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

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 ¥24,937.- (税込) US$ 119.95
ISBN 978-0-8203-7428-4 paper ¥6,226.- (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 ¥40,991.- (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 ¥24,029.- (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.