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

Neacsu, Dana, Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 349) 264 pp. 2025:11 (Brill, NE) <761-787>
ISBN 978-90-04-74720-3 hard ¥37,224.- (税込) EUR 144.00

What if everything you thought you knew about socialism was wrong? Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer invites you to rethink a century of political and cultural myth-making. Dana Neacsu distinguishes real socialism-rooted in democracy and wealth redistribution-from its authoritarian counterfeit: Soviet-style state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, political economy, law, and culture, and using layered textual analysis, Neacsu exposes how language, ideology, and legal systems conspired to mislabel repression as revolution. Featuring rare visuals and sharp close readings, this book equips you to separate fact from fiction and rethink what justice, ownership, and power could truly mean.

Arvidsson, Stefan, Humanist Socialism and the Religion of Socialism: Red Faith II. (Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism) 280 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-791>
ISBN 978-1-032-71086-0 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book explores the historical relationships between socialist ideologies and religious or secular beliefs and cultures that shaper the modern socialist. Portraying the cultural preferences and existential attitudes of leading Marxists, exploring the British tradition of 'the religion of socialism' and excavating the forgotten interwovenness of Wagnerism with social democracy as well as Bolshevism, it brings to the fore how socialists have aspired to revolutionize modern art, culture and forms of living. Since the birth modern socialism in the first decades of the 19th century, socialism has been represented by its enemies as an intoxicating, seductive form of religion. The fact that this is an anti-socialist trope does not mean that socialists themselves haven't given voice to the same idea. This book examines the views of socialists who have held that their political views are grounded in a special view of life and think of this in terms of its being a form of immanent humanism. Offering an evaluation of the usefulness of terms such as 'religion', 'myth' and 'ritual', Humanist Socialism and the Religion of Socialism explores the history of modern socialist movements. It will therefore appeal to scholars of intellectual history, political theory, political philosophy and cultural history with interests in varieties of socialism and its connection with 'ultimate concerns'.

Andrews, Gregg, Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri: The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America's Hometown, 1890-1970. 264 pp. 2026:5 (Louisiana State U. Pr., US) <761-1661>
ISBN 978-0-8071-8583-4 hard ¥10,048.- (税込) US$ 45.00

In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory town. By the mid-1920s, the St. Louis-based International Shoe Company, the world's largest shoe manufacturer at the time, controlled all shoe production in Hannibal and continued to do so until it shut down production lines in the 1960s. The company kept a tight grip on the town as it battled to keep out unions and maintain labor at a low cost and in a malleable state. When Hannibal's shoe workers claimed their right to organize under the New Deal during the Great Depression, the shoe corporation was defiant. The company's stance sparked mob violence against outside union organizers, nurtured a company union, pitted unionists against company loyalists, and badly divided Hannibal. At the same time, the town was engaged in yearlong festivities to celebrate the centennial of Mark Twain's birth and the opening of a museum named in his honor. Andrews's study of shoe manufacturing and its production workers is thick in detail and rich with the human stories of those whose lives were shaped by the rise and fall of the shoe industry in Hannibal. Andrews captures the shoe workers-white and Black, men and women-in their own words as they describe their jobs, family struggles, and battles to unionize. Andrews examines the prevailing conditions that led the company to close its production facilities in Hannibal, leaving shoe workers and the town to confront the early shock waves of deindustrialization. His study of an industry that has virtually disappeared in the United States leaves a record for the families of thousands of American shoe workers and the citizens of Hannibal to better understand their history and the role shoe manufacturing played in it.

Blin, Alexia, A l'assaut de l'abondance: socialisme et consommation du XIXe siecle a nos jours. (Questions republicaines) 270 p. 2025:10 (PUF, FR) <761-1663>
ISBN 978-2-13-083767-1 paper ¥5,687.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Greer Golda, Nicole, The Detroit Model: Manufacturing American Men and Women in the Industrial City. 288 pp. 2026:4 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-1665>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9523-5 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9524-2 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95

As Detroit reached dizzying new heights of industrial success and urban growth at the turn of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of migrants flocked to the Motor City. In response, organizations such as the YMCA launched wide-reaching Americanization programs to instill patriotism, conservative gender roles, traditional family values, and industry-favorable labor relations in the city's immigrant communities. As the "Ford Man" became a model for masculinity and the housewife for femininity, supporters of these programs believed Detroit could become a model for the nation. In this impressively researched book, Nicole Greer Golda reveals how the Detroit Model became embedded in American culture and forged the ideal of proper American citizenship. Delving into Immigration Bureau files, migrant letters, and unexplored Ford Motor Company records, Greer Golda examines debates over family order, sexual relationships, race and labor relations, immigration policy, and the status of women. She illustrates how businessmen, government officials, white women, native-born workers, immigrants, and Black Detroiters challenged each other for the power to define the contours of the new American city. Ultimately, the Americanization programs prevailed and their conservative values became the backbone of Cold War sensibilities that enabled the Cold War consensus to gain popularity. As The Detroit Model contends, the backlash to shifting demographics in Detroit shaped American life for decades to come.

Kagan, Marc, Take Back the Power: The Fall and Rise and Fall of NYC's Transport Workers Union Local 100, 1975-2009. (Studies in Political Economy of Global Labor and Work 7) 491 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <761-1666>
ISBN 978-90-04-74863-7 hard ¥37,482.- (税込) EUR 145.00

The fifty-year long neoliberal era has been marked by working-class reverses and moribund unions. Grounded in the author's own experiences as a transit worker participating in a decades-long effort to fight management and austerity economics, Take Back the Power presents a new perspective on what activists can do to revitalize the labor movement. Marc Kagan uses his union's story to illuminate key dilemmas their efforts face, among them: fight the boss or fight the union to fight the boss; the tension between leadership and participatory democracy; and the costs and benefits of risk aversion. This book encourages us to think introspectively about the choices we make as we attempt to build a better world.

