Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Parfitt, Steven (ed.), Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words. (Routledge Research in Gender and History) 218 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <735-834>
ISBN 978-1-03-254738-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Emma Paterson was a pioneer of trade unionism for women. In her short life, she set up a League dedicated to that cause, edited a newspaper to publicise it and travelled the UK working for it. Her spoken and written work addressed issues still with us today, from the gender pay gap to domestic labour, and those thankfully consigned to history, such as whether women should be able to vote or find clothes appropriate to industrial work.Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words brings together the major works that comprise Emma Paterson's written output, offering a unique insight into the struggles and concerns of women working in the workshops, factories, shops and homes of Britain's Industrial Revolution. This book includes a long biographical chapter from the editor, a preface from Frances O'Grady, first woman general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and then an annotated selection of Emma Paterson's most important works, from her time as a young activist to her last days as an overworked editor and union leader.This book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of Britain, of its women workers, of industrial, labour and publishing history. It addresses broader questions of class and gender, the interconnections that exist between them and the silences that often accompany them.

ストライキ－ローマ帝国における労働者、組合、抵抗
Bond, Sarah E., Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. 272 pp. 2025:3 (Yale U. Pr., US) <735-961>
ISBN 978-0-300-27314-4 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices-and their labor-acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to show that the history of labor conflicts and collective action goes back thousands of years, uncovering a world far more similar to our own than we realize. Workers often turned to their associations for solidarity and shared identity in the ancient world. Some of these groups even negotiated contracts, wages, and work conditions in a manner similar to modern labor unions. As the world begins to consider the value-and indeed the necessity-of unionization to protect workers, this book demonstrates that we can learn valuable lessons from ancient laborers and from attempts by the Roman government to limit their freedom.

Sen, Arup Kumar, Labour-Management Relations in Colonial India: Coal, Jute and Cotton Industries, 1900-1947. (Sampark Studies on South Asian History, Cultures, and Politics 1) 160 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <735-591>
ISBN 978-90-04-72179-1 hard ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This book is a pioneering study of the relationship between management and labour in three key industries, namely, coal, jute and cotton textile, in colonial India from 1900 to 1947. It studies history of labour and enterprise though a Marxian-Gramscian lens. The author builds a narrative of economic history, alongside he pens a social history of working class life. It is a rare blend of economic and social history and an indispensable tract to understand the history of capitalist industrialization and concomitant labour-management relations in colonial India within the broad framework of Marxism.

Poni, Carlo / Gruder, Vivian R. / Leech, P. et al. (eds.), Worlds of Work: Peasants and Artisans, Engineers and Theorists. (Library of Economic History 19) 466 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-274>
ISBN 978-90-04-29434-9 hard ¥37,664.- (税込) EUR 160.00

The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production, and the silk industry. Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry. The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopedie. Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.

国境を超える労働者の移動性－歴史的・現代的視点　第2版
Dowlah, Caf, Cross-Border Labor Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. 2nd ed. 116 pp. 2024:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-315>
ISBN 978-3-031-64256-2 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. With a focus on the economic factors that underpin human mobility across the world, it charts the different forms of migration from African and Amerindian slaveries, to modern global migration and human trafficking. By highlighting the economic and political conditions that drive human mobility and anti-immigrant sentiments, a nuanced and detailed understanding of the drivers of forced and voluntary cross-border mobility are presented. This book presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the patterns and processes that define human mobility. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers working within labour economics and migration studies.

農業とILO　1920～50年代
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s-1950s. 224 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-321>
ISBN 978-0-19-284989-2 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest groups, trade unionists, and farmer representatives, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making. Cultivating Fields of Progress traces the thematic, temporal, and geographical scope of these debates for the first time, from the plight of landless farmworkers in Europe in the early 1920s to the conditions of plantation workers in the 1950s. By using the archives of international organizations, the book considers how and to what ends questions of rural poverty and problematic labour conditions both in Europe and overseas made their way to the world stage, against a backdrop of broader discourses on social progress, decolonizaton, and economic development. Bringing the tools of social history to the study of economic and political history allows for a better understanding of the international development and circulation of ideas and theories of agriculture, as well as broader insights into the nature of power, policy, and knowledge production across a period of global change.

Ghit, Alexandra, Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 230 S. 2025:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-356>
ISBN 978-3-11-113648-6 hard ¥11,757.- (税込) EUR 49.95

Lemmen, Sarah (ed.), Traversing the Political Divide: Cross-border Workers between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe. (Rethinking the Cold War) 300 pp. 2025:9 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1614>
ISBN 978-3-11-133712-8 hard ¥22,350.- (税込) EUR 94.95

W.モリスと政治学の美的構成　第2版
Macdonald, Bradley J., William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics. 2nd ed. 242 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-1616>
ISBN 978-1-66697-604-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00

While William Morris (1834-1896) is generally considered one of the most important cultural and political figures of late Victorian England, there is avid disagreement on the way in which we can understand the interconnections between his aesthetic commitments (as a celebrated poet and decorative artist influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism) and his later revolutionary socialist advocacy. As opposed to dominant interpretations within Morris scholarship, Bradley J. Macdonald argues for the importance of understanding the role a "critical notion of beauty" had in moving Morris toward a theory of socialism that took seriously the way in which desire, pleasure, and "beauty" (as applied to all externals of human life, not just art works) could be regenerated only through radical transformations in socioeconomic life. Consequently , William Morris's development represents an interesting example of cultural politics. Given this genealogy, Macdonald clarifies, Morris's mature political theory incorporated a very important commitment to not just economic justice, but also, among other distinctive applications ; ecological sustainability, making him one of the first eco-socialist theorists within the Western tradition, and also an early proponent of what is today known as "degrowth communism."

