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

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 ¥6,849.- (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.

Feng, Xiaojun, The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949. (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China) 300 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-658>
ISBN 978-1-009-64053-4 hard ¥26,856.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Globally, most workers live precarious lives. In this examination of China's industrial relations since 1949, Xiaojun Feng explores why this should be. China provides an important case to examine this question because it has gone through both socialist revolution and marketized reforms, the major economic and political dynamics that have shaped the world since the twentieth century. Developing a comprehensive analytical framework for the interpretation of archives, interviews and participant observation, Feng explores the causes of and potential remedies for labour precarity in China. Bridging the 1949 and 1978 divides, this study unveils continuities and more fundamental discontinuities across these watershed moments, and sheds fresh light on the extent to which popular policy can counter labour precarity and the future dynamics of labour movements.

Castellesi, Romain, Savoir commencer une greve: resistances ouvrieres a la desindustrialisation dans la France contemporaine. (L'epreuve des faits) 328 p. 2025:3 (Agone, FR) <748-236>
ISBN 978-2-7489-0578-6 paper ¥4,708.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Edwards, Zophia, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago. 304 pp. 2025:9 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-238>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2905-2 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3245-8 paper ¥6,018.- (税込) US$ 28.95

Trotter, Joe William, Jr., From Enslavement to COVID-19: A History of African American Health and Labor. 224 pp. 2025:10 (U. North Carolina Pr., US) <748-286>
ISBN 978-1-4696-9084-1 hard ¥20,582.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-4696-9085-8 paper ¥5,186.- (税込) US$ 24.95

During the COVID- 9 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more deadly rates than their Euro-American counterparts. In From Enslavement to COVID- 9, Joe William Trotter Jr. delves into the historical context of this phenomenon.Focusing on four historical periods-enslavement, emancipation, the industrial era, and the digital age-Trotter argues that rather than being anomalous, the fight for adequate health care and beneficial social service policies follows a similar trajectory as the movement of Black people from enslavement to freedom. The book emphasizes how the labor requirements of work shaped the African American encounter with disease how white medical professionals developed stereotypes about the susceptibility of Black people to sickness and how those professionals denied essential medical care to the country's most vulnerable. Trotter also highlights how people of African descent drew on their legacy of activism and community-building to improve their physical and mental conditions, creating programs and strategies to combat inequality and discrimination in the nation's health care system.

Robinson, Beth, Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century. 232 pp. 2025:11 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-311>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2933-5 hard ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3279-3 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

David, Bruno, Intellectuels ouvrieristes: les communistes des conseils en France, 1927-1934. (Le temps de l'histoire) 312 p. 2025:3 (Pr. U. de Provence, FR) <748-1209>
ISBN 979-10-320-0549-1 paper ¥6,826.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Flint, Julia, We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate Giant. 272 pp. 2025:10 (U. Pr. Kentucky, US) <748-1212>
ISBN 978-1-9859-0306-7 hard ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95

イタリアの共産主義の不一致と第四インターナショナルに向けたトランスナショナルなトロツキズム
Mastrolillo, Gabriele, Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928-1938). (Marx and Marxisms) 320 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-1213>
ISBN 978-1-032-84394-0 hard ¥39,578.- (税込) GB￡ 140.00

Following his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky promoted the birth of an International Anti-Stalinist Communist movement which considered itself in opposition to the Communist International (Comintern). However, since 1933, it began to regard itself as an independent transnational organization in direct competition with the Comintern. Italian Communist Dissidence and Transnational Trotskyism towards the Fourth International (1928-1938) draws from wide-ranging primary and secondary sources, most of which are unpublished, to tell the fascinating unexplored story of the relations between the Italian communist dissidence (Trotskyist and Bordigists), Trotsky, and the International Secretariat (IS), the leading structure of the Trotskyist movement in the 1930s. It focuses on the role played by the two most notable executives of Italian dissident communism, Alfonso Leonetti and Pietro Tresso, who performed key roles inside the IS; consequently, the study of their activity gives us the possibility of following the development of Transnational Trotskyism in the 1930s until the establishment of the Fourth International.Written for scholars of Italian and International Communism, this book will also appeal to those interested in learning how Italian Trotskyism contributed to the building of a global alternative to Stalinism.