Marsan, Benoit, L'heure des Petitions est passee: Les luttes des sans-travail au Quebec, 1919-1939. (Studies on the History of Quebec / Etudes d'histoire du Quebec) 328 pp. 2026:4 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <761-1667>
ISBN 978-0-228-02698-3 paper ¥10,036.- (税込) US$ 44.95

Au cours de l'entre-deux-guerres au Quebec, les luttes des sans-travail jouent un role determinant dans la politisation du probleme du chomage. Ce sujet devient alors un enjeu a la fois collectif, social et politique remettant en question la relation entre la democratie et le capitalisme, en plus de participer au processus de formation de l'Etat.Ces mobilisations, jumelees a celles qui se deroulent ailleurs au Canada, expliquent pourquoi le chomage devient une question d'importance qui est soudainement debattue largement dans la sphere publique. Apres la Premiere Guerre mondiale, les manifestations prennent racine a Montreal pour ensuite s'etendre a d'autres villes quebecoises au cours de la Grande Depression. En attirant l'attention des autorites, elles contribuent a poser un regard different sur le chomage et la pauvrete en plus de forcer une intervention etatique accrue. L'heure des petitions est passee explore le repertoire d'action collective et l'economie morale des sans-travail afin de mieux comprendre leur role dans l'histoire du chomage. Considerant que leur incapacite a trouver un travail est independante de leur volonte, les protestataires formulent des revendications annoncant une redefinition de la citoyennete comprenant de nouvelles attentes envers l'Etat. De ce fait, ils considerent avoir droit a une protection sociale leur permettant de satisfaire leurs besoins fondamentaux.S'inscrivant dans une demarche d'histoire vue d'en bas, L'heure des petitions est passee demontre le pouvoir de l'agentivite collective des gens ordinaires, ainsi que leur role dans les processus de transformations sociales.

Sierminski, Michal, Solidarity: A New Perspective on the Workers' Revolution and the Intellectual Opposition. (Historical Materialism Book Series 374) 388 pp. 2026:2 (Brill, NE) <761-1670>
ISBN 978-90-04-69015-8 hard ¥36,190.- (税込) EUR 140.00

This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarnosc revolution of 1980-81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers 'from the outside'. Sierminski traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organisation developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The author convincingly demonstrates that Solidarnosc was driven by the working class's own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct-often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.

O'Neill, Colleen, Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 240 pp. 2026:2 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <761-1356>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9327-9 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9328-6 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95

Boodrookas, Alex, Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf. 368 pp. 2026:4 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <761-1067>
ISBN 978-1-5036-4565-3 hard ¥31,262.- (税込) US$ 140.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-4647-6 paper ¥7,815.- (税込) US$ 35.00

In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship. During the twentieth century, anticolonial nationalists, pro-democracy reformers, feminists, and labor organizers joined forces to fight for a more equitable citizenship regime. In so doing, they won a remarkable series of victories: political independence, constitutional rights, and oil nationalization, reshaping not just Kuwait, but the global petroleum order. Comrades Estranged reframes the history of labor activism, citizenship, and decolonization in Persian Gulf by centering the history of social movements-especially organized labor. Alex Boodrookas traces how workers and their allies shaped the world-historic transformations witnessed across the region: the consolidation of British sovereignty, formation of autocratic states, inrush of hydrocarbon wealth, onset of decolonization, and rise of both mass migration and mass politics. But unions failed to incorporate noncitizens into their movement, and as Boodrookas argues, this fatally undermined the movements' strength. The contradictions of nationalist and internationalist visions proved insurmountable. Comrades Estranged thus sheds light on both the power, and the limits, of citizenship and the nation-state as the framework for political action.

マルクス主義と社会主義への移行　第1巻：国家、権力、官僚制
Saenz, Roberto, Marxism and the Socialist Transition. Volume I: State, Power and Bureaucracy. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 346) 445 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <760-71>
ISBN 978-90-04-74724-1 hard ¥44,979.- (税込) EUR 174.00

We have before us the immeasurable historical laboratory of the Russian Revolution, the greatest revolution of our time, and also the most terrible bureaucratic counterrevolution. The working class fought, won, seized power, and expropriated the capitalists: a remarkable anti-capitalist feat. But it was then politically expropriated by the bureaucracy-that "tissue of practical illusions" which became a "political class", degenerated the character of the state into a bureaucratic one, and blocked the socialist transition. This experience is ours to grasp and draw radical conclusions from. Socialist transition is a social, economic, and political process, in which real workers' power is essential to lead the way.

海事の労働とビジネスの歴史のジェンダー化　1700～1900年
Mezzoli, Erica (ed.), Mermaids in History: Engendering Maritime Labour and Business History, 1700-1900. (Brill's Studies in Maritime History 20) 324 pp. 2025:12 (Brill, NE) <760-253>
ISBN 978-90-04-52156-8 hard ¥35,931.- (税込) EUR 139.00

This volume aims to "defamiliarise" the economic and social maritime history of Europe and North America by revealing women's roles and multifaceted contributions in the male-dominated maritime economic arena during industrial capitalist modernity. By questioning the "separated spheres" paradigm, the chapters in this volume highlight the intricate and "illogical" relation between women as economic actors and (maritime) capitalism and modernity. Far from being a clear-cut and linear trajectory, this relationship is rather outlined as a layered dialectical relationship that simultaneously considers the interaction of forms of oppression and liberation. Contributors are: Paola Avallone, Helen Berry, Justine Cousin, Ariana Dominguez Garcia, John Odin Jensen, Kathy S. Mason, Erica Mezzoli, Antonia Morey, Luisa Maria Munoz Abeledo, Tomas Nilson, Oskar Opassi, Raffaella Salvemini, Daniel J. Albero Santacreu, Andreu Segui, and Jo Stanley.