イギリス、フランス、イタリアにおける労働者階級　1968～89年
Myers, Matt, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989. (Oxford Historical Monographs) 272 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-1617>
ISBN 978-0-19-894461-4 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its pending obsolescence. Parties and trade unions grew rapidly as a diverse new generation entered the ranks. Why did the left's forward march halt so abruptly? The Halted March of the European Left shows how the left's defeats after the mid-1970s were not the inevitable result of deindustrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised and post-Fordist world that abolished the working class as a great historical actor. Choices that were made during a concentrated but decisive historical moment contributed to the left's lost combats. The British, French, and Italian left managed the shift to a new era by marginalising those groups of workers who had invested it with hopes of social and political transformation. Communist, socialist, and social democratic parties helped disempower the new components of the working class in workplaces, in society, in the political system, and successfully disciplined their traditional working-class supporters. The left encountered a crisis of purpose and identity, a sense of both defeat and lost opportunities, and the dissolution of the idea of a community of fate amongst workers. This book provides a comparative analysis of the left's fragmenting relationship with the working class and a "feel" for the culture of three leading industrial countries during a traumatic transition of late twentieth-century history. It concludes that decisions taken by the left during the 1970s contributed to the tragic inversion of the expected outcome of that hopeful decade.

Tischkewitz, Ursel, "Wie wir uns erganzten": Lebens- und Arbeitsgemeinschaften in Deutshland zwischen Reform und Moderne. 582 S. 2024:7 (Tectum-Vlg., GW) <733-1619>
ISBN 978-3-8288-5160-3 hard ¥29,189.- (税込) EUR 124.00

Wannenwetsch, Stefan, "Es Gibt Noch Arbeiter in Deutschland": Zur Kategorie 'Arbeiter' in der bundesdeutschen 'Arbeitnehmergesellschaft'. (Ordnungssysteme 60) 730 S. 2024:6 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1620>
ISBN 978-3-11-108629-3 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Wobbe, Theresa / Renard, Lea / Braig, M. (Hrsg.), Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit: Sozio-historische Beitraege zur Rekonfiguration von Zwangsarbeit. 320 S. 2024:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1621>
ISBN 978-3-11-133484-4 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95

Lyon, William Blakemore, Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925. (Africa in Global History 9) XI, 322 S. 2024:7 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1145>
ISBN 978-3-11-137465-9 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.

グローバルな視点におけるタバコ　1780～1960年
van Wickeren, Alexander / Stubbs, Jean et al. (eds.), Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780-1960: Trade, Knowledge, and Labour. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 391 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-268>
ISBN 978-3-031-64410-8 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco's 'second globalisation', a concept little employed by historians thus far, but one which encapsulates tobacco's central role in Europe's imperial expansion beyond the Atlantic and the social, political, and cultural transformations of global capitalism taking place during the period. The collection fills a gap in the study of commodities of empire, which has examined tobacco primarily for the early modern Atlantic world, or for single empires during the later period. It invites comparison across borders, encompassing political, economic, and sociocultural history, and, with a particular emphasis on trade, knowledge, and labour, juxtaposes micro-histories with a macro-historical perspective. Together, the studies in the volume testify to the importance of tobacco in new places and among new players, challenging the confines of national and imperial historiographical frameworks. They demonstrate the rising dominance of new powerful forces, including transnational corporations, but also a wide range of actors in conflict and negotiation within territorial and imperial confines. By systematically taking into account the agency in Europe's apparent peripheries and the Global South, they critique a simple assumption of the dominance of the West.

ソ連における家事サービス
Klots, Alissa, Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor. (New Studies in European History) 318 pp. 2024:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-1218>
ISBN 978-1-009-46720-9 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

This innovative study is the first to explore the evolution of domestic service in the Soviet Union, set against the background of changing discourses on women, labour, and socialist living. Even though domestic service conflicted with the Bolsheviks' egalitarian message, the regime embraced paid domestic labor as a temporary solution to the problem of housework. Analyzing sources ranging from court cases to oral interviews, Alissa Klots demonstrates how the regime both facilitated and thwarted domestic workers' efforts to reinvent themselves as equal members of Soviet society. Here, a desire to make maids and nannies equal participants in the building of socialism clashed with a gendered ideology where housework was women's work. This book serves not only as a window into class and gender inequality under socialism, but as a vantage point to examine the power of state initiatives to improve the lives of household workers in the modern world.

北西欧におけるジェンダー、労働、近代性への移行　1720～1880年
Agren, Maria (ed.), Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880. 288 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <731-1241>
ISBN 978-0-19-893429-5 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

It is well-known that gender distinctions structure the modern labour market, but why is this so and how far back in time does the pattern extend? Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 uses a unique method to map and explain how gender rather than marital status came to be important. Gender, Work, and the Transition to Modernity in Northwestern Europe, 1720-1880 investigates how and why the division of work between men and women changed in the transition from early modern to modern society. Based on the verb-oriented method and around 19,000 observations of work activities in historical sources, its focus is on a mid-Swedish local society in the period 1720 to 1880. There were several continuities across this time: both women and men were observed in practically all forms of work, many households (both affluent and destitute) still relied on multiple sources of income, and the marital partnership continued to be important for what women and men did to support themselves. Yet, there was also change: tasks that conferred authority were gradually masculinised, the differences between married and unmarried women with respect to work declined, and while women remained mobile, men's work-related mobility increased. In an even longer time perspective, from 1550 to 1880, gender slowly became more important for what types of work people did. The main reason behind this development was increasing social differentiation and shifts in labour relations. The growing impact of gender was not the result of a trickling down of new middle-class ideals, nor the effect of new preferences, nor a consequence of a separation of home and work. Instead, differences grew because more people were in a position where someone else - an employer - controlled how they used their time.

Bruentrup, Marcel, Zwischen Arbeitseinsatz und Rassenpolitik: Die Kinder osteuropaeischer Zwangsarbeiterinnen und die Praxis der Zwangsabtreibungen im Nationalsozialismus. 523 S. 2024:9 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <730-911>
ISBN 978-3-8353-3140-2 hard ¥10,828.- (税込) EUR 46.00 *

Marcel Bruentrup untersucht die Entstehung der nationalsozialistischen ≫Auslaenderkinder-Pflegestaetten≪ im Kontext von Zwangsarbeit und Rassenpolitik. In den letzten Jahren der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft entstand im Deutschen Reich ein flaechendeckendes Netz improvisierter Betreuungseinrichtungen fuer die Kinder auslaendischer Zwangsarbeiterinnen. In diesen euphemistisch als ≫Auslaenderkinder-Pflegestaetten≪ bezeichneten Heimen verloren zehntausende Kinder aufgrund unzureichender Versorgung, Hygiene und Pflege ihr Leben ? das gewollte Ergebnis einer menschenfeindlichen Politik, die auf die restlose Ausbeutung der Arbeiterinnen und die gewaltsame rassische Homogenisierung des deutschen Volkes abzielte. Parallel dazu sollten erzwungene Abtreibungen an osteuropaeischen Zwangsarbeiterinnen die Geburt ≫rassisch unerwuenschter≪ Kinder von vornherein verhindern. Marcel Bruentrup beleuchtet die Entstehungsgeschichte der ≫Auslaenderkinder-Pflegestaetten≪ sowie der damit zusammenhaengenden Massnahmen und liefert Einblicke in die Lebenswirklichkeiten betroffener Zwangsarbeiterinnen und ihrer Kinder.

