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

Ervin, Keona, Refusal: Black Women Workers and Emancipatory Struggle. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Verso, UK) <746-1319>
ISBN 978-1-83976-373-1 hard ¥7,040.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

The black woman worker, argues Keona Ervin, is the most important worker in the development of racial capitalism from slavery. Ervin here looks at unions, protests, kitchen-table discussions, laundries, and all arenas of life to find examples of how black women workers' refusals constituted core challenges to racial capitalism and structured black feminism. The book brings out the breadth of struggles black women have been engaged in-from union, civil rights, cultural work, housework, environmental justice, AIDS activism, and more-that black women workers have been engaged in.In a series of accessible, narrative chapters highlighting specific moments of black women's refusal, from slavery to #Black Lives Matter, Refusal argues that black women workers' refusals can guide us all toward emancipation.

Schuetrumpf, Joern, Putsch statt Revolution: Die Kommunistische Internationale in Mitteldeutschland 1921. 176 S. 2025:5 (VSA, GW) <746-1516>
ISBN 978-3-96488-245-5 paper ¥3,898.- (税込) EUR 16.80

Sanhueza-Cerda, Carlos, The Day Laborers of Science. Technical Work at the Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1852-1927). (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology) 109 pp. 2025:4 (Springer, GW) <745-77>
ISBN 978-3-031-84349-5 paper ¥11,601.- (税込) EUR 49.99

This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. Drawing upon David Edgerton's critique of the bias towards academic scientists in historical narratives, this research delves into the roles of other scientists, technicians, collaborators, and other support staff in shaping scientific endeavors. The book analyzes archival documents and reveals the essential yet often unacknowledged labor involved in routine scientific tasks. By challenging the hierarchical structure of observatory organizations and spotlighting the significance of routine work, the book redefines the production of scientific knowledge beyond the conventional focus on eminent scientists. Emphasizing the importance of failures, conflicts, and controversies, this book unveils the hidden narratives of everyday scientific labor, offering a more comprehensive understanding of the history of astronomy in Chile.

都市部の女性－中世低地諸国における生活、愛、労働
Haemers, Jelle / Bardyn, Andrea / Delameillieure, C. (eds.), Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries. 232 pp. 2025:6 (Leuven U. Pr., BE) <745-958>
ISBN 978-94-6270-449-7 paper ¥8,197.- (税込) EUR 27.00

Exploring women's stories of work, protest, and power in the medieval Low CountriesThe Middle Ages-a time often cast as a dark period when violence reigned and men dominated society. Women, as the deeply rooted cliche would have it, played scarcely any part. But this book tells a different story, one in which women step forward as the main characters. In the southern Low Countries, townswomen held substantial rights, which they used to conduct business, voice their opinions, and assert their will.Urban Women presents a different and lesser-known image of the late Middle Ages, from 1250 to 1550. The authors trace the lives of women protesting, marrying, making love, working, and engaging in the daily life of Low Countries towns. In doing so, this book gives voice to wealthy businesswomen, laborers, religious women, criminals, and sex workers, spotlighting the remarkable figures who shaped a "women's town" within a man's world.

P.フランクス著　日本における家事、消費、女性の労働　1600～1940年－生活水準の決定における無償労働の役割を理解する－
Francks, Penelope, Housework, Consumption and Female Labour in Japan, 1600-1940: Understanding the Role of Unpaid Work in Determining Living Standards. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 77 pp. 2025:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <745-262>
ISBN 978-3-031-83692-3 hard ¥9,280.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book illuminates the largely neglected contribution of unpaid, primarily female household labour to economic production and living standards in Japan from the early modern period to the eve of World War Two. The difficulties involved in measuring time devoted to housework and other forms of household labour in the past have meant that most attempts to assess the process of industrialisation have failed to recognise the ways in which such labour is essential to the sustainability and welfare of the population. In this context, Japan presents a significant example of a historical case of industrialisation occurring within an economy that continued to be dominated by the institution of the household. This short study argues that this must have led to a particularly significant underestimation of Japanese living standards in the past, with implications for comparative and global analysis, and to neglect of the key role of women in the historical economy. Providing a nuanced yet concise analysis, this book will be valuable reading for scholars of economic history and feminist economics, as well as introducing important comparative angles for researchers in Japanese studies and gender studies more widely.

McGuire, Charlie, Steelworkers in Struggle: An Oral History of the 1980 National Steel Strike. 240 pp. 2025:5 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-1337>
ISBN 978-1-5261-2320-6 hard ¥22,528.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

Using oral histories gathered from trade unionists, this book explores the national steelworkers strike of 1980 and asserts its significance as a key turning point in modern British history. The strike was nominally a response to a 2% pay offer made by British Steel Corporation (BSC), at a time when inflation was 17%, but was generated by the widespread works closures that characterised the British steel industry at this time. The outcome of the strike was a much higher pay increase but no change to the deindustrialisation strategy of BSC and the government. The book explores the strike from the perspective of those who fought it and reveals the short and longer-term consequences it had on the industry, the unions and the workers themselves.

イランにおける労働史と経済
Yoshinari, Mary / Afacan, S. (eds.), Labour History and the Economy in Iran: Workers, Entrepreneurs and the State. 296 pp. 2025:2 (I. B. Tauris, UK) <743-339>
ISBN 978-0-7556-5259-4 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Iran underwent major economic changes in the twentieth century, but these have to date largely been studied in the context of oil, centralization and revolutions. This book examines Iran's economic development and the people who made it possible, from the late Qajar period to the Revolution of 1979. Containing a wide spectrum of historical viewpoints and methodologies, the book uses previously understudied Iranian archives to examine the economic and labour history of Iran together. By doing so, the chapters in the book show that Iranian workers had distinct experiences, depending on the sector and decade of their employment. Other topics covered include the private sector, the emergence of social security, the effects of economic development on 'traditional' workers and the role of other local economic actors particular to Iran in development, family businesses, international trade relations, worker histories and events in the provinces. It will be of appeal to scholars and students of the history, economics, labour, sociology and politics of Iran and the Middle East.