Fitch, Mattie, The People, the Workers, and the Citizens: Antifascist Cultures and the Popular Front in France, 1934-1939. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History) 174 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <759-1430>
ISBN 978-1-032-73904-5 hard ¥46,035.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

In the 1930s, activists with France's Popular Front mobilized culture against fascism. Examining music, theater, film, art, and festivals in Paris, Marseille, and Rouen, this book analyses approaches to antifascism and how they varied and interacted across different regions and left-wing traditions.By combining revolutionary, republican, and working-class heritage, antifascists aimed to foster unifying identities to mobilize the French people. Simultaneously, the distinct outlooks of Communists, Radicals, and Socialists, in addition to the different visions among national figures in Paris and local activists, produced divergent understandings of antifascist culture, ultimately weakening the coalition. This study explains the political, social, and cultural context of the 1930s that generated these movements to break down barriers between ordinary citizens and French culture. It also explores how antifascists constructed the "French people," an ambiguous concept that carried both social and civic connotations.Aimed at a scholarly audience, this volume engages with historians of modern France and the interwar period in Europe and will interest researchers in antifascist and fascist studies, as well as the fields of cultural politics, republicanism, communism, socialism, and national and regional identity.

Montoya, Maria E., A Workplace of Their Own: Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle Over Industrial Democracy. 304 pp. 2026:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <759-1431>
ISBN 978-0-19-755169-1 hard ¥7,815.- (税込) US$ 35.00

At the turn of the twentieth century Colorado's coalfields were the site of the nation's most violent labor conflicts. The remote mountains were home to mining companies that provided workers and their families with supervised housing, education, health care, and stores. Resisting corporate control, workers deployed armed bands against their employers, leading to a pitched battle between the groups for control over the workplace. Efforts to defuse the situation, including strategies that had worked in other industries, all failed. In this book, Maria E. Montoya examines two key figures who practiced rival Progressive reforms for resolving these industrial conflicts. John D. Rockefeller Jr. used paternalism and philanthropy to promote the scientific management of his workers' professional and personal lives. Josephine Roche advocated for worker autonomy, collective bargaining, and government-backed labor protections. Both honed their Progressive ideals in New York City and transported these ideas to manage their businesses in Colorado. Their reform efforts played out and eventually failed against the backdrop of the deadliest mining conflicts of the early twentieth century, the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the 1927 Columbine Massacre. Rockefeller's Industrial Relations Plan did not satisfy his workers and could not prevent strikes. Roche's vision of expert-supervised collective bargaining collapsed under the political and economic pressures brought on by the Depression. Presenting both the capitalists and the men and women who worked and lived in their mining towns, A Workplace of Their Own shows how they grappled with issues around workplace conditions, compensation, benefits, work hours, and corporate decisionmaking-questions that remain as relevant today as they were in the early twentieth century.

Schneider, Nina, Child Labour Opponents and Their Campaigns in the Americas: A Global Perspective (1888-1938). (Dependency and Slavery Studies 23) 425 pp. 2025:10 (de Gruyter, GW) <758-794>
ISBN 978-3-11-914660-9 hard ¥25,836.- (税込) EUR 99.95

This book delves into the past and examines the origins of activism against child labour. It addresses a hitherto under-examined question: how and why did child labour develop into a key concern between the 1880s and 1930s? Who were the protagonists who first raised the issue of child labour as a global concern? The study aims to provide the first account of the history of diverse and locally grounded ? but nationally and frequently globally connected ? child labour opponents in the Americas, their motivations and campaigns, at the turn of the 20th century. I argue that, for the period between 1888 and 1938, one can identify similar protagonists, a joint goal, a broadly similar timing, common platforms, comparable campaigning mechanisms and many types of connections or entanglements across regions. Nevertheless, in contrast to the global anti-slavery movement, child labour opponents formed a loosely institutionalised network which lacked an international organisation that focused specifically on child labour. A global history approach to child labour opponents helps reveal large-scale patterns across societies and highlight similarities and differences between cases.

Koehler, Christian, Die Fahrenden Gesellen: Junge Angestellte zwischen Gewerkschaft und Jugendbewegung (1909-1933). 740 S. 2025:9 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1172>
ISBN 978-3-11-162507-2 hard ¥33,591.- (税込) EUR 129.95

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Entwicklung der "Fahrenden Gesellen" innerhalb des Deutschnationalen Handlungsgehilfen-Verbandes (DHV). Die Organisation wurde in Anlehnung an die Wandervogelbewegung gegruendet. Die "Fahrenden Gesellen" wiesen einige Besonderheiten auf. Ihre Mitglieder wurden ueberwiegend aus Angestellten- und Arbeiterfamilien rekrutiert, wodurch sich die Organisation von den ansonsten buergerlichen, jugendbewegten Gruppen abgrenzte. Die Freizeitaktivitaeten der Mitglieder waren in erster Linie auf das Wandern und Singen ausgerichtet, wobei praktische Erholung und Geselligkeit im Vordergrund standen. In der Weimarer Republik laesst sich ein massgeblicher Einfluss der "Fahrenden Gesellen" auf die Lehrlingsabteilung des DHV beobachten, waehrend sie selbst in der politischen Diskussion kaum aktiv waren. Ihre weltanschaulichen Aeusserungen waren unklar und vielfach von Nationalismus gepraegt. Eine klar definierte ideologische Linie sowie eine Positionierung zu bedeutenden politischen oder sozialen Themen waren nicht erkennbar. Die Studie beleuchtet den soziodemografischen Hintergrund der Mitglieder und beinhaltet ein Verzeichnis von ueber 2.000 Funktionaeren, die in den untersuchten Quellen nachgewiesen werden koennen.

