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

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 ¥35,108.- (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 ¥45,140.- (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 ¥25,076.- (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 ¥32,065.- (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 ¥37,895.- (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 ¥37,895.- (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 ¥37,895.- (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 ¥37,895.- (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 ¥42,267.- (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 ¥21,126.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-62534-915-6 paper ¥7,458.- (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 ¥42,267.- (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 One, 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 considerable intellectual support and international attention, but also internal contradictions and tensions. Its major theorist, G.D.H. Cole, aspired toward 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 ¥21,126.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-1-62534-887-6 paper ¥7,458.- (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 ¥42,267.- (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 marginalized 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.

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 ¥26,235.- (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 gentlemanly 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 ¥115,434.- (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 ¥32,600.- (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 ¥7,287.- (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 ¥8,536.- (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 ¥34,397.- (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 ¥23,320.- (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 ¥7,022.- (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 ¥35,108.- (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 ¥7,022.- (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 ¥3,260.- (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 ¥7,398.- (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 ¥9,530.- (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 ¥16,005.- (税込) US$ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05753-5 paper ¥6,391.- (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.

Katz-Fishman, Walda / Scott, Jerome, Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. (Sociology of Race and Ethnicity) 216 pp. 2025:9 (U. Georgia Pr., US) <750-1217>
ISBN 978-0-8203-7427-7 hard ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-0-8203-7428-4 paper ¥6,391.- (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 ¥42,267.- (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 ¥24,777.- (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 ¥7,031.- (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 ¥27,692.- (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 ¥5,016.- (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 ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95 *
ISBN 978-1-4780-3245-8 paper ¥6,177.- (税込) US$ 28.95 *

Despite Trinidad and Tobago's economic dependence on oil and gas production and its history of colonial exploitation of labor and resources, it enjoys relatively high democratic and redistributive development compared to other nations in the global South. In Fueling Development, Zophia Edwards draws on archival data, historical analysis, and Black radical political economic thought to trace Trinidad and Tobago's success to a specific form of working-class mobilization she calls "liberation unionism." A Black radical labor tradition, liberation unionism was multiracial, multisectoral, and gender inclusive; Pan-African, anti-imperial, anticolonial, and diasporic; and it advocated not only for workplace issues, but for economic, political, and social transformation. Emerging during the colonial period, liberation unionism forced the colonial state to increase its institutional capacity to promote equitable development. The movement persisted into the post-independence period and further compelled the independent state to channel oil windfalls toward increasing its ability to better serve the needs of the people. By uncovering liberation unionism's power to create robust social and economic change, Edwards expands understandings of the relationship between development, race, labor, and political economy.

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 ¥21,126.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4696-9085-8 paper ¥5,324.- (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 ¥25,597.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-1-4780-3279-3 paper ¥6,391.- (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 ¥7,273.- (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 ¥6,391.- (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 ¥40,810.- (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 ¥6,270.- (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 ¥38,874.- (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 ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83878-6 paper ¥6,935.- (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 ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84433-6 paper ¥6,828.- (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 ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84450-3 paper ¥6,402.- (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 ¥7,287.- (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. 2025:10 (VSA, GW) <746-1516>
ISBN 978-3-96488-245-5 paper ¥4,213.- (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 ¥12,536.- (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 ¥8,850.- (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 ¥10,028.- (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 ¥23,320.- (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.