近世イングランドにおける労働の経験
Whittle, Jane / Hailwood, Mark / Robb, H. et al., The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series) 345 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <743-341>
ISBN 978-1-316-51994-3 hard ¥29,568.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Suhrbur, Thomas J., Public Education and Social Reform: A History of the Illinois Education Association. 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-852>
ISBN 978-0-252-04636-0 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08843-8 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Founded in 1853, the Illinois Education Association (IEA) and its predecessors have played a vital role in shaping the Illinois public school system. Thomas J. Suhrbur's history covers the lifespan of the IEA within the larger story of state public education as a battleground for contentious social and economic issues. Suhrbur pays particular attention to the impact of race, gender, religion, and tax policy on the IEA and public schools. He also examines the IEA's evolution from a professional organization controlled by administrations and officials through its radical transformation into a teacher-led independent labor union. As a workers' organization, the IEA successfully fought for collective bargaining and organized K-12 and higher education while continually standing against right-wing efforts to privatize education and undermine public schools with vouchers, for-profit institutions, and tax credits. Multifaceted and up to date, Public Education and Social Reform tells the story of the organization and figures dedicated to sustaining and advancing Illinois public education.

Richman, Shaun, We Always Had a Union: The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953. (Working Class in American History) 336 pp. 2025:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-970>
ISBN 978-0-252-04644-5 hard ¥26,812.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08853-7 paper ¥6,006.- (税込) US$ 28.00

One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the start, New York's organized hotel workers experimented with and adapted how they organized and governed members and related to other labor unions. Richman follows union fortunes from early IWW activity through the Communist-led affiliates of the American Federation of Labor in the 1920s and 1930s, the shaping of breakthrough negotiating strategies, and the postwar era. As Richman shows, workers adopted a radicalism and militancy seldom associated with an AFL organization while openly negotiating the Communist Party's power and influence within the union, until the Party's eclipse in the 1950s. An inspiring story of action and perseverance, We Always Had a Union profiles a foundational American labor union and offers lessons for today's workers and organizers.

Wasko, Steffen, Armut an Gemeinschaft: Eine Untersuchung zu Formen der Gemeinschaft im Fruehwerk von Bakunin und Marx. 250 S. 2024:4 (Westfaelisches Dampfboot, GW) <742-48>
ISBN 978-3-89691-522-1 paper ¥6,963.- (税込) EUR 30.00

いかに労働者と農家がアメリカの民主主義を再発明したか
Brauer, Ralph, The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy. 400 pp. 2025:4 (Georgetown U. Pr., US) <742-199>
ISBN 978-1-64712-494-6 hard ¥22,511.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-64712-570-7 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern America In American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused. The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers and farmers, who in a great uprising of popular democracy reinvented the nation for the emerging industrial world never imagined by the Founders. Facing conditions far worse than previously documented, they overcame the frayed social safety net and violent opposition to pull off what the labor leader John Mitchell has described as the "Second Emancipation," which addressed a dangerously tilted playing field with government programs and legislation. Based on meticulous primary source research and integrating music, photographs, artworks, and statistical data, this sweeping history places grassroots activists and reformers-many recognized for the first time-at center stage in a fascinating success story of perseverance and commitment.

Fagbore, Adam / Sen, Nabhojeet / Roscoe, Katherine (eds.), Punishment, Labour and the Legitimation of Power. (Social History of Punishment and Labour Coercion) 238 pp. 2025:1 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <741-1361>
ISBN 978-94-6372-477-7 hard ¥30,131.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00

This volume draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour. It poses key questions: What is "punishment" and how is it legitimized? In particular, how do punitive practices contribute to shape the processes of labour extraction and workers' mobility? Based on empirically grounded research on a wide range of geographical and temporal contexts, this volume provides important insights on these questions and on the ways through which they can be studied. It highlights the need to pluralize both punishment and labour, moving beyond the standard focus on incarceration and wage labour. It invites to produce contextualized studies of the processes of coercion and the relations between multiple actors, rather than starting from predefined categories of labour and punishment. And it foregrounds the importance of the simultaneous analysis of processes of mobilization and immobilization of the workforce.

Goeke, Simon / Tekin, Caner (Hrsg.), Migration, soziale Bewegungen und Selbstorganisation: Gewerkschaftliche und urbane Kaempfe von und fuer Migrant*innen seit den 1960er Jahren. (Sozialgeschichte in Bewegung 75) 280 S. 2025:2 (Boehlau, GW) <741-1186>
ISBN 978-3-412-53217-8 hard ¥11,372.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Migration ist ein wesentlicher Motor sozialen Wandels. Insbesondere in der zweiten Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden die Einwanderungsgesellschaften Europas von einer Vielzahl kultureller und sozialer Bewegungen gepraegt, die von Migrant:innen initiiert oder getragen waren. Mit informellen Netzwerken, Basisinitiativen, Buendnissen und Selbstorganisationen kaempften Migrant:innen gegen soziale Ungleichheit und rassistische Diskriminierungen sowie fuer ihre Anerkennung und ein Bleiberecht. Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in diese Geschichte der migrantischen Selbstorganisation in West- und Ostdeutschland sowie in Belgien. In zehn Beitraegen untersuchen Historiker:innen, Soziolog:innen und Gewerkschafter:innen die Strategien und institutionellen Entwicklungen von migrantischen Selbstorganisationen in ihrer Interaktion mit anderen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren. Dabei steht insbesondere die Zusammenarbeit mit Gewerkschaften und urbanen sozialen Bewegungen im Fokus. Die Lokalstudien beziehen sowohl Quellen etablierter Archive als auch Ueberlieferungen der sozialen Bewegungen und Selbstorganisationen ein und betonen die Bedeutung der migrantischen Kaempfe fuer die Sozialgeschichte Deutschlands und Belgiens.

