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

Fraser, Ronnie, British Trade Unions, the Labour Party, and Israel's Histadrut. 320 pp. 2022:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <669-415>
ISBN 978-3-030-86813-0 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish homeland in Palestine, Israel and antisemitism. An in-depth examination of critical events in European and Middle East history reveals the links between British unions and their Israeli union counterpart, the Histadrut (General Federation of Labour), and sets out the circumstances in which the unions went from backing the Labour Party's 1917 war aims declaration, which called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, through to the present day, which sees the unions promoting campaigns for boycotts and sanctions against the State of Israel.

Clement, Jean-Louis, Le grand revirement: histoire culturelle du travail en France (1680-1850). (La boutique de l'histoire) 217 p. 2021:11 (les Indes savantes, FR) <669-1807>
ISBN 978-2-84654-579-2 paper ¥4,618.- (税込) EUR 19.00

Minchin, Timothy James, America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States. (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America) 292 pp. 2021:4 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <669-1810>
ISBN 978-0-8203-5894-9 hard ¥27,140.- (税込) US$ 120.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-5895-6 paper ¥8,290.- (税込) US$ 36.95 *

Perry, Matt (ed.), The Global Challenge of Peace: 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order. (Studies in Labour History 17) 320 pp. 2021:9 (Liverpool U. Pr., UK) <669-1811>
ISBN 978-1-80085-719-3 hard ¥31,557.- (税込) GB￡ 109.50 *

This book scrutinizes the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. During 1919 the Great Powers redrew the map of the world with the Treaties of Paris and established the League of Nations intending to prevent future war. Yet what is often missed is that 1919 was a complex threshold between war and peace contested on a global scale. This process began prior to war's end with mutinies, labour and consumer unrest, colonial revolt but reached a high point in 1919. Most obviously, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 continued into 1919 which signalled a decisive year for the Bolshevik regime. While the leaders of the Great Powers famously drew up new states in their Parisian hotel rooms, state formation also had a popular dynamic. The Irish Republic was declared. Afghanistan gained independence. Labour unrest was widespread. This year witnessed the emergence of anti-colonial insurgency and movements across Europe's colonies; in metropolitan centres of Empire, race riots took place in the UK and during the 'red summer' in the US, anti-colonial movements, as well as an important moment of political enfranchisement for women but their expulsion from the wartime labour force. 1919 has many legacies: the first Arab spring, with the awakening of nationalism in the Wilsonian and Bolshevik context; the moment (as a consequence of Jallianwala Bagh) that Britain definitively lost its moral claim to India; the definitive announcement of Black presence in the UK; the great reversal of women's participation in the skilled occupations; the first Fascist movement was founded.

Resnikoff, Jason, Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work. (Working Class in American History) 280 pp. 2021:12 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <669-1812>
ISBN 978-0-252-04425-0 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08629-8 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.

Hernandez, Sonia, For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. 256 pp. 2021:11 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <669-1574>
ISBN 978-0-252-04404-5 hard ¥24,684.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08610-6 paper ¥6,283.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor broker, Pina never left her native Tamaulipas. Yet she excelled in connecting groups in the United States and Mexico. Her story explains the conditions that led to anarcho-syndicalism's rise as a tool to achieve labor and gender equity. It also reveals how women's ideas and expressions of feminist beliefs informed their experiences as leaders in and members of the labor movement. A vivid look at a radical activist and her times, For a Just and Better World illuminates the lives and work of Mexican women battling for labor rights and gender equality in the early twentieth century.