1.
Őze, Eszter
Exploitation and Care: Public Health Aspirations and the Construction of the Working-Class Body in the Budapest Museum of Social Health, 1901–1945 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.
Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
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3.
Štofaník, Jakub
The Religious Life of the Industrial Working Class in the Czech Lands Journal Article
In: East Central Europe, vol. 46, pp. 99-110, 2019.
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4.
Suodenjoki, Sami
Turning the landless into socialists: Agrarian reforms and resistance as drivers of political mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1914 Book Chapter
In: Regan, Joe; Smith, Cathal (Ed.): Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914, pp. 170-184, 2019.
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5.
Popinigis, Fabiane; Terra, Paulo Cruz
Classe, raça e a história social do trabalho no Brasil (2001-2016) Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2019.
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6.
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
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7.
Byrne, Sian; Ulrich, Nicole; van der Walt, Lucien
Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African Workerism, Syndicalism and the Nation Book Chapter
In: Webster, Edward; Pampillas, Karin (Ed.): The Unresolved National Question in South Africa, pp. 254-273, 2017.
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8.
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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9.
Kučera, Rudolf
Rationed Life. Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918 Book
2016.
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10.
Bartha, Eszter
Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary. Book
2013.
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11.
Sefer, Akın
From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 58, iss. 3, pp. 395-428, 2013.
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12.
Kučera, Rudolf
Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844 Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 46, iss. 2, pp. 430-448, 2012.
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2024
Őze, Eszter
Exploitation and Care: Public Health Aspirations and the Construction of the Working-Class Body in the Budapest Museum of Social Health, 1901–1945 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, europe, history of the body, hungary, public health, working class
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2020
Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class
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2019
Štofaník, Jakub
The Religious Life of the Industrial Working Class in the Czech Lands Journal Article
In: East Central Europe, vol. 46, pp. 99-110, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, czechia, history of everyday life, religion, working class
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Suodenjoki, Sami
Turning the landless into socialists: Agrarian reforms and resistance as drivers of political mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1914 Book Chapter
In: Regan, Joe; Smith, Cathal (Ed.): Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914, pp. 170-184, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, finland, labour movements, socialism, working class
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Popinigis, Fabiane; Terra, Paulo Cruz
Classe, raça e a história social do trabalho no Brasil (2001-2016) Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: brazil, gender, historiography, latin america, race, working class
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2018
Jarska, Natalia
The Periphery Revisited: Polish Post-war Historiography on the Working Class and the New Global Labour History Journal Article
In: European Review of History, vol. 25, iss. 1, pp. 45-60, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: central and eastern europe, global labour history, historiography, poland, socialism, working class
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2017
Byrne, Sian; Ulrich, Nicole; van der Walt, Lucien
Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African Workerism, Syndicalism and the Nation Book Chapter
In: Webster, Edward; Pampillas, Karin (Ed.): The Unresolved National Question in South Africa, pp. 254-273, 2017.
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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
Kučera, Rudolf
Rationed Life. Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918 Book
2016.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, bohemian lands, war, working class
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abstract = {Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. The book reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres—food, labor, gender, and protest—that comprise a case study in early twentieth-century social history.
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Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict. In particular, they faced new and dramatic forms of material hardship that strained social ties and placed in sharp relief the most mundane aspects of daily life, such as when, what, and with whom to eat. The book reconstructs the experience of the Bohemian working class during the Great War through explorations of four basic spheres—food, labor, gender, and protest—that comprise a case study in early twentieth-century social history.
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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title = {Alienating Labour: Workers on the Road from Socialism to Capitalism in East Germany and Hungary.},
author = {Eszter Bartha},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
urldate = {2013-01-01},
abstract = {The state socialist regimes 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 political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
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The state socialist regimes 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 political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.
Sefer, Akın
From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 58, iss. 3, pp. 395-428, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, ottoman empire, revolt and revolution, working class
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title = {From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire},
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year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History},
volume = {58},
issue = {3},
pages = {395-428},
abstract = {This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Arsenal (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul. It explores, from a class-formation perspective, the struggles and relations of Arsenal workers, including the conscripts and children employed here, from the second half of the nineteenth century until the revolution.
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This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Arsenal (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul. It explores, from a class-formation perspective, the struggles and relations of Arsenal workers, including the conscripts and children employed here, from the second half of the nineteenth century until the revolution.
2012
Kučera, Rudolf
Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844 Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 46, iss. 2, pp. 430-448, 2012.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, bohemian lands, gender, labour movements, working class
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title = {Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844},
author = {Rudolf Kučera },
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Social History},
volume = {46},
issue = {2},
pages = {430-448},
abstract = {The study concentrates on the pre-1848 labor protests in Bohemia and analyzes them with respect to questions of gender. The paper explores how the codes and institutions of skilled labor masculinity shaped working-class collective action in pre-1848 Bohemia – one of the most industrialized European regions during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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The study concentrates on the pre-1848 labor protests in Bohemia and analyzes them with respect to questions of gender. The paper explores how the codes and institutions of skilled labor masculinity shaped working-class collective action in pre-1848 Bohemia – one of the most industrialized European regions during the first half of the nineteenth century.