Neumann, Horst / Markert, C. / Amlinger, M., Matrix of Work: Through the Dark Valley: A Road to Prosperity and Freedom Ahead? (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 470 pp. 2026:2 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <758-1173>
ISBN 978-3-11-914569-5 hard ¥12,911.- (税込) EUR 49.95

1926年のゼネストから100年
Cant, Callum / Lee, Matthew, The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026. 144 pp. 2026:4 (Verso, UK) <757-1848>
ISBN 978-1-83674-261-6 paper ¥3,560.- (税込) GB￡ 11.99

The Future in Our Past tells the remarkable story of Britain's only ever General Strike on its centenary. It is an on-the-ground account of how workers brought the country to a standstill for nine extraordinary days. Callum Cant and Matthew Lee take us on a journey through a Britain living on its nerves, from the London docklands to the South Wales coalfields and the railways and warehouses of middle England. They compare the struggles of 1926 with those of workers in these same communities today. We meet a Bangladeshi courier involved in wildcat strikes on the Isle of Dogs. The great grandson of a Welsh miner facing redundancy at the blast furnaces of Port Talbot. This is social history at its most immediate and relevant.Churchill feared that labour militancy presaged a Bolshevik-style revolution. But for socialists, dreams of a brighter future would have to wait. Cant and Matthew Lee ask why this monumental standoff ended in defeat for the unions despite their huge mobilisation. They set out why the General Strike still matters and the lessons it has for us.

Maffre, Stephanie, La trame du passe et le fil de l'histoire: l'invention de Mazamet : catholiques, protestants et autres. (Histoire) 267 p. 2025:8 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <757-1849>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9599-6 paper ¥6,204.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Healy, Catherine, Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945: Intimate Connections. 146 pp. 2025:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-965>
ISBN 978-3-031-91245-0 hard ¥36,186.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book provides the first major transatlantic history of Irish serving women, drawing on four years of archival research in Dublin, Belfast, New York, Boston, London and Liverpool. Domestic service was the largest source of employment for generations of women who left Ireland in the decades after the Great Famine. The perceived difficulty of managing Irish servants became a prominent feature of cultural discourse in the United States and England, where countless cartoons, editorials and literary works caricatured the figure of 'Bridget'. Irish maids and cooks were a canvas on which to project fears not only about Irish politics and immigration but also changing class and gender roles. Existing scholarship on the Irish experience of domestic service has typically focused on socio-economic conditions, but such approaches tend not to capture the complex ways in which Irish female immigrants were encountered both in private households and in wider society. Irish servants were framed through discourses that could involve nostalgia and guilt as well as amusement and disgust: more complex scripts, in general, than those used to describe Irish immigrant men. The period covered in the book allows for a diverse range of cultural sources - including romance novels and Hollywood films depicting working Irish women - to be examined, moving beyond the Victorian-era caricatures typically emphasised in earlier work on the Irish in domestic service.

賃金の決定・交渉　1500～1950年
Ongaro, Giulio / Stephenson, Judy Z. / Mocarelli, L. (eds.), A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation: Wage Determination and Wage Bargains, 1500-1950. (Palgrave Studies in Economic History) 370 pp. 2025:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-275>
ISBN 978-3-031-91929-9 hard ¥46,526.- (税込) EUR 179.99

This edited collection presents 16 new historical cases of wage formation and wage bargaining across the early modern and preindustrial world. Recent literature has revived an established interest in the economic history of wage formation, underlining the gaps still existing in our understanding of wages' composition, quantification, and process of structuring. This collection will shed light on these points, examining diverse topics including in-kind and monetary payments, bonuses and supplements, work contracts, differentials between skilled and unskilled workers, women's work, slavery and coerced labour contracts, and wages in both diachronic and comparative perspective: how wages' structure and composition changes across times and spaces (both in terms of geographical areas and urban-rural environments). The book presents case studies from various geographical areas (from South America to India) from the preindustrial period to the contemporary age and features related contributions on the manufacturing sector, agriculture, mining, and public sectors. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of pre-industrial labour markets in economic, social and labour history. Chapters 6 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

ドイツ連邦共和国における徒弟の運動
Ryan, Paul, The Apprentice Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany: Aufstand der Stifte, 1968-75. (Contributions to Economics) 237 pp. 2025:11 (Springer, GW) <756-282>
ISBN 978-3-032-01684-3 hard ¥25,846.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book examines a largely overlooked social movement in West Germany, notable for its significant influence on the national apprenticeship system. The movement, which led to substantial increases in apprentice pay and contributed to long-term improvements in training quality, is analysed through a wide array of sources, including contemporary German-language literature, official statistics, and archival documents from trade unions and employers' associations. Consideration of comparable changes in the UK, Switzerland, Sweden and the US contributes to a broader understanding of developments in Germany at the time. Addressing an important gap in scholarship, the book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers in economic history, labour economics, social sciences and history, interested in a better understanding of the apprentice movement in Germany and its impact on educational reform, employment relations and apprenticeship.

イギリスの慈善、植民地化、戦争における契約労働　1600～1700年
Tycko, Sonia, Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700. (Studies in Legal History) 356 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-523>
ISBN 978-1-009-58189-9 hard ¥32,670.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00

Consent has been celebrated as a guarantor of liberty and self-determination; however, its history suggests a different meaning. In this book, Sonia Tycko reconstructs the coercive role of contracts in early modern English labor. The long-term, long-distance, and high-risk nature of pauper apprenticeships, transatlantic indentured servitude, military conscription, and prisoners of war labor drove some English people to develop consent into a tool of labor coercion. Coercion could constitute valid consent for people whose social position, age, and gender fit the profile of natural laborers. Many subordinates experienced consenting-or the presumption of their consent-as a form of acceptance of, or even submission to, their position. This book reveals that early modern labor was one of the fields in which ideas of freedom of contract, voluntariness, and enticement developed.

産業に関わる女性　1760～1914年　第1巻
Simonton, Deborah (ed.), Industrial Women, 1760-1914. Volume I.: Women in Industrial Handwork. 554 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <755-367>
ISBN 978-1-032-49913-0 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This four-volume collection of primary sources explores women and industry during the long nineteenth century. Women and industrial work are at the heart of the industrial revolution. They were often the most numerous workers and important contributors to the protoindustrial workforce based on domestic industry. The volumes examine women's work in the home, in the factories, and the law and regulation surrounding women and industry during this period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History.

産業に関わる女性　1760～1914年　第2巻
Simonton, Deborah (ed.), Industrial Women, 1760-1914. Volume II.: Women in Factory Industries. 578 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <755-368>
ISBN 978-1-032-49914-7 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This four-volume collection of primary sources explores women and industry during the long nineteenth century. Women and industrial work are at the heart of the industrial revolution. They were often the most numerous workers and important contributors to the protoindustrial workforce based on domestic industry. The volumes examine women's work in the home, in the factories, and the law and regulation surrounding women and industry during this period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History.

