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The current social protection discourse, gig economy within the advent of COVID-19: some emerging legal arguments Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Luyando Martha Katiyatiya, Nombulelelo Lubisi
Gig workers are classified as independent contractors, a designation often accompanied by limited rights – a recurring theme within employment laws across diverse jurisdictions. The advent of the C...
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Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Lucas Poy
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce? Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Kamil Matuszczyk, Sara Bojarczuk
The migration industry consists of actors and organisations (e.g. agents, brokers, agencies, corporations) through which migration is facilitated, organised, and accelerated. Although the migration...
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Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955) Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Grant Mongin
Between 1924 and 1955 factory managers introduced personality tests as a new tool to discriminate amongst large pools of potential employees. The new worker protections granted by New Deal legislat...
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San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Gerardo Cringoli, Andrea Pomella
San Leucio was an interesting experiment for the territorial development of Southern Italy before the Unification of the country. At that time, Southern Italy was a developing region. San Leucio wa...
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Labor history symposium: Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-1914 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Craig Phelan
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Introduction Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Marion Fontaine, Steven High, Lauren Laframboise
Far from simply being a ‘bookend’ of the industrial age, deindustrialization is an integral part of capitalist development and thus has a long history. In the North American context, the early scho...
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A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S. Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Timothy J. Minchin
This article explores the labor upsurge of the early 2020s and places it in an historical context. In the early 2020s, workers across the U.S. protested, organized, and walked out, part of an upsur...
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“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Magdalena Novoa, Daniela Morales Fredes
This paper explores the racialized experiences of industrial closure and economic restructuring of the former Pilpilco coal mine through oral histories and feminist arts-based methods. We argue tha...
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Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Dimitry Anastakis, Steven High
Job security has always been a paramount concern for the trade union movement. This article explores the ways that unions used collective bargaining to gain a measure of job security for their memb...
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“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Gülhan Balsoy
This article will explore the experiences of working women in the late 1920s as expressed by themselves. It will reflect on women’s experiences in work in the early years of the Republic through th...
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Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Chris Wrigley
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jill Harsin
Uber came to Paris late in 2011, bringing with them a widely accepted narrative of their necessary ‘disruption’ of a stagnant taxi industry. They presented themselves as part of the ‘Sharing Econom...
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Class, race, and Power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Michael Biddick
The summer of 1922 was characterized by disturbing acts of violence when a group of over 100 armed White men attacked Black workers brought in as strikebreakers during the Chicago and Northwestern ...
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Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Patrick Cooper-McCann, Andrew Guinn
This paper examines the divergent trajectories of automotive investment and employment in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. Located on opposite shores of the Detroit River, in the United Stat...
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Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Michael Bianchi
Through historical and anthropological inquiry, this paper addresses the issue of memory antagonisms involving cultural landscapes in the context of a former mining region: the Belgian Black Countr...
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Reticence, gender, and deindustrialisation: oral history challenges emerging within deindustrialisation studies and labour history Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shonagh L. Joice
This article presents a reflective review of the challenges of interviewing hard-to-reach and marginalised groups when employing an oral history methodology. Using Belfast, Northern Ireland, as a c...
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From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-1930 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh, Suffian Mansor
Mental illness was a common sickness in the Straits Settlements. The British established mental hospitals in order to treat the patients. The women labourers working under the Straits Settlements w...
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Author’s response to “Labor History Symposium: Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914” Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ralph Darlington
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Sivan Balslev
This article examines child labor in the Iranian carpet industry, from around 1890 to 1930. During this period, child labor was shaped by a combination of local and global factors, including the in...
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Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario) Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Gregory Wilson, Steven High
During the last quarter of the 20th century, worker ownership emerged as a popular option for North American workers trying to save their mills or factories from closing. Most of these efforts even...
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Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Wen Xie
The study calls for greater scholarly engagement with the generational experiences of the socialist working class in China. Through an analysis of collective actions in response to the reform of st...
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No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Md Al-Amin, Md Nazrul Islam
This study focuses on the underlying causes of aspirations failure among young children of Bangladesh’s tea workers and how this aspirations failure hinders their future career plans and entraps th...
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Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914, Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Lewis Mates
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Karen Hunt
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 David Chambers, Raphael Chambers
Published in Labor History (Vol. 65, No. 1, 2024)
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Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Shina Alimi
In the analysis of decolonization process and nationalist struggles for political independence of Africa, labour agitations and the press activism for human rights are common features. But most stu...
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Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–1945 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Timothy J. Minchin
This article examines the struggle to build the United Automobile Workers in the years after the sit-down strike of 1936–37 in Flint, Michigan. The strike, which historian Sidney Fine has called ‘t...
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‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu
The birth of labor law in Argentina is as intricate as it is fascinating. The emergence of a regulatory mosaic in the country occurred in the shadow of extreme institutional instability and ideolog...
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Correction Notice Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
Published in Labor History (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Lara Khattab
Under which conditions can combative labor in the Global South negotiate state and society relations and constrain the encroachment of their respective militaries on politics? This article argues t...
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A history of progressive Doxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Abdul Aziz
This discussion paper is presented to be read in three simultaneous and different modalities. At one level, it is a historiography of British Bengali women’s labour power and hence an exploration o...
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The great standardisation: working hours around the world Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Magnus B. Rasmussen
This paper introduces a novel dataset on working-time regulation for 197 territories between 1789 and 2010 to document how working hours have become globally standardised through public policy. Des...