Einstein, Albert, Albert Einstein's "Why Socialism?: The Enduring Legacy of His Classic Essay. Ed. by J. B. Foster. 104 pp. 2025:5 (Monthly Review, US) <740-80>
ISBN 978-1-68590-099-1 hard ¥4,279.- (税込) US$ 19.95

Robert, Karen, Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina. (Dialogos Series) 296 pp. 2025:3 (U. New Mexico Pr., US) <740-933>
ISBN 978-0-8263-6760-0 hard ¥20,377.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-8263-6761-7 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

労働の帝国－いかに東インド会社が雇用労働を植民地化したか
Chakraborty, Titas, Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work. 338 pp. 2025:3 (U. California Pr., US) <740-331>
ISBN 978-0-520-39963-1 hard ¥20,377.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39964-8 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Bengal. Focusing on boatmen and silk reelers as well as sailors and soldiers-a remarkable look at both indigenous and European workers-the story begins with the earliest accounts of the EIC's dealings with hired labor in the region, from 1651. Prior to EIC dominance, hired workers drove hard bargains with their employers, making demands that drew upon their own notions of wages, work rhythms, and time. When their demands were not met, they ran away, often to rival indigenous or European employers. Empire of Labor explores these demands and how they conflicted with the EIC's notions of discipline. Analyzing Bengali literary sources and Dutch and English archival materials, the book rethinks the ascendancy of the company state as a violent process involving removing competing employers, imposing army and police power, introducing new production technologies, and instituting draconian regulations which eliminated indigenous cultures of work. Most importantly, it depicts the lifeworlds of these recalcitrant workers, showing how they lived and resisted. A major intervention in histories of colonialism, labor, migration, and law, Empire of Labor ultimately recasts colonial rule as a novel form of state-labor relationship.

Sarkisian, Aram G., Orthodoxy on the Line: Russian Orthodox Christians and Labor Migration in the Progressive Era. (North American Religions) 336 pp. 2025:7 (New York U. Pr., US) <740-163>
ISBN 978-1-4798-3315-3 hard ¥10,725.- (税込) US$ 50.00

Working-class immigration, religion, and labor history in the United States At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of immigrants from the borderlands of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires built a transnational church in North America. The community that church leaders called American Orthodox Rus' was created by and for working people, and transformed believers' identities as Eastern European migrants, as Orthodox Christians, and as American workers. Given how strongly the Russian Orthodox Christian community was tied to working class industrial life, this book makes the case that we cannot understand the scope of working class and immigrant religion in the United States without understanding American Orthodox Rus'. The work Russian Orthodox immigrants did in the Progressive Era United States occurred in factories, foundries, and mines; they lived mainly in industrial cities and mining towns; and they almost immediately got caught up in the most pivotal-and sometimes violent-political and social crises of their times, both nationally and internationally. To address their needs in these contexts, the Russian Orthodox Church expanded its missionary efforts in North America, forming a network of social and material aid for working-class believers. This book traces the rapid growth of this transnational religious world, then explores its unexpected collapse under the weight of the First World War, a global pandemic, and the transnational reach of revolutionary political change in Russia. A story of challenge and resilience, Orthodoxy on the Line complicates dominant paradigms in the study of labor and North American Religions.

近世の女性の労働－親族、コミュニティ、社会正義
Simpson, Patricia Anne, Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice. (New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture) 226 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <740-1236>
ISBN 978-1-032-21132-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-21131-2 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Early Modern Women's Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe. Through individual and collective authorship, the women analyzed in this study assert a claim to kinship and community, often beyond the hegemonic, heteronormative relationships to family, religion, and monarch.The contributions of early modern women to the construction of productive work spaces and the establishment of intellectual and actual communities are often overlooked or underestimated in scholarship on this period. This book serves as a cultural corrective to suppositions of gender-coded work, because alongside the dominant history of the private sphere as a feminine domain, a counter-narrative emerges with collective authorship. Despite the disparities in their biographies, the women whose work Simpson foregrounds highlight a range of early modern concerns, primarily but not exclusively in German-speaking Europe. These include debates about women's education and erudition; migration and displacement in search of religious or professional freedom; a persistent but varied discourse about female authorship and creative agency; and the assertion of subjectivity against the violent, fractious history of the Thirty Years' War and beyond.This book will be an ideal resource for students, scholars, and all those interested in German and European studies, women and gender studies, and the history of early modern work.

1945年以降のイタリアにおける抗議と労使紛争の文化
Favretto, Ilaria, Cultures of Protest and Industrial Conflict in Italy since 1945. 416 pp. 2025:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <740-1396>
ISBN 978-0-19-885399-2 hard ¥33,510.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered on their meanings, functions, mechanisms of transmission, continuities, and discontinuities with earlier waves of mobilization and global connections. In this illuminating and thought-provoking book, Favretto explores the protest methods and the underpinning protest cultures of Italian industrial workers from the collapse of Fascism to the present day. Challenging common portrayals of the labour movement as unimaginative and conventional in its tactics, the book demonstrates the variety of forms of industrial protest, encompassing actions such as sit-ins, protest camps, and hunger strikes, which are typically not associated with industrial conflict. Transcending the boundaries of contemporary history, the book also uncovers the persistence and reinvention of tactics commonly identified with the pre-modern period, such as time wasting, sabotage, and theft, and it shows the influence of earlier cultures and carnivalesque practices of popular contention, such as charivari, known as rough music in Britain and scampanata and other names in Italy. By analysing tactics and cultures distinct from the official union protest repertoire that studies of post-1945 Italy and the labour movement often presume obsolete, the book provides a more profound understanding of workers' protest practices and underlying cultures and a better comprehension of their breadth and scope. It casts new light on the impact of internal migration on workers' protest rituals and practices, working-class women's participation in collective action, Communists' and Catholics' distinctive protest cultures, and, moving to recent decades, the effects of de-industrialisation on industrial conflict and its forms. The book fills an important gap in the study of the Italian labour movement and Italian history, enriching our understanding of the mechanisms behind the transmission and innovation of protest cultures and tactics. Its attention to the foreign experiences that shaped Italian labour industrial conflicts and analysis of tactics that have seen worldwide usage over extended periods also make it an essential contribution to a global history of protest.

