Work and Labor - Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century - CEU Press
Working in Music on the Semiperiphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism
1st Edition
By Emília Barna
June 24, 2025
While music as labor feeds into the capitalist cultural industries, this book proves that in this sector informality greatly permeates and governs power relations and the allocations of resources. The significant level of informal involvement of the household in the creative and reproductive ...
Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic: Postwar Transitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Verginella, Urska Strle
April 02, 2025
The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial focus of the analysis is the northeastern Adriatic region, which includes ...
Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in Italy
1st Edition
By Eloisa Betti
December 30, 2022
The recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier forms of this phenomenon. Eloisa Betti’s monograph convincingly demonstrates on the example of Italy that even in the post-war phase of Keynesian stability and welfare state, ...
Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Marica Tolomelli, Susan Zimmermann, Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki
September 10, 2022
The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism examine women’s labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women’s work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement under the Franco dictatorship to workplace ...
Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class: The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories
1st Edition
By Goran Music
April 30, 2021
Workers' self-management was one of the unique features of communist Yugoslavia. Goran Musi? has investigated the changing ways in which blue-collar workers perceived the recurring crises of the regime. Two self-managed metal enterprises, one in Serbia another in Slovenia, provide the frame of the ...
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Marsha Siefert
July 15, 2020
Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting, and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about ...