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The Worlds of Labor in Ghana’s Gold Mining Industry, c. 1895–1957 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Gareth Curless
The global turn has contributed to a revitalization of labor history. Historians have become increasingly attentive to the varied forms of labor commodification that existed under capitalism. Many historians have welcomed this approach which challenges the universalism of “free” wage labor. Critics, however, have warned that global labor history risks re-inscribing the power of capital at the expense
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Gender and Deindustrialization: A Transnational Historiographical Review International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jackie Clarke, Arthur McIvor, Anna McEwan, Sinead Burns
This contribution takes stock of the growing research on deindustrialization from a gender perspective. Much of the work in deindustrialization studies is rooted in local studies, within single national contexts. This article provides a perspective that cuts across case studies and national historiographies. It reviews findings on the implications of deindustrialization for working-class masculinities
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Introduction International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jackie Clarke, Andy Clark, Valerie Wright
This introduction sets out the context for the special feature on gender and deindustrialization. It briefly outlines the development of research in this field and the contribution made by the articles included in this issue, before pointing to some directions for future research.
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Japan’s Forgotten Korean Forced Laborers: The Search for Hidden Wartime Graves in Hokkaido International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ágota Duró, David Palmer
The return of remains of Korean forced laborers who died in Japan between 1940 and 1945 has been a major controversy for over half a century for Koreans. These deaths reveal the tragic consequences of Japan’s World War II forced labor system. Japan forcefully mobilized nearly 800,000 Koreans who were taken to at least 1,589 worksites in Japan and 381 worksites in Hokkaido. Over 10 percent of all Koreans
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Worker-led Unionization Sweeps the US International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Eric Blanc
Over the last half-decade, worker-led struggles have spread across US cafes, warehouses, universities, media outlets, and beyond. Reviving the bottom-up spirit that enabled unions to make their big breakthrough in the 1930s, recent worker-to-worker initiatives have shown how this can be done in our sprawled out, economically decentralized conditions. Building off the best traditions of left trade unionism
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The Politics of Health in the Lusophone Libertarian Movement: Portugal and Mozambique, 1910–1935 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Richard Cleminson
Significant advances in the study of the historic labor movement have entailed new work on the intersection between political parties, trade unions and subjects such as ‘race’, colonialism, sexuality, masculinity, and the reception of scientific ideas. The intersections between the labor movement and the politics of health, however, have been neglected to date both in labor studies and in social studies
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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 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Maya Adereth
When do labor movements come to support universal welfare policies? This article examines this question through a comparative account of the British and American labor movements at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing on newspaper and meeting records from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE), the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS), the Cigarmakers International Union (CMIU)
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Wages and Labor Relations during Francoist Developmentalism: The Role of the New Unionism International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Luis Cardenas
The relation between wage growth and the reconstruction of the labor movement in Spain, during the developmentalist Francoist regime (1957-1975), has been controversial. Applying the power resources theory in order to explain wage growth, this paper argues that the rise of the labor share was the result of the increased bargaining power of workers in spite of repressive policies of the Francoist government
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Team–Work: The Olympics 1925 and 1931 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ulrich Lehmann
For the cultural history of industrialized nations, particularly in the economies of the Global North, the period between 1890 and 1930 is associated with modernisms, as successive cultural movements that were formally innovative, highly subjective, yet also self-reflexive of their institutional and social functions. These movements proclaimed themselves as avant-garde; as cultural vanguards that visualize
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From Natives to Foreigners: Bolivian Migration, Discrimination, and Ethnic-Labor Subsidiarity in Chuquicamata During the Guggenheim Ownership (Chile, 1912–1925) International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Damir Galaz-Mandakovic, Francisco Rivera
The War of the Pacific (1879–1883) between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia marked a turning point in the political and socio-economic development of the Atacama Desert. Formerly part of Bolivia, this area came under the control and jurisdiction of Chile in 1884. This shift in sovereignty substantially altered the tri-national geopolitics, forcing the local Bolivian population to flee. The newly annexed region's
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Gender and the Displaced Worker in Contemporary France: Women, Mobility, and Economic Restructuring Beyond the Industrial Heartlands International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jackie Clarke, Fanny Gallot
A considerable proportion of the research conducted within the developing field of deindustrialisation studies has focused on the loss of work in industrial closures, and on the attachments that long-serving workers feel to their former workplace. This article focuses instead on the phenomenon of constrained mobility which often occurs as companies restructure and workers are offered a choice between
