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

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Roso, Darren, Daniel Bensaid: From the Actuality of the Revolution to the Melancholic Wager. (Historical Materialism Book Series 303) 770 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <711-118>
ISBN 978-90-04-31494-8 hard ¥50,321.- (税込) EUR 207.00

Daniel Bensaid: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaid's renovation of Marxism. Bensaid, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste revolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaid's writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso's volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.

Greer, Jane, Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor and Low-Wage Workers, 1834-1937. (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) 184 pp. 2023:2 (U. Pittsburgh Pr., US) <711-1304>
ISBN 978-0-8229-4755-4 hard ¥12,342.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women's words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions. By focusing on repetitive rhetorical labor, this book affords a point of entry for analyzing the discursive productions of a range of women workers and for constructing a richer history of women's rhetoric in the United States.

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Mansell, Charmain, Female Servants in Early Modern England. (British Academy Monographs) 360 pp. 2024:1 (British Academy, UK) <711-1313>
ISBN 978-0-19-726758-5 hard ¥31,125.- (税込) GB￡ 108.00 *

What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence of over 1000 female servants recorded in church court testimony between c.1530 and 1650, Female Servants in Early Modern England uncovers these women's everyday lives. Intervening in histories of labour, gender, freedom, law, migration, youth, and community, this book rethinks traditional scholarship of service. De-coupling 'household' and 'service', it reveals the importance of female servants' labour to the wider economy and their key role in social networks and communities. Moving beyond regulatory codes of service prescribed by law and conduct literature, this book lays bare the varied experiences of women who served. Service was fluid and contingent: some women's working lives operated with flexibility unsanctioned by law yet socially accepted, while poverty bound others fast to service. In early modern England, service (and the freedoms it allowed) was in flux.

Lystra, Karen, Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans. 352 pp. 2024:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <711-1500>
ISBN 978-0-19-751422-1 hard ¥7,841.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. These laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved. This book displays the personal expression of factory hands, manual laborers, peddlers, coopers, carpenters, lumbermen, miners, tanners, haulers, tailors, seamstresses, laundresses, domestics, sharecroppers, independent farmers, and common soldiers and their wives. Entering the "anonymous corners" of these people's lives through letters, we can see their humor, grit, hope, heartache, and endurance, and grasp what they believed and felt about themselves, their kinfolk, and their friends. As much as possible, these working-class Americans living in the nineteenth century speak to contemporary readers in their own words. Often armed with only a third or fourth grade education, they could read but had limited instruction in writing. Yet they sat down to compose a letter, often spurred by a range of experience including the Gold Rush, westward expansion, slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, and what was arguably the most important event in nineteenth-century America, the Civil War. During the war, poor, undereducated soldiers and their families wrote letters in a quantity never before seen in American history. Using letters written to parents, siblings, husbands, wives, friends, and potential mates between 1830 and 1880, Karen Lystra identifies the shared conceptions of love and practices of courtship and marriage within a racially diverse population of free working-class people born in America. Readers can listen to their voices as they flirt, act as intermediaries in hometown courtships, express non-romantic love to their mates, tease each other, and voice their hopes for the future. Through these personal letters, poor, minimally schooled Americans show us how they felt about love and how they created meaningful attachments in their uncertain lives.

Porter, Cathy / Chappell, Richard, Writings of Larisa Reisner. (Historical Materialism Book Series 302) 348 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <711-1502>
ISBN 978-90-04-68700-4 hard ¥32,089.- (税込) EUR 132.00

The six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill's publication of Cathy Porter's Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.

Shone, Steve J., Dangerous Anarchist Strikers. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 272) 386 pp. 2024:1 (Brill, NE) <711-1504>
ISBN 978-90-04-68875-9 hard ¥38,409.- (税込) EUR 158.00

An exploration of the ideas of three largely forgotten radical women who participated in labor union strikes respectively in Argentina and Uruguay, Canada, and the United States and two largely forgotten internationally-focused anarchist men who participated in labor union strikes and industrial action in New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina, and Japan.

Vinokour, Maya, Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture. (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) 324 pp. 2024:2 (Northern Illinois U. Pr., US) <711-1505>
ISBN 978-1-5017-7367-9 hard ¥12,778.- (税込) US$ 56.95 *

Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structures-whether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present-day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo-American West. Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian rhetoric of liquids and flow reached an apotheosis during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan and re-emerged in post-Soviet "managed democracy" and Western neoliberalism. The literary, philosophical, and official texts that Work Flows examines give voice to the Stalinist ambition of reforging not merely individual bodies, but space and time themselves. By mobilizing the understudied thematic of fluidity, Vinokour offers insight into the nexus of philosophy, literature, and science that underpinned Stalinism and remains influential today. Work Flows demonstrates that Stalinism is not a historical phenomenon restricted to the period 1922-1953, but a symptom of modernity as it emerged in the twentieth century. Stalinism's legacy extends far beyond the bounds of the former Soviet Union, emerging in seemingly disparate settings like post-Soviet Russia and Silicon Valley.