Labor History

Papers
(The median citation count of Labor History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities22
Correction12
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism10
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?9
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor8
Emotion, production, and institutional mobilization: shaping the political consciousness of Wuhan workers during the Korean War (1950–1953)7
The «great experiment» of cheap labor in Mauritius: a historical perspective7
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 19247
Plantation patriarchy and gendered leadership: women’s political voice in tea plantations of Assam6
The evolution of the migration industry – how have employers been supported in sourcing their workforce?6
A big deal: the Hyundai battery plant raid and the deeper labor history of the foreign-owned auto sector in the U.S.6
Book review of Crandell and Jennings on disability rights, politics, and workers6
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit6
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag6
The youth power in the revolutionary furnace: the multi-dimensional contribution and historical limitation of the youth workers in the Central Soviet Area to the consolidation of the revolutionary bas5
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market5
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power5
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–225
The cultural change of Comisiones Obreas in the trade union transition (1977–1988)5
Labor challenging AI-driven market creation: the case of South Korea’s AI-based digital textbooks5
Correction4
Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary4
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle4
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change4
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community4
A contracorriente. Las disidencias ortodoxas en el comunismo español (1968-1989)4
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire4
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s4
The limits of the marginality thesis: women’s and children’s proto-industrial earnings in Norfolk County’s straw bonnet industry, 1800–18254
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy3
Legal origins, labor regulations, and labor market outcomes3
Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike, by Leigh Campbell-Hale Remembering Ludlow but forgetting the Columbine: the 1927-1928 Colorado coal 3
The evolving roles of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, 1925–present3
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh3
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka3
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940)3
Defeat capital with capital: how reformed SOE workers in contemporary China leverage shareholder mobilization to sustain collective rights3
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history3
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period3
State logic and local agency in labor regime transformation: the making of entrepreneurial citizens in Yuanjia Village, 1949–20252
Flickering agency: How algorithmic management shapes workers’ agency in the platform economy in India?2
From subjects of the empire to citizens of newly independent Vietnam: rethinking the Vietnamese labor governance in the Pacific Islands in the postcolonial era2
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh2
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model2
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties2
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–19102
Care, social rights, and labor integration of the war-disabled, chronically ill patients, and retirees among Greek Civil War refugees in socialist Czechoslovakia2
Working as Rickshaw Pullers in modern Shanghai, 1920s–1940s2
Arbeiterwiderstand im Dritten Reich [“Workers’ resistance in the Third Reich”]2
Inside the upsurge: historical continuity and the Blue Bird Bus and Daimler Truck victories in the U.S. South2
Insuring women’s work: exploring the rationale for women’s enrollment in early twentieth-century Swedish health insurance societies2
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–19812
Invisible labor: youth digital labors and value creation in online circle field2
From workers to working class: the North-China Daily News’ dismissal controversy and identity cultivation of Chinese workers in 19512
Three strikes, uneven repertoires: labor struggles and the limits of contention in Zonguldak, 1923–19912
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching2
Forged in conflict: a comparative history of labor, the state, and the Cold War in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes2
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 th century2
Private welfare for workers. Corporate welfare at Fiat in the era of Vittorio Valletta (1946-1966)2
Dual precarity in South-South migration: experiences and uncertainty of Bangladeshi temporary labor migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers2
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity2
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias2
A trade unionism of resistance: the dissidence of the orthodox communists in CCOO (1970-1989)2
Between the mountains, the city, and the world: the microhistory of a ‘Small Third Front’ Chinese arsenal during Revolution and reform2
The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression The republic shall be kept clean: how settler colonial violence shaped antileft repression2
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems2
Correction Notice1
Trade unionism and decolonisation in Africa: the Zambian experience, 1949–19641
The responsibility and action of corporations for the development of 0-3 years old children’s childcare services in China1
From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism. (Post)-migrant media in postcolonial France1
