Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Sundara Raja, Sivachandralingam / Sivan, S. R. (eds.), Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour: The South Asian Working Class in British Malaya. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) 200 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-856>
ISBN 978-1-03-228309-8 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism - that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon - needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India. It examines the opportunities which colonialism presented for these people, highlighting also the British approach to colonialism in Malaya, an approach which emphasised conservativism and tradition, and which protected the interests of the Malay aristocrat classes and, by extension, the Malay masses in order to compensate for European economic dominance and the influx of a non-Malay labour force. Overall, the book demonstrates that the South Indians, a class whose identity, social existence, and prospects were inextricably linked to imperial processes, benefitted from colonialism, and should be viewed as an active transnational entity within a constructive system, rather than as passive victims of repressive, destructive forces.

労働市場から労働投入へ　1933～45年
Gesellschaft fuer Rheinische Geschichtskunde (Hrsg.), Vom Arbeitsmarkt zum Arbeitseinsatz 1933-1945: Dokumente zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik im noerdlichen Rheinland und in Westfalen. (Publikationen der Gesellschaft fuer Rheinische Geschichtskunde LXXXV) 2023:6 (Boehlau, GW) <697-336>
ISBN 978-3-412-52504-0 hard ¥9,504.- (税込) EUR 45.00

Die Arbeitsmarktpolitik, in zeitgenoessischer Terminologie als ?Arbeitseinsatz“ bezeichnet, war ein zentrales Aktionsfeld der Sozial-, Wirtschafts- und Ruestungspolitik des NS-Regimes. Entscheidende Voraussetzungen fuer die Stabilitaet des NS-Systems und dessen Kriegsfuehrung waren nicht zuletzt die Beseitigung der Arbeitslosigkeit nach 1933 und die Lenkung der Arbeitskraefte in die Ruestungsindustrie. Diese verschaerfte sich im Krieg, als zudem unerschlossene Arbeitskraeftereserven rekrutiert wurden. Mit regionalem Fokus beleuchtet dieser Band die unterschiedlichen Arbeitsmaerkte in Rheinland und Westfalen, die Rolle der Arbeitsverwaltung vor Ort, die Wirksamkeit der umfassenden Reglementierungen sowie die tiefe Verstrickung der Arbeitsaemter in den nationalsozialistischen Terror gegenueber der eigenen Bevoelkerung.

革命後のフランスにおける労働と政治の境界
Tomasello, Federico, The Making of the Citizen-Worker: Labour and the Borders of Politics in Post-revolutionary France. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France) 216 pp. 2023:7 (Routledge, UK) <697-1296>
ISBN 978-1-03-230114-3 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

Over the course of the 19th century European societies started thinking of themselves as 'civilisations of work'. In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general principle of order, progress, and governance. How did work become so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition? The book addresses this question by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific 'fragment' of history in the early 1830s marked by a pandemic crisis and the first consequences of industrialisation. It combines the analysis of both political institutions and social movements to retrace the rise of a labour-based social contract revolving around the 'citizen-worker' as the quintessential subject of rights. The first part of the book highlights the role played by the genesis of the modern social sciences and analyses it as a political process that established work as an 'object' of governance and scientific investigation, thus fostering pioneering measures of welfare centred on work conditions. The second part focuses on the emergence of the concept of 'working class' and the modern labour movement, which structured the world of work as a collective political 'subject'.

Witkowski, Mareike, Arbeitsplatz Privathaushalt: Staedtische Hausgehilfinnen im 20. Jahrhundert. (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft 246) 2023:9 (Vandenhoeck, GW) <697-1297>
ISBN 978-3-525-31150-9 hard ¥13,728.- (税込) EUR 65.00

Hausgehilfinnen stellten in der ersten Haelfte des 20. Jahrhunderts die groesste weibliche Berufsgruppe dar. Charakteristisch ist das Leben im Haushalt der Arbeitgeber:innen: An kaum einem anderen Arbeitsplatz trafen zwei unterschiedliche Klassen so direkt aufeinander. Die Zahl der Hausgehilfinnen, so die weit verbreitete Meinung, sei seit dem Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts stetig gesunken, und spaetestens mit dem Jahr 1945 gaebe es die Berufsgruppe nicht mehr. Bereits ein kurzer Blick in die Statistik zeigt, dass der Anteil der Haugehilfinnen vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zwar absolut und prozentual langsam, aber kontinuierlich sank ? allerdings von einem sehr hohen Niveau ausgehend. Mareike Witkowski zeigt, dass die Berufsgruppe im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts einen Wandel durchlief: Aus der Hausgehilfin wurde mehr und mehr die stundenweise beschaeftigte Reinigungskraft.

