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Living Standards and Development Paths: Factory Systems and Job Quality during US Industrialization, 1790–1840 生活水平与发展路径：美国工业化时期的工厂制度与工作质量，1790-1840

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International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859025000033

Benjamin Schneider

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Wages, Gender, and Coercion: Socio-Economic Stratification and Labour Practices among the Khoe in Early Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony 工资、性别和强迫：19世纪早期开普殖民地霍伊人的社会经济分层和劳动实践

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859025000082

Calumet Links, Erik Green

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An Apology for Unreal Wages: Building Labourers and Living Standards in the Southern Low Countries (1290–1560) 为虚幻工资道歉：南方低地国家的建筑工人和生活水平（1290-1560）

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859025000045

Sam Geens, Bruno Blondé

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Wage Determination and Employer Power in the Labour Market for Servants: Evidence from England and Wales, 1780–1834 仆人劳动力市场中的工资决定和雇主权力：来自英格兰和威尔士的证据，1780-1834

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0020859024000944

Moritz Kaiser

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“The Very Soul Must Be Held in Bondage!”: Alice Victoria Kinloch's Critical Examination of South Africa's Diamond-Mining Compounds “灵魂必须被束缚！”： Alice Victoria Kinloch对南非钻石开采化合物的批判性考察

IF 0.8 2区历史学

International Review of Social History Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1017/s002085902400097x

Rafael de Azevedo, Tijl Vanneste

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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

IF 0.8 2区历史学

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

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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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