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The World We Have Lost: Reflections on Varieties of Masculinity at Work International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tim Strangleman
The focus on gender in and around the process of deindustrialisation is a very welcome development. The academic attention paid to the decline of male dominated places of work in part can be seen as a continuation of industrial/work sociology's longstanding interest in working-class industrial workers. It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that, notwithstanding a critical gendered account of deindustrialization
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Greenwashing “Modern Day Slavery” through the Mystique of Prison Farm Labor International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Chin Jou
In Charleston, Maine, a town of about 1,500 near the center of the state, there is an orchard with 750 apple trees and a farm where a variety of produce is grown.1 This bucolic setting is on the grounds of the Mountain View Correctional Facility, a 374-bed minimum- and medium-security state prison.2 Incarcerated people tend to the apple trees and vegetables, and every year they cultivate 100,000 pounds
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“We won't go back home!” Women's Experiences with Deindustrialization and Unemployment at Fiat and LIP, a Comparative Perspective International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Anna Frisone
This article stems from a project aiming to investigate women's unemployment in the phase of deindustrialization that affected Western European countries from the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis. Countries such as Italy and France, with both a strong working-class movement and a vibrant feminist movement, have had to face economic crises since the mid-seventies and from the eighties have witnessed
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The Entangled Nature of Work: Histories of Humans and Nonhuman Labor International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Thomas Fleischman
A survey of recent works of labor and environment reveal the centrality of hybridity to analyses of human and nonhuman natures. These are most apparent in analyses of labor, technology, and nature. While ways of knowing nature amongst the powerful have been oriented toward the ever-greater domination of workers and nonhuman nature, interspecies entanglements and solidarity erupt through the marginal
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Special Section on Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Görkem Akgöz, Bridget Kenny
From the nineteenth century, when the new social question of women's factory labor came to preoccupy the (middle-class) public imagination, to the present times of globalized labor chains, discourses on gendered labor have been at once fluid and constitutive of labor hierarchies. These discourses and social relations affirm their centrality within processes of industrialization and workplace restructuring
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Gendered Work, Skill, and Women's Labor Activism in Romanian Tobacco Factories from the 1920s to the 1960s International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Alexandra Ghiț
In this article, I choose struggles over skill development as an entry point to uncovering features of women's labor activism in state-owned tobacco factories in Romania, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. I look at the processes that constructed women tobacco workers, especially those at the Tobacco Manufactory in the city of Cluj, as non-skilled workers, and examine the forms of labor activism in
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Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Görkem Akgöz
The simultaneous processes of secular state-building and state-led industrialisation resulted in a new ideology of women's labor in Turkey in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. As the country moved away from protectionist, state-led industrialisation in the post-war period, female industrial labor received increasing and contradictory attention from policy makers, employers, the new trade union
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The “Shop Girl” and White Nationalism: White Working-class Women and Femininity in Johannesburg Department Stores, 1930s–1970s International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Bridget Kenny
Based on media stories and union campaigns, this paper tracks the discourses from the 1930s to the 1970s around the ‘shop girl’ in Johannesburg. It argues that the shop girl was a figure of white femininity that complicates the now extensive literature on white women in South Africa through its reproduction of the enduring tension of class difference. Through archival research and interviews, the paper
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Laboring Femininities: Skill, Body, and Class-making Among Beauty Workers in India International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Supurna Banerjee
Tea plantation workers in India have historically been a part of the feminized workforce, constituting somewhat exceptionally formal labor in a country with high informalization of women's employment. In the past decade, however, a combined fallout of neo-liberalization and globalization contextualized within the local history of varying phases of incorporation, accumulation/dispossession and shifting
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“Successful sit-ins seem a particularly Scottish phenomenon”: Gender, Memory and Deindustrialization International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Andy Clark
Memory has become increasingly important in the study of deindustrialization over the last decade. The ways in which those who witnessed drastic socio-economic change reflect on their experiences decades later are crucial in understanding the ramifications. In this paper, I am concerned with the relationships between individual and popular/public memory for women manufacturing workers who participated
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White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982 – CORRIGENDUM International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Eyal Weinberg