Jaures, Jean, La voix du socialisme. (Oeuvres de Jean Jaures 14) 2022:12 (Fayard, FR) <696-878>
ISBN 978-2-213-72509-3 paper ¥7,392.- (税込) EUR 35.00

共産党とソヴィエトのシステムの形成　1921～41年
Kokosalakis, Yiannis, Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941. (New Studies in European History) 330 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-879>
ISBN 978-1-00-921886-3 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists made up of ordinary people. While far removed from the levers of power, they were nevertheless charged with promoting the Party's programme of revolutionary social transformation in their workplaces, neighbourhoods, and households. Their regular meetings, conferences and campaigns have generated a voluminous source base. This rich material provides a unique view of the practical manifestation of the Party's revolutionary mission and forms the basis of this insightful new narrative of how the Soviet republic functioned in the period from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921 to its invasion by Nazi Germany in 1941.

Notz, Gisela (Hrsg.), August Bebel oder: Der revolutionaere Sozialdemokrat. 200 S. 2023:7 (Dietz, GW) <696-880>
ISBN 978-3-320-02404-8 paper ¥2,534.- (税込) EUR 12.00

August Bebel (1840?1913 ) , Sohn einer alleinerziehenden Mutter, lernte das Drechslerhandwerk, ging als Handwerksgeselle auf Wanderschaft und fand nach einigen Umwegen zur Sozialdemokratie. Er wurde 1867 in den Reichstag des Norddeutschen Bundes gewaehlt und Praesident des Verbandes Deutscher Arbeitervereine. Als 1890 die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) gegruendet wurde, wurde Bebel einer der beiden Vorsitzenden. Oft wird August Bebel als ≫Arbeiterkaiser≪ oder ≫Kaiser der kleinen Leute≪ bezeichnet. Ihm wird diese Bezeichnung nicht gefallen haben, denn er war ein Todfeind der bestehenden Monarchie und wollte sie beseitigen. Er kaempfte fuer Sozialismus, Vergesellschaftung und die Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter; bekaempfte Kapitalismus, Militarismus, Antisemitismus und Kolonialismus, bis zu seinem Tode 1913.

Troyansky, David G., Entitlement and Complaint: Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in Post-Revolutionary France. 248 pp. 2023:7 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-882>
ISBN 978-0-19-763875-0 hard ¥16,160.- (税込) US$ 83.00

米国の労働運動の進行中の戦い
Stepan-Norris, Judith, Union Booms and Busts: The Ongoing Fight Over the U.S. Labor Movement. 304 pp. 2023:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-229>
ISBN 978-0-19-753985-9 hard ¥7,778.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A.Gueslin著　19世紀フランスにおける児童労働
Gueslin, Andre, Enfance volee: le travail des enfants en France au XIXe siecle. (Historiques. Serie Travaux) 2022:11 (L'Harmattan, FR) <695-1998>
ISBN 978-2-14-030279-4 paper ¥5,913.- (税込) EUR 28.00

Grenouilleau, Olivier, L'invention du travail. 2022:10 (Cerf, FR) <694-1356>
ISBN 978-2-204-14345-5 paper ¥4,224.- (税込) EUR 20.00

農村共同体の社会的トポグラフィ－17世紀イングランドにおける労働生活の光景
Hindle, Steve, The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England. 496 pp. 2023:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <694-1357>
ISBN 978-0-19-286846-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.

Tichelar, Michael, Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History) 296 pp. 2023:4 (Routledge, UK) <694-1358>
ISBN 978-1-03-220639-4 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book is the first comprehensive economic, social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the largest London boroughs, Croydon, has always been a mixed residential suburb, (mainly private but with some municipal housing) which has strongly influenced the nature of its political representation. It was never just an affluent middle-class suburb or 'bourgeoise utopia,' as suggested by traditional definitions of suburbia and in popular imagination. In economic terms it was also an industrial suburb after 1918. It was then transformed into a vibrant post-industrial service economy following rapid deindustrialization and remarkable commercial and office redevelopment after 1960. In this respect Croydon is also an ex-industrial suburb, similar to many other outer London areas and other peripheral metropolitan areas. Croydon's civic identity as a previously independent town on the outskirts of London remains unresolved to this day even as its political representatives seek to redefine the borough as a more independent 'Edge City.' Author Michael Tichelar examines this suburb by looking at the suburban development of London, the changing politics of Croydon and policy issues during the twentieth century. Labour in the Suburbs will be of interest to the general reader as well as students of modern British history with special interests in electoral sociology, political representation and suburbanisation. It provides a template against which to measure the process of suburbanisation in the UK and internationally.

