1.
Batista, Anamarija
Word and Image in Communication: ‘Translation Loop’ as a Means of Historiographical Research 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.
Schiel, Juliane; Chevaleyre, Claude
Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 9-17, 2023.
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available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
3.
Geelhaar, Tim; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Perreaux, Nicolas; Schiel, Juliane; Schürch, Isabelle
Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 18-47, 2023.
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4.
Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Schiel, Juliane
Über die Mikrosemantik von Einzeldokumenten. Ludolf Kuchenbuch im Gespräch mit Juliane Schiel Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 48-61, 2023.
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5.
Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
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6.
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
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2024
Batista, Anamarija
Word and Image in Communication: ‘Translation Loop’ as a Means of Historiographical Research 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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2023
Schiel, Juliane; Chevaleyre, Claude
Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 9-17, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, historical semantics, historiography, methodology
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available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
Geelhaar, Tim; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Perreaux, Nicolas; Schiel, Juliane; Schürch, Isabelle
Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 18-47, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, methodology
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Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Schiel, Juliane
Über die Mikrosemantik von Einzeldokumenten. Ludolf Kuchenbuch im Gespräch mit Juliane Schiel Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 48-61, 2023.
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2020
Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
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2016
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: colonialism, fordism, global labour history, historical anthropology, methodology
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