{"id":14691,"date":"2021-05-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:53:11","slug":"titles-for-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/titles-for-may-day","title":{"rendered":"Titles for May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May Day,<\/strong> also called International Workers\u2019 Day, is observed in many countries on May 1. It commemorates the historic struggles and gains of worker and labor movements worldwide.<\/p>\n

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In 1889, an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day to support workers, falling on the anniversary of the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago. Over time, the previous rural, pagan affiliations of May 1 gave way to modern associations with the labor movement. While the day continues to evolve with passing paradigm shifts\u2014Labor Day moving to early September in the U.S., the appropriation of the day in Nazi Germany, etc.\u2014it remains a time to celebrate workers and the ways workers have shaped social and political systems.<\/p>\n

This May Day, browse the following titles related to labor history and social movements below. Introductions to all released titles are freely available for direct download.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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International Studies in Social History<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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General Editor: 
Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published in Association with the <\/em><\/strong>International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published under the auspices of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, this series offers transnational perspectives on labor and working-class history. For a long time, labor historians have been working within national interpretive frameworks. But interest in studies contrasting different national and regional experiences and studying cross-border interactions has been increasing in recent years. This series is designed to act as a forum for these new approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The series has the laudable and useful aim of offering transnational perspectives on labour and working-class history in order to facilitate the burgeoning interest in comparing national and regional experiences and contexts as well as cross-border interactions. The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is to be congratulated in sponsoring the production of these excellent volumes … long may this particular endeavour continue.”<\/em>   \u00b7  Social History<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WORKING IN GREECE AND TURKEY<\/a>
A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840\u20131940<\/strong>
Edited by Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabaday\u0131<\/em>

As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey<\/em> provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

Introduction and Historiographical Essay:<\/strong> Greek and Turkish Economic and Social History, and Labour History<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FORTHCOMING IN PAPERBACK<\/em><\/strong>
WHAT IS WORK?<\/a>
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present<\/strong>
Edited by Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, and Manuela Martini<\/em>

Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn\u2019t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work?<\/em> offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.

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PLANNING LABOUR<\/a>
Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania<\/strong>
Alina-Sandra Cucu<\/em>
Foreword by Don Kalb<\/em>

\u201cBy digging out less known and therefore more valuable archive information and combining it with an ethnographic study, the book powerfully demonstrates the importance of the local context. The dystopia of communism and socialism is addressed through the lenses of anthropology and sociology\u2026 Without this excellent contribution delivered by Alina-Sandra Cucu, one can get only piecemeal information about planning labour and eventually daily life in socialist Romania. Therefore, this book is a must-read.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Eurasian Geography and Economics<\/strong>

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CATEGORIES IN CONTEXT<\/a>
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900\u2013Present<\/strong>
Edited by Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann, Olivier Giraud, L\u00e9a Renard, and Theresa Wobbe<\/em>

Despite the wealth of empirical research currently available on the interrelationships of gender and labor, we still know comparatively little about the forms of classification and categorization that have helped shape these social phenomena over time. Categories in Context <\/em>seeks to enrich our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed by relevant actors. By focusing on specific developments in France and Germany through a transnational lens, this volume produces insights that can be applied to a wide variety of political, social, and historical contexts.

Introduction: Categories of Gender and Work in Context. Ways Toward a Research Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protest, Culture & Society<\/a> <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Editors:
Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Institute for Media and Communication, University of Hamburg, Germany<\/em> 
Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates<\/em> 
Joachim Scharloth, Waseda University, Japan<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protest movements have been recognized as significant contributors to processes of political participation and transformations of culture and value systems, as well as to the development of both a national and transnational civil society. This series brings together the various innovative approaches to phenomena of social change, protest and dissent which have emerged in recent years from an interdisciplinary perspective. It contextualizes social protest and cultures of dissent in larger political processes and socio-cultural transformations by examining the influence of historical trajectories and the response of various segments of social, political and legal institutions on a national and international level. In doing so, the series offers a more comprehensive and multi-dimensional view of historical and cultural change in the 20th and 21st centuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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POLITICAL GRAFFITI IN CRITICAL TIMES<\/a>
The Aesthetics of Street Politics<\/strong>
Edited by Ricardo Campos, Andrea Pavoni, and Yiannis Zaimakis
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\u201cThis compelling, timely volume makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on graffiti and wall art and does so in a way that puts such scholarship in critical conversation with geography, urban studies, sociology, political theory, and social movements research. An engaging and important book\u2014highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Jeff Ferrell<\/strong>, author of Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality<\/em>

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PROTEST, YOUTH AND PRECARIOUSNESS<\/a>
The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal<\/strong>
Edited by Renato Miguel Carmo and Jos\u00e9 Alberto Vasconcelos Sim\u00f5es<\/em>

After over a decade of the austerity measures that followed the 2008 financial crisis\u2014entailing severe, unpopular policies that have galvanized opposition and frayed social ties\u2014what lies next for European societies? Portugal offers an interesting case for exploring this question, as a nation that was among the hardest hit by austerity and is now seeking a fresh path forward. This collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigated this politically and economically difficult period, negotiating uncertain social circumstances as they channel their discontent into protest and collective action.

