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

近現代史における感情と労働
Arnold-Forster, Agnes / Moulds, Alison (eds.), Feelings and Work in Modern History: Emotional Labour and Emotions about Labour. (History of Emotions) 288 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-2347>
ISBN 978-1-350-19718-3 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to the 21st century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of 'emotional labour', now associated with the household and 'life admin' work largely undertaken by women and which reflects and perpetuates gender inequalities. Critiquing this term, and the history of how work has made us feel, Feelings and Work in Modern History explores the changing values we have ascribed to our labour, examines the methods deployed by workplaces to manage or 'administrate' our emotions, and traces feelings through 19th, 20th and 21st century Europe, Asia and South America. Exploring the damages wrought to physical and emotional health by certain workplaces and practices, critiquing the pathologisation of some emotional responses to work, and acknowledging the joy and meaning people derive from their labour, this book appraises the notion of 'work-life balance', explores the changing notions of professionalism and critically engages with the history of capitalism and neo-liberalism. In doing so, it interrogates the lasting impact of some of these histories on the current and future emotional landscape of labour.

Christen, Carole / Fayolle, Caroline / Hayat, Samuel (dir.), S'unir, travailler, resister: les associations ouvrieres au XIXe siecle. (Histoire et civilisations) 290 p. 2021:10 (Pr. U. du Septentrion, FR) <667-2348>
ISBN 978-2-7574-3505-2 paper ¥6,120.- (税込) EUR 26.00 *

McKenzie, Rob, El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico. (Wildcat) 288 pp. 2022:2 (Pluto Pr., UK) <667-2349>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4563-5 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-0-7453-4562-8 paper ¥4,270.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "Don't give up. They are hiding something"...' It's 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of a violent confrontation at the Mexican Ford Assembly plant on January 8 reach the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the US: nine employees had been shot by a group of drunken thugs and gangsters, in an act of political repression which changed the course of Mexican and US workers' rights forever. Rob McKenzie was working at the Ford Twin Cities Assembly plant in Minnesota when he heard of the attack. He didn't believe the official story, and began a years-long investigation to uncover the truth. His findings took him further than he expected - all the way to the doors of the CIA. Virtually unknown outside of Mexico, the full story of 'El Golpe', or 'The Coup', is a dark tale of political intrigue that still resonates today.

Sailer, Anna, Workplace relations in Colonial Bengal: The Jute Industry and Indian Labour 1870s-1930s. (Critical Perspectives in South Asian History) 304 pp. 2022:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <667-1636>
ISBN 978-1-350-23353-9 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book connects the history of labour movements with the transformation of workplace relations in South Asia from the late 19th century to the 1930s. Contending that labour conflicts in the Bengal jute industry must be understood against the backdrop of a radical change in the organisation of work in this period, Sailer shows how this led to a rupture in worker's relations in the workplace and beyond. Moving away from polarities such as class/culture or modernity/tradition and reconsidering the context around industrial conflicts in this period, Workplace relations in Colonial Bengal offers a new framework to analyse the changing organisation of work in colonial India, and identifies the implications for worker relations both inside and outside the factory. Focusing on a major colonial era industry, this book opens up new perspectives n the history of workers and colonial capitalism in modern India.