Nested Internationalisms

Labour Activism Across Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-20550-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Labour in History and Society

This book brings an inclusive and transnational perspective to the history of labour organisations and activism in the twentieth century. Together, the essays demonstrate how connections, interactions, and competition between different movements, networks, and organisations impacted the historical development of international, regional, and local labour activisms. Authors take up more informal—even transgressive—activist networks and repertoires, spotlight the work of once-marginalised figures, and address the 'nested' nature of local, national, inter-imperial, and postcolonial spaces in and across world regions. Alongside themes such as migration policies, gender (in)equality, peace movements, and anti-racist activism that have been absent from or sidelined in labour history, classic themes of transnational labour activism, such as labour rights, occupational safety, and workplace discrimination appear in a new light.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piana, Francesca

Weber, Donald

Zimmermann, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Francesca Piana.- Part I. Multi-actor and Multi-movement Histories.- Chapter 1. Tracing Early Child Labour Activists Worldwide and their Cross-border Dialogue, 1880s-1930s; Nina Schneider.- Chapter 2. For God and Social Justice: Christian International Civil Servants in the International Labour Organization, 1920s-1970; Aurélien Zaragori.- Chapter 3. Eastern European Women Trade Unionists, Competing Internationalisms, and the Working Mother: Transnational Encounters and the Gendered Geopolitics of the 1950s Revisited; Susan Zimmermann and Olga Gyndiuk.- Part II. Localised Histories.- Chapter 4. Transnational Catholic Labor Activism: European Worker-priests in Brazil, 1960s and 1970s; Larissa R. Corrêa.- Chapter 5. Between Resistance and Dialogues: Emerging Networks of Solidarity in Representing Women Workers in Colonial India, 1930s–1940s; Shivangi Jaiswal.- Chapter 6. Household Work and Women's Transnational Activism and Expertise in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950s-1970s; Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek.- Chapter 7. Gender and International Labour Education in the 1960s: US Foreign Policy, Turkish Trade Unionists, and Women in USAID Training Programs; Selin Çagatay.- Part III. Multi-site Histories.- Chapter 8. Propagating Direct Action in the Early Twentieth Century: The Work of a Transnational Labour Network; Sean Scalmer.- Chapter 9. Brothers in Suffering, Brothers in Resistance: Assembling the Proletarian Unity and Black Emancipation in Mozambican-Brazilian Activist Networks in the 1980s; Julimar Mora Silva.- Chapter 10. Reconfiguring Labour Internationalism: Perspectives of Chilean and Polish Trade Unionists during the 1980s and 1990s; Kim Christiaens and Manuel Herrera Crespo.

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Piana is a historian of European and international history and the author of (2024). Her research and teaching interests include the history of international organisations, transnationalism, humanitarian aid, missionary, social work, migration, and women and gender in twentieth-century Europe.

Donald Weber is a historian and research coordinator at the Amsab-Institute of Social History in Belgium, having previously studied at Ghent University. He is a board member of several social history research networks, such as the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI). He has published on trade union history, mobility history, and the history of social movements.

Susan Zimmermann is a distinguished professor at Central European University in Austria. She is a historian of labour, gender, and social movements internationally and across Central and Eastern Europe. Her most recent publication is the co-authored monograph (2025).