産業に関わる女性　1760～1914年　第3巻
Simonton, Deborah (ed.), Industrial Women, 1760-1914. Volume III.: The Industrial Home and Education. 576 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <755-369>
ISBN 978-1-032-49915-4 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This four-volume collection of primary sources explores women and industry during the long nineteenth century. Women and industrial work are at the heart of the industrial revolution. They were often the most numerous workers and important contributors to the protoindustrial workforce based on domestic industry. The volumes examine women's work in the home, in the factories, and the law and regulation surrounding women and industry during this period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History.

産業に関わる女性　1760～1914年　第4巻
Simonton, Deborah (ed.), Industrial Women, 1760-1914. Volume IV.: Law, Resistance and Power. 576 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <755-370>
ISBN 978-1-032-49916-1 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This four-volume collection of primary sources explores women and industry during the long nineteenth century. Women and industrial work are at the heart of the industrial revolution. They were often the most numerous workers and important contributors to the protoindustrial workforce based on domestic industry. The volumes examine women's work in the home, in the factories, and the law and regulation surrounding women and industry during this period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History.

Bernard, Sara / Archer, R. / Papadopoulos, Y. G. S. (eds.), The Cold War of Labor Migrants: Opportunities, Struggles and Adaptations across the Iron Curtain and Beyond. 185 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-301>
ISBN 978-1-041-13500-5 hard ¥43,065.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.Drawing on rich case studies from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Yugoslavia, the contributors demonstrate how the Cold War's unique socioeconomic and political context fostered unexpected experimentation and adaptation in labor mobility policies and practices. Rather than a simple story of restriction versus freedom, this collection reveals how institutional actors across both blocs functioned as agents of globalization, navigating a terrain where competition and collaboration often coexisted.By examining labor migration as both lived experience and state- regulated phenomenon, this volume makes a vital contribution to our understanding of how Cold War rivalries shaped human mobility within and across ideological divides. The research presented here underscores the importance of integrating both Western and non- Western perspectives when assessing the history and enduring legacy of international labor migration during this pivotal period. This book is an essential resource for scholars of migration studies, Cold War history, labor economics, and global politics.The chapters in this book were originally published in Labor History.

アメリカ労働法への攻撃－最高裁の前での労働組合　1965～2025年
Hartley, Roger C., The Assault on American Labor Law: Unions Before the Supreme Court, 1965-2025. 224 pp. 2025:11 (U. Massachusetts Pr., US) <755-302>
ISBN 978-1-62534-916-3 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-62534-915-6 paper ¥7,803.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Reviewing the dismantling of American labor law in more than Supreme Court cases The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), signed into law by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935, guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes. Since its passage, the NLRA has functioned as the foundational statute of United States labor law. Opposed by conservatives and members of the Republican Party from the beginning, its provisions were largely upheld by the Supreme Court until the 1960's. In the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, however, the Court began to erode the protections of the NLRA. While some cases have received widespread attention from commentators and scholars, such as Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney (2 24), there have been numerous detrimental rulings that are little discussed. Taken as a whole, the Supreme Court's efforts to undermine the NLRA appear sustained and systematic. In The Assault on American Labor Law, distinguished labor law professor Roger C. Hartley collects and carefully reviews every Supreme Court decision concerning the NLRA over the past sixty years. By examining approximately cases, Hartley demonstrates that the Court has often operated more like a legislature than a judicial body, effectively amending the NLRA's collectivist policy underpinnings in favor of the interests of individuals and businesses. These judicial decisions create staggering obstacles for American workers to collectively organize and force them to face globalization, deindustrialization, and technological change individually, without the negotiating leverage provided by union representation. While scholars have suggested individual reforms to re-establish the efficacy of the NLRA, Hartley's thorough study illuminates how the current crisis in US labor law evolved - a comprehensive view that is necessary to help restore the rights of workers to unionize.

コーポラティズムから労働者の管理へ－イギリスのギルド社会主義の発展と崩壊
Vowles, Jack, From Corporatism to Workers' Control: The Development and Demise of British Guild Socialism. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History) 222 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-1362>
ISBN 978-1-041-07311-6 hard ¥43,065.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book provides a history and analysis of how the British guild socialist movement was forged in the heat of labour unrest prior to World War I, the experience of the war and subsequent troubled years, including the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution.Guild socialism proposed a model of participatory pluralism combining workers' control of industry with local democracy and a federal coordinating 'National Commune'. In its time, it generated not only considerable intellectual support and international attention but also internal contradictions and tensions. Its major theorist, G.D.H. Cole, aspired towards a society of direct functional community democracy, rejecting the ideas and practice of a state based on a mass electorate. Based on years of detailed research into the relevant newspapers, magazines and archives, the book shows how Cole developed a utopian social theory which still merits attention today, resonating with contemporary radical ideas and a deepening disillusion with representative democracy.From Corporatism to Workers' Control is intended for historians of British politics and intellectual history, political theorists and political philosophers more generally, and a wider audience of advocates and activists around the world interested in the principles and practices of associative pluralist democracy.