Veauvy, Christiane, Experience et pensee: Saint-Simon, saint-simoniennes, saint-simonisme: naitre a des liens menaces de silence. 2022:10 (Geuthner, FR) <694-1359>
ISBN 978-2-7053-4102-2 paper ¥10,648.- (税込) NPEur 40.00

Frick, Jean-Paul, Le concept d'organisation chez Saint-Simon. (Bibliotheque de l'economiste) 2022:9 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <694-153>
ISBN 978-2-406-13181-6 hard ¥18,585.- (税込) EUR 88.00
ISBN 978-2-406-13180-9 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) EUR 49.00

Li, Huaiyin, The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019. 320 pp. 2023:3 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <693-391>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3454-1 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-1-5036-3528-9 paper ¥6,230.- (税込) US$ 32.00

Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provides a bottom-up examination of working class participation in factory life during socialist and reform-era China. Huaiyin Li offers a series of new interpretations that challenge, revise, and enrich the existing scholarship on factory politics and worker performance during the Maoist years, including the nature of the Maoist state as seen in the operation of power relations on the shop floor, as well as the origins and dynamics of industrial enterprise reforms in the post-Mao era. In sharp contrast with the ideologically driven goal of promoting grassroots democracy or manifesting workers' status as the masters of the workplace, Li argues that Maoist era state-owned enterprises operated effectively to turn factory workers into a well-disciplined labor force through a complex set of formal and informal institutions that functioned to generate an equilibrium in power relations and work norms. The enterprise reforms of the 1980s and 1990s undermined this preexisting equilibrium, catalyzing the transformation of the industrial workforce from predominantly privileged workers in state owned enterprises to precarious migrant workers of rural origins hired by private firms. Ultimately, this comprehensive and textured history provides an analytically astute new picture of everyday factory life in the world's largest manufacturing powerhouse.

人種とアメリカ社会主義の起源
Costaguta, Lorenzo, Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism. (Working Class in American History) 256 pp. 2023:3 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1446>
ISBN 978-0-252-04492-2 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08707-3 paper ¥5,451.- (税込) US$ 28.00

As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others stood with International Workingmen's Association leaders J. P. McDonnell and F. A. Sorge in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role. Costaguta charts the socialist movement's journey through the conflict and down a path that ultimately abandoned scientific racism in favor of an internationalist class-focused and racial-conscious American socialism. As he shows, the shift relied on a strong immigrant influence personified by the cosmopolitan Marxist thinker and future IWW cofounder Daniel De Leon. The class-focused movement that emerged became American socialism's most common approach to race in the twentieth century and beyond.

Kelly, Blair, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class. 304 pp. 2023:6 (Liveright, US) <693-1469>
ISBN 978-1-63149-655-4 hard ¥5,841.- (税込) US$ 30.00

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost-mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and the very existence, of everyday Black workers. In her brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story. Spanning two hundred years-from Kelley's earliest known ancestor, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid pandemic-her narrative focuses on the laundresses, Pullman porters, and domestic maids who established the Black working class as a political force. Excluded by whites, Black workers found community in unexpected places, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen. These networks of resistance and joy sustained them and became the foundation of their organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future.

Fattmann, Rainer / Wiede, Wiebke / Wolf, Johanna (Hrsg.), Gender Pay Gap: Vom Wert und Unwert von Arbeit in Geschichte und Gegenwat. (Politik- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte 113) 220 S. 2023:4 (Dietz Nachf., GW) <693-1519>
ISBN 978-3-8012-4258-9 paper ¥6,758.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Der Gender Pay Gap ist ein vielschichtiges historisches Phaenomen. Es ist verknuepft mit ungleichen Bewertungen von Arbeit auf den Arbeitsmaerkten, mit Geschlechterbildern, die sich im Zeitverlauf nur langsam wandeln, und einer ungleichen Verteilung von Haus-, Sorge- und Erwerbsarbeit. Die Autorinnen zeichnen die Bedingungen der ungleichen Bezahlung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven exemplarisch nach. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verdienten Frauen im Jahr 2021 pro Arbeitsstunde etwa 18 Prozent weniger als Maenner. Der Abstand in der Entlohnung wird seit Langem politisch und wissenschaftlich diskutiert. Dennoch verringert sich die Ungleichheit nur langsam. Existenz und Dauerhaftigkeit des Phaenomens sind allerdings laenderuebergreifend. Der Band fragt aus der Perspektive von Geschichtswissenschaft, Soziologie, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften nach historischen und gegenwaertigen Auspraegungen und Ursachen des Gender Pay Gaps.

