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

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 *

Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great Recession in 2011, Karen's husband and other retirees of the Century Aluminum plant-a pillar of industry in their rural community of Ravenswood-had their healthcare benefits terminated. The United Steelworkers had negotiated for these union members to have a portion of their wages deducted to fund future benefits, and the employees worked for decades with the promise of health insurance upon retirement. When Century idled the plant and reneged on its agreement, retirees were left without affordable care at the time they needed it most._x000D_ Knowing lives were on the line, Karen vowed to do whatever she could to pressure Century to reinstate retirees' promised benefits. Within months, she became the lead organizer and spokesperson for a grassroots campaign that would capture the attention of lawmakers and Century's CEO. The campaign would also test her resolve, her relationships, and her faith in the systems that promised to protect working-class people._x000D_ We Were Promised follows Karen and a group of determined retirees on their long journey to seek justice-from staging an Occupy-inspired camp at the Ravenswood plant in West Virginia to confronting Century's corporate executives in Illinois and California. In highlighting Appalachia's role in the modern labor movement and the impact of women activists in the region, this story serves as a powerful example of everyday folks, as Karen said, "having the courage to stand up and raise hell and fight back."

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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