Dorssemont, Filip (ed.), On the Artistic Representation of Industrial Disputes in the Shadow of Repression in European Art: From 1870 to 1914 and Beyond. (Law and Visual Jurisprudence) X, 240 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <730-440>
ISBN 978-3-031-63633-2 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

Aiello, Thomas, Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia. 270 pp. 2024:11 (U. Pr. Florida, US) <730-1044>
ISBN 978-0-8130-7918-9 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-8130-8082-6 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked to pay off debts or legal fines. Through the story of a labor camp in Georgia, Thomas Aiello takes a close look at the Deep South's dependence on debt peonage and convict leasing systems during the post-Reconstruction era and draws attention to a form of bound labor that has not been discussed by scholars of racialized incarceration. At the center of this study is the Kinderlou labor camp, which was owned by the prominent white McRee family of Valdosta. In south Georgia and north Florida, debt peonage and felony convict leasing operated separately from an often overlooked third system: misdemeanor convict leasing. This system was largely unregulated by prison officials, leading to abuses of persons with convictions working in the turpentine industry and the kidnapping of many Black residents of the area who had never been charged with crimes. Unlike other work camps, Kinderlou deployed all three systems to bolster its workforce, making it a unique manifestation of the region's exploitative labor operations. Through deep archival research, Aiello uncovers injustices that drove local individuals who were imprisoned to work with federal prosecutors to seek relief and publicize the abuses they saw and experienced. The nexus of racism, work, and incarceration seen at Kinderlou is shown here to have been a form of slavery a half century after slavery's official "end." It also casts a long shadow on today's carceral system. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Logemann, Daniel / Luettgenau, Rikola-Gunnar u. a. (Hrsg.), Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus: Begleitband zur Dauerausstellung. 276 S. 2024:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <730-1047>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5772-3 paper ¥4,708.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Erstmals wird die NS-Zwangsarbeit in ihrer gesamteuropaeischen Dimension als rassistisches Gesellschaftsverbrechen dokumentiert. Die Ausstellung ≫Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus≪ erzaehlt erstmals die gesamte Geschichte der NS-Zwangsarbeit und ihrer Folgen nach 1945. Sie zeigt, dass Zwangsarbeit ein Massenphaenomen war: Mehr als 20 Millionen Menschen mussten waehrend des Zweiten Weltkrieges im besetzten Europa und im Deutschen Reich Zwangsarbeit fuer das nationalsozialistische Deutschland leisten. Die Ausstellung verdeutlicht, wie die Zwangsarbeit von Beginn an Teil der rassistischen Gesellschaftsordnung des NS-Staats wurde: Die propagierte ≫Volksgemeinschaft≪ und die Zwangsarbeit der Ausgeschlossenen ? beides gehoerte zusammen. Der Band dokumentiert die Ausstellung in ihren wesentlichen Zuegen und praesentiert zahlreiche lange unbekannte historische Fotos und Dokumente. Ergaenzende wissenschaftliche Aufsaetze bieten einen vertiefenden Einblick in die Forschung zur Geschichte der NS-Zwangsarbeit wie auch des Weimarer ≫Gauforums≪, in dem das neu eroeffnete Museum Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus seinen Sitz hat. Behandelt werden die Abschnitte: Gewoehnung. Gewalt und Ausgrenzung vor dem Krieg (1933?1939), Radikalisierung. Zwangsarbeit im besetzten Europa (ab 1939), Massenphaenomen. Zwangsarbeit im Deutschen Reich (1942?1945), Befreiung. Aufarbeitung und Folgen der Zwangsarbeit, Beschaedigte Gerechtigkeit Am 8.?Mai 2024 eroeffnet das ≫Museum Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus≪ in Traegerschaft der Stiftung Gedenkstaetten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora im ehemaligen Gauforum in Weimar.

Taber, Mike (ed.), The Founding of the Red Trade Union International: Proceedings and Resolutions of the First Congress, 1921. (Historical Materialism Book Series 334) 744 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <730-1048>
ISBN 978-90-04-71285-0 hard ¥42,842.- (税込) EUR 182.00

The 1921 founding congress in Moscow of the Red International of Labour Unions was a historic event. That gathering set out to create an international revolutionary trade-union organisation embracing millions of workers, and it brought together a wide variety of forces within the world labour movement. Lively and at times acrimonious debates occurred at the congress with syndicalist and other currents over the purpose and tasks of trade unions, the nature of class-struggle unionism, and union strategy and tactics. The congress proceedings, published here in a richly annotated edition, are part of a multi-volume series on the Communist International in Lenin's time.

Langford, Thomas, The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community. 358 pp. 2024:9 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <729-393>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6928-7 hard ¥24,794.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out tells the story of its fight for survival.Underground mine closures began in 1950, prompting attempts by unions, leftist parties, municipal governments, and business groups to save the local economy. Efforts to reindustrialize in the mid-1960s brought unregulated growth, unsafe working conditions, and pollution. Starting in 1968, new strip mines were built to produce metallurgical coal for Asia-Pacific steelmakers.Not only is this an interesting regional history, but the consideration of the role of labour unions, local communists, and grassroots environmentalists makes it especially compelling. Today, with technological change in steel manufacturing on the horizon, propelled by the climate crisis, Langford argues that the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley must look toward ecosystem restoration, sustainable economic activities, and the inclusion of First Nations in decision making in order to embrace a future beyond coal.