This article explores the labor struggles of doctors in late 1970s and early 1980s Brazil, the final years of the nation's dictatorship. Health workers’ protests for better salaries and working conditions were extensive and reflected a dramatic change in the way medical practitioners in Brazil perceived their professional and political identities. Fusing together histories of medicine and labor, the
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White Coats with Blue Collars: Doctors’ Labor Protests and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil, 1978–1982 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Eyal Weinberg
Studies exploring health and medicine in military Brazil (1964–1985) frequently focus on the struggles of public health activists to advance substantial healthcare reforms during the country's gradual transition to democracy. In the 1960s, the Brazilian dictatorship installed a market-oriented system that outsourced healthcare to private providers, mostly servicing urban and employed benefactors. Without
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A British Labor Settlement Experiment and the Socioeconomic Experience of the Chuah Tamil Settlement in British Malaya International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Thivya Ranie, Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
We explore the socioeconomic experience of a group of south Indian Tamil laborers and their families who established the Chuah Tamil agricultural settlement in British Malaya during the Great Depression. These were laborers who, though unemployed, refused to be repatriated to south India. Progressing from subsistence farming to small-scale agricultural production, their settlement evolved into an organized
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Controlling Bazaar, Fighting Precarity, and Producing the Nation International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Diana T. Kudaibergen
This article focuses on production cycles of traditional embroidery making (yaka) in Turkmenistan. In Turkmenistan, yaka is a key element in the national dress for women's everyday wear and since the process of the embroidery making is often handmade, the distribution of yaka and the networks of producing and dealing this essential apparel offer a rich ethnographic context. The article focuses on the
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Tunis in the Global Radical Web: Diasporas, Transnational Anarchism, and Labor Movements (1887–1912) International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Gabriele Montalbano
The paper focuses on the Italian-speaking anarchists of the end of the nineteenth century and their involvement and legacy in trade union movements and strikes in Tunis during the first decade of the twentieth century. A perspective privileging the internationalist and trade-unionist activities, and their impact on that specific colonial context, avoids the dangers of a rigid ethnoscape and methodological
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: How Kazakhstan's Civil Society Navigates Precarity International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Colleen Wood
What forms of precarity do civil society actors experience in Central Asia? What are the sources of these precarities? In this article, I synthesize literature from political science and development studies to identify five top-down mechanisms of precaritization for civil society: (extra)legal restrictions on operations, financing activities, flows of funding from the Global North, professionalization
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Hiring, Firing, Atomizing; Manpower Agencies and Precarious Labor in Kazakhstan's Oil Sector International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Paolo Sorbello
This paper analyses the influence that manpower agencies have on hiring practices and employment in Kazakhstan's oil sector. While influenced by the literature on transition from planned to market economy, this article's main argument is rooted in the understanding that labor precarization is produced through transnational capitalist practices. The influx of foreign capital through the investments
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Digital Platform Employment in Kazakhstan: Can New Technologies Solve Old Problems in the Labor Market? International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Sabina Insebayeva, Serik Beyssembayev
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in the “sharing,” “gig,” or “on-demand” economy, which has been changing the relationships between customers, workers, and companies. While literature on the gig economy in the Western context abounds, few studies have focused on “digitalized” labor relations in the Central Asian context. Drawing on qualitative field research in Kazakhstan in 2016
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In Search of Shelter: Precarity, Protest, and Pronatalism among Laboring Women in Kazakhstan International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Laura Tourtellotte
In 2019, near Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, five children perished in a house fire while their parents were away at night shift jobs. This widely-reported tragedy brought to light conflicting imperatives and highlighted the precarity of gendered productive and reproductive labor across Kazakhstan. This highly-publicized incident ignited a conflagration of protests by “mothers with many children” (mnogodetnye
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Optimize! Oil, Labor, and Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Kazakhstan International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Maurizio Totaro
Following the 2014–2015 oil price crisis, service companies in Kazakhstan went through a process of industrial restructuring centered on workforce reduction and a concomitant increase of labor outsourcing. Taking the restructuring – or “optimization” – of state-owned service companies in the region of Mangystau as a starting point, this paper illustrates the heterogenous precarization effects and forms
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Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Franco Galdini, Maurizio Totaro, Laura Tourtellotte
The end of the Soviet Union marked a turning point in the radical reconfiguration of labor relations in the post-Soviet world, including in Central Asia. The effects of this “unmaking” of Soviet working life—to paraphrase Humphrey1—were articulated in new capital-labor relations that led to a heightened sense of financial and existential insecurity across large sections of Central Asian societies.
