scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question

Showing papers in "Labor History in 2020"


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In the antebellum period (1800-1860), thousands of enslaved people attempted to escape slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the American South and passing a...
Abstract: In the antebellum period (1800–1860), thousands of enslaved people attempted to escape slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the American South and passing a...

12 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between long-running deindustrialisation and skilled male employment culture in the West of Scotland and find that the age of deindustrialization is a valuable designation.
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between long-running deindustrialisation and skilled male employment culture in the West of Scotland. The age of deindustrialisation is a valuable designation...

11 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: For example, this paper showed that factories remain significant sites of employment, crucial to capitalism, and scholars registered achievements in documenting their history, but since the late 1980s, and for a...
Abstract: Factories remain significant sites of employment, crucial to capitalism. In the twentieth century, scholars registered achievements in documenting their history, but since the late 1980s, and for a...

9 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
Fredrik Lilja1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse labour relations and management strategies in the Hex River Textiles factory in Worcester, South Africa, from the 1940s to the early 1990s, and show that the factory was established...
Abstract: This article analyses labour relations and management strategies in the Hex River Textiles factory in Worcester, South Africa, from the 1940s to the early 1990s. The factory was established...

7 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The members of its governing executive committee constituted the national leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain this article, which employed both quantitative and qualitati cation analysis which employs both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Abstract: The members of its governing Executive Committee constituted the national leadership of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Prosopographical analysis which employs both quantitative and qualitati...

7 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated risk in the competitive shipbuilding industry in Singapore and found that industrial hazards are a neglected part of the history of Singapore's successful industrialization since independence in 1965.
Abstract: Industrial hazards are a neglected part of the history of Singapore’s successful industrialization since independence in 1965. Our paper investigates risk in the competitive shipbuilding an...

7 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the devaluation of women's industrial work during the transition from market socialism to capitalism in Croatia, based on oral history interviews with former workers from Slovenia.
Abstract: This paper examines the devaluation of women’s industrial work during the transition from market socialism to capitalism in Croatia. On the basis of oral history interviews with former workers from...

6 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while "irregular work" represents a...
Abstract: The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a ...

6 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The interpenetration of nationalism and socialism is a seminal problem for understanding 20th century labour movement history as discussed by the authors, and it has been studied extensively in the last few decades.
Abstract: The interpenetration of nationalism and socialism is a seminal problem for understanding 20th century labour movement history. This article approaches the issue of ideological interpenetration by w...

6 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
Abstract: Over the past 20 years, regular reports of eroding safety standards and deaths among workers, customers and other members of the public in an array of industries ranging from transport (ride-share ...

5 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In the years immediately preceding the First World War, Britain experienced mass social unrest on a scale not seen since the early nineteenth century as mentioned in this paper, and despite their distinctive priorities of gen...
Abstract: During the years immediately preceding the First World War Britain experienced mass social unrest on a scale not seen since the early nineteenth century. Despite their distinctive priorities of gen...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the relationship between slavery and capitalism through exploring the counterfactual of industrialization without slavery in the United States and by analyzing the deeper relationship between the two.
Abstract: In this paper, I look at the relationship between slavery and capitalism through exploring the counterfactual of industrialization without slavery in the United States and by analyzing the deeper c...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper investigated the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott's theory of 'public' and 'hidden' transcripts and em...
Abstract: This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and em...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper examined the public debate between 1945 and 1986 in Great Britain over repealing the Truck Acts and found that advocates of repeal hoped that it might encourage workers to accept wage payment by che...
Abstract: This article examines the public debate between 1945 and 1986 in Great Britain over repealing the Truck Acts. Advocates of repeal hoped that it might encourage workers to accept wage payment by che...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the relationship between student labor and the results of the Saber 11 Test taken by high school seniors in Colombia and required for the admission process to higher education.
Abstract: This article aims to analyze the relationship between student labor and the results of the Saber 11 Test taken by high school seniors in Colombia and required for the admission process to higher ed...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The New York City Taxi Rank and File Coalition (NCC) was a taxi rank and file coalition from 1971 through 1977 as discussed by the authors, which had varying numbers of active members in its six-year existence.
Abstract: The New York City Taxi Rank and File Coalition was a movement active in the New York City taxi industry from 1971 through 1977. While the group had varying numbers of active members in its six-year...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The literature lacks a comprehensive study investigating the actual interaction between labor market and business regulations on the one... as mentioned in this paper, despite numerous debates among researchers and policymakers, the literature lacks an investigation of the interaction between the two.
Abstract: Despite numerous debates among researchers and policymakers, the literature lacks a comprehensive study investigating the actual interaction between labor market and business regulations on the one...

