Solidarity is probably one of the most undeniable concepts of the social sciences as it is present in every group formation being this a country, a family or a trade union. But globalization has questioned the core of traditional solidarity and has challenged us to find new forms of solidarity...

This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to...

The role of trade unions in contemporary industrial relation system is increasingly deflating as many work organizations (formal and informal) now engage in labour casualization. Labour casualization is the process where workers in an organization are casual, temporary, seasonal, contract or...

How can workers have a voice in the face of declining unionization and rising nontraditional career paths? To demonstrate how a new labor market institution can emerge, I develop a model of fundraising by a workers' organization in which the founder must allocate resources between the provision...

The paper summarizes the rationale and contents of a conference held at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in December 2020, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Statuto dei lavoratori (Charter of Workers' Rights): a reform that represents an important advancement in Italian civic...

This chapter makes the argument that labour agency in the platform economy in Europe has given rise to a plethora of new informal and formal organisations for mutual aid and worker representation. This organisational experimentation is commonly initially based on digital online communities....

We examine the relation between the CEO's childhood socioeconomic class and corporate labor policies. We find that CEOs raised in low socioeconomic class families are less likely to invest in employee friendly firm policies measured by several types of labor and employment litigation, including...

This article argues that more emphasis should be paid to the communicative power of trade unionism because it may constitute a starting point or a privileged standpoint which a trade union may use to counter its weakness regarding its other sources of power. Reviewing the trade union...

Commemorating the Ludlow Massacre : the power of collaborative scholarship and stewardship /Karin Larkin and Fawn-Amber Montoya --Remembering Ludlow /Elizabeth Jameson --Memory and stewardship : collaborative archaeology in remembering Ludlow /Karin Larkin --Melodies and memories : places for...

"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states-Arizona-and offering a nuanced look at the modern-day labor movement and...

"During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists...

Section 1: Incarceration—Convicts, unfree labour and colonial capitalism -- Chapter 1: Unfree labour, Dissent, Convict-transportation and the building of colonial capital -- Chapter 2: Approaches, Sources and Methods -- Chapter 3: Convict Eastern Australia: Labour Bureaucracy or Police State?...

"A collection of essays by various historians attempting to reassess and revive ideals that once powered revolutionary China and have since become mired in the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party."

"Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, Palmer builds on his...

ch. 1Shop Floor Economics --How Are Billionaires Created? --The Separation of Workers from Wealth --Class Struggle --ch. 2Class Struggle Union Ideas --Class Struggle Unionism versus Business Unionism Them and Us --The Working Class Shall Free Itself --The Labor Bureaucracy and Class Struggle...

The increase in the geographical mobility of labour as a result of poverty, unemployment and unstable economic conditions, among other factors, especially among professionals, has been associated with a brain drain in Nigeria. Despite the high level of migration and subsequent remittances from...

Chapter 1 Introduction: Debates on Workers’ consciousness development in China -- Chapter 2 The (Re-) Making of a Docile working class in China -- Chapter 3 Automatic Docility in Market Socialism -- Chapter 4 “Beyond” the Selves and Reflective Docility -- Chapter 5 Conclusion.

A "woman-in-the-sky": female workers on strike in colonial Pyongyang -- Factory women in the socialist imagination: the 1930s -- Coping with women strikers: nation, class, and gender under colonial rule -- Factory women in the postwar settlement -- Women workers in industrializing Korea --...

I Från arbetets horisont ger nio historiker sin syn på arbetslivshistorisk eller arbetarhistorisk forskning. I de personligt hållna bidragen diskuterar de utvecklingen av den egna forskningen, dess inriktning och resultat, mot bakgrund av de inom- och utomvetenskapliga förutsättningar som...

Empleadas Lost and Found -- From Servants to Workers in Chile -- Fighting Exclusion: Domestic Workers and Allies Demand Labor Legislation, 1923-1945 -- Rites and Rights: Catholic Association by and for Domestic Workers, 1947-1964 -- Domestic Workers' Movements in Reform and Revolution, 1967-1973...

Foreword /Peter Georgescu --Introduction: Achieving the Promise of Work /Peter A. Creticos --The Impact of Bias and Structural Inequality on Work.1. Preparing for the Future of Work in Regions and Cities /Jonathan Barr and Karen E. Maguire --Gender and the U.S. Labor Market: Change and...

State Power and the Development of Capitalism -- The Working Class -- Social Democracy and the National Question -- February to October 1917 -- November 1917: Attempts at Reconciliation -- December: The Failure of Reconciliation -- The First Treaty of Brest Litovsk -- Battles for Kyiv -- Kyiv...

"A Mighty Force is the first book dedicated to Dr. Elizabeth O. Hayes's fight for public health on the American home front during World War II, for which she received national attention (and a victory under President Truman's Justice Department) for her protests against unsanitary conditions in...