労働者階級の歴史を研究する
Betts, Oliver / Harrison, Laura et al. (eds.), Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement. 366 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-1574>
ISBN 978-0-367-36134-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-88296-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class - especially discussion of the working class - to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can be researched, written, and represented.The book is structured in three parts: perspective, context, and application. Each offers an introduction to both classic historiography and new ideas and methodologies. With chapters covering a span of the years c.1750-present, the book focuses on three essential questions:What is working-class history and what should it become?What can a focus on working-class history reveal?What are the possibilities of this research in the university classroom, the heritage world, and beyond?Doing Working-Class History will appeal to students and scholars of working-class history, whether relative newcomers to the field or veteran researchers interested in new approaches and material. It will also be of interest to local and family historians, museum and heritage professionals, and general readers.

Clark, Daniel J., Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s. (Working Class in American History) 230 pp. 2024:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1575>
ISBN 978-0-252-04599-8 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08809-4 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s.In their own words, the interviewees frankly discuss personal matters like divorce and poverty alongside recollections of childhood and first jobs, marriage and working women, church and hobbies, and support systems and workplace dangers. Their frequent struggles with unstable jobs and economic insecurity upend notions of the 1950s as a golden age of prosperity while stories of domestic violence and infidelity open a door to intimate aspects of their lives. Taken together, the narratives offer seldom-seen accounts of autoworkers as complex and multidimensional human beings.Compelling and surprising, Listening to Workers foregoes the union-focused strain of labor history to provide ground-level snapshots of a blue-collar world.

Emmons, David M., History's Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930. (Working Class in American History) 366 pp. 2024:10 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-169>
ISBN 978-0-252-04609-4 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08819-3 paper ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman-Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way than did the Protestants who settled and claimed it. These erratics chose backward looking tradition and independence over assimilation and embraced a quintessentially Irish form of subversiveness that arose from their culture, faith, and working-class outlook. David M. Emmons draws on decades of research and thought to plumb the mismatch of values between Protestant Americans hostile to Roman Catholicism and the Catholic Irish strangers among them. Joining ethnicity and faith to social class, Emmons explores the unique form of dissidence that arose when Catholic Irish workers and their sympathizers rejected the beliefs and symbols of American capitalism. A vibrant and original tour de force, History's Erratics explores the ancestral roots of Irish nonconformity and defiance in America.

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle, Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World. 336 pp. 2025:2 (Georgetown U. Pr., US) <729-1375>
ISBN 978-1-64712-527-1 hard ¥19,393.- (税込) US$ 89.95
ISBN 978-1-64712-528-8 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and sharecropping-which were the least regulated and lowest paying occupations for women in the US economy-were the few available ways for Black women and girls to make a living in Jane Crow America. In response to these circumstances, Nannie Helen Burroughs, the pioneering Black American educator and civil rights leader, established the National Training School for Women and Girls (NTS) in Washington, DC. Nannie Helen Burroughs tells the story of the powerful labor movement that resulted from Burroughs's work at the NTS and in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The NTS proved to be a revolutionary labor and educational initiative that redefined household employment as a profession where social justice for the Black community could be achieved. The NTS was integral to a Black clubwomen's labor movement that paved the way for a broader transformation of the economic landscape for Black women and girls. Nannie Helen Burroughs establishes Burroughs as one of America's most influential labor leaders in the twentieth century and reveals the powerful lessons her work and ideas still offer for America's laborers, labor organizers, scholars, and women's rights and racial justice activists today. It also establishes Burroughs and her colleagues in the National Association of Colored Women as the architects of an unprecedented labor movement.

Goddard, Connie, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity. 312 pp. 2024:9 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1472>
ISBN 978-0-252-04604-9 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08814-8 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of industrial education and the transformative idea of "learning to do." Rooting her account in John Dewey's ideas, Goddard moves from early nineteenth century supporters of the union of learning and labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey's Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, North Dakota's Normal and Industrial School, and related programs elsewhere. Goddard analyzes the work of movement figures like abolitionist Theodore Weld, educators Calvin Woodward and Booker T. Washington, social critic W.E.B. Du Bois, Dewey himself, and his influential Chicago colleague Ella Flagg Young. The book contrasts ideas about manual training held by advocate Nicholas Murray Butler with those of opponent William Torrey Harris and considers overlooked connections between industrial education and the Arts and Crafts Movement. An absorbing merger of history and storytelling, Learning for Work looks at the people who shaped industrial education while offering a provocative vision of realizing its potential today.

Juravich, Nick, Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education. (Working Class in American History) 344 pp. 2024:12 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1474>
ISBN 978-0-252-04615-5 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08823-0 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status. Understanding paras as key players in Black and Latino struggles for jobs and freedom, Nick Juravich details how the first generation of paras in New York City transformed work in public schools and the relationships between schools and the communities they served. Paraprofessional programs created hundreds of thousands of jobs in working-class Black and Latino neighborhoods. These programs became an important pipeline for the training of Black and Latino teachers in the1970s and early 1980s while paras' organizing helped drive the expansion and integration of public sector unions. An engaging portrait of an invisible profession, Para Power examines the lives and practices of the first generation of paraprofessional educators against the backdrop of struggles for justice, equality, and self-determination.

Teelucksingh, Jerome, Emergence of the Caribbean Empire: Politics and Labour in Trinidad and Tobago, 1918-1976. 266 pp. 2024:6 (P. Lang, SZ) <729-1092>
ISBN 978-1-80374-372-1 paper ¥15,481.- (税込) SFR 62.00