Annese, Lorenzo, Vita da Gastarbeiter: Von Apulien zu VW in Wolfsburg. Die Geschichte des ersten auslaendischen Betriebsrats in Deutschland. 208 S. 2022:9 (Dietz Nachf., GW) <693-1709>
ISBN 978-3-8012-0650-5 paper ¥4,224.- (税込) EUR 20.00

Geboren 1937 in dem Dorf Alberobello, verlebte Lorenzo Annese eine entbehrungsreiche Jugend und schwierige Zeit als Landarbeiter in einer bitterarmen Gegend Apuliens. 1958, mit 21 Jahren, wanderte er nach Deutschland aus ? ein italienischer "Gastarbeiter" der ersten Stunde. Er fand eine "neue Welt" voller Moeglichkeiten, aber manchmal auch Feindseligkeiten. Er war der erste italienische Mitarbeiter der Volkswagen AG und blieb ihr ueber drei Jahrzehnte eng verbunden. 1965, als "IG-Metaller", wurde der zum ersten nicht deutschen Betriebsrat der Bundesrepublik gewaehlt und setzte sich unermuedlich fuer die Integration der grossen italienischen Gemeinde in Wolfsburg ein. Heute lebt er, der "Emigrant", vielfach geehrt mit seiner Frau Frieda in Deutschland, aber er werde immer "ein Nomade bleiben, nicht nur geografisch, sondern auch in Geist, Gewissen und Herz". "Lorenzo ist ein unvergleichlicher Geschichtenerzaehler: Sein hervorragendes Gedaechtnis, seine theatralische Stimme und seine anziehende Art zu sprechen machen ihn zu einem fesselnden Redner. Ich habe mich in der Vergangenheit oft gefragt, woher diese Gabe stammt, aber irgendwann habe ich verstanden, dass es eigentlich nicht wichtig war zu wissen, ob Natur oder Kultur ihm zu dieser Faehigkeit verholfen haben, wichtig ist, dass Letztere zusammen mit zuvorkommender Menschlichkeit und Entschiedenheit im Handeln eine der Grundlagen seines Seins darstellt." (Pasquale Annese)

Erlich, Mark, The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work. (Working Class in American History) 144 pp. 2023:7 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1711>
ISBN 978-0-252-04519-6 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08733-2 paper ¥4,468.- (税込) US$ 22.95

The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates. But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and preparing for technological changes. Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal experience inside the building trades to explain one of our economy's least understood sectors. Erlich's multifaceted account includes the dynamics of the industry, the backdrop of union policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades. He offers a much-needed overview of construction's past and present while exploring roads to the future.

Gooding, Frederick W., Jr. / Yellin, Eric S. (eds.), Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader. (Working Class in American History) 272 pp. 2023:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1713>
ISBN 978-0-252-04517-2 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08731-8 paper ¥5,841.- (税込) US$ 30.00

From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American democracy. In Part Two, essayists examine race and gender discrimination while revealing the subtle contemporary forms of marginalization that keep Black men and Black and white women underpaid and overlooked for promotion. The historic labor actions detailed in Part Three illuminate how city employees organized not only for better pay and working conditions but to seek recognition from city officials, the public, and the national labor movement. Part Four focuses on nurses and teachers to address the thorny question of whether certain groups deserve premium pay for their irreplaceable work and sacrifices or if serving the greater good is a reward unto itself. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Cathleen D. Cahill, Frederick W. Gooding Jr., William P. Jones, Francis Ryan, Jon Shelton, Joseph E. Slater, Katherine Turk, Eric S. Yellin, and Amy Zanoni

1900年以降の北欧諸国における労働組合のアクティヴィズム
Jorgensen, Jesper / Mikkelsen, Flemming (eds.), Trade Union Activism in the Nordic Countries since 1900. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements) 358 pp. 2023:2 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <693-1714>
ISBN 978-3-031-08986-2 hard ¥27,453.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Providing a Nordic historical perspective, this collection aims to further our understanding of trade union activism and its role in modern society. Contributions from a range of leading scholars analyse the organisational conditions of mobilisation that were deployed by Nordic unionists, and explore the way that they interacted with other forms of social and political protest during the twentieth century. Covering illegal or so-called wildcat strikes, blockades, demonstrations and other activist measures, the authors examine the way that trade union activism in the Nordic countries aimed to move the political combat zone from the meeting rooms of the respective confederations into the streets and the public domain. The collection focuses on cases from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, but comparisons are also made with countries such as Iceland, Germany, and the USA. Exploring the ways in which political parties have intervened in Nordic trade union activism since the early twentieth century, this unique collection offers new insights for those interested in labour market dynamics and the complex process behind the formation of salary and employment conditions.

Machcewicz, Anna, Rebellion: The Shipyard Strikes in Poland and the Birth of Solidarnosc in August 1980. (FOKUS 9) 403 S. 2023:3 (Schoeningh, GW) <693-1717>
ISBN 978-3-506-79044-6 hard ¥10,538.- (税込) EUR 49.90

Riddell, William D., On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924. (Working Class in American History) 240 pp. 2023:7 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1718>
ISBN 978-0-252-04516-5 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08730-1 paper ¥5,062.- (税込) US$ 26.00

In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced America's emerging imperial system. Maritime workers crossed ever-shifting boundaries that forced them to reckon with the collision of different labor systems and markets. Formed into labor organizations like the Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the International Seaman's Union of America, they contested the U.S.'s relationship to its empire while capitalists in the shipping industry sought to impose their own ideas. Sophisticated and innovative, On the Waves of Empire reveals how maritime labor and shipping capital stitched together, tore apart, and re-stitched the seams of empire.

