OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labor History is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Financing women’s entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa: bank, microfinance and mobile money	22
‘The factory of the future’ Historical continuity and labor rights at Tesla	7
Voices of the poor: demystifying the nexus between rights and agency of Bangladesh’s tea workers	6
Agency workers and their equivocal roles – wandering employees?	6
Subcontracting and low pay kill: lessons from the health and safety consequences of sweated labour in the garment industry, 1880–1920	6
Occupational safety and health of factory workers in European countries in the nineteenth century: historical and legal analysis	5
Global internationalism: An introduction	5
The impact of digital economy on employment polarization: an analysis based on Chinese provincial panel data	5
From empowerment to encapsulation: Sanitation workers’ struggles and sources of power in South China	4
The early British Communist leaders, 1920–1923: a prosopographical exploration	4
Labor migration programs within the socialist bloc. cuban guestworkers in late socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary	4
Making part-time work a fully-fledged alternative: How the Dutch social partners responded to a dual labour market, 1966–1993	3
China’s employment policy since 1949: retrospect, present, and future directions	3
The ‘core’ leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1923–1928: their past, present and future	3
The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest: never the twain shall meet?	3
The leadership of British Communism, 1923–1928: pages from a prosopographical project	3
COVID-19 and remote work inequality: Evidence from South Korea	3
Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism: the dynamics of surplus, market, and spatiality	3
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe	3
The inequality of opportunity and youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
‘Encroaching upon trade union preserves’: the 1950s fight over global labor norms between the international confederation of free trade unions and moral re-armament	3
Contextualizing precarious work: labor dispatch, boundary-drawing, and the politics of labor regulation in post-socialist China	3
Challenging the trade union agenda: migrants’ interest representation and German trade unions in Hamburg in the 1970s and 1980s	3
A new left teachers’ union: participatory democracy and the 1970s New Haven federation of teachers	2
Slavery and capitalism	2

‘For the workers but without the workers’: industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)	2
The development of Swedish employment protection legislation	2
Effects of labor market and business regulations on unemployment: evidence from EU transition economies	2
Repressing worker dissent: lethal violence against strikers in the early American labor movement	2
The Development of Employment Protection Legislation in the United Kingdom (1963-2013)	2
Culture lag in Chinese labour relations: managers’ perceptions and behaviour towards workplace trade unions (2009 - 2014)	2
Part-time employment versus underemployment of mothers and women in Spain	2
Collective agreements against labor market risks in Sweden: the case of the PTK-SAF employment secu rity agreement	2
Transnational labour solidarity and the question of agency: A social dialectical approach to the field	2
Do Colombian students who work get lower scores in the Saber 11 Test?	2
Contract labor migration as an agent of revolutionary change in the Danish West Indies	1
Manganese mining in Corral Quemado: extractivism Processes that resulted in manganese madness among miners (Coquimbo region, Chile, 1941–1969)	1
South Australia’s employment relief program for assisted immigrants: promises and reality, 1838-1843	1
Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italianoperaismofrom Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti	1
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	1
Globalisation, internationalism and the Great War	1
Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-1960	1
The ‘iron law of oligarchy’ and North-South relations in global union organisations: a case study of the International Dockworkers Council’s expansion in the Global South	1
A journey beyond colonial history: coolies in the making of an ‘adivasi identity’ in Assam	1
Gender disparities in Ugandan urban labor market: an analysis of the gender wage gap	1
Sex, sahibs and bodies: women workers in the tea plantations of colonial Assam	1
The live animal export industry: a case study of the role played by an Australian blue-collar union in the animal welfare and rights movement	1
A fruitless exercise? The political struggle to compel corporations to justify factory closures in Canada	1
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor	1
‘White slaves’: labor, whiteness, and settler colonialism in Italian East Africa (1935-1941)	1
CORRECTION	1
The making of labour precarity: three explanatory approaches and their relationship	1
Post-colonial structure of the Indian garment industry and its role in maintaining the precarity of women workers	1
‘Class Against Class’: The leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain during the Comintern’s Third Period, 1928–1934	1
Regulation and resistance: defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941	1
Janissaries in the making: coerced labor and chivalric masculinity in the early modern Ottoman Empire	1
Skilled labour in colonial economies. Recruitment, education and employment in construction companies in German colonial West Africa, c. 1902–1912	1
Labour inspection after the civil war in Spain. Regulatory interventionism and abstentionist labour inspection performance	1
Dodgy labour market dichotomy: the repercussions of sneaky labour intermediaries on employees’ constitutional rights	1
Macroeconomic indicators of regular workers in postwar Japan	1
International trade-unionism and migration: European integration and the post-war ‘Free’ movement of labour	1
‘Shameful forms of oppression’: Anglo-American activism and the slow decline of Chinese indentured labour in British North Borneo, 1920s–1940s	1
Unitarians and revolutionaries. The trade unionism of the MC and the LCR in CCOO	1
‘Revolution in the coalfields’: industrial relations in wartime south Wales, 1939-45	1
The struggle of young widows in the tea estates of Bangladesh: a qualitative inquiry	1
The transformation of labor force dualism in South Korea’s Shipyards, 1974 to the present	1
Migration as class struggle: refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity	1
Development phases of U.S. employment anti-discrimination law and reflections on its dilemmas from the perspective of China	1