≪This book by Jerome Teelucksingh showcases his excellent craftsmanship as a social historian. The subject of the study is the involvement of the Labour Movement of Trinidad and Tobago in party politics during most of the 20th century. The familiar theme of labour movement-political party collaboration is in the tradition of the many fascinating studies on the links between the British Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party of Great Britain. An admirable feature of the book is the extensive use the author makes of newspaper sources of the period.≫ (Dr. Roy Thomas, former Director of the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies, Trinidad and Tobago) ≪Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh’s well-researched book is a very serious attempt to place on record the origins and development of our political and electoral history prior to the granting of adult franchise in 1946 and after World War Two. This book provides extremely valuable information to all our citizens who are interested in the journey from colonialism to Republicanism.≫ (Ferdie Ferreira, former member of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union, retired Deputy General Manager of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago) This book is an analysis of the involvement and impact of Trinidad and Tobago’s first major labour organisation, the Trinidad Workingmen’s Association (TWA), and early trade unions in politics. Furthermore, the author focuses on the role of unions in the evolution of working class consciousness from its rudimentary stages to the subsequent rise of organized trade unionism of the post-1937 era. Consideration is given to the seminal role of the early trade unions as mobiliser and organiser of the working class both for participation in electoral politics, and as a catalyst for ethnic cohesion in the post-World War One era to 1976. One of the major conclusions in the study is that the early working class organizations and emergence of ideologically strong trade unionism and ad hoc groups as the electioneering campaign committees were the precursors of the well-organized political machinery of the post-World War Two era. The author provides evidence that the comprehensive organisational skills of Labour in organizing meetings, selecting candidates, campaigning for votes and debating issues on the electoral platform were determining factors which resulted in creditable performances in limited electoral victories in elections during 1925 to 1976.

Barnes, Kenneth C., Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921-1923. 304 pp. 2024:12 (U. Arkansas Pr., US) <728-1617>
ISBN 978-1-68226-261-0 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95
ISBN 978-1-68226-262-7 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95

On January 15, 1923, a crowd of more than a thousand angry men assembled in Harrison, Arkansas, near the headquarters of the M&NA Railroad, which ran through the heart of the Ozark Mountains. The mob was prepared to use any measure necessary to end the strike of railroad employees that had dragged on for nearly two years, endangering livelihoods and businesses in an area with few other means of transportation. Supported by local officials, the mob terrorized strikers and sympathizers-many were stripped and beaten, and one man was lynched, hanged from the railroad bridge south of town. Over the next several days, similar riots broke out in other towns along the M&NA line, including Leslie and Heber Springs. This violence effectively brought to a close one of the longest rail strikes in American history-the only one, in fact, ended by a mob uprising. In Mob Rule in the Ozarks, Kenneth C. Barnes documents how the M&NA Railroad strike reflected some of the major economic concerns that preoccupied the United States in the wake of World War I, and created a rupture within communities of the Ozarks that would take years to heal. The conflict also foreshadowed, for both the region and the country, the pendulum's swing back to moneyed interests, away from Progressive Era gains for labor. Poignantly for Barnes, who sees parallels between this historic struggle and present-day political tensions, the strike revealed the fragile line between civil order and mob rule.

Isaacman, Allen F. / Chadya, Joy M. / Isaacman, Barbara S., Elusive Histories: Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca. 1900-1980. (New African Histories) 300 pp. 2025:1 (Ohio U. Pr., US) <728-1090>
ISBN 978-0-8214-2574-9 hard ¥19,404.- (税込) US$ 90.00
ISBN 978-0-8214-2575-6 paper ¥7,966.- (税込) US$ 36.95

At the heart of Elusive Histories is a long-neglected story of the clandestine journeys of Mozambican migrant laborers and their families to Rhodesia. Drawing from oral histories, court records, archives, newspapers, and popular magazines, the authors chronicle Mozambican migration, work experiences, and settlement in Rhodesia. Thousands of men, women, and children traveled long distances, often on foot, to reach Rhodesia. Starting with a trickle of workers seeking to avoid chibharo, a Mozambican agricultural forced-labor system, the number of migrants peaked in the 1950s. In 1958, the Rhodesian government passed legislation to bar new Mozambican migrants from entering large cities, redirecting them toward agriculture and mining. When Black Rhodesian laborers began to complain about losing jobs to Mozambicans, the restrictions became an outright ban to prevent further migrants from entering the country. Contrary to previous assumptions, Mozambican labor in Rhodesia was not contract labor derived from bilateral negotiations between the Mozambican colonial and Rhodesian governments. In fact, many Mozambicans who came to work and live in Rhodesia arrived as illegal migrants. The book also demystifies the widely held notion that all foreign migrant workers in Rhodesia who spoke Nyanja were Nyasalanders. Because Nyanja is widely spoken at the confluence of Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique, many Mozambicans who came to work in Rhodesia were fluent. Despite the national, racial, and cultural differences and the discrimination in job placement, promotion, and housing, Mozambican migrant laborers creatively adapted and made Rhodesia home for the duration of their lives.

Wiegratz, Joerg / Mujere, Joseph / Fontein, Joost (eds.), Narrating Working Lives: Oral Histories of Work in Neoliberal Africa. (ThirdWorlds) 186 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-883>
ISBN 978-1-03-274317-2 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents a re-engagement with oral histories as a way of documenting, understanding, and discussing experiences of work and economic life in Africa under neoliberal capitalism. It draws on seven case studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and South Sudan, from the late 1980s to the present, to offer a critical analysis of neoliberal transformations and realities at the incisive level of peoples' biographies.The last few decades have witnessed unprecedented changes in the working lives of people across the African continent. Oral historical accounts of working lives can offer unique and productive insights into these changes by allowing analyses of neoliberalism that focuses on personal experiences over the longue duree. Yet, there has been a surprising dearth of oral histories of work since the emergence of neoliberalism in the 1980s. Compared to scholarship published more than half a century ago, there has been a decline in the use of oral histories to explore experiences of living and working under capitalism. By grounding analysis in biographical details, histories, and dynamics, the chapters in this book seek better understandings of the wider life contexts, challenges, and circumstances in which people's 'agency' emerges, unfolds, gains traction, and gets (re)shaped; and a better grasp of the multiple, entangled layers and temporalities of life and work in capitalist Africa. This book will be indispensable to students and researchers interested in political economy, development studies, anthropology, sociology, history and African Studies.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics and are accompanied by a new Foreword and Afterword.

