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The Open Research Repository (ORR) is the official institutional repository of the Central European University. The repository provides access to the research output of the CEU community by collecting open access versions of scholarly works authored or co-authored by CEU faculty and students.
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Item Women’s Labour Activism : The Case of Bank Clerks in Central Europe, 1900–1920(Brill, 2023)The chapter examines the labour activism of women clerks in the late Habsburg Monarchy (Austria, Hungary, the Czech lands) between 1900 and 1914. By 1900, women clerks had begun to be employed by banks, and they represented around 10 to 15 percent of clerks by 1914. Their numerical growth in the sector coincided with increasing discrimination on multiple levels: in professional education, on the job market, in matters of welfare benefits, and in labour unions. This chapter analyzes the strategy and methods women clerks used to cope with their (often disadvantageous) social and economic status and battle discrimination on multiple fronts. Their strategies varied from joining male-dominated labour unions to establishing women-only structures, as well as relying on peaceful demonstrations and democratic elections and denouncing their mistreatment in the press. Their history showcases the malleable nature of class relations. Women clerks confronted middle-class gender roles and assumptions at the workplace, which were used to justify women clerks’ lower salaries, smaller pension benefits, and lesser job protections. At the same time, men clerks tried to demote women clerks from higher positions to protect their own privileges in the workplace. Women clerks, therefore, had to choose between less welcoming male-dominated labour unions or the establishment of women-only associations in their fight against gender discrimination and their battle to ultimately achieve middle-class status.Item Dual aspectual opposition sensitizes speakers to event stage in conceptualization : Evidence from Russian and English native and non-native speakers(2025-04-23)Grammatical aspect is a linguistic correlate of the temporal distribution of an event. However, aspect is not identical across languages. Crosslinguistic differences in mapping between aspect and basic temporal features such as event stage can reveal underlying language-specific criteria that guide event conceptualization. We investigated the relationship between grammatical aspect and event stage in conceptualizations of in-progress and completed events by native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers of aspectual languages Russian and English. In L1, event stage predicted aspect in Russian but not in English. In L2s, event stage did not predict aspect. We discuss these findings in terms of crosslinguistic differences in the relevance of event stage for conceptualization in L1 as well as the role of L1 transfer in L2 aspect use.Item Is Hope More Like Faith or More Like Worry?(2023-03)There has been a renewed interest in the role of hope for our ability to act rationally under uncertainty, where accounts have tended to focus on either one of two (apparently contradictory) aspects of this attitude. On the one hand, like faith, hope is viewed as an attitude which grants us resolve and determination to continue striving towards uncertain goals. On the other hand, like worry, hope is also viewed as a process in which we cognitively engage with possible futures, motivated to reduce the epistemic uncertainty surrounding the occurrence of goal-relevant outcomes. I spell out how an emotional account of the psychological nature of hope is able to accommodate both of these claims, as well as classic challenges (such as cases of “recalcitrant hopes”). Within this framework, hope is both a positive emotion (it consistently evaluates its object as good) and also an “emotion of uncertainty” or epistemic emotion, through which we apprehend that a given goal-relevant outcome is possible, albeit uncertain.Item Quantifying the impact of biobanks and cohort studies(2025-04-22)Biobanks advance biomedical and clinical research by collecting and offering data and biological samples for numerous studies. However, the impact of these repositories varies greatly due to differences in their purpose, scope, governance, and data collected. Here, we computationally identified 2,663 biobanks and their textual mentions in 228,761 scientific articles, 16,210 grants, 15,469 patents, 1,769 clinical trials, and 9,468 public policy documents, helping characterize the academic communities that utilize and support them. We found a strong concentration of biobank-related research on a few diseases, including obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Moreover, collaboration, rather than citation count, shapes the community’s recognition of a biobank. We show that, on average, 41.1% of articles fail to reference any of the biobank’s reference papers, but 59.6% include a biobank member as a coauthor. Using a generalized linear model, we identified the key factors that contribute to the impact of a biobank, finding that an impactful biobank tends to be more open to external researchers and that quality data—especially linked medical records—as opposed to large data, correlates with a higher impact in science, innovation, and disease. The collected data and findings are accessible through an open-access web application intended to inform strategies to expand access and maximize the value of these resources.Item Through the Prism of Gender and Work : Women’s Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th and 20th Centuries(Brill, 2023)This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism.
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