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Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class …
Gendered Money
Financial Organization in Women's Movements, 1880-1933
Av Pernilla Jonsson, Silke Neunsinger
Inbunden, 2011
1979 kr
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As economic citizenship was a pre-condition of full citizenship, the lack of economic autonomy was an important motivation during the early stages of the women’s movement. Independent of their class background, women had less access to not only financial resources but also social and cultural …
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison
Av Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions …
Charismatic Leadership and Social Movements
The Revolutionary Power of Ordinary Men and Women
Inbunden, 2012
1880 kr
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Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of charisma to such an extent that it loses its distinctiveness – and therefore its utility. More particularly, the concept’s relevance to the study of social …
Maternalism Reconsidered
Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Av Marian van der Klein, Rebecca Jo Plant m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary …
Routes Into the Abyss
Coping with Crises in the 1930s
Av Helmut Konrad, Wolfgang Maderthaner
Inbunden, 2013
1936 kr
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Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give insight into the contemporary global recession. Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with their antidemocratic, authoritarian or fascistic …
Class and Other Identities
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
Av Lex Heerma van Voss, Marcel van der Linden
Häftad, 2002
526 kr
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With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some …
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory
Av Kevin Murphy
Inbunden, 2005
1936 kr
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Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests? Revolution and Counterrevolution is at the center of the ongoing discussion about class …
Rebellious Families
Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Av Jan Kok
Inbunden, 2002
1880 kr
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Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on …
Rebellious Families
Household Strategies and Collective Action in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Av Jan Kok
Häftad, 2003
527 kr
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Why do people rebel? This is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. It is a question to which no satisfactory answer has been found, despite more than a century of research. However, in most cases the research has focused on …
Experiencing Wages
Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe since 1500
Av Peter Scholliers, Leonard Schwarz
Inbunden, 2003
1979 kr
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When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditional …
Experiencing Wages
Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe since 1500
Av Peter Scholliers, Leonard Schwarz
Häftad, 2004
543 kr
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When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, how much of the wage was paid in non-monetary form - whether as traditional …
Imaginary Revolution
Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
Inbunden, 2004
1979 kr
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The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little …
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993
A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries
Av Rinus Penninx, Judith Roosblad
Inbunden, 2001
1916 kr
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European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in socio-economic decision-making processes. Consequently they also play an important role in the formulation of …
Trade Unions, Immigration, and Immigrants in Europe, 1960-1993
A Comparative Study of the Actions of Trade Unions in Seven West European Countries
Av Rinus Penninx, Judith Roosblad
Häftad, 2002
526 kr
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European trade unions are among the most influential and powerful institutions within Western economies, in many cases cooperating with the government and employers' associations in socio-economic decision-making processes. Consequently they also play an important role in the formulation of …
Class and Other Identities
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
Av Lex Heerma van Voss, Marcel van der Linden
Inbunden, 2002
1979 kr
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With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s. This led to much debate on its future and function within the historical discipline as a whole. Some …
Alienating Labour
Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary
Inbunden, 2013
2139 kr
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The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class …
Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s
Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of …
Bondage
Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2014
1916 kr
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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions …
History of Labour Intermediation
Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Av Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2186 kr
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Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and …
Bread from the Lion's Mouth
Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities
Inbunden, 2015
2117 kr
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The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the …
Maternalism Reconsidered
Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Av Marian van der Klein, Rebecca Jo Plant m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
543 kr
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Beginning in the late 19th century, competing ideas about motherhood had a profound impact on the development and implementation of social welfare policies. Calls for programmes aimed at assisting and directing mothers emanated from all quarters of the globe, advanced by states and voluntary …
Bondage
Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Häftad, 2015
316 kr
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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions …
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
Av Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2123 kr
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In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization—challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national …
Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s
Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
543 kr
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The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of …
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Av Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1936 kr
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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called "Nordic …
Laborers and Enslaved Workers
Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness that expressed itself across seemingly …
What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
Av Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2186 kr
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Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of …
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star
The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000
Av Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
526 kr
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Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic …
Planning Labour
Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania
Inbunden, 2019
1979 kr
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Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet experience, it pursued a policy of “primitive socialist accumulation” whereby the state appropriated agricultural …