Labor to leadership : trade unions and political awakening in tea plantations of Assam1
Politicized precarity: labor dynamics and agency of outsourced workers in China (1958–1983)1
Shock troops of capitalism: how the Coors family crushed unions and hastened the collapse of the New Deal order1
Making iron, producing space! How coerced work defined a Swedish early modern ironmaking region1
Building the migration industry: socialist Yugoslavia’s agenda for labour migrants’ pre-departure training1
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data1
Toward a cooperative commonwealth: the transnational roots of farmer-labor radicalism in Texas1
Wage gap between the State and non-State sectors in China: a study from the perspective of the Housing Provident Fund Scheme1
The Socialist Party of America and the ‘yellow peril’ (1904–1908)1
The great standardisation: working hours around the world1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO1
In the shadow of war and empire. Industrialisation, nation-building, and working-class politics in Turkey1
From traditional remedies to mental hospital: the evolution of mental illness treatment among women labourers in the straits settlements, 1900-19301
Constructing modern slavery: law, capitalism, and unfree labour1
White man’s work: race and middle-class mobility into the progressive era1
“Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey1
I am a worker, and also a cultural constructor: factory art practices and the construction of labor identity in twentieth-century China1
Vietnamese indentured labourers: The intervention of the French colonial government in regulating the flow of Vietnamese labourers to the Pacific Islands in the early twentieth century1
‘I will see that something is done’: African American women and organizing against workplace bullying, harassment, and violence in the San Francisco Bay Area shipyards during World War II1
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers1
Silent witnesses: the disputed landscapes of Belgium’s black country1
From vanguards to rearguards: the evolution and challenges of Bolivian railway workers, c . 1907–19641
Women labourers under British health policy in Malaya: from neglect to protection, 1900–19551
On the Legitimacy of the Striver’s Agreement in China1
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions1
Review of youth, masculinity and the labour market: precarious transitions in post-industrial Britain1
From post-conflict reconstruction to transnational labor mobility: a political-economic history of Cambodian labor migration, 1975–20191
Delivering food, navigating stigma: the social experience of gig workers in urban India1
The Master in Bondage: factory workers in China, 1949-2019 The Master in Bondage: factory workers in China, 1949-2019 , by Huaiyin Li, Stanford, Stanford University Pres1
Monastic women and secular economy in later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 15001
A new labor movement? Assessing the worker upsurge in the contemporary U.S.1
Precarious resistance movements and the transformation of labour mobilisation in Madrid’s informal sectors1
Biopolitics, immaterial labor, and subjective dilemmas of China’s data annotators1
From the policy of humanization to labour flexibilization: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany (from the 1970s to the 1980s)1
Changes in the Croatian migration system: conceptualising the complexities of migrations, 1990-20231
Making meaning, making a living: historical transformations of handicraft labor and cultural identity in China1
State as a place of reproducing “crisis of representativeness” –A dialogue between Miliband and Mao1
Dining halal under socialism: halal canteens and Hui workers in Beijing and Shanghai (1949–1980s)1
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China1
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)1
From Indochinese convict to indentured laborers: a dream and reality of building a colonial empire in the Asia-Pacific by the French Empire from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century1
Before T.H. Marshall: the conceptualization of industrial citizenship in the United States, 1900–19201
The emergence of state-led unionism in Turkey following World War II1
Co-operative enterprise in comparative perspective: exceptionally un-american?1
No dreams, no gain: aspiration failure, poverty traps and the tea workers’ children in Bangladesh1
Blue-Collar empire: the untold story of US labor’s global anticommunist crusade1
Proud to be union? Queer work(ers) and the Australian trade union movement, 1970s–80s1
Covert politics of competing leadership: Antonio Orendain, Cesar Chavez, and union politics in the Rio Grande Valley, 1965-19821
The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)1
Labour laws in India: history, evolution and critical analysis0
The status quo, causes, and countermeasures of employment difficulties faced by college graduates in China0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-19140
From recreation to revolution: the Shanghai Bankers Recreation Association and white-collar mobilization in Republican China, 1936–19490
National security discourse, excluding operation mechanisms, and resistance of homosexual federal employees during the Lavender Scare0
Once upon a time in Gültepe (socialists, grassroots and the TARİŞ resistance)0
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry0
Political and economic evolution of post-unification Italy and the working conditions in the steel industry. Some case studies in the kingdom of the two Sicilies0
‘The labor movement should be treated as a partner, not a special interest’ - organized labor and the 1980 U.S. Presidential election0
Navigating institutional transitions: the trajectory of collective contracts in China, 1979–19920
Knowledge as a weapon. Parisian workers quantitative surveys and epistemic theory (1840–1848)0
Albanian labor migration, the Yugoslav private sector and its Cold War context0