Roggero, Gigi, Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method. Tr. by C. Pope. (Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought) 224 pp. 2023:3 (MIT Pr., US) <693-1719>
ISBN 978-0-262-04792-0 paper ¥6,814.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Shackel, Paul A., The Ruined Anthracite: Historical Trauma in Coal-Mining Communities. (Working Class in American History) 256 pp. 2023:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <693-1720>
ISBN 978-0-252-04514-1 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08728-8 paper ¥5,841.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Once a busy if impoverished center for the anthracite coal industry, northeastern Pennsylvania exists today as a region suffering inexorable decline--racked by economic hardship and rampant opioid abuse, abandoned by young people, and steeped in xenophobic fear. Paul A. Shackel merges analysis with oral history to document the devastating effects of a lifetime of structural violence on the people who have stayed behind. Heroic stories of workers facing the dangers of underground mining stand beside accounts of people living their lives in a toxic environment and battling deprivation and starvation by foraging, bartering, and relying on the good will of neighbors. As Shackel reveals the effects of these long-term traumas, he sheds light on people's poor health and lack of well-being. The result is a valuable on-the-ground perspective that expands our understanding of the social fracturing, economic decay, and anger afflicting many communities across the United States. Insightful and dramatic, The Ruined Anthracite combines archaeology, documentary research, and oral history to render the ongoing human cost of environmental devastation and unchecked capitalism.

Stoklasa, Jana, Umstrittenes Vermoegen: Arbeiterorganisationen in Wiedergutmachungsverfahren fuer nationalsozialistisches Unrecht. (Schriften zur Didaktik der Demokratie 6) 368 S. 2023:1 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <692-855>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5377-0 hard ¥7,180.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Wie westdeutsche Arbeiterorganisationen nach 1945 um Rueckerstattung und Entschaedigung stritten. Im Jahr 1933 zerschlugen die Nationalsozialisten die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung. Der NS-Staat enteignete das auf rund eine Milliarde Reichsmark geschaetzte Vermoegen und setzte es nicht zuletzt fuer Verfolgung, Propaganda und Kriegswirtschaft ein. Als 1948 die Nachfolgeorganisationen Antraege auf Rueckerstattung stellen konnten, entbrannte ein erbitterter Kampf um Immobilien, Zeitungsdruckereien und Entschaedigungen. Jana Stoklasa erinnert ausgehend vom Beispiel Hannovers an dieses lange vergessene Kapitel deutscher Nachkriegsgeschichte. Auf der Basis neuer Quellen spuert die Historikerin dem Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen Geschichtspolitik, Justiz und Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung nach. Sie dekonstruiert die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen SPD und KPD im Zeichen der innerdeutschen Teilung mithilfe der postkolonialen Diskursanalyse; und sie zeigt fuer die Konsumgenossenschaften in beeindruckender Weise, wie eng Restitution und Vergangenheitsblindheit miteinander zusammenhingen.

左翼の国際主義－トランスナショナルな政治史
Di Donato, Michele / Fulla, Mathieu (eds.), Leftist Internationalisms: A Transnational Political History. (New Approaches to International History) 288 pp. 2023:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <690-703>
ISBN 978-1-350-24791-8 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and transnational connections. Embedding the history of left-wing internationalism into a new political history approach, it accounts for global and transnational turns in the study of left-wing politics. The essays in this collection study a range of examples of international engagement and transnational cooperation in which left-wing actors were involved, and explore how these interactions shaped the globalization of politics throughout the 20th century. In taking a multi-archival and methodological approach, this book challenges two conventional views - that the left gradually abandoned its original international to focus exclusively on the national framework, and that internationalism survived merely as a rhetorical device. Instead, this collection highlights how different currents of the Left developed their own versions of internationalism in order to adapt to the transformation of politics in the interdependent 20th-century world. Demonstrating the importance of political convergence, alliance-formation, network construction and knowledge circulation within and between the socialist and communist movements, it shows that the influence of internationalism is central to understanding the foreign policy of various left-wing parties and movements.

Roth-Ey, Kristin (ed.), Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War. (Histories of Internationalism) 288 pp. 2023:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <690-1235>
ISBN 978-1-350-30278-5 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces. These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them. Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground.

17～21世紀のグローバルな農業労働者
Bauer, Rolf / Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen (eds.), Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century. (Studies in Global Social History 50) 470 pp. 2023 (Brill, NE) <688-309>
ISBN 978-90-04-52494-1 hard ¥23,020.- (税込) EUR 109.00 *

Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present - a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers? Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer, Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers, Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, Rogerio Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani, Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.

