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

Chanin, Jesse, Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008. 336 pp. 2024:4 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <722-248>
ISBN 978-1-4696-7821-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-7822-1 paper ¥7,103.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the South's conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana. Jesse Chanin argues that UTNO accomplished and maintained its strength through strong community support, addressing a Black middle-class political agenda, internal democracy, and drawing on the legacy and tactics of the civil rights movement by combining struggles for racial and economic justice, all under Black leadership and with a majority women and Black membership. However, the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina provided the state government and local charter school advocates with the opportunity to remake the school system and dismantle the union. Authorities fired 7,500 educators, marking the largest dismissal of Black teaching staff since Brown v. Board of Education.Chanin highlights the significant staying power and political, social, and community impact of UTNO, as well as the damaging effects of the charter school movement on educators.

Popova, Zhanna, Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s. (Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion) 252 pp. 2024:5 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <722-1296>
ISBN 978-90-485-6035-6 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based investigations, we now understand the scope of the system, variations between different camp complexes, and modalities of the use of forced labour of convicts. At the same time, the work of historicizing the Gulag and systematically evaluating its position within the global history of repression is still to be done. Exploring the emergence of this vast Soviet system of concentration camps in long-term perspective, this book aims to inscribe this process within global histories of coerced labour, forced displacement, and punishment. It highlights the inextricable interconnection of coerced labour and forced displacement as tools of punishment in the multitude of their historical forms.