T-Bone Slim, The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. Ed. by O. Clayton et al. 360 pp. 2025:6 (U. Minnesota Pr., US) <740-1400>
ISBN 978-1-5179-1495-0 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1496-7 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers' newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great DepressionThe Popular Wobbly brings together a wide selection of writings by T-Bone Slim, the most popular and talented writer belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Slim wrote humorous, polemical pieces, engaging with topics like labor and class injustice, which were mostly published in IWW publications from 1920 until his death in 1942. Although relatively little is known about Slim, editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre coalesce the latest research on this enigmatic character to create a vivid portrait that adds valuable context for the array of writings assembled here. Known as "the laureate of the logging camps," Slim also composed numerous songs that have been performed and recorded by Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips, and Candie Carawan, who in 1960 updated Slim's song "The Popular Wobbly" with Civil Rights-era lyrics. Slim's witticisms, sayings, and exhortations ("Wherever you find injustice, the proper form of politeness is attack"; "Only the poor break laws-the rich evade them") were widely discussed among fellow hobos across the "jungle" campfires that dotted the railways, and some even transcribed his commentary on boxcars that traveled the country. Yet despite Slim's importance and fame during his lifetime, his work disappeared from public view almost immediately after his death. The Popular Wobbly is the first critical edition of Slim's work and also a significant contribution to literature about working-class writers, the radical labor movement, and the history and culture of nomadism and precarity. With this publication, Slim's rediscovered writings can once again inspire artists and activists to march and agitate for a more just and equitable world.

Campbell, Isabel (ed.), Cold War Workers: Labour, Family, and Community in a Nuclear State. 336 pp. 2025:4 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <739-883>
ISBN 978-0-228-02440-8 paper ¥8,569.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

When Canada sought to protect its borders and aid its allies during the Cold War, many people were recruited to build the emerging security state: as construction and maintenance workers, engineers, members of the armed forces, medical researchers, and research subjects. Security work transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in ways that were both predictable and surprising, and both beneficial and harmful; the militarization and colonization of Indigenous lives and lands was especially disruptive.The opening essays of Cold War Workers intimately portray the complicated effects of Cold War labour upon Indigenous lives. Elmer Sinclair, a residential school survivor and member of the Canadian Armed Forces, achieved equality with white men through his militarized masculinity. His more positive professional experience contrasts with those of Indigenous workers on northern radar lines, many of whom lost languages, connections to the land, and other elements of traditional cultures as they sought new skills and better employment. Diverse Indigenous experiences of Cold War security work set the scene for the second set of essays, which explore the impact of security preoccupations on marginalized groups - the study of extreme isolation through scientific experimentation on human subjects; the targeting of gay men with psychiatric labelling to enforce an idealized masculinity; and the restriction of gender mobility in the Canadian military, and the pushback from servicewomen.Cold War Workers raises questions about the influence of settler-colonial masculine institutional values on those who laboured for the Cold War state and society. By comparing the experiences of different types of workers, families, and communities, this volume reveals how race, gender, and privilege affected people in varied and sometimes unexpected ways.

Goings, Aaron, Red Harbor: Radical Workers and Community Struggle in the Pacific Northwest. (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Western History and Biography) 360 pp. 2025:7 (U. Washington Pr., US) <739-885>
ISBN 978-0-295-75400-0 hard ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Quinlan, Elizabeth, Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike, 1958. 248 pp. 2025:5 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <739-886>
ISBN 978-0-228-02480-4 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95

All miners and smelter workers know the folly of going on strike when their employer holds a stockpile. In 1958 the International Nickel Company had enough nickel on hand to guarantee sales for at least six months. Despite this, fourteen thousand miners and smeltermen in Sudbury, Ontario, downed their tools and struck against the corporate titan of the mining industry.Standing Up to Big Nickel is a comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike by the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, a union that has inspired exceptional levels of solidarity among its members. The Cold War and the resulting instabilities in the Canadian labour movement form the backdrop to Elizabeth Quinlan's engrossing analysis. The union straddled the line, she shows, between its historical commitment to working-class struggle and the newly restrictive legal landscape of the postwar era. Retrospective accounts by surviving union members, leaders, family, and community members bring to life the history of a distinctive group of workers who sweated over smelter furnaces and toiled underground in perilous conditions.Quinlan traces the events before, during, and after one of Canada's greatest strikes in both magnitude and duration. Featuring biographical sketches and scenes based on archival and documentary data, Standing Up to Big Nickel captures an intensely dramatic juncture in Canadian labour history.