Freebody, Jane, Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939. (Mental Health in Historical Perspective) 383 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-341>
ISBN 978-3-031-13104-2 hard ¥10,557.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-031-13107-3 paper ¥8,445.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods. Comparing how occupation was used in French and English mental institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after the heyday of moral therapy, the book is an essential read for those researching the history of mental health and medicine more generally. It provides an overview of the legislation, management structures and financial conditions that affected mental institutions in France and England, and contributed to their differing responses to the new theories of occupational therapy emerging from the USA and Germany during the interwar period.

Delis, Apostolos / Ibarz, Jordi et al. (eds.), Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition: Maritime Labour, Communities, Shipping and the Challenge of Industrialization 1850s - 1920s. (Brill's Studies in Maritime History 14) 620 pp. 2022:11 (Brill, NE) <688-361>
ISBN 978-90-04-51286-3 hard ¥33,792.- (税込) EUR 160.00

This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type of primary sources on the transition from sail to steam navigation, written in a variety of languages, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek, Russian and Ottoman. Questions that arise in the book include the labour conditions, wages, career and retirement of seafarers, the socio-economic and spatial transformations of the maritime communities and the changes in the patterns of operation, ownership and management in the shipping industry with the advent of steam navigation. The book offers a comparative analysis of the above subjects across the Mediterranean, while also proposes unexplored themes in current scholarship like the history of navigation. Contributors are: Luca Lo Basso, Andrea Zappia, Leonardo Scavino, Daniel Muntane, Eduard Page Campos, Enric Garcia Domingo,Katerina Galani, Alkiviadis Kapokakis, Petros Kastrinakis, Kalliopi Vasilaki, Pavlos Fafalios, Georgios Samaritakis, Kostas Petrakis, Korina Doerr, Athina Kritsotaki, Anastasia Axaridou, and Martin Doerr.

Darlington, Ralph, Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14. 352 pp. 2023:3 (Pluto Pr., UK) <688-1259>
ISBN 978-0-7453-3903-0 paper ¥4,858.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

The Labour Revolt that swept Britain in the early 20th century was one of the most sustained, dramatic and violent explosions of industrial militancy and social conflict the country has ever experienced. It involved large-scale strikes by miners, seamen, dockers, railway workers and many others, and was dominated by unskilled and semi-skilled workers, many acting independently of trade-union officials. Because of this powerful grassroots energy, the country saw widespread solidarity action, phenomenal union membership growth, breakthroughs in both industrial unionism and women's union organisation, and a dramatic increase in the collective power of the working-class movement. It heralded political radicalisation that celebrated direct action and challenged head-on the Liberal government and police and military, as well as driving reform of the Labour Party. Exploring the role of the radical left and the relationship between industrial struggles and political organisation, with new archival research and fresh insights and combining history from below and above, Ralph Darlington provides a multi-dimensional portrayal of the context, causes, actors, dynamics and contemporary significance of the Labour Revolt.

Porter, Catherine, Larisa Reisner. A Biography. (Historical Materialism Book Series 266) 409 pp. 2022:12 (Brill, NE) <688-1263>
ISBN 978-90-04-29705-0 hard ¥33,792.- (税込) EUR 160.00

The life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895-1926) is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to tell her story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books, to be published together in translation for the first time by Brill with this biography.

Marao Alfagali, Crislayne Gloss, Blacksmiths of Ilamba: A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century). (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 430 S. 2023:4 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-768>
ISBN 978-3-11-078651-4 hard ¥23,221.- (税込) EUR 109.95

This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the foundry and the important role they played in developing the form of production employed there. By emphasizing continuities with African technology and the quality of the iron produced, it counters interpretations of the project as an example of the failure of the Portuguese Enlightenment. The analysis demonstrates the circulation of knowledge about iron production, thus revitalizing debates that have posited knowledge transmission as unidirectional. It also highlights the relationship between local political leaders and the colonial government, in addition to elucidating the processes by which workers were organized.

Duijzings, Ger / Duskova, Lucie (ed.), Working All Night: Modernity, Night Shifts and the Temporal Organization of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 305 S. 2022:10 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-180>
ISBN 978-3-11-075288-5 hard ¥18,997.- (税込) EUR 89.95 *

The night has always and almost universally represented a special ‘out of the ordinary’ temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities, and dangers. It is only since the modern era that the night has become increasingly ‘normalised’. Although 24/7 industrial production is often seen as a consequence of capitalist expansion, other political and economic regimes adopted the ‘night shift’, normalising it as part of an alternative modernity.