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Putting a Human Face on It: Gender and Photographic Meaning in a Canadian Women's Coal Mine Campaign International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Jean Spence, Carol Stephenson
In January 1999, the Canadian government announced their withdrawal from the Cape Breton mining industry with a settlement package for redundant miners, which was considered inadequate by miners and their families. In response, a group of women organized a community-based campaign, United Families (UF), led by two women who traveled to Ottawa to meet national politicians presenting themselves explicitly
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Against “Normalcy”: A Collective Testimony of Student Workers Organizing During the Pandemic International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Gabriel Antonio Solis, Tania L. Balderas, Iuri Bauler Pereira, Samantha R. Cooney, Cynthia Yuan Gao, David Helps, Ramona R. Malczynski, Emma B. Mincks, Isobel Plowright, Joseph A. Ukockis, Lauren Whitmer
In the Spring of 2020, the onset of the global pandemic intensified existing inequalities, but also accelerated organizing within some of the most precarious economic sectors. The neoliberal university was no exception to this general trend, and from 2020 until 2022, student workers organized for union contracts, just pandemic responses, independent arbitration for harassment and improved conditions
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From Neoliberal Dreams to Precarity: Micro-Entrepreneurs and Family Debt in Kyrgyzstan International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Elmira Satybaldieva, Balihar Sanghera
This article argues that precarity partly arises from the growth of household debt in the age of rentier capitalism. It examines the mechanisms of neoliberal finance and its debt-based economic growth model in shaping precarious work and life in Kyrgyzstan. The unequal social relationship between lenders and borrowers generates considerable economic dispossession, appropriation, precarity, and harm
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Racialized Obsolescence: Multinational Corporations, Labor Conflict, and the Closure of the Imperial Typewriter Company in Britain, 1974–1975 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Matt Myers
This article will explore one of the most significant strikes by migrant workers in Britain during the 1970s and the subsequent company closure the year after their victory. In May 1974, a predominantly South Asian workforce at the Imperial Typewriter Company in Leicester went on strike over unequal bonus payments and discrimination in promotion. The shop stewards committee and Transport & General
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Mechanical Harvesting, Globalization, and the Fate of Citrus Farmworkers in Florida and São Paulo, 1965–1985 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Terrell James Orr
This paper explores an obsolescence of labor that did not take place. In the 1960s, Florida's citrus growers appeared poised to accompany farmers across the South in pursuing a strategy of agricultural modernization that would mechanize their harvesting labor, rendering obsolete the thirty thousand Black and white farmworkers who harvested the orange crop. Their efforts were coordinated by the Florida
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The (In)conceivability of Real “Workers’ Control” Under Capitalism International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Saeed Rahnema
“History teaches, but has no pupils”
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Empire in the Cottage: Welfare Capitalism and Workers’ Housing Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1880–1914 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Zdeněk Nebřenský, Svatopluk Herc
This study focuses on welfare capitalism and workers’ housing policy in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. It deals with the concessions for buildings containing healthy and affordable workers’ flats. The study argues that the existing research on welfare capitalism concentrated mostly on the entrepreneurs and industrialists as key actors in the building of workers’ flats. As the concessions
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“Every time, they took more from us”: Privatization and Telecommunications Workers in Rural Argentina, 1969–2000 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Edward Brudney
This article analyzes the lasting effects of privatization on public-sector telecommunications workers in Argentina's rural interior. I draw on over fifty hours of oral histories carried out from 2015 to 2017 with former ENTel and Telefónica workers in General Pico, in the interior province of La Pampa, Argentina. This unique source base reveals how the material objects themselves acquired symbolic
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Never Obsolete: Private Household Workers and the Transaction of Domestic Work International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Eileen Boris
Faced with the most up to date washing machine, the undocumented Rosa, newly arrived from Guatemala to Los Angeles, does what many resourceful Mayan women would: She handwashes clothes and lays them on the lawn to dry.1 Played for comic relief in the 1983 movie El Norte, this confrontation of the domestic worker with the machine represents how, presumably in the face of dirty wars in Latin America
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The Myth of Black Obsolescence International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Jason Resnikoff
