{"title":"“Full Rights” Feminists in South Asia: Freedom, Equality, and Justice – ERRATUM","authors":"Samita Sen","doi":"10.1017/s0020859023000056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000056","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136175648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating Labour through Foreign Punishment? Codification and Sanction at Work in New Kingdom Egypt","authors":"Alex A. Loktionov","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000852","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates two New Kingdom Egyptian texts pertaining to labour regulation: the Karnak Decree of Horemheb and the Nauri Decree of Seti I. They focus on combating the unauthorized diverting of manpower and represent the oldest Egyptian texts (fourteenth–thirteenth century BCE) explicitly concerned with the legal dimension of managing the workforce. After a brief historical overview, the paper outlines each text's key content and stylistic features. It shows that while some of these are likely native to Egypt, others may have been imported from Mesopotamia. More specifically, it appears that the sentence structure is native Egyptian, but the sanctions deployed are likely of foreign origin, aligning more closely to the contemporary punitive tradition of Mesopotamia. This is probably no coincidence, given the close contact between Egypt and the broader Near East at that time. This uptake of foreign ideas may have achieved more efficient labour regulation by enforcing stricter rules for non-compliance while simultaneously maintaining a veneer of Egyptian authenticity in line with official state ideology.","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"33 1","pages":"33 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73549717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Status, Power, and Punishments: “Household Workers” in Late Imperial China","authors":"Claude Chevaleyre","doi":"10.1017/S002085902200089X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002085902200089X","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the past four decades or so, China scholars have shone a new light on the history of labour in late imperial China, particularly on the role of the household as a unit of production and on the contribution of women to commercial production and family income. Beyond members of the kin group itself, attention is seldom paid to the individuals brought into the Chinese households solely to provide additional manpower. To “break the carapace” of the late imperial Chinese household, this article focuses on the often-omitted “household workers”, that is, on its enslaved (nubi) and hired (gugong) constituents. It approaches the topic from the angle of the vulnerability of these non-kin “workers” to punishments and violence. To evaluate their vulnerability to punishment and gauge the disciplinary powers of the household heads, it examines the relationship between punishments and “household workers” in Ming law. It then explores lineage regulations, before moving closer to the ground by mobilizing a wider variety of day-to-day sources, such as contracts and narrative sources produced in the context of the late Ming and early Qing crisis.","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"13 1","pages":"109 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77705602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“They Have No Property to Lose”: The Impasse of Free Labour in Lombard Silk Manufactures (1760–1810)","authors":"Lorenzo Avellino","doi":"10.1017/s002085902200092x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s002085902200092x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the abolition of the guild system and the rise of a new legal regime based on free contract, a central dilemma emerged in Europe: how to enforce labour control in this new era of individual economic freedom. This article examines how this issue was addressed in the State of Milan, where ideas about freedom of contract championed by state reformers such as Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria were met with continued requests from merchant-manufacturers to apply corporal punishment and threat of imprisonment to ensure workers’ attendance. Analysing the new regulations, the ideological credos of the new regime, and the effectiveness of the reforms as they played out on the ground in the silk industry, this article shows that the chance that labour relations could be managed within a civil law regime appeared to be in direct contrast with the dominant conception of workers’ conditions, in particular their lack of propriety and good faith. As credit-debt bonds and limitations to weavers’ mobility stood as the most effective means to ensure labour coercion, a closer look at the daily interactions in the workshop allows us to shed new light on the rationality of workers’ practices like Saint Monday, cast by contemporary commentators in merely moralistic terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"62 49","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Each of Us is an Other”","authors":"M. Rodríguez García","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000359","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cobble's study of American social democratic feminism is a fascinating narrative of the lives of women who crossed the boundaries of class, race and nation-states to build a better world. Her chronological account of the careers and activism of these women is not only a major contribution to the history of feminism but also a significant addition to the study of social democracy worldwide.","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"75 1","pages":"537 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77330336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sven Van Melkebeke. Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers. Mobilizing Labor and Land in the Lake Kivu Region, Congo and Rwanda (1918–1960/62). [African History, Vol. 9.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2020. xiv, 335 pp. Ill. Maps. € 75.00; $91.00. (E-book: € 75.00; $91.00.)","authors":"J. Vos","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000736","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"400 1","pages":"567 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78048218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William H. SewellJr. Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France. [Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning.] The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (IL) [etc.] 2021. 412 pp. Ill. $105.00. (Paper: $35.00; E-book: $34.99.)","authors":"Charles Walton","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"142 1","pages":"587 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80181284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Akinobu Kuroda. A Global History of Money. [Routledge Explorations in Economic History.] Routledge, London [etc.], 2020, xiv, 213 pp. £120.00. (Paper: £36.99; E-book: £33.29.)","authors":"R. Spang","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"201202 1","pages":"561 - 564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77714375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lise Butler. Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945–1970. [Oxford Historical Monographs.] Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.] 2020. ix, 264 pp. £60.00.","authors":"Alex Langstaff","doi":"10.1017/S0020859022000682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859022000682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"50 1","pages":"551 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80720105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Murat Metinsoy. The Power of the People. Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923–38. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. xi, 405 pp. Ill. Maps. £29.99. (E-book: $32.00.)","authors":"Alper Kara","doi":"10.1017/s0020859022000773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859022000773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"54 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77976178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}