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

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 ¥37,169.- (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