Pitti, Laure, Algeriens au travail, une histoire (post)coloniale: enquete sur les travailleurs immigres de l'industrie automobile dans la France des Trente Glorieuses. (Histoire) 348 p. 2025:3 (Pr. U. de Rennes, FR) <748-1214>
ISBN 978-2-7535-9684-9 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

アメリカとドイツにおける自動化、労働、産業開発
Knowles, Anthony, Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 331) 430 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-447>
ISBN 978-90-04-73670-2 hard ¥36,487.- (税込) EUR 155.00

Driving Productivity reconstructs the industrial histories of the American and German automotive industries in a new light. From the Fordist assembly line to Japanese lean production and Industry 4.0, Anthony J. Knowles critically examines major technical developments within the historical dynamics of capitalism. Both countries face the pressure to automate, transform labor, and increase efficiency, yet their responses differ due to divergent paradigms of integrating business, labor, and government. Driving Productivity makes the case that improving productivity is a never-ending process that becomes a compulsory social imperative that industries must respond to but are nevertheless responded to differently between countries.

英米の資本主義におけるグローバルな不平等、人種の境界、組合の台頭　1870～1929年
Batzell, Rudi, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870-1929. 392 pp. 2025:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1288>
ISBN 978-0-226-83876-2 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83878-6 paper ¥6,756.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

An original analysis of the relationship between slavery and the labor movement in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the rise of the labor movement in the late nineteenth century, why were American workers unable to organize inclusive trade unions like those formed by their counterparts in the United Kingdom? Comparing American and British capitalism in the port cities of Baltimore and Liverpool and the steel cities of Pittsburgh and Sheffield, Rudi Batzell reveals that the answer lies in the legacies of slavery and entrenched structures of racial inequality. Strikebreaking succeeded more often in the United States because landless Black Americans were, out of economic desperation, more likely to become scabs and fracture the class solidarity of any union movement. Batzell shows, in short, how racism was and is deeply connected to class, migration, and capitalism in a global economy marked by slavery and empire. In emphasizing the geography of economic inequality, this book offers new clarity on the late-nineteenth-century successes and failures of working-class formation. More broadly, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery makes it clear that the pursuit of justice today will require sustained economic reparations for slavery and colonialism.

アメリカ都市部におけるジェンダー、児童労働、少女のための教育　1870～1930年
Oram, Ruby, Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930. (Historical Studies of Urban America) 272 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1360>
ISBN 978-0-226-84431-2 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84433-6 paper ¥6,652.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Baring, Edward, Vulgar Marxism: Revolutionary Politics and the Dilemmas of Worker Education, 1891-1931. (Life of Ideas) 320 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-106>
ISBN 978-0-226-84448-0 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84450-3 paper ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Ervin, Keona, Refusal: Black Women Workers and Emancipatory Struggle. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Verso, UK) <746-1319>
ISBN 978-1-83976-373-1 hard ¥7,067.- (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. 2025:6 (VSA, GW) <746-1516>
ISBN 978-3-96488-245-5 paper ¥3,954.- (税込) EUR 16.80

Mit der sogenannten Maerzaktion sollten die der Kommunistischen Internationale naherstehenden Teile der Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland mit einer bewaffneten Revolte wieder in die Offensive gebracht werden. Sie endete in einer gravierenden Niederlage mit etwa 180 Toten und vielen Verwundeten. Etwa 6.000 Beteiligte wurden verhaftet, ca 4.000 von ihnen zu insgesamt 2.000 Jahren Gefaengnis verurteilt. Acht erhielten lebenslange Haftstrafen, vier wurden zum Tode verurteilt. Gravierender waren die Folgen fuer die Arbeiterbewegung insgsamt. Der Hintergrund: Der Sieg ueber die zaristische Konterrevolution ? die Bolschewiki hatten im November 1917 in Russland die Macht uebernommen ? war im Herbst 1920 endgueltig besiegelt. Nach dem Sieg ueber die auslaendischen Interventionstruppen zersplitterte sich allerdings die revolutionaere Front. Fuer die Bauern, die waehrend des Buergerkriegs und des ≫Kriegskommunismus≪ die Bolschewiki kostenlos mit Lebensmitteln versorgt hatten, hatte die Revolution vor allem die Durchsetzung kapitalistischer Verhaeltnisse auf dem Land bewirkt. Vor allem in Suedrussland brachen im Winter 1920/21 gegen die Bolschewiki grosse Bauernaufstaende aus. Auch viele Arbeiter, in deren Namen eine ≫Diktatur des Proletariats≪ errichtet worden war, begannen zu opponieren ? war doch laengst aus der Diktatur einer Klasse, eines solidarischen Prinzips, die Diktatur einer einzigen Partei geworden. Ausgerechnet die Elitetruppen der Bolschewiki, die Matrosen von Kronstadt, bliesen zum Aufstand ? und wurden ebenso wie die Bauern blutig niedergeworfen. Die Politiker um Lenin weigerten sich zu akzeptieren, dass die Revolution 1921 in Russland zwar das maximal Moegliche erreicht hatte: die Beendigung des Weltkrieges und die Ueberwindung der feudalen Schlacken erreicht hatte, aber perspektivisch nur in einer parlamentarischen Demokratie eine Zukunft gehabt haette. Stattdessen entschieden sich die Bolschewiki, an der Macht zu bleiben und stattdessen die Revolution nach aussen und auch nach Deutschland auszudehnen. Dazu erfanden sie eine ≫Offensivtheorie≪, was darauf hinauslief, im Ausland einen Putsch anzuzetteln. Diese ≫Offensivtheorie ist […] in keinem deutschen Schaedel entstanden. Sie wurde nach Deutschland mitgebracht als ein Reisepraesent aus Kreisen - wie man offizioes sich ausdrueckt -, die dem kleinen Bureau der Exekutive [der Kommunistischen Internationale] nicht allzu fernstehen. Die deutschen Zentralemitglieder [der KPD] waren nur die Trottel, sie unbesehen anzunehmen.≪ (Paul Levi) Joern Schuetrumpf hat erstmals alle heute erreichbaren Dokumente zu dieser Aktion zusammengetragen.

