1.
Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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2.
Köstlbauer, Josef
Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 150-174, 2023.
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3.
Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
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4.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
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5.
Bartha, Eszter
Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary) Journal Article
In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 413-438, 2017.
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6.
Weber, Klaus; Steffen, Anka
Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia Book Chapter
In: Brahm, Felix; Rosenhaft, Eve (Ed.): Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850, pp. 87-107, 2016.
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7.
Hackett, Sarah
From rags to restaurants: self-determination, entrepreneurship and integration amongst Muslim immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne in comparative perspective, 1960s-1990s Journal Article
In: Twentieth Century British History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 132-154, 2014.
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8.
Bartha, Eszter
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Book
2013.
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9.
Hackett, Sarah
Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim Immigrant Experience in Britain and Germany. Book
2013.
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2024
Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, italy, mining, wage labour
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2023
Köstlbauer, Josef
Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 150-174, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, historical semantics, slavery
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2021
Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
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2020
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, consumption history, germany, history of everyday life, modernity
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2017
Bartha, Eszter
Transforming Labour: From the Workers’ State to the Post-Socialist Re-Organization of Industry and Workplace Communities: Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary) Journal Article
In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, vol. 58, iss. 2, pp. 413-438, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: germany, hungary, neoliberalism, post-socialism, symbolic capital, working class
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2016
Weber, Klaus; Steffen, Anka
Spinning and Weaving for the Slave Trade: Proto-industry in Eighteenth-Century Silesia Book Chapter
In: Brahm, Felix; Rosenhaft, Eve (Ed.): Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850, pp. 87-107, 2016.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, proto-industry, slavery, textile industry
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2014
Hackett, Sarah
From rags to restaurants: self-determination, entrepreneurship and integration amongst Muslim immigrants in Newcastle upon Tyne in comparative perspective, 1960s-1990s Journal Article
In: Twentieth Century British History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 132-154, 2014.
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2013
Bartha, Eszter
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Book
2013.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, capitalism, economic and social policy, german democratic republic, germany, hungary, post-socialism, socialism, working class
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Hackett, Sarah
Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim Immigrant Experience in Britain and Germany. Book
2013.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, ethnic and religious minorities, germany, migration and mobility, muslims, united kingdom
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