Navigating Global Labour Studies with Bourdieu: insights from Romania’s seafaring history0
Freeman’s challenge: the murder that shook America’s original prison for profit0
Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–19390
Cow, union buster! Identitarianism and organizing in Bombay’s mills, 1850s-1990s0
Taxis v. Uber in Paris: technology, capital, and the sharing economy0
Long haul unionism: Southern labor history and the struggle to organize Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee0
From forced to coerced labour: displaced mothers and teen girls in post-World War II Australia0
Understanding the support from the Australian far-left and ALP-Left for Greek Cypriot enosis during the EOKA period (1955-59): migrant workers, anti-imperialism and national liberation in Australia0
Running a mainstream revolutionary newspaper: Guangdong Qunbao and socialist propaganda in 1920s South China0
Labour agitation, newspaper press and radical nationalism in Nigeria: analysis of the Enugu Colliery Shootings0
The role of the labor movements in the colonial spaces: trade unionism in Palestine and Lebanon in the colonial era (1920-1948)0
Labor welfare policy, practices, and deficiencies with the ILO: evidence from the garment industry of Bangladesh0
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–19120
Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend0
Reforming China’s labor and personnel system: the institutionalization of identity segregation within danwei0
‘Dancing in the halls of the rich’? Fatal mine explosions and pro-employer bias in the UK mining inspectorate, 1870-19000
Digital capitalists in code: investment practices among Chinese AI engineers and the transcendence of proletarianization0
Japanese publishing workers at the forefront: combating historical denialism with social movement unionism0
Coerced labour and colonial governance in nineteenth and twentieth century Indonesia0
Unitary unionism in the transition: a general approach from Navarre0
Unpacking coercion in gendered war labor0
Catch me if you can: informal tourism employment of locals in scenic-oriented rural communities0
Coercive patriotism: gender, militarism, and auxiliary police in New York City during World War II0
‘Alcoy under the Commune’. The most important labor revolt in nineteenth-century Spain, 150 years on0
Who is the ‘one best man?’: Taylorism and personality tests (1924-1955)0
Iron and steel workers acquiring a factory in exchange for a single coin: a genuine people’s sector0
Workers and generals: military-controlled transitions and labor movements in Brazil and Egypt0
Labour revolt in Britain 1910-1914,0
‘Strangled in infancy’: affirmative action, Executive Order 10925, and the unfulfilled promises to black labor, 1961–19640
Labor history symposium : Ralph Darlington, labour revolt in Britain, 1910-19140
Grassroot conception of labor and production in Maoist Dongbei, 1958–19780
The post-indenture of Chi, New South Wales, Australia, 1857–19080
Nationalising oil and knowledge in Iran: labour, decolonisation and colonial modernity, 1933–510
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War: a synthesis and review of the literature0
The last generation of dairymaids: gender, skill, and occupational identity in Sweden0
Introduction: the Cold War of labour migrants: opportunities, struggles and adaptations across the Iron Curtain and beyond0
Domestic service in the Soviet Union: women’s emancipation and the gendered hierarchy of labor0
The revolutionary left in Comisiones Obreras: an introduction0
‘For peace and defence of the Soviet Union’: the leadership of British Communism in the Popular Front era, 1935–19390
Labour standards and corporate social responsibility: the case of Turkish apparel industry0
Can an individual worker make institutional changes in the workplace? Luke Ching’s narrative on reworking the workplaces in Hong Kong0
More-than-class struggle. Disaster at the Nelson III mine in North Bohemia 19340
Generations at the crossroads: biographical experience and working-class politics in China0
Black nationalism, British socialism, and transnational newspapers between Britain and the Caribbean, 1975–800
The governance architecture of transnational labor regulation0
Breaking the cocoon, empowering and breaking through: a study on the labor participation and rights protection of women workers in the Central Soviet Area (1931–1934)0
International organizations and the question of child labor in the Iranian carpet industry0
Were wages stagnant for decades? A revision of labor costs and net earnings in Spain (1900–1960)0
The politics of solidarity: the International Working Men’s Association 18730
The Cold War of Labor Migrants: Opportunities, Struggles and Adaptations across the Iron Curtain and Beyond0
Laborers, educators, and the struggle for liberation in post-independence Libya0
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance0
Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain0
Gigantic struggles: the battle to build the United Automobile Workers after the sit-down strikes, 1937–19450
‘A female voice is instrumental’: gender, propaganda, and coerced labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-19450
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps: colonising wild elephants in British South India0
Beyond the ‘Red Rock’: the Ikarian Revolution (1912), political radicalism, and the Ikarian diaspora0
‘We build Barren Island, Barren Island builds us’: Of imprisoned humans and mobilized stone in the Yugoslav Cominformist Labor Camp (1949–1956)0
My life, my rules: subjectivity construction of rural female workers under local employment0
Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU0
‘The mendacious Irish character:’ Molly Maguire, anti-Irish sentiment, and anti-labor propaganda in the American press, 1880–19200
“A phobia of numbers?” the labour movement and social surveys in the German Empire0
The evolution of individual and collective rights in the Chinese workplace0
