{"id":54470,"date":"2026-07-06T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54470"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:20:05","slug":"womens-labour-activism-in-eastern-europe-and-beyond-a-new-transnational-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54470","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A New Transnational History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Selin \u00c7a\u011fatay (Author), M\u00e1ty\u00e1s Erd\u00e9lyi (Author), Alexandra Ghi\u021b (Author), Olga Gnydiuk (Author), Veronika Helfert (Author), Ivelina Masheva (Author), Zhanna Popova (Author), Jelena Te\u0161ija (Author), Eszter Varsa (Author), Susan Zimmermann (Author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Series: Work Around the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women\u2019s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twentieth century. It explores women\u2019s activism and organizing to improve the working conditions and living circumstances of lower-income and working-class women and their communities in the region and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving beyond the celebratory or partisan perspectives of many classical and some feminist labour histories, <em>Women\u2019s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond<\/em> provides a careful historicization of women\u2019s actions in a multiscalar perspective. Through a study of diverse contexts, the authors follow women aligned with a wide range of political persuasions, highlighting unexpected elements and continuities of women\u2019s labour activism. Women\u2019s activities are seen in the workplace, in the everyday, within and across social movements and organizations, and inside the state, all presented through a framing that spotlights long-term developments and bridges the divide between the literatures on state socialist and capitalist societies concerning gendered labour politics and activism. Combining a regional focus and transnational perspectives, the authors examine the sources of women\u2019s labour activism in the region and the role of activists from the region within international women\u2019s, labour and inter-state organizations. Moving women\u2019s labour activism from the margins of labour, gender and European history to the centre of historical study, the volume makes an innovative contribution to the new global histories of labour and gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of figures<br>List of maps<br>List of tables<br>List of abbreviations<br>Notes on authors<br>Foreword<br>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reader\u2019s guide<br>Vocabulary of concepts and terminology: a contribution to global labour history<br>Chronology of political geography: maps<br>Chronology in pictures: a very short history<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A transnational and inclusive history of women\u2019s labour activism: general introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part I: Women in mixed-gender labour movements: transgressing and confronting limitations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Economy, education, re-evaluation: women in the co-operative movement, 1900s to 1940s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Trade unions: gender politics and women\u2019s organizing, 1900s to 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Radical women: gendered social critique in anarchist, communist and New Left movements, 1890s to 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Regional awareness and international engagement: social democratic women, 1890s to 1930s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part II: Women\u2019s gendered activist agendas and repertoires: from margins to centre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 The power of education: improving women\u2019s status in the world of work, 1900s to early 1990s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Exit and action: migrant women workers, 1890s to 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Lines of division, lines of solidarity: minoritized women, 1880s to 1980s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Beyond the workplace: activism and the everyday in the twentieth century<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part III: Women\u2019s labour activism across class and political divides: gender at the core?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Women addressing women workers: revisiting the class divide, 1860s to 1930s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 Women addressing working mothers: trade unionists and the welfare state during the Cold War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Towards new global histories of gendered labour activism: a concluding essay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tables<br>Appendix 1: Glossary of select organizations<br>Appendix 2: Glossary of select protagonists<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliography<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Publication date: 26 August 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Access PDF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uclpress.co.uk\/book\/womens-labour-activism-in-eastern-europe-and-beyond\">https:\/\/uclpress.co.uk\/book\/womens-labour-activism-in-eastern-europe-and-beyond<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a876c9bedf71&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a876c9bedf71\" 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