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Antwerp's Joys: Diamonds, Jewish Immigrant Workers, and Labour Organization in the Interwar Period 安特卫普的欢乐：两次世界大战期间的钻石、犹太移民工人和劳工组织

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International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000968

Janiv Stamberger

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In-kind Wages: Understanding Workers’ Strategies to Cope with Inflation and Poverty 实物工资：理解工人应对通货膨胀和贫困的策略

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000610

Carmen Sarasúa

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The History of Trade Unionism and Working Class Politics as Social Movement History: Three Volumes on the Nordic Countries 作为社会运动史的《工会主义和工人阶级政治史》：北欧国家三卷

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000634

Ad Knotter

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“Human Beings Are Too Cheap in India”: Wages and Work Organization as Business Strategies in Bombay's Late Colonial Textile Industry "印度的劳动力太廉价"：孟买殖民后期纺织业作为商业策略的工资和工作组织

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000579

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Aditi Dixit

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Workers Reconstituting the Factory 工人重建工厂

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000348

Bridget Kenny

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On Power at Work 关于工作中的权力

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International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000543

Chitra Joshi

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Navigating Labour Shifts: Early Modern Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean (1521–1563) 引导劳动力转移：加勒比海早期现代珍珠捕捞（1521-1563 年）

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000567

Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez

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Gender Conflicts on the Shopfloor: Barcelona Women at Chocolates Amatller, 1890–1914 车间里的性别冲突：1890-1914 年阿玛特勒巧克力公司的巴塞罗那妇女

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000555

Xavier Jou-Badal

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Light and Shadow of the Digital Factory: Response to the Comments 数字工厂的光与影对评论的回应

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000324

Moritz Altenried

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“Be a Miner”: Constructions and Contestations of Masculinity in the British Coalfields, 1975–1983 "成为一名矿工"：1975-1983 年英国煤田中男性气质的构建与争议

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000373

Keith Gildart, Ben Curtis, Andrew Perchard, Grace Millar

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