Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century

Project Information

ZARAH

Grant agreement ID: 833691

DOI

10.3030/833691

EC signature date 18 June 2019

Start date 1 February 2020

End date 31 January 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 947,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 947,00

Coordinated by

CEU GMBH
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Women and the Gendered Politics of Work in Central and Eastern Europe, and Internationally, in the Twentieth Century: Activism, Governance, and Scale

Author(s): Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 227-240, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227512

“An Eight-Hour Day for Women Workers”: Negotiating Working Time in the Bulgarian Textile Industry Between International Labour Politics and the Shop Floor, 1890s to 1930s

Author(s): Ivelina Masheva
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 241-260, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227513

Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959

Author(s): Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 339-362, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227518

Between Pacifism and Militancy: Socialist Women in the First Austrian Republic, 1918-1934

Author(s): Veronika Helfert
Published in: Diplomacy & Statecraft, Issue 31/4, 2020, Page(s) 648-672, ISSN 0959-2296
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09592296.2020.1842058

Women workers’ education at the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions: excavating histories of transnational collaboration with the ICFTU

Author(s): Selin Çağatay
Published in: Labor History, Issue 65, 2024, Page(s) 273-287, ISSN 0023-656X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2023.2272125

“The Rulers Are the Causes of the War […] They Are the Reason There Is No bread in Our Town:” Women’s Food Riots in the Hungarian Countryside, 1917–1918

Author(s): Eszter Varsa
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 279-299, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227515

The Treacherous Trade Unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and Labour Activism in the Romanian Tobacco Sector, 1920s to 1940s

Author(s): Alexandra Ghiț
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 261-278, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227514

Revisiting Feminist Historiography on Women's Activism in Turkey: Beyond the Grand Narrative of Waves

Author(s): Sevgi Adak, Selin Çağatay
Published in: Women's History Review, Issue Volume 32, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 723-744, ISSN 0961-2025
Publisher: Triangle Journals Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2023.2198107

Polish Women Labour Inspectors Between the World Wars: Scrutinizing the Workplace and Mobilizing Public Opinion

Author(s): Zhanna Popova
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 301-319, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227516

Gendered Work, Skill, and Women's Labor Activism in Romanian Tobacco Factories from the 1920s to the 1960s

Author(s): Alexandra Ghiț
Published in: International Labor and Working-Class History, Issue 104, 2024, Page(s) 11-31, ISSN 0147-5479
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0147547923000212

“Millions of Working Housewives”: The International Co-operative Women’s Guild and Household Labour in the Interwar Period

Author(s): Jelena Tešija
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 321-338, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227517

Part-Time Work: The Co-Production of a Contested Employment Model for Women in Austria and Internationally, 1950s to 1980s

Author(s): Veronika Helfert
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Issue Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 363-383, ISSN 2573-9638
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227519

Book chapters (12)

“Trade Unions Are Also Working Hard in This Regard”: Labour Policy and Gender Issues of Women’s Work in Ukraine in the 1970s – Early 1980s

Author(s): Olga Gnydiuk
Published in: Women and History: Gender Perspectives of Everyday Life (1970s-1980s), 2021, Page(s) 7-18
Publisher: Heinrich Boell Foundation

“It shall not be a written gift, but a lived reality.” Equal pay, women’s work, and the politics of labor in state-socialist Hungary, late 1960s to late 1970s

Author(s): Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Labor in State-socialist Europe: Contributions to a Global History of Work (Series: Work and Labor: Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century), Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 337-372, ISBN 978-963-386-337-4
Publisher: CEU Press

Women’s Labour Activism

Author(s): Mátyás Erdélyi
Published in: Through the Prism of Gender and Work, 2025, Page(s) 113-140, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682481_004

Life Trajectories: Making Revolution and Breaking Boundaries

Author(s): Corinne Painter, Veronika Helfert, Manca G. Renko, Judith Szapor
Published in: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914 -21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, 2022, Page(s) 133–168, ISBN 978-1-3501-1034-2
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
DOI: 10.5040/9781350110373.ch-005

The Changing Politics of Women’s Work and the Making of Extended Childcare Leave in State-Socialist Hungary, Europe, and Internationally: Shifting the Scene

Author(s): Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History, Issue Work in Global and Historical Perspective, Volume 18, 2023, Page(s) 225-258, ISBN 978-3-11-114590-7
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
DOI: 10.1515/9783111147529-012

Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence, 1918–21

Author(s): Veronika Helfert, Clotilde Faas, Tiina Lintunen, Mary McAuliffe
Published in: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914 -21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, 2022, Page(s) 65–98, ISBN 978-1-3501-1034-2
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
DOI: 10.5040/9781350110373.ch-003

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

Author(s): Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Women, Work, and Activism: Contributions to an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century (Book series: Work and Labor – Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century), 2022, Page(s) 1-31, ISBN 978-963-386-441-8
Publisher: Central Europen University Press

Women’s Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Author(s): Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Published in: Through the Prism of Gender and Work, 2025, Page(s) 1-80, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682481_002

Dance Around a “Sacred Cow”: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally

Author(s): Susan Zimmermann
Published in: State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-capitalist Alternatives, Issue Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, Volume 75, 2023, Page(s) 79-124, ISBN 978-3-031-22503-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22504-8_4

Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics

Author(s): Selin Çağatay
Published in: Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro-Mediteranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures (IAI Research Studies), Issue 7, 2022, Page(s) 43-54, ISBN 978-88-3365-467-6
Publisher: Nuova Cultura

Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration

Author(s): Matthew Stibbe, Ingrid Sharp, Clotilde Faas, Veronika Helfert, Mary McAuliffe, Corinne Painter
Published in: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914 -21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, 2022, Page(s) 1-30, ISBN 978-1-3501-1034-2
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
DOI: 10.5040/9781350110373.ch-001

A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally

Author(s): Veronika Helfert
Published in: Migrant Actors Worldwide, 2025, Page(s) 395-416, ISBN 978-90-04-68698-4
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004686991_023

Monographic books (1)

Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance

Author(s): Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Published in: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-84450-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84451-6

Other (1)

Book Review: Chiara Bonfiglioli, Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector

Author(s): Alexandra Ghit
Published in: Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, Issue 14/1, 2020, Page(s) 162-165, ISSN 1933-2890
Publisher: Berghahn Journals