R.ルーサーと全米自動車労働組合
Reuther, Alan, Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil Rights. 340 pp. 2025:4 (Michigan State U. Pr., US) <739-887>
ISBN 978-1-61186-530-1 hard ¥19,294.- (税込) US$ 89.95
ISBN 978-1-61186-531-8 paper ¥8,569.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

Tomczak, Richard H., Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada) 264 pp. 2025:2 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <739-888>
ISBN 978-0-228-02361-6 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-02362-3 paper ¥9,641.- (税込) US$ 44.95 *

During the eighteenth century, the French and British empires mobilized thousands of workers in what is now Canada through a system of mandatory labour known as corvee. Rooted in the feudal obligations of peasants to their landlords, corvee was introduced by the French, and later exploited by the British, becoming part of their arsenal during the American revolutionary wars.Richard Tomczak chronicles the transformation of the corvee system over a century. Under the French regime, corvee was mostly directed towards local public works projects, such as building roads and bridges. After the conquest of Quebec, the system assumed greater scope. The British realized their need for labour in an underpopulated region and co-opted corvee for their imperial ends, requiring the male inhabitants of New France to work in state enterprises such as iron mining and logging, and conscripting Canadians to support their military expeditions during the American Revolution. This surging demand for labour in the service of the state precipitated widespread protests in New France, forcing the governor to ratify a new provincial code regulating the use of corvee. Tomczak also sheds light on the rhythms of French Canadians' working lives, their understanding of corvee obligations, and the ways they expressed resistance when the system became burdensome.Exploring a lesser-known aspect of the labour arrangements that propped up the colonial state, Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783 puts French Canadian workers front and centre in the history of early Canada.

Zech, Christian, Siegfried Aufhaeuser: Gewerkschafter, Politiker und juedischer Sozialist. 1884-1969. 560 S. 2025:5 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <739-889>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5837-9 hard ¥13,693.- (税込) EUR 59.00

Eine beeindruckende Biografie im Zeichen des politischen Kampfes und der Verfolgung vom Kaiserreich bis in die Bundesrepublik. Siegfried Aufhaeuser gilt als prominentester Vertreter der freigewerkschaftlichen Angestelltenbewegung. An einschneidenden politischen Ereignissen der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts war er unmittelbar, haeufig an exponierter Stelle, beteiligt. Etwa bei der Revolution 1918/19, als sich unter seiner Regie eine Zentrale der Angestelltenraete konstituierte, oder beim Aufruf zum Generalstreik gegen den Kapp-Putsch. Auch an den Debatten zu moeglichen Abwehrmassnahmen beim sogenannten Preussenschlag und bei der Ernennung Adolf Hitlers zum Reichskanzler beteiligte er sich als Reichstagsabgeordneter und fuehrender Gewerkschaftsvertreter leidenschaftlich. Im Mai 1933 sah sich Siegfried Aufhaeuser zur Flucht aus dem Deutschen Reich gezwungen. Ueber die Exilstationen Paris, Prag, London und New York kehrte er 1951 nach West-Berlin zurueck. Seine Perspektive als linker Sozialdemokrat, als politischer Exilant und als juedischer Remigrant zeugt von den vielfaeltigen Entwicklungslinien der deutschen Demokratie und der juedischen Geschichte der Arbeiter:innenbewegung. Christian Zech zeichnet das politische Leben Siegfried Aufhaeusers in seinen verschiedenen Facetten nach und eroeffnet damit neue Blickwinkel auf die gewerkschaftliche Organisierung der Angestellten, die Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie und auf Ansaetze zur Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft.

Gherini, Claire E., Slavery's Medicine: Illness and Labor in the British Plantation Caribbean. 268 pp. 2025:6 (U. Virginia Pr., US) <739-55>
ISBN 978-0-8139-5274-1 hard ¥24,667.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5275-8 paper ¥7,507.- (税込) US$ 35.00

オフィスとオフィス・ワークの歴史
Harris, Rob, A History of the Office and Office Work: From Castle to Condominium. 374 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-308>
ISBN 978-1-032-94891-1 hard ¥45,056.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-91397-1 paper ¥16,892.- (税込) GB￡ 59.99 *

This book brings together the office and office working as an economic construct, as a business function, as a building type and as a mode of work. It explores social and economic relations, and it traces the evolution of work and the environment and equipment needed to support it over the last 400 years. In so doing, it helps to fill a void in popular understanding of the office.The role of the office has been examined over the past three years in ways that it has never been examined before. Whilst the existential crisis arising from COVID-19 has settled somewhat, there remain big questions over the future of office workers and office real estate. This book is a timely, well-researched and fascinating contribution to the debate.Rob Harris explores how the nature of work has changed, and continues to change, placing the events surrounding COVID-19 into a longer-term perspective and asking what is the future of the office? Will it go through a radical reinvention? How will office work evolve in the future? Whither office buildings? The book emphasises the continuum of change and that today's events are simply the latest stage of change, rather than something entirely novel.This book will be of interest to anyone with a stake in the built environment, whether as an investor, occupier, owner, manager or advisor. It is equally accessible to those with a non-technical background, including students on courses such as economic history, economics, geography, real estate and urban planning.

Harismendy, Patrick / Richard, Gilles (dir.), Le Joint francais, printemps 1972: les echos d'une greve en Bretagne. (Histoire) 435 p. 2024:10 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <738-1368>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9710-5 paper ¥6,034.- (税込) EUR 26.00

フランスの初期の社会主義者　1790～1870年代　第2版
Pilbeam, Pamela, French Early Socialists 1790s-1870s. 2nd ed. 316 pp. 2025:3 (Routledge, UK) <738-1370>
ISBN 978-1-032-74408-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-74406-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This new edition is an updated assessment of the ideas and strategies of early French socialists, incorporating recent research which observes the practical and scientific nature of socialist proposals.The second edition provides increased coverage of women's contributions, including the important roles of activists like Flora Tristan and Jeanne Deroin, socialist women's newspapers, schools run by women, and the demand for suffrage in 1848. There is also further emphasis on socialist experiments in France's new colony, Algeria, and on transnational connections, particularly with Owen in Britain and Fourierist communities in North America. Association still figures prominently as the solution to the social and economic problems created by modernisation and capitalist exploitation. It took a variety of forms, from Fourier's proposal that private finance create profit-sharing communities, to Leroux's practical cooperative venture at Boussac, through Blanc and Considerant's demands for state initiative to set up worker alternatives to capitalism. The democratic republic of 1848 gave socialists the opportunity to engage in politics, and despite the setbacks of the Second Empire, socialists were set on a parliamentary route in which they still have a presence.French Early Socialists 1790s-1870s is an engaging resource for students and scholars in histories of France, politics and gender.

