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

労働と失業　1834～1911年　全4巻
Levine-Clark, Marjorie (ed.), Work and Unemployment, 1834-1911. 4 vols. 1741 pp. 2022:6 (Routledge, UK) <666-801>
ISBN 978-0-367-33510-6 hard ¥128,205.- (税込) GB￡ 450.00 *

This four-volume collection explores the idea that, for Victorians and Edwardians, the meanings attached to work and the meanings attached to being without work were always dependent upon each other, knotted together by the imperative for a man to desire employment and be willing to work. Mechanization and the decline of old trades, the creation of single-industry cities and towns, the migration of agricultural labourers from the countryside to these cities and to London, the intensification of the sweated industries, and the displacement of the labour of adult men by the labour of women and adolescent boys all contributed to urgent conversations about the relationships between work and unemployment and are examined through primary sources. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of British History.

Revilla Orias, Paola / Cruz Terra, Paulo et al. (eds.), Worlds of Labour in Latin America. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective 13) 280 S. 2022:2 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-669>
ISBN 978-3-11-075920-4 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95 *

This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The chapters weave together different periods of Latin American colonial & republican history from the viceroyalty of New Spain (which is the Mexico of today), Peru, the Audiencia de Charcas (now Bolivia), Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

Malice, Teresa, Transnational Imaginations of Socialism: Town Twinning and Local Government in "Red" Italy and the GDR. (Rethinking the Cold War 6) 350 S. 2023 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-3166>
ISBN 978-3-11-066726-4 hard ¥27,058.- (税込) EUR 114.95 *

Town twinning indicates the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify detente “from below”. However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bore political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian, communist-guided towns located in the Western bloc, and their twin counterparts in the GDR ? strictly pro-Soviet country of the East. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the policies implemented by “red” municipalities, in managing local economies and social policies, but also in keeping the activists’ transnational microsociability alive. In times of increasing ideological divergences between Eastern and Western communists, such a flourishing communication can appear as partially surprising. The book, though, reveals what still linked the two worlds together, the “bright side of socialism”: in this case, a shared imagination of the town based on a socialist horizon ? services for workers, equal possibilities, but also a common symbolism.

Nillson, Malin / Mazumdar, I. / Neunsinger, S. (eds.), Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021). (Studies in Global Social History 45) 368 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-3168>
ISBN 978-90-04-49944-7 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) EUR 128.00

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 addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal histories of regulations for these workers, their modes of organization and resistance, as well as providing new insights on contemporary home-based work in both traditional and developing sectors. Contributors are: Jane Barrett, Janine Berg, Eloisa Betti, Chris Bonner, Eileen Boris, Patricia Conoman Carrilo, Janhavi Dave, Saniye Dedeoglu, Laura K Ekholm, Jenna Harvey, Frida Hallander, K. Kalpana, Srabani Maitra, Indrani Mazumdar, Gabriela Mitidieri, Silke Neunsinger, Malin Nilsson, Narumol Nirathron, Asa Norman, Leda Papastefanaki, Archana Prasad, Maria Tamboukou, Nina Trige Andersen, and Marlese von Broembsen.

Richter, Jessica, Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskraefte: Auseinandersetzungen um den haeuslichen Dienst in Oesterreich (1880-1938). X, 550 S. 2024 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-3171>
ISBN 978-3-11-063336-8 hard ¥21,173.- (税込) EUR 89.95 *

Rockman, Seth, Der alte und der neue Materialilsms in der Geschichte der Sklaverei. (Re:work Lectures 5) 50 S. 2022 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-3172>
ISBN 978-3-11-074896-3 paper ¥9,403.- (税込) EUR 39.95 *

Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike," the language of Labor history has informed scholarly understandings of slavery. While the analogy of the plantation to the factory has its obvious limitations, historians have understood slaves and slaveholders as engaged in recognizable struggles over the speed of work, the ownership of time and expertise, and the informal rights and privileges that governed the labor process. However, an older materialist history rooted in marxist categories has not always succeeded in capturing the dynamics of racial dominance and human commodification at the heart of the American slave system. A "new history of capitalism" has offered one remedy, namely to embed slavery firmly within a capitalist mode of production whose investment in "free" labor was always more rhetorical than real. A different response may now be emerging through what scholars call "the new materialism"?an approach organized around human/non-human entanglements and drawing on recent theoretical work on things, networks, and assemblages. This talk considers the implications of this "new materialism" for the history of slavery, and by extension, for the field of labor history more generally.

Money, Duncan, White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own. (Studies in Global Social History / Studies in the Social History of the Global South 44/1) 276 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-2222>
ISBN 978-90-04-46733-0 hard ¥28,954.- (税込) EUR 123.00 *

Life and work on the Zambian Copperbelt - a concentrated industrialised mining region along the border with DR Congo - has been a perennial subject for Africanist historians. In this book, Duncan Money for the first time focusses on the white mineworkers who monopolised skilled jobs on the mines from the 1920s to the 1960s and became one of the most affluent groups of workers on the planet. Money argues that this group was a highly mobile global workforce which constituted, and saw itself as, a racialised working class. For much of the twentieth century, this white working class moved between mining and industrial centres across and beyond the British Empire and their actions and forms of organisation were strongly influenced by their international connections and by their mobility. These transnational connections, and the white working-class militancy they produced, played a crucial role in shaping social categories of race and class on the Copperbelt and determining the evolution of a region which quickly became one of the world's largest sources of copper. See inside the book.

Correa, Larissa Rosa, Anti-Communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985). Tr. by H. Sabrina G. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective 12) 270 S. 2022 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-2254>
ISBN 978-3-11-073774-5 hard ¥23,527.- (税込) EUR 99.95 *

Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in exchange programs with the United States to learn about the American way of life. In Brazil, during the international context of the Cold War, when Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship ruled by generals who alternated in power, hundreds of union members were sent to the United States to take union education courses. Did they come back "Americanized" and able to introduce American trade unionism in Brazil? That is the question this book seeks to answer. It is a subject that is as yet little explored in the history of Latin American labor and international relations: the influence of foreign union organizations on national union politics and movements. Despite the US's investment in advertising, courses, films and trips offered to Brazilian union members, most of them were not convinced by the American ideas on how to organize an "authentic" union movement - or, at least, not committed to applying what they learned in the States.

Pimlott, H. F., Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-90. (Historical Materialism Book Series 248) 514 pp. 2021:10 (Brill, NE) <666-210>
ISBN 978-90-04-23189-4 hard ¥37,664.- (税込) EUR 160.00 *

Inspired by Raymond Williams' cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott explores the connections between political practice and cultural form through Marxism Today's transformation from a Communist Party theoretical journal into a 'glossy' left magazine. Marxism Today's successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style. Wars of Position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.