平和のための女性のストライキと冷戦期の女性の平和運動
Coburn, Jon, Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement. (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond) 288 pp. 2025:10 (U. Massachusetts Pr., US) <755-1124>
ISBN 978-1-62534-888-3 hard ¥22,106.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-62534-887-6 paper ¥7,803.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

Illuminating a powerful yet underappreciated force in the American peace and women's movements On November 1, 1961, thousands of middle-class white women took to the streets throughout the United States to demonstrate against atomic weapons. They were brought together by the group Women Strike for Peace (WSP), which grew from modest beginnings at a Georgetown cocktail party to become one of the most effective peace organizations in American history. Under the stewardship of children's book illustrator Dagmar Wilson, and with indispensable support from figures such as Bella Abzug, a lawyer who would later help found the National Women's Political Caucus and serve as US Representative for New York, WSP branches spread to cities and towns across the country, and the group influenced major arms-control treaties and successful antiwar efforts of the Cold War period. Single-handedly, WSP dismantled the McCarthyite House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), catalysed public support for the 1963 Nuclear Weapons Test Ban Treaty, and brokered unprecedented exchanges between American and Vietnamese women during the American War in Vietnam. WSP accomplished their political wins , in part, through a public image that stressed the inherent moral authority and sanctity of motherhood. In Not Just a Housewife, Jon Coburn explores the fascinating story of WSP to argue that the group's historic significance was much more complex than the maternal activism for which it is often remembered. He traces activists' evolution through the Cold War's cultural upheavals, uncovering the significance of forgotten episodes, such as the extraordinary self-immolation of 82-year-old Detroit activist Alice Herz and WSP's unheralded contributions to the 1977 National Women's Conference. In so doing, Coburn recovers WSP's revolutionary politics and militant protests and contends that the organization fused this radical activism with the seeming respectability of motherhood. Through unprecedented access to organizational archives and oral histories, Not Just a Housewife details how WSP's unique fusion of radicalism and respectability significantly shaped Cold War-era women's peace movement history, as well as the broader American culture.

近現代ヨーロッパにおける労働の文化遺産への学際的視点
Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta / Galasinska, Aleksandra (eds.), Embodied Labour: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work's Cultural Heritage in Modern Europe. (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) 214 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-1354>
ISBN 978-1-041-07305-5 hard ¥43,065.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

In a world where physical labour seems to disappear from dominant public narratives, Embodied Labour offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the bodily experiences of work and their significance as elements of European cultural heritage.This collection examines the physical dimension of labour across various European locations - from Estonian oil shale mines, through Norwegian ironworks, to State Agricultural Farms in Poland. Together, the chapters explore how the rhythms of physical labour shaped landscapes, identities, and communities, whilst also addressing issues of representation in museums, literature, and art, and the challenges of conveying bodily experiences to contemporary audiences. The authors challenge linear narratives about the development of work, showing that physical labour has not disappeared but rather changed its character - becoming less visible, more fragmented, and marginalised in public narratives. The volume restores dignity and significance to these experiences, treating the working body not merely as a tool of production but also as a carrier of memory, identity, and knowledge.Embodied Labour is of interest to students and scholars from various disciplines - from history and anthropology, through heritage studies, to philosophy - as well as anyone interested in the cultural, social, and historical dimensions of labour in Europe.Chapter 10 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

A.スタンツィアーニ著　労働の帝国－強制と近現代世界の形成
Stanziani, Alessandro, Empires of Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World. 356 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <755-1360>
ISBN 978-1-009-60859-6 hard ¥26,730.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of aristocratic capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.

産業に関わる女性　1760～1914年　全4巻
Simonton, Deborah (ed.), Industrial Women, 1760-1914. 4 vols. 2284 pp. 2026:1 (Routledge, UK) <100-6605>
ISBN 978-1-032-49910-9 hard ¥117,612.- (税込) GB￡ 396.00

This four-volume collection of primary sources explores women and industry during the long nineteenth century. Women and industrial work are at the heart of the industrial revolution. They were often the most numerous workers and important contributors to the protoindustrial workforce based on domestic industry. The volumes examine women's work in the home, in the factories, and the law and regulation surrounding women and industry during this period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of Women's History.

ラテンアメリカ労働者連合のトランスナショナルな歴史　1938～63年
Herrera, Patricio, A Transnational History of the Latin American Workers' Confederation, 1938-1963: In Favour of a Workers' Homeland. (Labour in History and Society) 172 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-881>
ISBN 978-3-031-98446-4 hard ¥33,601.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book examines the efforts of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL) in generating workers' unity across the continent from 1938-1963. Emerging in 1938 during a period of geopolitical instability, CTAL was systemically and actively preoccupied with the problems that affected workers in Latin America, consistently carrying out concrete actions to protect working-class interests. In doing so, CTAL initiated a process that led to the strengthening of union organisations and the promotion of a common language to defend the social and labour demands of the working class across the continent. This was particularly important due to the complex economic and political repercussions of the Second World War: namely, the high cost of basic necessities, and restrictions on collective and individual liberties. By the end of 1944, CTAL had consolidated its position as a continental union, inserted itself into international debate with organisations such as the ILO, and received widespread support from other labour organisations, including those in the USA and Canada. By analysing how international politics affected workers' movements across various countries, this book offers a transnational, historic overview of the working class in Latin America.

1926年のゼネスト
Schneer, Jonathan, Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926. 448 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <753-2159>
ISBN 978-0-19-289453-3 hard ¥7,425.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

The General Strike of 1926: the tragic story of how the world's best organized working class confronted the world's most powerful, and self-confident, government. In May, 1926, nearly three million British workers downed tools to support nearly one million of their countrymen, miners whose employers meant to lengthen their working day and cut their pay. This General Strike brought the country to a grinding halt - which, according to Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, represented a threat not merely to the nation but to the parliamentary system itself. For nine days, the world's best organized working class confronted the world's most powerful, and self-confident, government. And yet the outcome was never in doubt, for Britain's most important trade-union leaders thought as Baldwin did, although they kept saying they were engaged in a wages dispute only. Really, they feared winning even more than they feared losing. In Nine Days in May, award-winning author and historian Jonathan Schneer mines hitherto untapped archival sources to explain why and how the Strike came about, why and how it was waged and countered, why and how it ended. In addition to government reports and TUC reports, he uses reports of undercover agents and spies, "special" constables sworn in for the duration of the Strike, volunteer strike-breakers, Communist agitators, trade-union leaders and rank-and-file members of trade unions; also, of course, the papers of politicians of all parties. This is a tale of Shakespearian dimensions, replete with tragic heroes and villains and buffoons and opportunists and double-dealers, and contending, evenly matched, forces - both of which meant to do their duty whatever the cost. There may never be another general strike in Britain, but the General Strike of 1926 was one for the ages, illuminating the human condition.