A few years ago, the global consulting firm McKinsey and Company began issuing a series of increasingly urgent reports concerning “automation” and the future of work. Defining automation broadly as artificial intelligence and “other digital technologies,” the company promised in its reports that it could advise companies how they might prepare. Amidst this flurry of publication, McKinsey produced several
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Evolving or Disappearing? Italian Trade Unions in the 2010s International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Emilio Caja
“The worker has his own personality, his own self-respect, his own ideas, his own political opinion, his own religious beliefs, and he wants these rights to be respected by everyone, especially by the employer,” said the first leader of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Giuseppe Di Vittorio in 1952. Yet between this statement in the 1950s and today many things have changed: not
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The Troubled Present and Uncertain Future of Academic Labor International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Mary Nolan
This review article surveys recent studies of the state of and challenges to academic labor in the ongoing regime of academic capitalism, corporate managerialism, and neoliberalism in colleges and universities in the United States, Europe, and select other countries around the world. Some works analyze changing funding models, accountability mechanisms, and forms of administrative power, while others
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State Regulation and Class Struggle in the Beedi Industry of Post-Colonial Malabar, 1947–1970 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Suramya Thekke Kalathil
In post-independence India, as in many developing post-colonial nations, the capitalist class was dependent on the state to discipline the laborforce, and the rapid uptake of capitalist production methods prompted the new government to intervene aggressively in industrial labor relations. The main goal of postcolonial labor policy was to maintain peaceful labor relations at any cost in order to foster
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Resistance and Resilience: The Nothing Factory and the Workers’ Self-Management of Fateleva International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Sérgio Dias Branco
This article is about the resistance and resilience of workers when confronted with the likelihood of losing their jobs and seeing the factory where they worked close down. It discusses this topic by concentrating on the particular and singular case of workers’ self-management of Fateleva – Indústria de Elevadores, a firm that specialized in the production and maintenance of elevators, located in the
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Dayaks in a Ledger: A Bornean Labor History and an Oil Town's Indigenous Workers International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Sridevi Menon
This article delineates a hitherto eclipsed labor history of the Northwest Borneo oilfields. In 2018, Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) in an unprecedented move, released to Brunei's national archive two labor registers of the British Malayan Petroleum Company (BMPC-renamed BSP in 1958), with entries dating between the 1940s and 1950s. These registers provided a rare glimpse of the workers who were recruited
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Rethinking Political Agency in the Russian Revolution: A View from the Russian Empire's Borderlands International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Inna Shtakser
The four books under review challenge the revolutionary leadership-centered view of the Russian Revolution from various perspectives. Specifically, they highlight the influence on revolutionary politics of seemingly peripheral groups such as workers and Jewish revolutionary activists. Each of the authors claims that the agendas of these groups were considerably more important than the agendas of the
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Domesticating Racial Capitalism: Freedwomen in U.S. Industrial Sewing Schools, 1862–1872—An Opening Foray International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Shennette Garrett-Scott
By early 1863, Harriet Jacobs had long mastered reading people. Even before she could extend a hand to the stone-faced Julia Wilbur, she caught a flash of resentment in Wilbur's eyes. Jacobs decided against a handshake. “Miss Wilbur, I am Harriet Jacobs. Do you remember me?” she asked. Wilbur did remember Jacobs. In fact, Wilbur had not taken her eyes off of the immaculately but modestly dressed African
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Black Women's Domestic Labor at Angola (Louisiana State Penitentiary) during Jim Crow International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Nathalie Rech
On September 19, 1922, Beulah M., a thirty-year-old cook, saved a “small child from a vicious cow on Angola.” This event occurred only a few months after her admission to the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP), where she was serving a life sentence for alleged murder. The infant was one of the many of the white prison staff's children raised on the penitentiary plantation nestled in a large meander
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The Labor of Care in Carceral Spaces: The Work of Resistance in the New York City Jails International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Ariel Ludwig
The carceral history of Rikers Island, which now houses nine of the New York City jails, begins with garbage and forced labor. The Municipal Farm on Rikers Island, operated by the Department of Public Charities and Correction, opened in 1884 and served as a “prison farm.” Penal farms were common at that time, but what was not common was the simultaneous use of the island as a landfill. Most of the