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Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-1952 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Oded Marck
In the early years following Israel’s establishment, the country’s stone industry was set to advance key Zionist objectives: supplying construction materials to house Jewish immigrants and creating...
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The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Md Abdul Jalil, Apu Gauala
This study aims to investigate the predicament of young widows residing in the tea estates of Bangladesh. The study used qualitative methods to understand how young widows perceive and interpret th...
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Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940) Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Ferruccio Ricciardi
In colonial French Congo, one of the main challenges for labor relations was the need to reconcile contradictory efforts to promote the mobility of native workers while also stabilizing (or immobil...
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Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Adwitiya Mishra, Aasheerwad Dwivedi
This study carries out a comprehensive examination of the evolving landscape of labour laws in India, with a particular focus on the recent labour codes introduced in 2020. Through a historical ana...
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The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Tingting Qian, Jiale Bian, Jianing Chen
The employment of college graduates is related to social stability, and graduates with difficulties are at a disadvantage when seeking jobs, therefore they should be given greater concern. Based on...
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Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-2023 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Marko Valenta, Jo Jakobsen, Margareta Gregurović, Drago Župarić-Iljić
This article explores the recent history of labour migration in post-independence Croatia. The time period under investigation is 1990–2023, which encompasses three decades during which the country...
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Between labour and moral duty: social conflicts, volunteer work and the moral economy of life-boating in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (1850–1914) Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nebiha Guiga
The history of humanitarianism in the nineteenth century, and more specifically of the lifeboat movement, has so far paid limited attention to the role of rank-and-file, working-class volunteers an...
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Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Selin Çağatay
This article explores the relationship between the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (Türk-İş) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) from the 1960s until the 1990s wi...
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‘A first class medium’: the cautious anti-communism of the ICFTU’s International Labour Film Institute, 1953-1972 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Kevin E. Grimm
Between 1953 and 1972 the International Labor Film Institute (ILFI), affiliated with yet organizationally separate from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), spread knowledg...
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Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Robayet Ferdous Syed
The International Labor Organization (ILO) labor standard is crucial for ensuring labor rights, making it imperative for member states to adopt labor policies that align with and comply with the IL...
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Madras Kraals, animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Santhosh Abraham, Susy Varughese
Animals, animal labour and animal capital, were vital in developing colonial capitalism. For labour theories, working animals constituted only as tools or resources and affirmed the property rights...
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Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Marcial Sánchez-Mosquera
This paper focuses on something not previously addressed by the literature, labour inspection in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship. Despite the Franco dictatorship’s fascist-sty...
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Tukhta: labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 John Welsh
Working from the memoir literature of Soviet Gulag survivors, the article explores the curious practice of tukhta as contrived by the toiling zeks of the archipelago. In a labour regime tasked with...
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Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Sanayi Marcelline
In the early 19th century, the British colonial state in Sri Lanka embarked on an experiment in deploying convict labour for salt collecting. ‘Criminals’ from all parts of the island region convict...
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Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im/mobility and the environment Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid, Müge Özbek
The ‘new mobilities paradigm’ formulated in the early 2000s allowed scholars of labor to explore the possibilities of the concept of im/mobility as an interpretive framework for understanding proce...
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Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 William M. Boal
At the turn of the twentieth century, advocates for shorter working hours often claimed that workers were so fatigued by the end of the workday, that shortening daily hours from ten to eight would ...
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Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike, by Leigh Campbell-Hale Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Jiemin Tina Wei
Published in Labor History (Vol. 64, No. 5, 2023)
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‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-1900 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 John Singleton, James Reveley
Did government mines inspectors in late Victorian Britain display overt bias towards employers when assigning blame for fatal underground explosions? Inspectors were closer to managers and coal own...
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Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Debdulal Saha, Chitrasen Bhue, Rajdeep Singha
This article discusses the processes and methods involved in appropriating wages through strict-compliance and non-compliance of different laws, leading to various economic and social rights violat...
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North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-1945 Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Eric B. Dent, Craig Randall
The controversial wildcat strike by Local 683 of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in North American Aviation, Inc. in Inglewood, California, USA in 1941 was contentious in a number of ways – it hinder...
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Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Göran Rydén
Swedish ironmaking took place in mines, forests and rationally structured ironmaking communities (bruk), merging different forms of labour and coercion, wage labour, household labour and corvée lab...
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Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 P Arun, Avdhesh Kumar
Published in Labor History (Vol. 64, No. 5, 2023)
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Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Jackson Battista
This article takes a step in identifying a more accurate economic history of deindustrialization. Following the extension of the timeline of deindustrialization and its divorce from the 1970s, this...
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Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Antoine Roger
Research in Global Labour Studies is mostly based on the work of Karl Polanyi. It aims to demonstrate that a ‘disembedding’ process is leading to the formation of a global ‘labour market’. This ana...
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British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed? Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Ed Blissett
This article questions the hypothesis, put forward by several historians and IR academics, that the 1980s decline in British union membership and strike frequency, was driven by major industrial de...
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“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19th century Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Matilde Flamigni
Based on both archival material from the European colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, and London and documents held at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, this paper analyses co...
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“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire Labor History (IF 0.632) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Philipp Reick
Historians have long studied how statistical offices and parliamentary bodies made use of surveys to explore the lives of workers, and, in so doing, how they produced new social categories and stra...