Women, Work, and Activism

Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century

Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, Susan Zimmermann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2022
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-441-8 (ISBN)

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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 democracy in the United States. The authors portray women's labor activism in a wide variety of contexts. This includes spontaneous resistance to masculinist trade unionism, the feminist engagement of women workers, the activism of communist wives of workers, and female long-distance migration, among others. The chapters address the gendered involvement of working people in multiple and often precarious and unstable labor relations and in unpaid labor, as well as the role of the state and other institutions in shaping the history of women’s labor.

The book is an innovative contribution to both the new labor history and feminist history. It fully integrates the conceptual advances made by gender historians in the study of labor activism, driving home critiques of Eurocentric historiographies of labor to Europe while simultaneously contributing to an inclusive history of women’s labor-related activism wherever to be found. Examining women’s activism in male-dominated movements and institutions, and in women’s networks and organizations, the authors make a case for a new direction in gender history.

Dr. Eloisa Betti is Adjunct Professor of Labor History at the University of Bologna. Leda Papastefanaki is Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Ioannina and Collaborating Faculty Member at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies – FORTH (Greece). She has published on the social and economic history of industrialization and labor in the Mediterranean context, and gender history. Marica Tolomelli is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on social conflicts, social movements, and political cultures since the end of WWII until the end of the 20th century, and the history public spheres and the circulation of ideas in the “long 20th century” from a global perspective. Susan Zimmermann is University Professor at Department of History and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University. Her research has focused on the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, international women’s organizations in the 20th century, the ILO, and women and trade unions in state-socialist Hungary. She is President of the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction. Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History

Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, and Susan Zimmermann

PART I. TOWARD INCLUSIVE FRAMINGS: WOMEN'S LABOR ACTIVISM IN MEN- AND WOMEN-DOMINATED CONTEXTS

Women in the Mutual Societies of Portugal from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the 1930s

Virgínia Baptista and Paulo Marques Alves

The Female Staff in the PTT International between Trade Unionism and Feminism from the Early Twentieth Century to the Interwar Period

Laura Savelli

Women and the Labor Movement under a Dictatorship: Comisiones Obreras (Workers’ Commissions) in Greater Barcelona during Franco’s Dictatorship and the Transition to Democracy (1964–1981)

Nadia Varo Moral

“Traditionally Reserved for Men”: Australian Trade Unions and the 1970s Working Women’s Campaign for Liberation

Diane Kirkby, Lee-Ann Monk, and Emma Robertson

PART II. WOMEN IN MOTION: RETHINKING AGENCY AND ACTIVISM AT THE WORKPLACE AND BEYOND

The Strike, the Household, the Gendered Division of Labor, and International Networks: Women Auxiliaries and the Ship Repair Workers’ Strike (Genoa, 1955)

Marco Caligari

“In Order to Safeguard the Lives of Our Children and Families”: Resistance and Protest of Women Workers in the Greek Tobacco Industry, 1945–1970

Thanasis Betas

Inside the Factory, Outside the Party-state: The Agency of Yugoslav Women Workers in Late Socialism (1976–1989)

Rory Archer

Work and the Politics of the Injured Body: Nurse Activism, Occupational Risk, and the Politics of Care in the United States

Elizabeth Faue

PART III. HOW THE PERSONAL REVEALS THE POLITICAL: WOMEN ACTIVISTS BIOGRAPHIES AND BEYOND

Women Activists’ Relationship to Peasant Women’s Work in Yugoslavia in the 1930s

Isidora Grubački

Women in the Trade Union Movement and Their Biographies: The Camera del Lavoro (Chamber of Labor) in Milan (1945–1965)

Debora Migliucci

French Trade Unionists Go International: The Circulation of Ideas on the Education and Training of Women Workers in the 1950s and 1960s

Françoise F. Laot

Trade Union Feminism in Lyon: Commissions-femmes as Sites of Resistance and Well-being in the 1970s

Anna Frisone

Working Women on the Move: Genealogies of Gendered Migrant Labor

Maria Tamboukou

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Chapter Abstracts

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Work and Labor – Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century
Zusatzinfo	1 Charts; 7 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 229 mm
Gewicht	664 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	963-386-441-0 / 9633864410
ISBN-13	978-963-386-441-8 / 9789633864418
Zustand	Neuware