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

Informations projet

ZARAH

N° de convention de subvention: 833691

DOI

10.3030/833691

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 18 Juin 2019

Date de début 1 Février 2020

Date de fin 31 Janvier 2026

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• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

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€ 2 499 947,00

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€ 2 499 947,00

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan Zimmermann
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 227-240, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Ivelina Masheva
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 241-260, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Ivelina Lyubenova Masheva
Publié dans: International Labor and Working-Class History, Numéro 105, 2024, Page(s) 213-230, ISSN 0147-5479
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Susan Zimmermann
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 339-362, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227518

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

Auteurs: Veronika Helfert
Publié dans: Diplomacy & Statecraft, Numéro 31/4, 2020, Page(s) 648-672, ISSN 0959-2296
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Selin Çağatay
Publié dans: Labor History, Numéro 65, 2024, Page(s) 273-287, ISSN 0023-656X
Éditeur: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2023.2272125

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

Auteurs: Eszter Varsa
Publié dans: International Review of Social History, Numéro 69, 2024, Page(s) 99-126, ISSN 0020-8590
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Veronika Helfert
Publié dans: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, Numéro Volume 35, Numéro 1, 2024, Page(s) 96-116, ISSN 1016-765X
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Eszter Varsa
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 279-299, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 261-278, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2227514

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

Auteurs: Sevgi Adak, Selin Çağatay
Publié dans: Women's History Review, Numéro Volume 32, Numéro 5, 2023, Page(s) 723-744, ISSN 0961-2025
Éditeur: Triangle Journals Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2023.2198107

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

Auteurs: Zhanna Popova
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 301-319, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț
Publié dans: International Labor and Working-Class History, Numéro 104, 2024, Page(s) 11-31, ISSN 0147-5479
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Jelena Tešija
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 321-338, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Veronika Helfert
Publié dans: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Numéro Volume 31, Numéro 2, 2023, Page(s) 363-383, ISSN 2573-9638
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Olga Gnydiuk
Publié dans: Women and History: Gender Perspectives of Everyday Life (1970s-1980s), 2021, Page(s) 7-18
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Susan Zimmermann
Publié dans: Labor in State-socialist Europe: Contributions to a Global History of Work (Series: Work and Labor: Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st Century), Numéro 1, 2020, Page(s) 337-372, ISBN 978-963-386-337-4
Éditeur: CEU Press
DOI: 10.1515/9789633863381-017

Women’s Labour Activism

Auteurs: Mátyás Erdélyi
Publié dans: Through the Prism of Gender and Work, 2025, Page(s) 113-140, ISBN 978-90-04-68246-7
Éditeur: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004682481_004

Life Trajectories: Making Revolution and Breaking Boundaries

Auteurs: Corinne Painter, Veronika Helfert, Manca G. Renko, Judith Szapor
Publié dans: Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914 -21: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, 2022, Page(s) 133–168, ISBN 978-1-3501-1034-2
Éditeur: 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

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

Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence, 1918–21

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

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

Auteurs: Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli, Susan Zimmermann
Publié dans: 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), Numéro Volume III, 2022, Page(s) 1-31, ISBN 978-963-386-441-8
Éditeur: Central Europen University Press

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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț
Publié dans: The Great Depression in Eastern Europe, 2025, Page(s) 203-230, ISBN 978-963-386-895-9
Éditeur: CEU Press

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

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

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

Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics

Auteurs: Selin Çağatay
Publié dans: Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro-Mediteranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures (IAI Research Studies), Numéro 7, 2022, Page(s) 43-54, ISBN 978-88-3365-467-6
Éditeur: Nuova Cultura

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

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

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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț
Publié dans: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960, 2024, Page(s) 285-313
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64411-5_11

A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally

Auteurs: Veronika Helfert
Publié dans: Migrant Actors Worldwide, 2025, Page(s) 395-416, ISBN 978-90-04-68698-4
Éditeur: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004686991_023

Monographic books (2)

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

Auteurs: Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason, Olga Sasunkevich
Publié dans: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-84450-9
Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84451-6

Through the Prism of Gender and Work

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

Other (2)

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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghiț
Publié dans: Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights: East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century, 2024, Page(s) 23–30, ISBN 978-963-386-453-1
Éditeur: CEU Press

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

Auteurs: Alexandra Ghit
Publié dans: Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, Numéro 14/1, 2020, Page(s) 162-165, ISSN 1933-2890
Éditeur: Berghahn Journals