Flores, Lori A., Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19. (LatinX Histories) 320 pp. 2025:1 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-241>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7986-0 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Though Latinx foodways are eagerly embraced and consumed by people across the United States, the nation exhibits a much more fraught relationship with Latinx people, including the largely underpaid and immigrant workers who harvest, process, cook, and sell this desirable food. Lori A. Flores traces how our dual appetite for Latinx food and Latinx food labor has evolved from the World War II era to the COVID-19 pandemic, using the US Northeast as an unexpected microcosm of this national history. Spanning the experiences of food workers with roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Central America, Flores's narrative travels from New Jersey to Maine and examines different links in the food chain, from farming to restaurants to seafood processing to the deliverista rights movement. What unites this eclectic material is Flores's contention that as our appetite for Latinx food has grown exponentially, the visibility of Latinx food workers has demonstrably decreased. This precariat is anything but passive, however, and has historically fought-and is still fighting-against low wages and exploitation, medical neglect, criminalization, and deeply ironic food insecurity.

Greene, Julie M., Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. 192 pp. 2025:1 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-242>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7948-8 paper ¥6,025.- (税込) US$ 27.95

When acclaimed labor historian Julie M. Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored a cache of first-person essays written in 1963 by the Afro-Caribbean people, mainly Jamaican and Barbadian, who migrated to the Isthmus of Panama to work as diggers, track shifters, or domestic servants in the Canal Zone. Held at the Library of Congress and stored in Box 25 of the Isthmian Historical Society Collection, they constitute the best primary source in existence on Caribbean workers' experiences during the construction project. Now Greene returns to this fascinating archive, and in this book, shares what it was like to be a migrant laborer on the construction of the Panama Canal. Caribbean workers faced life-threatening illnesses, accidents, racial discrimination, and culture clashes as well as the opportunity to materially improve their lives. Greene offers new details on the strategies of the people who built the canal and examines how colonialism, xenophobia, and racism shaped the process of writing and archiving the testimonies into Box 25.

Grob, Leo, Bevor die Fabriken schliessen: Arbeit und Management bei Alusuisse (1960-1991). (Industrielle Welt 106) 312 S. 2024:9 (Boehlau, GW) <727-313>
ISBN 978-3-412-53102-7 hard ¥10,593.- (税込) EUR 45.00 *

Die industrielle Arbeitswelt veraenderte sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts stark: Unternehmer drohten mit Restrukturierungen und Betriebsschliessungen, Arbeiter:innen sahen sich einer verschaerften Standortkonkurrenz und einem groesseren Leistungsdruck ausgesetzt, sie bangten um ihre Arbeitsplaetze und Loehne, Gewerkschaften gerieten in die Defensive. Leo Grob untersucht diesen Wandel am Beispiel des Schweizer multinationalen Unternehmens Alusuisse. Er analysiert das Denken und Handeln der Topmanager am Schweizer Hauptsitz in Zuerich. Und er folgt der Aluminium-Herstellungskette quer ueber den Globus von Australien ueber Italien bis in die Schweiz. Das Buch beleuchtet die Kraefteverhaeltnisse zwischen Arbeiter:innen und Managern. Es zeigt, wie das Management die Krisen und Arbeitskaempfe der 1970er Jahre als Katalysator nutzte, um neue Formen des Personalmanagements und Anreizsysteme einzufuehren, welche die Betriebe und Arbeitskraefte mehr Marktrisiken aussetzten, in einen ?Ueberlebenskampf“ versetzten und das Wissen und die Subjektivitaet der Arbeiter:innen nutzbar machen wollten.

世界中の性労働の歴史
Phipps, Catherine (ed.), Histories of Sex Work Around the World. (Routledge Research in Gender and History) 272 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <727-1212>
ISBN 978-1-03-247932-3 hard ¥37,037.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

This book offers snapshots of sex work in global history, examining how it has differed in different places around the world at different points in time. Focusing on certain moments in certain places and examinations of historical lives, it offers a diverse approach with a heavy focus on lived experience to see what selling sex was like instead of what it "meant". Therefore, this book aims to argue that selling sex has been different at different times and present the diversity of experience in sex work throughout history, through case studies and comparisons.Aimed for students, scholars, and general readers alike, Histories of Sex Work Around the World provides an introduction to the history of sex work within a global perspective. The case studies cover a wide range of topics and geographical regions - from North America to Mexico City to Vietnam, spanning across 12 different countries and over 400 years of history, before considering the future of sex work in the internet age. Furthermore, this book features chapters with personal accounts from writers with experience selling sex, managing a brothel, or working as a dancer. It also includes a foreword from renowned writer and historian Julia Laite, author of bestselling book The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey.

Streichhahn, Vincent (Hrsg.), Feministische Internationale: Texte zu Geschlecht, Klasse und Emanzipation 1832-1936. 160 S. 2024:9 (Dietz, GW) <727-1224>
ISBN 978-3-320-02421-5 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) EUR 18.00

Die Anthologie ≫Feministische Internationale≪ praesentiert Texte aus dem 19. und fruehen 20. Jahrhundert zu Geschlecht, Klasse und Emanzipation aus ueber zehn Laendern und fast allen Kontinenten. Verfasst haben sie feministische Sozialistinnen und Anarchistinnen, die in der Arbeiterbewegung oder ihrem Umfeld aktiv waren. Die Sammlung erweitert den Blick ueber den eurozentrischen Horizont hinaus, zeigt die Vielfalt sowie die Verbindungen der damaligen Emanzipationsbewegungen und unterstreicht die gemeinsame Geschichte der proletarischen Frauenbewegung und der Arbeiterbewegung, die oft separat betrachtet werden. Das Verhaeltnis war nicht frei von Widerspruechen. Die Aktivistinnen sahen sich auch in den Reihen der Arbeiterparteien mit dem Widerstand von Maennern konfrontiert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Autorinnen setzten sich nicht nur fuer die Emanzipation ein und kritisierten antifeministischen Widerstand, sondern machten auch auf verschiedene Formen intersektionaler Unterdrueckung aufmerksam. Durch die Veroeffentlichung von Primaertexten ? viele davon erstmals in deutscher Uebersetzung ? soll die Geschichte und Tradition der ≫Feministischen Internationale≪ zugaenglich gemacht werden ? nicht zuletzt als Inspirationsquelle fuer aktuelle Diskussionen und Kaempfe um Gleichberechtigung und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Mit Beitraegen von Susan B. Anthony, Maria Cano, Jeanne Deroin und Pauline Roland, Eva Gore-Booth, Gertrude Guillaume-Schack, Emma Ihrer, Jeanne-Victoire Jacob, Yamakawa Kikue, Anna Kuliscioff, Mary Lee, Linda Malnati, Eleanor Marx, Dora B. Montefiore, Adelheid Popp, Begum Rokeya, Henriette Roland Holst, Lucia Sanchez Saornil, Kanno Sugako, Louise Thomson Patterson, Flora Tristan, Victoria Woodhull, Clara Zetkin. Vincent Streichhahn, geb. 1993, ist Politikwissenschaftler und promovierte mit einer Arbeit zur ≫Frauenfrage≪ in der fruehen deutschen Arbeiter- und proletarischen Frauenbewegung.