Journal ArticleDOI
Gary Girod1
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between women munitions workers, the "munitionettes", in WWI-era Glasgow and Paris and the radical anti-government labor unions is examined, and the relationship is discussed.
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between women munitions workers, the ‘munitionettes,’ in WWI-era Glasgow and Paris and the radical anti-government labor unions. These two cities were the cen...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the direct and indirect effects of female education on full-time labour market employment using Guinean demographic and health surveys were investigated and the authors addressed potential endogeneity in the results.
Abstract: This article investigates the direct and indirect effects of female education on full-time labour market employment using Guinean demographic and health surveys. It addresses potential endogeneity ...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, a more detailed critical analysis of the historical role and structure of Employers' Associations (EAs) is presented, following on recent research, and the authors make two major contributions:
Abstract: This paper makes two major contributions: firstly, following on recent research, it offers a more detailed critical analysis of the historical role and structure of Employers’ Associations (EAs), c...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries as mentioned in this paper, within the framework of the most recent historiographical these...
Abstract: In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical these...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry (beedi rolling) in colonial South India is presented, where the implementation of the Indian Factories Act is examined.
Abstract: This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act a...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The membership of the Service Employees International Union rose from around 600,000 to over 1.1 million between 1980 and 1995, while John Sweeney was president, and continued to increase after 199 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Between 1980 and 1995, while John Sweeney was president, the membership of the Service Employees International Union rose from around 600,000 to over 1.1 million. It continued to increase after 199...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The docks are one of the most academically scrutinised sectors of the British economy and, due to the industry's historical reputation for strikeproneness, episodes of workplace conflict a...
Abstract: The docks are one of the most academically scrutinised sectors of the British economy and, due to the industry’s historical reputation for strike-proneness, episodes of workplace conflict a...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track the relationship between the Italian welfare state and the social relations of production at a Fordist factory, showing how social policy influenced the pattern of worker behavior.
Abstract: The article tracks the relationship between the Italian welfare state and the social relations of production at a Fordist factory, showing how social policy influenced the pattern of worker...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In the context of settler colonialism, the immigration of white workers has generated a complex network of dynamics between race, labor, and whiteness as discussed by the authors, and the intertwining of these three concepts can b...
Abstract: In the context of settler colonialism the immigration of white workers has generated a complex network of dynamics between race, labor, and whiteness. The intertwining of these three concepts can b...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine discourses on citizenship and nation at shop floor level through Bakirkoy Cloth Factory, a state-owned factory in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded as a private enterprise in 1...
Abstract: This paper examines discourses on citizenship and nation at shop floor level through Bakirkoy Cloth Factory – a state-owned factory in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded as a private enterprise in 1...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period, and they hope to offer answers to questio...
Abstract: This article explores how and why employment protection legislation developed in Sweden in the ways that it did from its early beginnings to the present period. It hopes to offer answers to questio...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Live animal export has developed into a trade on an international scale and one that has attracted criticisms and protests to protect animal welfare and rights by groups and organisations over the last decade as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Live animal export has developed into a trade on an international scale and one that has attracted criticisms and protests to protect animal welfare and rights by groups and organisations over seve...

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The controversy that surrounded the employment of Chinese-indentured labourers on the rubber estates of British North Borneo during the 1920s and 1930s was analyzed in this paper.
Abstract: This article analyses the controversy that surrounded the employment of Chinese-indentured labourers on the rubber estates of British North Borneo during the 1920s and 1930s. Using North Borneo as ...