Die Europäisierungsforschung widmet sich der Erforschung der Rückwirkungen der europäischen Integration auf die EU-Mitgliedstaaten. Trotz der Bedeutung von Kapital und Arbeit und ihren Organisationen für die politischen Ökonomien der EU-Mitgliedstaaten hat die Europäisierungslite-ratur den...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...

Much has been written about 19th century African American and white statures and body mass index values. However, little is known about their physical activity and calories required to sustain height and weight. This paper considers two alternative measures for biological conditions that address...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...

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...

"In this book, Duncan Money convincingly argues that the actions, organisations and identities of the White mineworkers who came to Zambia's Copperbelt from the 1920s onwards were shaped by their international connections, experiences and mobility. Drawing on research from archives on four...

"Counter-revolution has long been a tool of propagandists to redirect populist movements from achieving actual liberation for themselves. But what happens when counter-revolutionaries begin to believe their own claims of genuine revolution? What leads to such a phenomenon? And how big a role...

What Was Lost in Germany Might, in Texas, Be Won -- Inheritors of the Revolution -- Populist Revolt -- The Battle for Socialism in Texas, 1900-1911 -- Tierra y Libertad -- From the Cooperative Commonwealth to the Invisible Empire -- Conclusion: Descent into New Deal Liberalism

"Farewell to Work? presents the large process of capital's productive restructuring, triggered in the 1970s. A process with tendencies to both intellectualize labour power and increase the levels of working class' precariousness, on a global scale. Its main hypothesis is that instead of work's...

"This groundbreaking book explores China's Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program, which was extended in the hopes of quieting the protests of millions of laid-off workers. Solinger replays the duet that unfolded between the state and the ranks of the proletariat and documents the progressively...

"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."

"The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx' from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber's early engagement with the standpoint...

Much of what we know about the alignment of voters with parties comes from mass surveys of the electorate in the postwar period or from aggregate electoral data. Using individual elector level panel data from 19th-century United Kingdom poll books, we reassess the development of a party-centred...

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.

Introduction: Defining and defying common (mis)understandings of the working class / Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy -- Social class and sociolects / Irvin Peckham -- Becoming "gente educada" : navigating academia as a working-class, multiply-marginalized student / Christina V. Cedillo --...

"Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the...

The lake, the farmer and the dentist -- Creating a newspaper colony -- The genesis of the alliance -- Closing in on the deal -- The early colonies and the promotional articles -- The later colonies and the display ads -- The economic aftermath -- Hybrids and clones -- William Randolph Hearst --...

"From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery...

"From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred years, as well as how historians of...

Introduction: When workers disappear -- Down in the hole: steelmaking Pittsburgh in the 1950s -- Dirty laundry: labor and love in the working-class home -- "You are only poor if you have no one to turn to": race, geography, and cooperation -- Doctor New Deal: social rights and the making of the...

"Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings....

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...

Die Generation nach den Babyboomern ist die erste nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, die ihre Eltern mehrheitlich nicht wirtschaftlich übertreffen wird. Obwohl die Wirtschaft ein Jahrzehnt lang wuchs, besitzt die Mehrheit in diesem Land kaum Kapital, kein Vermögen. Doch sich Wohlstand aus eigener...

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