Andrews, Gregg, Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853-1920. 256 pp. 2024:10 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <727-1383>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8278-9 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853 1920, is the first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical history of the institution in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Using the Old St. Louis Workhouse as a representative example, award-winning historian Gregg Andrews brings to life individual stories of men and women sentenced to this debtors' prison to break rocks in the quarry, sew clothing, scrub cell floors and walls, or toil in its brush factory. Most inmates, too poor to pay requisite fines, came through the city's police courts on charges of vagrancy, drunkenness, disturbing the peace, or violating some other ordinance. The penal system criminalized everything from poverty and unemployment to homelessness and the mere fact of being Black. Workhouses proved overcrowded and inhospitable facilities that housed hardcore felons and young street toughs along with prostitutes, petty thieves, peace disturbers, political dissenters, ""levee rats,"" adulterers, and those who suffered from alcohol and drug addiction. Officials even funneled the elderly, the mentally disabled, and the physically infirm into the workhouse system.The torture of prisoners in the hellish chambers of the St. Louis Workhouse proved far worse than Charles Dickens's portrayals of cruelty in the debtors' prisons of Victorian England. The ordinance that created the St. Louis complex in 1843 banned corporal punishment, but shackles, chains, and the whipping post remained central to the institution's attempts to impose discipline. Officers also banished more recalcitrant inmates to solitary confinement in the ""bull pen,"" where they subsisted on little more than bread and water. Andrews traces efforts by critics to reform the workhouse, a political plum in the game of petty ward patronage played by corrupt and capricious judges, jailers, and guards. The best opportunity for lasting change came during the Progressive Era, but the limited contours of progressivism in St. Louis thwarted reformers' efforts. The defeat of a municipal bond issue in 1920 effectively ended plans to replace the urban industrial workhouse model with a more humane municipal farm system championed by Progressives.

Busch, Andrew E., Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers. (Landmark Presidential Decisions) 180 pp. 2024:7 (U. Pr. Kansas, US) <727-1384>
ISBN 978-0-7006-3690-7 hard ¥15,089.- (税込) US$ 69.99
ISBN 978-0-7006-3691-4 paper ¥5,387.- (税込) US$ 24.99 *

On August 3, 1981, over 12,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association (PATCO) walked off their jobs, striking for higher pay, shorter hours, and increased benefits. Unexpectedly, President Ronald Reagan decided to fire the strikers, prosecute their leaders, and decertify their union. This swift and unwavering decision was a shocking reversal of the sympathy and support Reagan showed PATCO during his campaign ten months earlier, which had earned him the union's endorsement.Andrew Busch, an expert on the Reagan presidency, explores this overlooked decision, showing the many ways that it set the tone for Reagan's two terms in the White House. It was a contested decision both within the administration and in the public sphere, though it ultimately proved popular. Reagan's action demonstrated his commitment to upholding federal labor law, limiting federal spending, and cutting inflation. He also modeled his management style of delegating to subordinates and supporting his guidance with decisive judgment when necessary.More broadly, this decision had long-term significance that far exceeded its immediate importance. The response to the PATCO strike formed a pattern for future decisions and made a strong impression on foreign adversaries. It also contributed to the declining power of unions, marking a shift in labor politics that has continued to this day.Andrew Busch brings a wealth of insight to this concise and accessible book, making it an ideal entry into understanding Ronald Reagan's domestic policy and leadership, and a fine addition to the Landmark Presidential Decisions series.

Dyer, Glenn, The Era Was Lost: The Rise and Fall of New York City's Rank-and-File Rebels. (Justice, Power and Politics) 256 pp. 2024:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <727-1385>
ISBN 978-1-4696-8206-8 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Rank-and-file members of numerous unions caught a ""strike fever"" as they challenged the entrenched power of some of the country's most powerful politicians, employers, and union leaders in a wave contract rejections, wildcat strikes, and electoral campaigns. Workers in unions across New York wanted more than better contracts: they contested control of the work process, racism on the job, and workers' place in America's socioeconomic hierarchy while implicitly and explicitly demanding greater democratic control of their representative organizations and lives. Some initial challenges were effective and succeeded in delivering better contracts and unseating undemocratic leaders. However, those early successes were short-lived. Glenn Dyer traces the way workers were met with employer recalcitrance and union attacks that proved too powerful to organize against. In the face of this resistance, workers retreated into a survivalist attitude of accommodation and resignation, contributing to the decline of social democratic New York and working-class power in the city. Ultimately, as Dyer argues, the failures of the rank-and-file organizing efforts in New York City, which was the biggest center of organized labor in the country, shows how stunted workers' aspirations and numerous defeats not only uprooted the foundations of New York's uniquely social democratic polity but also ushered in a national era of increased working-class subservience that has resonance today.

O'Donnell, Edward T., The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government. (Critical Moments in American History) 230 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <727-1389>
ISBN 978-1-03-248391-7 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-247382-6 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America's railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet between 1800 and 1900 there were nearly 37,000 strikes, and the Pullman Strike reflected the broad dissatisfaction and unrest among American workers. The book consists of an engaging narrative, analysis of existing scholarship, sidebars, and primary source documents which collectively answer why the Pullman Strike is so critical to the American Experience: it exposed the limits of paternalistic capitalism, revealed the extraordinary power of big business, introduced the use of injunctions to stop strikes, and launched the career of the iconic labor leader Eugene Debs. Overall, it reveals what struggles workers encountered when forming unions, the changing role of government regarding the economy, and the threat that unchecked big business posed to democracy.The Pullman Strike is useful for all undergraduate students who study the Gilded Age, industrial relations, and labor, urban, and economic history in the United States.

