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

Información del proyecto

ZARAH

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 833691

DOI

10.3030/833691

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 18 Junio 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Febrero 2020

Fecha de finalización 31 Enero 2026

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 2 499 947,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 499 947,00

Coordinado por

CEU GMBH
Austria

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Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (16)

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

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 227-240, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: 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

Autores: Ivelina Masheva
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 241-260, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227513

Renegotiating Skills, Wages, and the Right to Work: On the Gender of Labor Activism around Rationalization in the Bulgarian Tobacco Industry in the Early 1930s

Autores: Ivelina Lyubenova Masheva
Publicado en: International Labor and Working-Class History, Edición 105, 2024, Página(s) 213-230, ISSN 0147-5479
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0147547923000303

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

Autores: Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 339-362, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227518

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

Autores: Veronika Helfert
Publicado en: Diplomacy & Statecraft, Edición 31/4, 2020, Página(s) 648-672, ISSN 0959-2296
Editor: 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

Autores: Selin Çağatay
Publicado en: Labor History, Edición 65, 2024, Página(s) 273-287, ISSN 0023-656X
Editor: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2023.2272125

The Women of Viharsarok: Peasant Women's Labour Activism in 1890s Hungary

Autores: Eszter Varsa
Publicado en: International Review of Social History, Edición 69, 2024, Página(s) 99-126, ISSN 0020-8590
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000130

Radical and Utopian or Partnership between Men and Women? Austrian Trade Union Women, Autonomous Feminists and Labour Related Concerns, 1970s–1980s

Autores: Veronika Helfert
Publicado en: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, Edición Volume 35, Edición 1, 2024, Página(s) 96-116, ISSN 1016-765X
Editor: StudienVerlag
DOI: 10.25365/oezg-2024-35-1-6

“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

Autores: Eszter Varsa
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 279-299, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: 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

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 261-278, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227514

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

Autores: Sevgi Adak, Selin Çağatay
Publicado en: Women's History Review, Edición Volume 32, Edición 5, 2023, Página(s) 723-744, ISSN 0961-2025
Editor: Triangle Journals Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2023.2198107

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

Autores: Zhanna Popova
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 301-319, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: 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

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț
Publicado en: International Labor and Working-Class History, Edición 104, 2024, Página(s) 11-31, ISSN 0147-5479
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0147547923000212

Book Reviews

Autores: Maria Bucur, Alexandra Ghit, Ayşe Durakbaşa, Ivana Pantelić, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Elizabeth A. Wood, Anna Müller, Galina Goncharova, Zorana Antonijević, Katarzyna Sierakowska, Andrea Feldman, Maria Kokkinou, Alexandra Zavos, Marija M. Bulatović, Siobhán Hearne, Rayna Gavrilova
Publicado en: Aspasia, Edición 14, 2020, Página(s) 160-209, ISSN 1933-2882
Editor: Berghahn Books
DOI: 10.3167/asp.2020.140113

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

Autores: Jelena Tešija
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 321-338, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: 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

Autores: Veronika Helfert
Publicado en: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Edición Volume 31, Edición 2, 2023, Página(s) 363-383, ISSN 2573-9638
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227519

Book chapters (14)

“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

Autores: Olga Gnydiuk
Publicado en: Women and History: Gender Perspectives of Everyday Life (1970s-1980s), 2021, Página(s) 7-18
Editor: 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

Autores: Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989, 2025, Página(s) 337-372, ISBN 978-963-386-337-4
Editor: Central European University Press
DOI: 10.1515/9789633863381-017

Women’s Labour Activism

Autores: Mátyás Erdélyi
Publicado en: Through the Prism of Gender and Work, 2025, Página(s) 113-140, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Editor: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682481_004

Life Trajectories: Making Revolution and Breaking Boundaries

Autores: Corinne Painter, Veronika Helfert, Manca G. Renko, Judith Szapor
Publicado en: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914 -21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, 2022, Página(s) 133–168, ISBN 978-1-3501-1034-2
Editor: 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

Autores: Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History, Edición Work in Global and Historical Perspective, Volume 18, 2023, Página(s) 225-258, ISBN 978-3-11-114590-7
Editor: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
DOI: 10.1515/9783111147529-012

Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence, 1918–21

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

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

Autores: Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century (Book Series: Work and Labor: Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century), Edición Volume III, 2022, Página(s) 1-31, ISBN 978-963-386-441-8
Editor: Central Europen University Press

Romania: Serving Fewer by Design: Austerity Welfare Politics during the Great Depression

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț
Publicado en: The Great Depression in Eastern Europe, 2025, Página(s) 203-230, ISBN 978-963-386-895-9
Editor: CEU Press

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

Autores: Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Through the Prism of Gender and Work, 2025, Página(s) 1-80, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Editor: 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

Autores: Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-capitalist Alternatives, Edición Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, Volume 75, 2023, Página(s) 79-124, ISBN 978-3-031-22503-1
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22504-8_4

Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics

Autores: Selin Çağatay
Publicado en: Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro-Mediteranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures (IAI Research Studies), Edición 7, 2022, Página(s) 43-54, ISBN 978-88-3365-467-6
Editor: Nuova Cultura

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

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

State Labour Control and Women’s Resistance in Austro-Hungarian Transylvania Tobacco Manufacturing (1897–1918)

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț
Publicado en: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960, 2024, Página(s) 285-313
Editor: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64411-5_11

A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally

Autores: Veronika Helfert
Publicado en: Migrant Actors Worldwide, 2025, Página(s) 395-416, ISBN 978-90-04-68698-4
Editor: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004686991_023

Monographic books (2)

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

Autores: Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Publicado en: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-84450-9
Editor: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84451-6

Through the Prism of Gender and Work

Autores: Selin Çağatay, Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Publicado en: Studies in Global Social History, Edición Volume 51, 2025, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Editor: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682481

Other (1)

“‘About the Author’ and ‘Context’ to ‘Ecaterina Arbore – The Working Woman in the Struggle Towards Emancipation’”

Autores: Alexandra Ghiț
Publicado en: Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century, 2024, Página(s) 23–30, ISBN 978-963-386-453-1
Editor: CEU Press