ランカシャーの綿花危機における公的ディスコースとしての貧困と抗議
Broady, Rachel, Poverty and Protest as Public Discourse during the Cotton Crisis. (Neglected Voices from the Past) 213 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <737-1771>
ISBN 978-3-031-73305-5 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book constitutes the first book-length study of journalistic responses to poverty and protest during the Lancashire cotton crisis. The cotton crisis of 1861-1865 is a popular subject in history, culture and education. Workers' voices are comprehensively studied in terms of newspapers publishing fiction and poetry, and the broader political response to the crisis, the American Civil War and British workers' support of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. They are, though, overlooked in terms of journalistic representation of workers. Ironically, discussions of the cotton crisis, including where efforts are made to assess the workers' experience, have consistently relied upon journalism as primary sources and the first witness of history without assessing the news copy's political unconscious. This lack of attention is especially apparent when considering workers challenging poverty through dedicated protest. Amid the celebrated workers' opposition to slavery, and their 'sublime heroism' as noted by American President Abraham Lincoln, there were less studied local struggles for financial help, for education, and for the vote.

Derickson, Alan, Fighting Toxic Ignorance: Origins of the Right to Know about Workplace Health Hazards. 222 pp. 2025:4 (ILR Pr., US) <737-1772>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8018-9 hard ¥27,885.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-8019-6 paper ¥6,424.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Fighting Toxic Ignorance explores conflict over access to information regarding health hazards encountered in the US workplace during the first three-quarters of the twentieth century. Alan Derickson considers risks posed by toxic chemicals and physical and biological agents of disease. By the 1970s, occupational disease was estimated to kill up to 100,000 Americans a year. Derickson unravels the social and political forces and the conflictual process that gave rise to a sustained social movement for a workers' right to know about often-insidious threats. He argues that the decades prior to the emergence of this movement were not a dark age of victimization brought about by enforced ignorance but a time of recurrent battles over the disclosure of needed facts. Workplace warnings-informative signs, labels, and instructions-often saved lives. Fighting Toxic Ignorance covers a broad range of dangerous substances, deals with a large share of the national workforce, and illuminates the many ways that activists endeavored to see that warnings reached workers, especially immigrants and workers of color.

Noll, Jody Baxter, The 1968 Florida Teachers' Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight Against Sunshine State Conservatism. (Making the Modern South) 224 pp. 2025:3 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <737-1773>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8300-7 hard ¥9,652.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

In early 1968, more than 27,000 teachers across Florida mailed their resignation letters, initiating the country's first statewide teachers' strike. The striking teachers fought for and won a monumental victory, improving education in the state and gaining collective bargaining rights for all public sector employees. Even as the influence of industrial labor unions decreased across the country, the Florida teachers' strike and the spirit of teacher militancy that swept the nation during the late 1960s and 1970s demonstrate that a vibrant labor movement remained. Jody Baxter Noll's study challenges the prevailing view of these decades as a period of decline for the American labor movement by turning the spotlight on teachers and public sector unionism.In his examination of the 1968 strike and its aftermath, Noll illuminates the vital role of teachers in shaping political and social policy in the United States. As a predominantly women-led workforce, teachers challenged notions of feminine passivity in their mobilization efforts and used their union to fight for gender equality. The strike also provides insight into how interracial unionism could be a potent weapon for labor movements, even in the Deep South.In exploring the political and social factors that prompted the teachers' strike, Noll considers Florida's instrumental role in forming modern conservatism. Led by Republican governor Claude Kirk, the first Republican governor elected in the Deep South since Reconstruction, Florida helped to create a blueprint for Republicans to build a New Right powerhouse throughout the country. Though Florida has remained on the periphery of much scholarship on the ascendancy of the New Right, Noll demonstrates that the state more accurately reflects the nation's political attitudes than much of the rest of the South because of its economic, racial, social, and political diversity.

Admasie, Samuel Andreas, The Ethiopian Labour Movement: Trade Unions, Collective Action, and Contestation, 1960 - 2020. (Labour in History and Society) 200 pp. 2025:1 (Springer, GW) <736-367>
ISBN 978-3-031-72840-2 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions on workers' agency from the 1960s until today. The author analyses the sharp variation in the orientation and vicissitudes of Ethiopian trade unions over time, and how these affected labour conditions and workers' income. Drawing from new data gathered through extensive archival research and interviews in Ethiopia, this book is the first of its kind. It includes new datasets on strikes, unrest, and wage levels, shedding light on how capitalist labour and industrial relations have developed in Ethiopia, a country where formal wage labour has not been the dominant form of labour. Addressing a huge gap in the literature on African labour movements, this book makes a significant contribution to debates on wage determination, and challenges existing assumptions through detailed investigation.

