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Women’s Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond:Toward a Long-Term, Transregional, Integrative, and Critical Approach
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Publication Volume
51
Publication Issue
Pages
Editors
Keywords
19th century
20th century
Austria
Bulgaria
Central Europe
Cold War
communism
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
feminism
gender
historiography
Hungary
integrative and critical approach
internationalism
Italy
labour history
labour movement
long-term perspective
Poland
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
socialism
Soviet Union
state socialism
trade unions
transnational approach
Turkey
women’s and gender history
women’s internationalism
women’s labour struggles
women’s movement
Yugoslavia
Demography
Cultural Studies
History
Sociology and Political Science
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
20th century
Austria
Bulgaria
Central Europe
Cold War
communism
Czechoslovakia
Eastern Europe
feminism
gender
historiography
Hungary
integrative and critical approach
internationalism
Italy
labour history
labour movement
long-term perspective
Poland
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
socialism
Soviet Union
state socialism
trade unions
transnational approach
Turkey
women’s and gender history
women’s internationalism
women’s labour struggles
women’s movement
Yugoslavia
Demography
Cultural Studies
History
Sociology and Political Science
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27052
Abstract
The introductory chapter provides a historiographic and thematic framing for the contributions and, we hope, for future research. The first section discusses the existing historiography of the region, highlighting the long history of writing on women’s labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and its adjacent territories within and across the borders of different types of empires and nation-states, and across vastly diverse political regimes. The second section discusses key contributions of the chapters assembled in the volume to the study of women’s (and sometimes men’s) quests for the improvement of the lives and working conditions of women, pointing to their interconnections and highlighting their contributions to the development of long-term and transregional approaches to the history of women’s labour struggles. The third section expands on the rationale for studying women’s labour struggles from a long-term, transregional, integrative, and critical perspective, further discusses insights emerging from the volume and other scholarship, and highlights challenges as well as directions for ongoing and future research in the field of women’s labour activism.
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Place of Publication
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Book chapter
Date
2024
Language
ISBN
978-90-04-68246-7
Identifiers
10.1163/9789004682481_002