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

Eckerlein, Marco, Die jaehrliche Arbeitswanderung zur Hopfenernte in Spalt (1825-1965): Migrationssteuerung bei landwirtschaftlicher Saisonarbeit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel einer Sonderkultur. (Schriften zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 37) 342 S. 2023:4 (Kovac, GW) <702-428>
ISBN 978-3-339-13502-5 paper ¥23,492.- (税込) EUR 99.80 *

Von der ersten Haelfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Mitte der 1960er Jahre kamen jaehrlich Ende August Tausende Wanderarbeiter aus verschiedenen Regionen Bayerns, Deutschlands und aus dem Ausland zur Hopfenernte nach Spalt und versetzten damit das Anbaugebiet im suedlichen Mittelfranken fuer zwei bis drei Wochen in eine Art Ausnahmezustand. Das Buch thematisiert diese jaehrliche Arbeitswanderung zur Hopfenernte. Dabei wird zunaechst die Zielregion der Wandermigranten und die Umstaende ihres dortigen Arbeitsaufenthalts dargestellt. Das Hopfenanbaugebiet wird definiert, die Technik des Hopfenanbaus kurz vorgestellt, der Ablauf der Ernte sowie die Arbeits- und Lebensumstaende waehrend dieser Wochen nachgezeichnet und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Hopfenanbaus sowie der des Hopfenhandels dargelegt. Das darauffolgende Kapitel beschaeftigt sich mit der Entwicklung des Angebots und der Nachfrage an Erntehelfern. Dabei werden auch die Massnahmen gegen Arbeitskraeftemangel sowie die unterschiedlichen Formen der Arbeitsvermittlung vorgestellt. Anschliessend stehen die Wandermigranten selbst im Blickpunkt der Betrachtung. Sie werden hinsichtlich ihrer demografischen Merkmale wie Beruf, Alter, Familienstand, Geschlecht und Konfession genauer beleuchtet sowie ihre Herkunftsregionen herausgearbeitet. Dabei werden auch Wanderungssysteme zwischen Herkunftsorten und Hopfenproduktionsorten aufgezeigt. Ferner werden die Migranten hinsichtlich des Grades an jaehrlicher Mobilitaet klassifiziert. Der naechste Hauptpunkt nimmt die oeffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung waehrend der Erntezeit in den Fokus. Hierzu werden die massgeblichen staatlichen und kommunalen Akteure zu deren Aufrechterhaltung vorgestellt und das fuer die Zeit der Ernte erlassene Regelungssystem analysiert. Darueber hinaus werden die Verstoesse gegen dieses Regelsystem, die Taeter und die Gegenreaktion der Sicherheitsbehoerden thematisiert. Im letzten Hauptpunkt werden schliesslich anhand der in den vorausgegangenen Kapiteln gewonnenen Erkenntnisse zusammenfassend das Migrationssystem und das Wirken der institutionellen Akteure sowie das Handeln bzw. die Reaktion der Erntehelfer auf das System dargestellt.

近世欧州における労働とジェンダー
Macleod, Catriona / Shepard, Alexandra / Agren, M. (eds.), The Whole Economy: Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe. 259 pp. 2023:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-442>
ISBN 978-1-00-935935-1 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-935936-8 paper ¥7,689.- (税込) GB￡ 26.99 *

Advocating a gender-inclusive approach to the history of work, this book both counts and accounts for women's as well as men's economic activity. Showcasing novel conceptual, methodological and empirical perspectives, it highlights the transformative potential of including women's work in wider assessments of continuity and change in economic performance. Focusing on the period of European history (1500-1800) that generated unprecedented growth in the northwest - which, in turn, was linked to the global redistribution of resources and upon which industrialisation depended - the book spans key arenas in which women produced change: households, care, agriculture, rural manufacture, urban markets, migration, and war. The analysis refutes the stubborn contention of mainstream economic history that we can generalise about economic performance by focusing solely on the work of adult men and demonstrates that women were active agents in the early modern economy rather than passively affected by changes wrought upon them.

イングランドにおけるフランドルの織物労働者　1331～1400年
Pajic, Milan, Flemish Textile-workers in England, 1331-1400: Immigration, Integration and Economic Development. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) 368 pp. 2023:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-453>
ISBN 978-1-108-48920-1 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

In the fourteenth century, with the encouragement of King Edward III, textile workers from the Low Countries - predominantly Flanders but also Brabant - settled in England. Using extensive and original resources from both sides of the English Channel, Milan Pajic argues that the exponential growth of the English textile industry was due to the skill and influence of Flemish immigrants, challenging interpretations from a section of economic historians in the latter half of the twentieth century who concluded that immigrants did not contribute to the economic development of England. The book explores the geography of immigration, the reasons behind the movement of people, and the varied social encounters with local populations. In so doing it uncovers an important and vibrant history which provides essential historical context for contemporary debates on the free movement of people.

Bartlett, Jon, Triumph and Solidarity: BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression. (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH) 372 pp. 2023:10 (Athabasca U. Pr., CN) <702-1526>
ISBN 978-1-77199-395-1 paper ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95

British Columbia was the site of some of the most significant events in the history of the labour movement and had some of the best-organized and most politically conscious communist workers. In this illuminating volume, Jon Bartlett follows the activities of BC Communists from the onset of the Great Depression to the coming of the Popular Front and investigates the collisions between these Communists and the organs of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Reflecting on the vectors of cultural resistance, from the creation of vernacular newspapers to the circulation of popular song and verse, Bartlett charts workers' efforts to resist wage cutbacks in mines, mills, and the logging and fishing industries and describes the organization of opposition to the relief camps and its outcomes.

1890～1933年のドイツにおける社会主義と世俗主義者の文化
Weir, Todd H., Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933. 336 pp. 2023:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1531>
ISBN 978-1-107-13203-0 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows how generations of secularist intellectuals staked out leading positions in the Social Democratic Party, but often lost them due to their penchant for dissent. Moving between local and national developments, this book examines the crucial role of red secularism in the political struggles over religion that rocked Germany and fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

マルクス主義、労働主義、英国共産主義のルーツ　1884～1921年
Collins, Tony, Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884-1921. (Historical Materialism Book Series 288) 304 pp. 2023:8 (Brill, NE) <702-114>
ISBN 978-90-04-54961-6 hard ¥31,779.- (税込) EUR 135.00 *

Raising the Red Flag explores the origins of the British Marxist movement from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party. It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919. The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst's Workers' Socialist Federation. Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.