Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
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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.
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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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Zimmermann, Susan
Equality of Women’s Economic Status? A Major Bone of Contention in the International Gender Politics Emerging During the Interwar Period Journal Article
In: The International History Review, vol. 41, iss. 1, pp. 200-227, 2017.
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Pizzolato, Nico
The IWW in Turin: “Militant History,” Workers’ Struggle, and the Crisis of Fordism in 1970s Italy Journal Article
In: International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 91, pp. 109-126, 2017.
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Pizzolato, Nico
A new revolutionary practice: operaisti and the 'refusal of work' in 1970's Italy Journal Article
In: Estudos Históricos, 2017.
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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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2022
Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
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2019
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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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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Zimmermann, Susan
Equality of Women’s Economic Status? A Major Bone of Contention in the International Gender Politics Emerging During the Interwar Period Journal Article
In: The International History Review, vol. 41, iss. 1, pp. 200-227, 2017.
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Pizzolato, Nico
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In: International Labor and Working Class History, vol. 91, pp. 109-126, 2017.
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A new revolutionary practice: operaisti and the 'refusal of work' in 1970's Italy Journal Article
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Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844 Journal Article
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