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 ¥11,766.- (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 ¥8,316.- (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 ¥9,412.- (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 ¥22,616.- (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 ¥24,029.- (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 ¥29,683.- (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 ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08843-8 paper ¥6,237.- (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 ¥25,987.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08853-7 paper ¥5,821.- (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 ¥7,062.- (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 ¥21,818.- (税込) US$ 104.95 *
ISBN 978-1-64712-570-7 paper ¥7,265.- (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 ¥30,248.- (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 ¥11,534.- (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 ¥4,147.- (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 ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-8263-6761-7 paper ¥6,226.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Driving Terror tells the story of twenty-four Ford autoworkers in Argentina who were tortured and "disappeared" for their union activism in 1976, miraculously survived, and pursued a decades-long quest for truth and justice. In December 2018, more than four decades after their ordeal, the men won a historic human-rights case against a military commander and two retired Ford Argentina executives who were convicted of crimes against humanity.The book uses this David-and-Goliath story to explore issues of labor repression and corporate complicity with Argentina's last military dictatorship as well as to shed light on the enormous obstacles facing victims of such crimes. Its emphasis on working-class activism in the arenas of labor and human rights introduces North American readers to a new narrative of contemporary Argentine history.The Ford survivors' story intertwines with the symbolic evolution of the car the men helped build at Ford: the Falcon sedan. The political polarization and violence of the Cold War era transformed the Falcon from a popular family car to a tool of state terror after the coup of 1976, when it became associated with the widespread practice of "disappearance." Its meaning continued to evolve after the return to democracy, when artists and activists used it as a symbol of military impunity during Argentina's long-term struggles over justice and memory.

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 ¥19,750.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-520-39964-8 paper ¥6,226.- (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 ¥10,395.- (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 ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-21131-2 paper ¥11,304.- (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 ¥33,641.- (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 ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-1-5179-1496-7 paper ¥6,226.- (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 ¥8,305.- (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 ¥6,226.- (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 ¥7,265.- (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 ¥18,700.- (税込) US$ 89.95 *
ISBN 978-1-61186-531-8 paper ¥8,305.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

This biography of Roy Reuther examines his tumultuous life, including the triumphs and tragedies in the labor and civil rights movements. It also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers activists may face as they confront entrenched societal powers. As the brother of famed labor leader Walter Reuther, Roy was a key figure in the historic Flint sit-down strike that gave birth to the United Auto Workers (UAW). He became the political director of the UAW and was deeply involved in struggles to pass civil rights legislation. This book explores his passion for increasing voter participation and his vow to help downtrodden farmworkers. Many of the injustices that Reuther fought continue to plague America today. This book provides important context for the current efforts of workers to organize, for the Black Lives Matter movement, and for efforts to reform the filibuster rule and stop voter suppression. It shows how dedicated individuals can overcome enormous odds to win great victories for social justice and emphasizes the potential connections between the labor and civil rights movements, offering hope for a more just future.

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 ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-228-02362-3 paper ¥9,344.- (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 ¥13,888.- (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 ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-8139-5275-8 paper ¥7,276.- (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 ¥45,232.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-91397-1 paper ¥16,958.- (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 ¥6,120.- (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 ¥40,991.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-74406-3 paper ¥11,304.- (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 ¥30,598.- (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 ¥27,027.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5017-8019-6 paper ¥6,226.- (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 ¥9,355.- (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 ¥32,952.- (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 ¥38,164.- (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.