内戦以前のスペインにおけるコミンテルン
Martin-Asensio, Gustavo, The Comintern in Spain before the Civil War: Red Tide Rising. 256 pp. 2024:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <726-1300>
ISBN 978-1-350-44335-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, and historical memory controversies. A deep dive into the Soviet, British intelligence and other European archives, this new book brings the majority consensus among historians of the Second Republic into question and sheds new light on the scale of Soviet communist activity in Spain before the outbreak of war in July 1936. Providing an in-depth analysis of Comintern (RGASPI) and other European archival documentation, much of which has not been discussed until now, Gustavo Martin Asensio here demonstrates the growing and fundamentally subversive activity of the Comintern within the socialist union and party, the armed forces and cultural influencers which culminated in the spring of 1936.

Fahrenthold, Stacy D., Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class. (Worlding the Middle East) 320 pp. 2024:12 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <725-1339>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3808-2 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4130-3 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced-silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing-moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it. Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation. She writes women workers-the majority of Syrian garment workers-back into US labor history. She also situates the rise of Syrian American industrial elites, who exerted supply chain power to combat labor uprisings, resist unionization, and stake claim to the global textile industry. Critiquing the hegemony of the Syrian peddler in histories of this diaspora, Unmentionables introduces alternative narrators: union activists who led street demonstrations, women garment workers who shut down kimono factories, child laborers who threw snowballs at police, and the diasporic merchant capitalists who contended with all of them.

Wood, Alexander, Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880-1935. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 496 pp. 2025:1 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <725-1340>
ISBN 978-0-226-83696-6 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world's great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million buildings, dozens of bridges and tunnels, hundreds of miles of subway lines, and thousands of miles of streets were erected to meet the needs of an ever-swelling population. This landscape-jagged with skyscrapers, rattling with the sound of mass transit, alive with people-made the city world-famous. Building the Metropolis offers a revelatory look at this era of urban development by asking, "Who built New York, and how?" Focusing on the work of architects, builders, and construction workers, Alexander Wood chronicles the physical process of the city's rapid expansion. New York's towering buildings and busy thoroughfares aren't just stylish or structural marvels, Wood shows, but the direct result of the many colorful personalities who worked in one of the city's largest industries. This development boom drew on the resources of the whole community and required money, political will, creative vision, entrepreneurial drive, skilled workmanship, and hard physical labor. Wood shows this to be an even larger story as well. As cities became nodes in a regional, national, and global economy, the business of construction became an important motor of economic, political, and social development. While they held drastically different views on the course of urban growth, machine politicians, reformers, and radicals alike were all committed to city building on an epic scale. Drawing on resources that include city archives and the records of architecture firms, construction companies, and labor unions, Building the Metropolis tells the story of New York in a way that's epic, lively, and utterly original.

Murphy, Denis, Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry. (Studies in Labour History 20) 240 pp. 2024:7 (Liverpool U. Pr., UK) <724-843>
ISBN 978-1-80207-595-3 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Since the 1950s, film production in Ireland has evolved into a mature industry creating high-profile film, television drama, documentary and animation for both the domestic and international markets. This book traces that evolution through a history of the screen production industries on the island of Ireland. More specifically, the book is concerned with the people who work in these industries - how they have shaped the work they do and the conditions under which that work is carried out. The book therefore highlights the vital contribution of film and television workers to screen policy and labour relations in Ireland, north and south. The book presents a local history that explicates the development of the screen industries in Ireland and their relationship to the global Hollywood production system. While the emphasis is on film and television workers, the book acknowledges the essential producer contribution to building the industry as it exists today. However it also emphasises producer obligations towards the screen workers they employ. The result is a local history of Irish screen production told mainly from a labour perspective, using previously unused records from the trade union archives and other labour history sources.

ドイツの団体の歴史－古代から現代までの労働組合、連盟、会社
Kluge, Arnd (Hrsg.), Deutsche Vereinsgeschichte: Gewerkschaften, Verbaende & Co. von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 442 S. 2024:3 (F. Steiner, GW) <724-298>
ISBN 978-3-515-13686-0 paper ¥17,419.- (税込) EUR 74.00 *

Lichtenstein, Nelson / Sonti, Samir (eds.), Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today. 256 pp. 2025:3 (The New Pr., US) <724-250>
ISBN 978-1-62097-881-8 hard ¥6,465.- (税込) US$ 29.99

The top American writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizingIn 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all non-agricultural workers belonging to a union-and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent magazine, which quickly became the publishing home for the most important progressive voices on American unions.Today, at a time of both resurgent union organizing and socialist politics, the need for this rich tradition of ideas is as pressing as ever.With over twenty-five contributions by some of the nation's most influential progressive voices, Labor's Partisans brings to life a history of labor that is of immediate relevance to our own times. Introduced and edited by leading labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti, this essential volume reveals the powerful currents and debates running through the labor movement, from the 1950s to today.Combining stunning writing, political passion, and deep historical perspective, Labor's Partisans will be a source of ideas and inspiration for anyone concerned with a more just future for working people.

Pouget, Emile, La Confederation generale du travail: recede du discours de Marc Blondel du 23/09/1995 tenu a Limoges pour les 100 ans de la CGT. (Mouvement social et laicite) 99 p. 2024:3 (L'Harmattan, FR) <724-254>
ISBN 978-2-336-44124-5 paper ¥3,060.- (税込) EUR 13.00

イギリスの労働者階級100人の生活　1900～45年
Ball, Rebecca, A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945. 366 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-1002>
ISBN 978-3-031-55083-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was 'an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs'. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two world wars. Despite this, Stanley assumed that his life story would be of little interest to most readers, as he had not achieved great fame or any notable accolades. This book argues that this is exactly why historians should focus on such life stories, as there is much to be gained by focusing on memories of 'ordinary average lives', as they can expand our knowledge of the past, often revealing firsthand experiences that have been excluded from the historical record. This book does not intend to be a general social history of the working class. Rather, it is a work of memory, drawing upon a microhistory methodology to examine how a sample of one hundred working-class autobiographers remembered and wrote about living through years that were punctuated by two worldwide conflicts and a global economic depression.