OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Labor History is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Recovering psychological trauma in coal mining communities	22
Correction	12
False consciousness and political disenfranchisement: the Indonesian Labour Party in post-Soeharto capitalism	10
Evidence from China’s gender equality legislation: is responsive law reform always feasible?	9
Deindustrialization of Detroit: the push of organized labor	8
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 perspective	7
Revisiting the effect of height on wages in a historical context: the case of the city of Zaragoza (Spain), 1924	7
Plantation patriarchy and gendered leadership: women’s political voice in tea plantations of Assam	6
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 workers	6
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit	6
Tukhta : labour and resistance in the audit regime of the Soviet Gulag	6
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 bas	5
Exploring the power of networks and knowledge: how social capital and education drive the success of Chinese migrant workers in the labor market	5
A history of progressiveDoxa: an exploration of Bengali women’s labour power	5
Automation, artificial intelligence, and job displacement in the U.S., 2019–22	5
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 textbooks	5
Correction	4
Comrades in theory, outsiders in practice: Cuban and Polish workers in the Kádár era in Hungary	4
Changes in the South Korean academic labor market and labor struggle	4
From worker health to occupational health and safety in Turkey: a history of paradigm change	4
Who built the empire’s garden? Tea capitalism in Assam and the making of the tea community	4

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 Empire	4
From ‘virtuous’ to ‘subhuman’: representations of Italian peasants between the 1860s and the 1880s	4
The limits of the marginality thesis: women’s and children’s proto-industrial earnings in Norfolk County’s straw bonnet industry, 1800–1825	4
Three works in search of new revelations on communist party USA history	3
Gendering migration in a patriarchal society: assisted female migration from Greece during the early post-war period	3
San Leucio, the utopian social labor experiment in the pre-unification Southern Italy	3
Legal origins, labor regulations, and labor market outcomes	3
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–present	3
Labor standards, labor policy, and compliance mechanism: a case study in Bangladesh	3
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka	3
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 rights	3
A tale of two tigers: examining the effects of postwar labour union strength on Singapore and Malaysia’s industrial relations systems	2
State logic and local agency in labor regime transformation: the making of entrepreneurial citizens in Yuanjia Village, 1949–2025	2
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 era	2
Poverty and education: the impacts of tea workers’ chronic poverty on their children’s education in rural Bangladesh	2
Protecting workers’ rights from arbitration in individual labor disputes: the gulf cooperation council countries as a model	2
The reform of tax policies and the differentiation of Chinese peasants during the Tang and Song dynasties	2
‘A fine spirit of comradeship’: class, sisterhood, hope, and solidarity in the Woman Worker , 1907–1910	2
Care, social rights, and labor integration of the war-disabled, chronically ill patients, and retirees among Greek Civil War refugees in socialist Czechoslovakia	2
Working as Rickshaw Pullers in modern Shanghai, 1920s–1940s	2
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. South	2
Insuring women’s work: exploring the rationale for women’s enrollment in early twentieth-century Swedish health insurance societies	2
The rise of local labour legislation campaigns in post-war Hong Kong, 1969–1981	2
Invisible labor: youth digital labors and value creation in online circle field	2
From workers to working class: the North-China Daily News’ dismissal controversy and identity cultivation of Chinese workers in 1951	2
Three strikes, uneven repertoires: labor struggles and the limits of contention in Zonguldak, 1923–1991	2
Labour Rights and the Catholic Church: The International Labour Organization, the Holy See, and Catholic Social Teaching	2
Forged in conflict: a comparative history of labor, the state, and the Cold War in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia	2
The question of trade union unity in CCOO: antinomies and paradoxes	2
“In consequence of considering herself to be free”. Freedom and (im)mobility in the trans-imperial Caribbean space of the 19 ^th century	2
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 pandemic	2
Under the Iron Heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers	2
Struggle and mutual aid. The age of worker solidarity	2
Solidarity happens: Corriente Sindical de Izquierdas, radical trade unionism in democratic Asturias	2
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 reform	2
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 repression	2