Rochvarg, Arnold, No One Ever Asked: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Worker. 222 pp. 2025:12 (U. Missouri Pr., US) <752-1305>
ISBN 978-0-8262-2341-8 hard ¥8,932.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

This engaging work by legal scholar Arnold Rochvarg presents a narrative history of the mid-1960s civil rights movement centered around the experiences of a white woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who quit college to join the movement and became involved with many of the important events and persons of the day. Rochvarg, the cousin of the woman around whom the narrative revolves, had for over fifty years been intrigued by the mystery surrounding the seven-year disappearance of his cousin Iris during the 1960s. Once he finally approached her about her rumored involvement in the civil rights movement, she generously shared her experiences with him and arranged for him to meet others with whom she had worked. His book corroborates and enhances the stories he was told through traditional research based on primary and secondary sources. More than a review of significant events of the mid-1960s, No One Ever Asked is also the story of the challenges and sacrifices of young civil rights workers both Black and white, young persons who not only faced violence and personal harm, but in many cases became estranged from their families because of their involvement in the movement. Rochvarg approaches history from the "bottom-up," focusing on persons whose stories have never been told but have something to add to an understanding of the history of the movement. Many of them, even sixty years later, have never shared their stories because, as in the case of the central character of this book, no one ever asked them.

Verginella, Marta / Strle, Urska (eds.), Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic: Postwar Transitions. (Work and Labor - Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century) 272 pp. 2025:4 (Central European U. Pr., HU) <752-1157>
ISBN 978-963-386-751-8 hard ¥35,046.- (税込) GB￡ 118.00 *

The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial focus of the analysis is the northeastern Adriatic region, which includes the border areas of Italy and Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. The study is one of the results of an international research project carried out with the support of the European Research Council.The seven studies in the book represent a cross-section of specific professional groups of women. The spectrum ranges from female teachers, clerks, tobacco and textile workers to intellectual, artistic or entrepreneurial activities of women. Although "gender" is a central category of analysis in the book, the aspect of representativeness was also observed in relation to other social factors such as race, class, generations, educational and religious background, etc. The main question of the study was the extent to which new state affiliations, geopolitical boundaries, and the establishment of new political regimes affected the women's labor market in the three postwar constellations.

Gronbaek Pors, Justine, Inherited Time: A Hauntological History of Work in Educational Vocations. (Feminist Perspectives on Work and Organization) 176 pp. 2025:10 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <752-1171>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3374-2 hard ¥23,760.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00

This book offers a fresh perspective on work showing how past events, ideas, practices and values haunt organizations. In a contemporary context where organizations are ever more obsessed with growth and transformation, the book discovers a politics of time at the heart of questions about power and ethics. It develops a non-linear approach to the history of education showing what it means to inherit from previous generations and how encounters with ghosts can open possibilities of other, alternative futures. For academics and students across management, education, and sociology, the book is a crucial resource for understanding contemporary organizations. It invites you to find new ways to care for the future of work.

Labreure, David / Petit, Annie (dir.), Socialismes, utopies & positivismes. (Positivismes & Cie / Glassine) 270 p. 2025:4 (Hermann, FR) <751-659>
ISBN 979-10-370-4337-5 paper ¥7,238.- (税込) EUR 28.00 *

イギリス福祉国家における保護雇用と障害－1944～79年のレンプロイ
Holroyde, Andy, Sheltered Employment and Disability in the British Welfare State: Remploy, 1944-1979. (New Directions in Welfare History) 285 pp. 2025:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <751-288>
ISBN 978-3-031-87875-6 hard ¥36,186.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book explores sheltered employment for disabled people in the British welfare state, focusing on Remploy as the flagship provider. It considers the fundamental areas of understanding Remploy, in terms of why it was created, how it functioned, who it employed, and how far it came to dominate the wider field of provision. The book further uses sheltered employment as a new lens through which to explore key aspects of the welfare state in the period. These include the creation of the post-war settlement; the extent of political consensus; the exclusion of disabled people from welfare and work; the role played by gendered thinking in the welfare state's provisions; and the relationship between the state and voluntary sectors. In so doing, it sheds new light on the history of disability, employment, and welfare in Britain.

19世紀中葉の働くパリジェンヌ
Piette, Christine, Les Parisiennes au travail au milieu du XIXe siecle. (CTHS-Histoire 71) 270 p. 2025:4 (Ed. du CTHS, FR) <751-1119>
ISBN 978-2-7355-0989-8 paper ¥7,238.- (税込) EUR 28.00 *

フランスの社会主義小史
Chuzeville, Julien, Breve histoire des socialismes en France. (Ceux d'en bas) 304 p. 2025:4 (Libertalia, FR) <751-1213>
ISBN 978-2-37729-368-1 paper ¥3,360.- (税込) EUR 13.00 *

フランスにおける第一インターナショナル　1864～80年
Cordillot, Michel, La premiere Internationale en France (1864-1880): son histoire, son implantation, ses militants. (Sciences humaines) 700 p. 2025:4 (Ed. de l'Atelier, FR) <751-1214>
ISBN 978-2-7082-9498-1 paper ¥7,625.- (税込) EUR 29.50

Heying, Mareen / Jaeger, Alexandra u. a. (Hrsg.), Verschwiegener Alltag: Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. (Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte 115) 240 S. 2025:6 (Dietz Nachf., GW) <751-1215>
ISBN 978-3-8012-4298-5 paper ¥9,823.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz war und ist allgegenwaertig. Sie wurde hinter Fabriktoren, Buerotueren oder in Haushalten oft nicht sichtbar, verharmlost oder tabuisiert. Die Gewaltformen, ihre Wahrnehmung und ihre Rahmenbedingungen haben sich seit dem 19. Jahrhundert veraendert. Der Band gibt einen Einblick in Wandel und Kontinuitaeten, Akteursgruppen und die gesellschaftlichen Verhaeltnisse, die die Gewalt ermoeglichten. Gewalt zeigt sich in der Arbeitswelt in unterschiedlichen Formen: Gewalt von oder gegen Vorgesetzte, Gewalt unter Kolleg:innen, aber auch Gewalt durch Kund:innen. Eine besonders verbreitete Form ist die sexualisierte Gewalt, die von unangemessenen Kommentaren bis zu koerperlichen Uebergriffen reicht. Die Autor:innen analysieren Macht- und Geschlechterverhaeltnisse sowie Reaktionen von Betroffenen.

