Women, Work, and Activism

Susan Zimmermann is University Professor at Department of History and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University. Her research has focused on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, international women’s organizations in the 20th century, the ILO, and women and trade unions in state-socialist Hungary. She is President of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH).Dr. Eloisa Betti is Adjunct Professor of Labor History at the University of Bologna.Marica Tolomelli is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on social conflicts, social movements, and political cultures since the end of WWII until the end of the 20th century, and the history public spheres and the circulation of ideas in the “long 20th century” from a global perspective.Leda Papastefanaki is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Ioannina and Collaborating Faculty Member at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies – FORTH (Greece). She has published on the social and economic history of industrialization and labor in the Mediterranean context, and gender history.

"'Women, Work, and Activism' ist ein einmaliger Sammelband, der das Potenzial des Forschungsfelds Gewerkschaftsgeschichte, Labor History und Geschlecht abwechslungsreich und vielschichtig darstellt. Es ist zu hoffen, dass hier ein erster Impuls gesetzt wurde, der weitere Arbeiten im Themenfeld inspiriert."

• List of Acronyms, List of Tables and Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction. Thinking the History of Women's Activism into Global Labor History> Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan ZimmermannPART I. TOWARD INCLUSIVE FRAMINGS: WOMEN'S LABOR ACTIVISM IN MEN- AND WOMEN-DOMINATED CONTEXTS Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s Virgínia Baptista and Paulo Marques Alves The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period Laura Savelli Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship: Comisiones Obreras Nadia Varo Moral Traditionally Reserved for Men: Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women's Campaign for Liberation Diane Kirkby, Lee-Ann Monk, and Emma Robertson PART II. WOMEN IN MOTION: RETHINKING AGENCY AND ACTIVISM AT THE WORKPLACE AND BEYOND The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks: Women Auxiliaries and the Ship Repair Workers' Strike (Genoa, 1955) Marco Caligari In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families: Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945-1970 Thanasis Betas Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976-1989) Rory Archer Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care Elizabeth Faue PART III. HOW THE PERSONAL REVEALS THE POLITICAL: WOMEN ACTIVISTS BIOGRAPHIES AND BEYOND Women Activists' Relationship to Peasant Women's Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s Isidora Gruba?ki Women in the Trade Union Movement Camera del Lavoro(Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945-1965) Debora Migliucci French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training ....