The hiring hall, the farm labor contractor, and the state: the United Farm Workers’ struggle for control over the labor supply0
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Broadening contexts: Spanish trade unionism in the face of the economic crisis and technological change, 1970-1987. The case of Comisiones Obreras0
Can cultural labor empower women in the context of intangible cultural heritage? A case study of Jian’ou Tiaofan0
Class dynamics and workplace democracy: a tripartite analysis of workers’ management in China’s state-owned enterprises0
North American Aviation’s dramatic transformation and the influence of Moral Re-Armament in 1941-19450
Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”0
Employment Discrimination for People Living with HIV in China: The Challenges of Law vs. Practice0
Rank-and-file revolt: insurgency, power, and democracy in the UAW, 2019–250
Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-140
Railway school in Douala and vocational training for local staff in Cameroon under French administration (1922–1960)0
Productivity, the humanization of work, and the future of labor: insights from industrial psychology in late socialist Yugoslavia and Romania0
Reconsidering labor coercion through the logics of Im / mobility and the environment0
‘They were like soldiers.’ The case of the Polish builders in Czechoslovakia and their perception by Czechs (1967-1990)0
From McCarthyism to Bostock: the judicial evolution of anti-discrimination in employment for sexual minorities in the United States0
Contract labour in India: history, evolution, judicial interpretation and critical analysis0
Flying high on stipends: a historical analysis of flight attendant union struggles in (neoliberal) Canada0
The imposition of penalties within the framework of the system of employee discipline during the period of socialism in Poland0
Labor migration and agrarian reform in post-war Italy: the case of the Marsica (1950–1965)0
Generational politics: revolution versus production in Shanghai factories in the early years of the people’s republic of China0
Negotiating job security and capital investments in response to deindustrialization: the case of Canada’s auto sector0
Collective identity, solidarity, and sisterhood in the ASAB cleaning women’s strike in Sweden and the Women’s Day Off in Iceland0
Managing strikes and racial issues in the South China Morning Post0
Between labour and moral duty: social conflicts, volunteer work and the moral economy of life-boating in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (1850–1914)0
How occupational segregation by gender affects female underemployment in Spain0
Port Arthur’s post-probation labour gangs, 1856-1877: the aged and ailing remnants of the convict system or skilled and productive workers?0
Worker ownership in North America: the cases of Weirton Steel (West Virginia) and Algoma Steel (Ontario)0
“We were replaced by pines”: dispossession, displacement, and the colonial wound in Pilpilco’s coal plant closure0
Working conditions of women factory workers in industrializing Thailand, 1960–1990s0
Powderly and the worker awakening: speaking to the South in 18850
Legal frameworks for workforce mobility and employment regulations in ASEAN: challenges and efforts in aligning domestic labour laws with regional standards0
The formation of Ezker Sindikalaren Konbergentzia: radical unitary unionism in the Basque Country and Navarre0
Strikes and stones: stone quarries in the Southern Triangle as a site for shaping ethnic segregation, industrial relations, and labor militancy in Israel, 1949-19520
Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance Data driven: truckers technology, and the new workplace surveillance , by Karen Levy, Princeton and 0
Economic insecurity and pension participation in Ghana’s music sector0
De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor: trajectories of gender, coercion, and agency in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)0
A new exploration of cloth-fulling workers’ strikes in Suzhou during the early and middle Qing Dynasty: the crisis of strikes in the ‘high Qing’ and government-social responses0
Trade union renewal against a background of national conflict: the strategies of the trade unions ELA and LAB in the Basque country (1976–2008)0
Resilient labour networks among female coffee pickers in Yunnan: a case study of self-organised rural cooperation0
Shorter hours and productivity: evidence from bituminous coal0
Experiential fairness and power dynamics: an experimental study of labor dispatch in China0
British trade unionism in the 1980s reassessed. are recurring assumptions about union membership and strikes flawed?0
Military strikebreaking and the making of state–labor relations in early Israel0
Social movements to ban asbestos in Japan: influence of trade unions and the late development of grassroots mobilization0
Global internationalism: An introduction0
Rising wage theft in tea industry: consequences of ineffective labor market institutions0
Trained to serve: vocational education and colonial subordination in the “Shkolla Bujtinore ne Shqipni” (1939–1943)0
Textile crisis at home and trade union internationalism overseas: the International Textile and Garment Workers’ Federation and the unionising campaign in Hong Kong in the 1960s0
Emancipation as an illusion: a review of factory management policies in the Soviet Union and China0
Class, race, and power: rethinking class reductionism in the study of the 1922 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Strike in Milwaukee0
Dilemma of employment discrimination against American LGBT employees and its judicial response from the perspective of China0
Minimum wage and income inequality among the migrant population in China0
Losing consent – the evolution of the danwei management policies from a Maoist perspective0
‘The universal rhythm of justice’: the Argentine Supreme Court and labor law before, during, and after Peronism0
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