Murphy, Ryan Patrick, Teamsters Metropolis. 264 pp. 2025:7 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <751-1218>
ISBN 978-0-472-07753-3 hard ¥16,747.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05753-5 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers-especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing-locking in hourly pay that bought the patio furniture sets, the pontoon boats, and the station wagons that defined the consumer culture of the decade. Yet suburban comfort came with strict, new institutions that defined the middle-class culture of the era: the nuclear family, heterosexual monogamy, the husband breadwinner, and the dependent wife. Many workers yearned for the pleasures they left behind in the core of the industrial city, even as poor people, people of color, and queer people were locked out of the suburbs.Teamsters Metropolis argues that the union achieved unprecedented organizing success in the immediate postwar period precisely because its members defied bourgeois cultural standards. They wore overly flamboyant clothes, instigated jarringly violent confrontations, used aliases, extorted money, flouted the law, and often blended friendship, sex, and love in a way that challenged the boundaries of heteronormativity. Perhaps no one exemplified this freedom more than Jimmy Hoffa, who delivered better pay and worker conditions to marginal workers while also using coercive tactics, embezzling money, and colluding with the Mafia. Rather than impeding the union's growth, unruly organizing, illicit business techniques, and dissident cultural practices appealed to prospective members and offered an opportunity to circumvent some of the suburban regulations, helping the International Brotherhood of Teamsters become the largest U.S. union of the mid-twentieth century.

Scott, Jerome / Katz-Fishman, Walda, Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) 216 pp. 2025 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-1217>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7427-7 hard ¥26,783.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-7428-4 paper ¥6,686.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries offers a fresh perspective on class, race, and revolution in the United States. Drawing on more than forty hours of interviews with former members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Scott and Katz-Fishman share the rich story of the League, including the women and students. That story includes the history of the automotive industry in Detroit, the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and the wildcat strike that sparked the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The authors describe the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971. They explore the centrality of struggle and political education as the League split and a section of League comrades moved into revolutionary organizations and social movement spaces, many of which remain active today. League comrades share their analysis of the current moment and staying the course of revolutionary struggle.

Bowen, Wayne H., Working for Nazi Germany: Salvador Merino and Spanish Labor in the Third Reich. (Routledge Studies on Contemporary Spain) 210 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-1439>
ISBN 978-1-032-54995-8 hard ¥43,065.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book examines the leadership of Gerardo Salvador Merino, the chief director of the Sindicatos, fascist-controlled unions under the Franco Regime, and his plan to send 100,000 volunteer Spanish workers to Nazi Germany.Despite a degree of charisma and organizational effectiveness, the ambitions of Salvador Merino failed to transform Spain or lift the working classes, and his career ended with the discovery of ties to Freemasonry. Workers who volunteered for Germany to improve their workplace skills, aid the New Order, and support their families instead endured air raids, Nazi racism, and wartime miseries. These failures highlight the Franco Regime's misplaced hope to be on the winning side of World War II through low-cost affiliation with Nazi Germany. In the end, Spain derived few benefits from its enthusiasm for Hitler, and after the war endured isolation for its earlier aims. Through new sources on both Salvador Merino and the Spaniards in the Third Reich, this book reveals the story of unsuccessful revolutionary intentions, failed collaboration, and the suffering experienced by Spanish workers, including Republican exiles.This volume will be useful to historians and general readers interested in the history of World War II, modern Spain, fascism, and the use of foreign labor in wartime.

Welsh, David, The Social Railway and Its Workers in Europe's Modern Era, 1880-2023: Moments of Fury, Ramparts of Hope. 216 pp. 2025:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1441>
ISBN 978-1-350-50062-4 hard ¥25,245.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023. Each chapter explores how, within the context of a social railway, rail workers developed distinct national and international perspectives on the nature of their work and their roles in societies and states. David Welsh convincingly argues that workers formed a raft of entirely new and enduring organisations such as trade unions that, in turn, became ramparts of hope. Welsh goes on to consider how the insurgent character of these organisations produced moments of fury during tumultuous periods in the 20th century. The Social Railway and its Workers in Europe's Modern Era, 1880-2023 explores the national and European contexts in which both characteristics came to the fore, including the ecology of fossil fuel technology (coal and oil). Above all, it argues that social, economic and political forces are not simply external 'scene-shifting' but integral to the history of railway systems.The book examines the cultural construction of European railways through literature, art and other forms of writing as well as recent oral history. It also includes a detailed investigation of the role played by nationalisation and public ownership in Europe. In the context of neoliberalism and globalization, it proposes a 21st century programme for the social railway.

奴隷制と資本主義－新しいマルクス主義の歴史
McNally, David, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. 368 pp. 2025:9 (U. California Pr., US) <749-90>
ISBN 978-0-520-41597-3 hard ¥7,356.- (税込) US$ 32.95 *

The first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery. Karl Marx's writings on enslavement and labor have fallen out of favor among historians, but David McNally injects new life into them. Slavery and Capitalism gives the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character of Atlantic slavery-using colonial travel literature, planter records and diaries, and slave narratives-to support the provocative claim for enslaved labor in the plantation system as capitalist commodity production. Weaving together history, political economy, and radical abolitionism, McNally demonstrates that plantation slaves formed a modern working class. Unlike those scholars who insist that enslaved people were too sensible to set their sights on liberty, he highlights the self-activity of enslaved people fighting for their freedom and reframes their resistance as labor struggles over production and reproduction, with significant implications for US and Atlantic history and for understanding the roots of racial capitalism.