Dinu, Radu Harald / Bengtsson, Staffan (eds.), Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies) 280 pp. 2023:1 (Routledge, UK) <687-188>
ISBN 978-1-03-232753-2 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. Bringing together historians and disability scholars from a variety of disciplines and regions, the chapters investigate various historical settings, ranging from work cooperatives to disability associations and informal workplaces, and analyse multiple meanings of labour in different political and economic systems through the lens of disability. The book's contributors demonstrate that the nexus between labour and disability in modern, industrialised societies resists easy generalisations, as marginalisation and integration were often two sides of the same coin: While the experience of many disabled people has been marked by exclusion from mainstream production, labour also became a vehicle for integration and emancipation. Addressing one of the research gaps of the disability history field, which has long been dominated by British and North American perspectives, the book sheds light on less-studied examples from Scandinavian countries and Eastern Europe including Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and Romania. Cutting across national, cultural and class divides the volume provides a springboard for reflections on common experiences of disability and labour during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to all scholars and students working in the field of disability studies, sociology and labour history.

Lieb, Felix, Arbeit und Umwelt?: Die Umwelt- und Energiepolitik der SPD zwischen Oekologie und Oekonomie 1969-1998. (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte 132) 456 S. 2022:8 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-235>
ISBN 978-3-11-077423-8 hard ¥13,717.- (税込) EUR 64.95 *

Ueber die Krise der SPD ist allerorten zu lesen, und das nicht erst seit gestern. Bereits seit den 1970er-Jahren forderten neue Themen und Akteur:innen das sozialdemokratische Politikmodell fundamental heraus. Im Bereich der Umweltpolitik war dies besonders deutlich zu erkennen: Das neue oekologische Bewusstsein stellte das klassisch-sozialdemokratische Fortschrittsmodell und das Selbstverstaendnis der SPD als Partei der Arbeit infrage. Hinzu kam, dass das von der Umweltbewegung und den Gruenen propagierte Ideal der Basisdemokratie gegen das traditionelle Organisationsprinzip der SPD gerichtet war. Doch wie reagierte die Sozialdemokratie auf dieses doppelte Spannungsfeld zwischen ?Arbeit" und ?Umwelt" sowie ?Partei" und ?Bewegung"? Felix Lieb untersucht in dieser parteihistorischen Studie erstmals die Versuche der SPD, die eigene Identitaet zu wahren und sich gleichzeitig unter oekologischen Vorzeichen zu erneuern. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Willy-Brandt-Preis fuer Zeitgeschichte 2021 der Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung.

Delius, Anna, Translating Repression into Rights: Labor Protest and Democratic Opposition in Spain and Poland, 1960-1990. (Work in Global and Historical Perspective) 400 S. 2023:7 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-1052>
ISBN 978-3-11-076885-5 hard ¥20,053.- (税込) EUR 94.95

This book is first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse. The study argues that the democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland were both variants of emancipatory and democracy oriented social movements with global interconnections that emerged in the 1960s. It reveals that the demands for free and independent trade unions, which in both countries became a flashpoint in the fight for broader democratic demands, was not always discussed in rights terms, but rather presented as an inevitable necessity. At the same time, these labor movements and their intellectual allies morally delegitimized state repression against workers and thereby employed the concepts of democracy, participation, solidarity, progress and eventually, rights. Integrating the history of two European semi-peripheric societies into a broader narrative, this book is relevant for readers interested in global labor history, human rights history and the history of democratization in Europe in the late Twentieth Century.

Bensimon, Fabrice, Artisans Abroad: British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870. 288 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <686-408>
ISBN 978-0-19-883584-4 hard ¥20,177.- (税込) GB￡ 83.00

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial take-off in continental Europe. Tramping Artisans examines the lives and trajectories of these workers who emigrated from manufacturing centres in Britain to France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries, considering their mobilities, their culture, their politics, and their relations with the local populations. Fabrice Bensimon reminds us that the British economy was not just oriented towards the Empire and the USA, but also towards the continent, long before the European Union and Brexit, and shows the critical role played by migrant workers in the Industrial Revolution. Tramping Artisans is the first social and cultural history of this forgotten migration.

Sachs, Miranda, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris. 208 pp. 2022:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-1436>
ISBN 978-0-19-763845-3 hard ¥16,160.- (税込) US$ 83.00

Studer, Brigitte, Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International. Tr. by D. R. Roberts. 640 pp. 2023:6 (Verso, UK) <686-1437>
ISBN 978-1-83976-801-9 hard ¥7,293.- (税込) GB￡ 30.00

The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its "professional revolutionaries". Studer follows such figures as Willi Muenzenberg, Mikhail Borodin, M.N. Roy and Evelyn Trent, Tina Modotti, Agnes Smedley and many others less well-known as they are despatched to the successive political hotspots of the 1920s and '30s, from revolutionary Berlin to Baku, from Shanghai to Spain, from Nazi Germany to Stalin's Moscow. It traces their journeys from revolutionary hope to accommodation, defeat or death, looking at questions of motivation and commitment, agency and negotiation, of life and love, conflict and frustration. In doing so, it reveals a forgotten Comintern, the expression of a multi-dimensional revolutionary moment, which attracted not only working-class but feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activists, highlighting the role of women in the Comintern and the centrality of anti-colonialism to the Communist project. The book concludes with a reflection on the ultimate demise of a historically unique undertaking.

