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

Murphy, Denis, Screen Workers and the Irish Film Industry. (Studies in Labour History 20) 240 pp. 2024:7 (Liverpool U. Pr., UK) <724-843>
ISBN 978-1-80207-595-3 hard ¥31,339.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Since the 1950s, film production in Ireland has evolved into a mature industry creating high-profile film, television drama, documentary and animation for both the domestic and international markets. This book traces that evolution through a history of the screen production industries on the island of Ireland. More specifically, the book is concerned with the people who work in these industries - how they have shaped the work they do and the conditions under which that work is carried out. The book therefore highlights the vital contribution of film and television workers to screen policy and labour relations in Ireland, north and south. The book presents a local history that explicates the development of the screen industries in Ireland and their relationship to the global Hollywood production system. While the emphasis is on film and television workers, the book acknowledges the essential producer contribution to building the industry as it exists today. However it also emphasises producer obligations towards the screen workers they employ. The result is a local history of Irish screen production told mainly from a labour perspective, using previously unused records from the trade union archives and other labour history sources.

ドイツの団体の歴史－古代から現代までの労働組合、連盟、会社
Kluge, Arnd (Hrsg.), Deutsche Vereinsgeschichte: Gewerkschaften, Verbaende & Co. von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 442 S. 2024:3 (F. Steiner, GW) <724-298>
ISBN 978-3-515-13686-0 paper ¥17,419.- (税込) EUR 74.00 *

Lichtenstein, Nelson / Sonti, Samir (eds.), Labor's Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today. 256 pp. 2025:3 (The New Pr., US) <724-250>
ISBN 978-1-62097-881-8 hard ¥6,465.- (税込) US$ 29.99

The top American writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizingIn 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all non-agricultural workers belonging to a union-and much higher percentages in the nation's key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent magazine, which quickly became the publishing home for the most important progressive voices on American unions.Today, at a time of both resurgent union organizing and socialist politics, the need for this rich tradition of ideas is as pressing as ever.With over twenty-five contributions by some of the nation's most influential progressive voices, Labor's Partisans brings to life a history of labor that is of immediate relevance to our own times. Introduced and edited by leading labor historians Nelson Lichtenstein and Samir Sonti, this essential volume reveals the powerful currents and debates running through the labor movement, from the 1950s to today.Combining stunning writing, political passion, and deep historical perspective, Labor's Partisans will be a source of ideas and inspiration for anyone concerned with a more just future for working people.

Pouget, Emile, La Confederation generale du travail: recede du discours de Marc Blondel du 23/09/1995 tenu a Limoges pour les 100 ans de la CGT. (Mouvement social et laicite) 99 p. 2024:3 (L'Harmattan, FR) <724-254>
ISBN 978-2-336-44124-5 paper ¥3,060.- (税込) EUR 13.00

イギリスの労働者階級100人の生活　1900～45年
Ball, Rebecca, A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945. 366 pp. 2024:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-1002>
ISBN 978-3-031-55083-6 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was 'an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs'. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two world wars. Despite this, Stanley assumed that his life story would be of little interest to most readers, as he had not achieved great fame or any notable accolades. This book argues that this is exactly why historians should focus on such life stories, as there is much to be gained by focusing on memories of 'ordinary average lives', as they can expand our knowledge of the past, often revealing firsthand experiences that have been excluded from the historical record. This book does not intend to be a general social history of the working class. Rather, it is a work of memory, drawing upon a microhistory methodology to examine how a sample of one hundred working-class autobiographers remembered and wrote about living through years that were punctuated by two worldwide conflicts and a global economic depression.

Nenon, Jean-Pierre, L'ardoise et les ardoisiers de France: un patrimoine millenaire menace. 243 p. 2024:3 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <724-1006>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9641-2 hard ¥8,003.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Schuhrke, Jeff, Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade. 352 pp. 2024:9 (Verso, UK) <724-1008>
ISBN 978-1-83976-905-4 paper ¥7,122.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00 *

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world.Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to control labor movements abroad as part of the Cold War contest for worldwide supremacy. In this work, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO's anticommunist officials, who, in a shocking betrayal, for decades expended their energies to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers' movements of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.