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“We Were Democracy Mad:” Clerical Workers’ Unionism, Antiracism, and Feminism at the University of California, Berkeley, 1966–1972 International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Jennifer L. Pierce
In April 1968, two Berkeley campus unions—the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1695 representing clerical, technical, and professional workers, and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Local 1570 representing graduate students—held a work-stoppage and a teach-in on “campus racism” to honor the memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who had been
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On the Auction Block: The Garment Industry and the Deindustrialization of New York City International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Andy Battle
Several important studies of New York City's fiscal crisis of the 1970s identify the city's deindustrialization as a key component. The flight of manufacturers from New York fostered a racialized unemployment crisis while eroding the city's tax base, undermining its ability to meet increasing demands for social services, creating incentives for policymakers to focus on real estate development as the
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The Origins of the Swedish Wage Bargaining Model International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Erik Bengtsson
This paper revisits the development of the canonical Swedish wage bargaining model, from the 1930s to the 1950s. The question at the core of the debate is: how did Sweden achieve “good” wage bargaining institutions -- good, in the sense of facilitating investment, employment, and controlled inflation? The conventional account focuses on the actions of employers and trade unions in export industry,
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Intergenerational Learning and Place-making in a Deindustrialized Locality: “Tracks of the Past” in Lanarkshire, Scotland International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Ewan Gibbs, Susan Henderson, Victoria Bianchi
This paper contributes to scholarship on the long experience of deindustrialization. It emphasizes contemporary place-making in navigating the much-changed socioeconomic landscapes that the closure of mills, mines, shipyards and factories have left behind. The ‘half-life of deindustrialization' suggests these experiences have been received through understandings of labour and community with origins
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War as Work: Labor and Soldiering in History International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Samuel Fury Childs Daly
In the decade since International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) published its special issue on “Labor and the Military,” treating military service as a problem of labor has grown from a provocation into a major debate. By surveying five recent books on soldiering as a form of labor, this essay poses a set of questions about warfare and work. Is military service best understood as a form of
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Gender, Ethnicity, and Circulation of Children: Domestic Service in the City of Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Cecilia L. Allemandi
This article analyzes the characteristics of domestic service in the city of Buenos Aires at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, showing the importance it had in a porteño society undergoing profound societal transformation. It reconstructs the changes in the sociodemographic profile of the sector and investigates the living and working conditions therein.
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Space and Materiality in Recent Studies of Labor and Class in the Middle East and Islamic World International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Zachary Davis Cuyler, Gabriel Young
This review article proposes new directions for the field of labor studies in the Middle East and Islamic world. It does so by examining a diverse array of recent works that are not framed as studies of labor and class per se, but that illustrate what this field might look like through their respective concerns with space and materiality. Taking such concerns together unites these otherwise disparate
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Trajectories of Resistance and Shifting Forms of Workers’ Activism in Iran International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 M. Stella Morgana
This article navigates ruptures and transformations in the processes of resistance performed by Iranian workers between two key events of the history of contemporary Iran: the 1979 Revolution and the 2009 Green Movement. It explores how labor activism emerged in the Islamic Republic, and illustrates how it managed to survive. Drawing from the concepts of resistance, collective awareness and counter-conduct
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From Guild Artisans to Entrepreneurs: The Long Path of Italian Marble Mosaic and Terrazzo Craftsmen (16th c. Venice – 20th c. New York City) International Labor and Working-Class History (IF 0.563) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Javier P. Grossutti
Marble mosaic and terrazzo were a very common type of stone paving in Venice, Italy, especially between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout the period, migrant craftsmen from the nearby Alpine foothills area of Friuli (in northeastern Italy) virtually monopolized the Venetian marble mosaic and terrazzo trade. Thus, on February 9, 1583, the Venetian Council of Ten granted maestro (master)