialism Is Possible	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)	1
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	1
Rise of the Surplus Population? Land Decollectivization, Class Stratification, and Labor Precarization in Uzbekistan	1
White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982	1
Remembering Rochdale: The Cooperative Movement and the Post-Enclosure Atlantic	1

Wages and Labor Relations during Francoist Developmentalism: The Role of the New Unionism	1
A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya	1
From Natives to Foreigners: Bolivian Migration, Discrimination, and Ethnic-Labor Subsidiarity in Chuquicamata During the Guggenheim Ownership (Chile, 1912–1925)	1
Activism in Isolation: The Tudeh party of Iran in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s	1
Spatializing the Factory: Studying Place, Space, and Scale at the Point of Production in Bulgaria, India, and Turkey	1
An Easy Bloody Job: Women’s Labor in the Soviet Logging Industry	1
Kautsky’s Unexpected Comeback: Understanding the Re-emergence of the Second International in Contemporary Debates	1
Winning the Eight-Hour Day in Australia: A Social-Movement Explanation for a Precocious Success	1
A “Promise to Preserve Proper Decorum”: Organized Dancers, Filipino Patrons, and the Politics of Night Work in 1920s Seattle	1
Strategies or Opportunities. Trade Union’s International Quest for Social Justice	1