Parfitt, Steven (ed.), Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words. (Routledge Research in Gender and History 58) 218 pp. 2025 (Routledge, UK) <735-834>
ISBN 978-1-032-54738-1 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Emma Paterson was a pioneer of trade unionism for women. In her short life, she set up a League dedicated to that cause, edited a newspaper to publicise it and travelled the UK working for it. Her spoken and written work addressed issues still with us today, from the gender pay gap to domestic labour, and those thankfully consigned to history, such as whether women should be able to vote or find clothes appropriate to industrial work.Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words brings together the major works that comprise Emma Paterson's written output, offering a unique insight into the struggles and concerns of women working in the workshops, factories, shops and homes of Britain's Industrial Revolution. This book includes a long biographical chapter from the editor, a preface from Frances O'Grady, first woman general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and then an annotated selection of Emma Paterson's most important works, from her time as a young activist to her last days as an overworked editor and union leader.This book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of Britain, of its women workers, of industrial, labour and publishing history. It addresses broader questions of class and gender, the interconnections that exist between them and the silences that often accompany them.

ストライキ－ローマ帝国における労働者、組合、抵抗
Bond, Sarah E., Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. 272 pp. 2025:3 (Yale U. Pr., US) <735-961>
ISBN 978-0-300-27314-4 hard ¥7,507.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire From plebeians refusing to join the Roman army to bakers withholding bread, this is the first book to explore how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices-and their labor-acknowledged. Sarah E. Bond explores Ancient Rome from a new angle to show that the history of labor conflicts and collective action goes back thousands of years, uncovering a world far more similar to our own than we realize. Workers often turned to their associations for solidarity and shared identity in the ancient world. Some of these groups even negotiated contracts, wages, and work conditions in a manner similar to modern labor unions. As the world begins to consider the value-and indeed the necessity-of unionization to protect workers, this book demonstrates that we can learn valuable lessons from ancient laborers and from attempts by the Roman government to limit their freedom.

Sen, Arup Kumar, Labour-Management Relations in Colonial India: Coal, Jute and Cotton Industries, 1900-1947. (Sampark Studies on South Asian History, Cultures, and Politics 1) 160 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <735-591>
ISBN 978-90-04-72179-1 hard ¥22,977.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This book is a pioneering study of the relationship between management and labour in three key industries, namely, coal, jute and cotton textile, in colonial India from 1900 to 1947. It studies history of labour and enterprise though a Marxian-Gramscian lens. The author builds a narrative of economic history, alongside he pens a social history of working class life. It is a rare blend of economic and social history and an indispensable tract to understand the history of capitalist industrialization and concomitant labour-management relations in colonial India within the broad framework of Marxism.

Poni, Carlo / Gruder, Vivian R. / Leech, P. et al. (eds.), Worlds of Work: Peasants and Artisans, Engineers and Theorists. (Library of Economic History 19) 466 pp. 2024:12 (Brill, NE) <735-274>
ISBN 978-90-04-29434-9 hard ¥37,136.- (税込) EUR 160.00

The essays in this volume take the readers into the complex world of work in early modern Europe. Carlo Poni explores this theme from multiple perspectives, examining work practices in agriculture, artisan production, and the silk industry. Extensive archival material, analyzed with theories derived from Economics, illuminates the social relations and conflicts that arose from different work practices in agriculture, artisan production and the silk industry. The author presents the ideas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theorists: the Venetian engineer Vittorio Zonca on mechanics; the natural philosopher John Theophilus Desaguliers on bodily movements; and, with an incisive critique, Denis Diderot on workers and their practices in the Encyclopedie. Contributors are: Carlo Ginzburg, Alberto Guenzi, Steven L. Kaplan, Edmund Leites, and Roberto Scazzieri.

国境を超える労働者の移動性－歴史的・現代的視点　第2版
Dowlah, Caf, Cross-Border Labor Mobility: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. 2nd ed. 116 pp. 2024:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-315>
ISBN 978-3-031-64256-2 hard ¥30,169.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. With a focus on the economic factors that underpin human mobility across the world, it charts the different forms of migration from African and Amerindian slaveries, to modern global migration and human trafficking. By highlighting the economic and political conditions that drive human mobility and anti-immigrant sentiments, a nuanced and detailed understanding of the drivers of forced and voluntary cross-border mobility are presented. This book presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the patterns and processes that define human mobility. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers working within labour economics and migration studies.

農業とILO　1920～50年代
Ribi Forclaz, Amalia, Cultivating Fields of Progress: Agriculture and the International Labour Organization, 1920s-1950s. 224 pp. 2025:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-321>
ISBN 978-0-19-284989-2 hard ¥23,654.- (税込) GB￡ 84.00 *

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest groups, trade unionists, and farmer representatives, the immediate interwar and post-war years were a fertile time for international debates, knowledge production, and policy-making. Cultivating Fields of Progress traces the thematic, temporal, and geographical scope of these debates for the first time, from the plight of landless farmworkers in Europe in the early 1920s to the conditions of plantation workers in the 1950s. By using the archives of international organizations, the book considers how and to what ends questions of rural poverty and problematic labour conditions both in Europe and overseas made their way to the world stage, against a backdrop of broader discourses on social progress, decolonizaton, and economic development. Bringing the tools of social history to the study of economic and political history allows for a better understanding of the international development and circulation of ideas and theories of agriculture, as well as broader insights into the nature of power, policy, and knowledge production across a period of global change.

Ghit, Alexandra, Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 230 S. 2025:4 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-356>
ISBN 978-3-11-113648-6 hard ¥11,592.- (税込) EUR 49.95

Lemmen, Sarah (ed.), Traversing the Political Divide: Cross-border Workers between Eastern, Western and Southern Europe. (Rethinking the Cold War) 300 pp. 2025:9 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1614>
ISBN 978-3-11-133712-8 hard ¥22,037.- (税込) EUR 94.95

W.モリスと政治学の美的構成　第2版
Macdonald, Bradley J., William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics. 2nd ed. 242 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-1616>
ISBN 978-1-6669-7604-5 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

While William Morris (1834-1896) is generally considered one of the most important cultural and political figures of late Victorian England, there is avid disagreement on the way in which we can understand the interconnections between his aesthetic commitments (as a celebrated poet and decorative artist influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism) and his later revolutionary socialist advocacy. As opposed to dominant interpretations within Morris scholarship, Bradley J. Macdonald argues for the importance of understanding the role a "critical notion of beauty" had in moving Morris toward a theory of socialism that took seriously the way in which desire, pleasure, and "beauty" (as applied to all externals of human life, not just art works) could be regenerated only through radical transformations in socioeconomic life. Consequently , William Morris's development represents an interesting example of cultural politics. Given this genealogy, Macdonald clarifies, Morris's mature political theory incorporated a very important commitment to not just economic justice, but also, among other distinctive applications ; ecological sustainability, making him one of the first eco-socialist theorists within the Western tradition, and also an early proponent of what is today known as "degrowth communism."