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PROTEST CULTURES<\/a>
A Companion<\/strong>
Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth<\/em>

\u201cThis volume definitely provides an important starting point: It helps explain how different protest movements construct their own reality, use media in novel ways, organize actions across all spheres of public life, and involve various representations, their very own language, as well as different forms of rule breaking. And it repeatedly reminds us how much work there still is to be done\u2014how little we actually know about why and how protest occurs.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 German Politics and Society<\/strong>

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BUREAUCRACY, WORK AND VIOLENCE<\/a>
The Reich Ministry of Labour in Nazi Germany, 1933\u20131945<\/strong>Edited by Alexander N\u00fctzenadel
Translated from the German by Alex Skinner<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews for the German Edition:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe results of this broad archival research venture are as impressive as they are innovative, especially since\u2014unlike the thoroughly researched topic of Nazi state social and labor policy\u2014the Reich Ministry of Labor comes into the spotlight for the first time.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne reads with interest the descriptions of institutional affairs, housing, pension insurance, labor law, and developments after 1945. The strength of the study lies in its presentation of new results based on intensive archival work by scholarly collaborators.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF UNCHECKED CAPITALISM<\/a>
From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World<\/strong>
Paul A. Shackel<\/em>

The racialization of immigrant labor and the labor strife in the coal and textile communities in northeastern Pennsylvania appears to be an isolated incident in history. Rather this history can serve as a touchstone, connecting the history of the exploited laborers to today\u2019s labor in the global economy. By drawing parallels between the past and present \u2013 for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh \u2013 we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

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OPEN ACCESS<\/em><\/strong>
FROM SELF-FULFILMENT TO SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST<\/a>
Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present<\/strong>
Ewa Mazierska<\/em>

\u201cWhat Mazierska\u2019s invaluable book demonstrates\u2026[is] the importance of expanding our investigations of work into unemployment, leisure and idleness, in order to help us understand the ongoing privileging of precarisation by capital, as well as to help us dismantle the unquestioned edi\ufb01cation of today\u2019s \u2018labour idols.\u2019\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Studies in European Cinema<\/strong>

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STRIKE ACTION AND NATION BUILDING<\/a>
Labor Unrest in Palestine\/Israel, 1899-1951
David De Vries

\u201cThe book has many qualities. It is well written and well structured, and it hosts several tables and figures, which are quite useful for the reader. In terms of research, De Vries skillfully combines primary sources \u2013 documents identified in several Israeli and British archives, and a vast amount of press (all the most relevant newspapers of the time have been consulted) \u2014 with the existing historiography, with which the author engages in a very productive way\u2026 this is certainly a very good and useful book, which sheds light on an interesting and relevant topic and allows a better understanding of the process of nation \u2013 and the statebuilding in Palestine\/Israel.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Middle East Media and Book Reviews<\/strong>

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BRAZILIAN STEEL TOWN<\/a>
Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class<\/strong>
Massimiliano Mollona
Vol. 27, DISLOCATIONS<\/a>

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Get\u00falio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city\u2019s economy, and consequently its citizen\u2019s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town<\/em> tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant \u2013 of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

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PARALLEL LIVES REVISITED<\/a>
Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980
Jozefien De Bock
Foreword by Leo Lucassen<\/em>

Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of \u201cparallel lives\u201d has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration. There, it refers to what is perceived as the segregation of immigrant populations from the rest of society. However, the historical roots of this presumed segregation are rarely the focus of discussion. Combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and over one hundred oral history interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited<\/em> explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in a postwar Belgian city to provide a fascinating account of how their experiences of integration have changed at work and in their neighborhoods across two decades.

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CONTENTION<\/a>
The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
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Editors: Benjamin Abrams, University College London<\/em>
Giovanni A. Travaglino, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n



Contention<\/em> is dedicated to research on social protest, collective action and contentious politics. As a multidisciplinary journal, Contention\u2019s mission is to bridge scholarly divides and promote knowledge exchange across a diverse audience of scholars in the social sciences and humanities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A part of the Berghahn Open Anthro Collection!<\/em>
FOCAAL<\/a>
Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing and Lead Editor:<\/strong> Luisa Steur, University of Amsterdam<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor-at-Large: <\/strong>Don Kalb, University of Bergen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focaal<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history, as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as “globalization” or “empire.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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