世界中の女性共産主義運動家ハンドブック
de Haan, Francisca (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists Around the World. 804 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <686-1262>
ISBN 978-3-031-13126-4 hard ¥42,237.- (税込) EUR 199.99

This Handbook addresses the role of women in communism as a global, social and political movement for the first time, exploring their lives, forms of activism, political strategies and transnational networks. Comprising twenty-five chapters, based on new and primary research, the book presents the lives of self-identified communist women from a truly international perspective and outlines their struggles against fascism and colonialism, and for women's emancipation and national liberation. By using the lens of transnational political biography, the chapters capture the broader picture of these women's lives, unpacking the links between the so-called public and private, the power structures and inequalities of their societies, the formal networks and politics in which they were involved, and the informal connections and friendships that supported their activism both at the national and international level. Challenging androcentric and Eurocentric narratives about communism, this Handbook reveals the active and significant roles of women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist movements and regimes, and highlights the importance of communist women in shaping the agenda for women's rights worldwide.

Capuzzo, Paolo / Mahler, Anne Garland (eds.), The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters. (Ideas beyond Borders) 280 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <685-939>
ISBN 978-0-367-72476-4 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-72485-6 paper ¥8,505.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism. Building on extant institutional histories of the Third International, it moves in new directions by focusing on the points of intersection - often conflictual and short-lived - with anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and nationalist organizing, making the Third International a site of encounter between a global political project and more local and regional contexts. Due to the broad range of geographic and linguistic expertise of the contributors, this book traces routes of exchange that are often elided in existing studies of the Third International. The chapters address how actors from Global South contexts shaped key debates on, for example, the role of Black, Indigenous, and migrant labor, the "Islamic question," and the "peasant question," which challenged Bolshevik epistemological frameworks. All such "questions" involved political subjectivities that the Comintern tried to reductively frame within a global revolution driven by Moscow, resulting in the Comintern's ultimate disintegration. Nevertheless, this juncture between the Comintern's global designs and its local encounters left a significant legacy that would later be reconfigured in mid-century anticolonial movements.

Jenkins, Beth, Graduate Women and Work in Wales, 1880-1939: Nationhood, Networks and Community. 265 pp. 2022:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <685-1288>
ISBN 978-3-031-07940-5 hard ¥21,117.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the experience of working-class women and critically assesses the claim of social inclusivity built around education in Wales. It charts changes and continuities in women's career prospects; explores graduates' relationship with the communities in which they studied, lived, and worked; and, finally, examines the extensive networks which underpinned their personal and professional lives.

英国労働者階級の幸福
Bronstein, Jamie E., The Happiness of the British Working Class. 296 pp. 2023 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <684-1701>
ISBN 978-1-5036-3049-9 hard ¥17,523.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-3384-1 paper ¥5,841.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement, and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate whether they were well-lived. However, not all working-class autobiographers shared the same concepts or valorizations of happiness, as variables such as geography, gender, political affiliation, and social and economic mobility often influenced the way they defined and experienced their emotional lives. The Happiness of the British Working Class employs and analyzes over 350 autobiographies of individuals in England, Scotland, and Ireland to explore the sources of happiness of British working people born before 1870. Drawing from careful examinations of their personal narratives, Jamie L. Bronstein investigates the ways in which working people thought about the good life as seen through their experiences with family and friends, rewarding work, interaction with the natural world, science and creativity, political causes and religious commitments, and physical and economic struggles. Informed by the history of emotions and the philosophical and social-scientific literature on happiness, this book reflects broadly on the industrial-era working-class experience in an era of immense social and economic change.

Sharp, Ingrid / Stibbe, Matthew / Painter, Corinne (eds.), Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration. 272 pp. 2022:12 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <684-1544>
ISBN 978-1-350-11034-2 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world, have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited committee delegates-in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes, to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative approach to women's socialist activism. As such, this is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies, international relations, and the history and legacy of World War I. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Ross, Pedro, How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union. 288 pp. 2022:10 (Monthly Review, US) <684-1249>
ISBN 978-1-58367-979-1 hard ¥17,328.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-58367-978-4 paper ¥5,256.- (税込) US$ 27.00 *

1848年の革命の政治における『共産党宣言』－批判的評価
Ireland, David, The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848: A Critical Evaluation. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms) 284 pp. 2022:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <684-127>
ISBN 978-3-030-99463-1 hard ¥23,229.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848-9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 'March days'. The Manifesto's programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet's most memorialised phrase, 'the spectre of Communism', whether it was written for the 'working men of all countries' addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life.