イギリス、フランス、イタリアにおける労働者階級　1968～89年
Myers, Matt, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989. (Oxford Historical Monographs) 272 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <733-1617>
ISBN 978-0-19-894461-4 hard ¥27,878.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its pending obsolescence. Parties and trade unions grew rapidly as a diverse new generation entered the ranks. Why did the left's forward march halt so abruptly? The Halted March of the European Left shows how the left's defeats after the mid-1970s were not the inevitable result of de-industrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised and post-Fordist world that abolished the working class as a great historical actor. Choices that were made during a concentrated but decisive moment contributed to the left's lost battles. The British, French, and Italian left managed the shift to a new era by marginalising those groups of workers who had invested it with hopes of social and political transformation. Communist, socialist, and social democratic parties helped disempower the new components of the working class in workplaces, in society, in the political system, and successfully disciplined their traditional working-class supporters. The left encountered a crisis of purpose and identity, a sense of both defeat and lost opportunities, and the dissolution of the idea of a community of fate amongst workers. This book provides a comparative analysis of the left's fragmenting relationship with the working class and a 'feel' for the culture of three leading industrial countries during a traumatic transition of late twentieth-century history. It concludes that decisions taken by the left during the 1970s contributed to the tragic inversion of the expected outcome of that hopeful decade.

Tischkewitz, Ursel, "Wie wir uns erganzten": Lebens- und Arbeitsgemeinschaften in Deutshland zwischen Reform und Moderne. 582 S. 2024:7 (Tectum-Vlg., GW) <733-1619>
ISBN 978-3-8288-5160-3 hard ¥28,780.- (税込) EUR 124.00 *

Wannenwetsch, Stefan, "Es Gibt Noch Arbeiter in Deutschland": Zur Kategorie 'Arbeiter' in der bundesdeutschen 'Arbeitnehmergesellschaft'. (Ordnungssysteme 60) 730 S. 2024:6 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1620>
ISBN 978-3-11-108629-3 hard ¥18,555.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Wobbe, Theresa / Renard, Lea / Braig, M. (Hrsg.), Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit: Sozio-historische Beitraege zur Rekonfiguration von Zwangsarbeit. 320 S. 2024:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <733-1621>
ISBN 978-3-11-133484-4 hard ¥16,234.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

Wie koennen aktuelle Kontroversen in Zivilgesellschaft und Wissenschaft um das Thema ?moderne Sklaverei“ historisch-soziologisch reflektiert und fundiert werden? Der Band gibt Anstoesse zur Nuancierung der Debatte im deutschsprachigen Kontext. Mithilfe Orlando Pattersons Soziologie der ?Sklaverei und des sozialen Tods“ und des westlichen Freiheitsideals lassen sich die Auseinandersetzungen ueber ?moderne Sklaverei“ im weitergehenden Zusammenhang der westlichen Kultur beleuchten. Gleichzeitig werden die Barrieren hervorgehoben, die die Soziologie daran hinderten, diese Phaenomene zu betrachten. Damit erweitert der Band die Perspektive in drei Richtungen: im Hinblick auf (1) die soziokulturelle Differenzierung von Sklaverei und Freiheit, (2) (Dis-)Kontinuitaeten von (Zwangs-)Arbeit in geschlechtlicher und kolonialer Dimension, und (3) Formen der Zwangsarbeit aus der Perspektive des ?sozialen Tods“. Der Band moechte sowohl fuer Historiker*innen als auch fuer Soziolog*innen Wege zum Verstaendnis und zur Unterscheidung von Sklaverei, Freiheit und Arbeit aufzeigen.

Lyon, William Blakemore, Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925. (Africa in Global History 9) XI, 322 S. 2024:7 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <733-1145>
ISBN 978-3-11-137465-9 hard ¥16,234.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war’s demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted.

グローバルな視点におけるタバコ　1780～1960年
van Wickeren, Alexander / Stubbs, Jean et al. (eds.), Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780-1960: Trade, Knowledge, and Labour. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies) 391 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <732-268>
ISBN 978-3-031-64410-8 hard ¥32,490.- (税込) EUR 139.99 *

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco's 'second globalisation', a concept little employed by historians thus far, but one which encapsulates tobacco's central role in Europe's imperial expansion beyond the Atlantic and the social, political, and cultural transformations of global capitalism taking place during the period. The collection fills a gap in the study of commodities of empire, which has examined tobacco primarily for the early modern Atlantic world, or for single empires during the later period. It invites comparison across borders, encompassing political, economic, and sociocultural history, and, with a particular emphasis on trade, knowledge, and labour, juxtaposes micro-histories with a macro-historical perspective. Together, the studies in the volume testify to the importance of tobacco in new places and among new players, challenging the confines of national and imperial historiographical frameworks. They demonstrate the rising dominance of new powerful forces, including transnational corporations, but also a wide range of actors in conflict and negotiation within territorial and imperial confines. By systematically taking into account the agency in Europe's apparent peripheries and the Global South, they critique a simple assumption of the dominance of the West. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.