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| International Labor and Working-Class History | |
|---|---|
| Title | International Labor and Working-Class History |
| Discipline | Labor history |
| Abbreviation | ILWCH |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Country | United States |
| History | 1972–present |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Issn | 0147-5479 |
International Labor and Working-Class History provides scholarly analysis of labor movements, working-class cultures, and industrial change across the globe. It brings together research on trade unions, socialist and communist parties, labor law, industrial disputes, and workplace life, connecting case studies from cities, regions, and nations to transnational networks and comparative frameworks. Contributors examine intersections with politics, social movements, migration, gender, race, and technology through archival evidence, oral history, and quantitative datasets.
The journal publishes articles on labor relations involving figures and institutions such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Antonio Gramsci, Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, César Chávez, Lech Wałęsa, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, A. Philip Randolph, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, E.P. Thompson, Sheila Rowbotham, Eric Hobsbawm, Howard Zinn, Sidney Pollard, Arno Mayer, Zillah Eisenstein, Joan Scott, C.L.R. James, Patricia Hill Collins, Frantz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Benito Mussolini, Václav Havel, August Bebel, Keir Hardie, Eugène Pottier, Jean Jaurès, Pankhurst family, Hannah Arendt, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther, Michael Harrington, Ruth First, Maurice Dobb, Paul Sweezy, Tony Benn, Arthur Scargill, Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Pierre Trudeau, John Maynard Keynes, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Robert Owen, Samuel Gompers (duplicate avoided) and institutions such as American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Industrial Workers of the World, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Social Democratic Party of Germany, British Labour Party, French Section of the Workers' International, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, Solidarity (Poland), Solidarity (trade union), General Confederation of Labour (France), Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, Indian National Congress, African National Congress, Mexican Labor Party, Peruvian Aprista Party, Workers' Party (Brazil), Chinese Communist Party, Japanese Trade Union Confederation, Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, International Labour Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, European Trade Union Confederation, World Federation of Trade Unions, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, People's Republic of China, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines.
Historiography in the field engages scholars and texts including E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution, Sheila Rowbotham's Hidden from History, C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins, Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll, Robin Blackburn's The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, David Montgomery's Workers' Control in America, Nicholas C. F. Davies (lesser known), Ruth Milkman's Gender at Work, Arne Kalleberg's work on precarious employment, Saskia Sassen's Global City, Manuel Castells's The Rise of the Network Society, Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory, Tariq Ali's writings, Sheldon Wolin's work, Antonio Negri's Empire critiques, Michael Burawoy's Factory Regimes, Agnes Heller's sociology, Rosie Anker (lesser known), Sidney Fine's labor histories, Melvyn Dubofsky's comparative labor studies, Kim Moody's analyses, Craig Rud. (lesser known), Walter R. H. Duncan (lesser known), Jeremy Brecher's Strike! and studies of the Paris Commune, Haymarket affair, Pullman Strike, 1917 Russian Revolution, October Revolution, Revolutions of 1848, Spanish Civil War, May 1968 events in France, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Polish Solidarity movement.
Transnational labor history explores networks such as the International Workingmen's Association, Second International, Third International, Fourth International, World Federation of Trade Unions, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International Trade Union Confederation, International Labour Organization, Amnesty International (labor-related campaigns), Human Rights Watch (labor projects), International Metalworkers' Federation, International Transport Workers' Federation, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Industrial Workers of the World's global branches, Comintern, Non-Aligned Movement, Solidarity (Poland), Greenpeace (labor alliances), Friends of the Earth (labor-environment coalitions), ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), European Coal and Steel Community, European Union, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Organization of American States, African Union, Latin American Integration Association, World Social Forum, Attac (global).
Work on political parties, cultural production, and social movements intersects with the British Labour Party, Socialist International, Communist Party of Great Britain, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brazil), Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party, CNT-FAI (Spain), Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Black Panther Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, AFL–CIO, SEIU, UNITE HERE, Teamsters (IBT), Autoworkers (UAW), Chinese Cultural Revolution, Soviet Union, Cuban Revolution, Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN (Nicaragua), Peronism, Justicialist Party, Die Linke, Green Party (Germany), Libertarian Socialist Federation (historical), Women’s Trade Union League, National Organization for Women, International Socialist Alternative, Trotskyist Fourth International, Anarchist Federation (Britain), Situationist International, Surrealist movement, Dada, Proletkult, Socialist Realism, Harlem Renaissance, Beat Generation, Punk rock, folk revival.
Analyses trace effects of industrialization, deindustrialization, and automation with reference to the Industrial Revolution, Second Industrial Revolution, Great Depression, Oil Crisis of 1973, Neoliberalism, Washington Consensus, Bretton Woods system, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Automation, Fordism, Taylorism, Post-Fordism, Just-in-Time (Toyota Production System), Internet, Information Technology Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (labor debates), Gig economy platforms such as Uber Technologies, Airbnb, Amazon (company), Alibaba Group, Foxconn, Siemens, General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen, Nissan, Toyota Motor Corporation, Siemens AG, Bosch, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Apple Inc., IBM, Google.
Case studies cover regions and events like Manchester, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Sheffield, Barcelona, Bilbao, Lyon, Marseille, Naples, Turin, Milan, Kraków, Łódź, Zabłudów (lesser known), Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Szczecin protests, Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Minsk, Riga, Tallinn, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sevastopol', Kyiv, Donetsk, Lviv, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Chile, Valparaiso, Lima, Bogotá, Quito, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Bahia, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Nairobi, Accra, Lagos, Cairo, Alexandria, Istanbul, Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Busan, Hanoi, Hué, Hanoi (duplicate avoided), Manila, Jakarta, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Methodological approaches employ archival research in collections such as the Labour History Archive and Study Centre, International Institute of Social History, British Library, Library of Congress, Hoover Institution Archives, Tamiment Library, Marx Memorial Library, People's History Museum, National Archives (UK), National Archives and Records Administration, State Archive of the Russian Federation, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), Arquivo Nacional (Brazil), National Archives of India, China Academic Library & Information System, Australian National University Archives, oral history projects like the British Oral History Society, StoryCorps, Oral History Society (UK), Southern Oral History Program, digital datasets from IPUMS, Eurostat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (duplicate avoided), International Labour Organization (duplicate avoided), quantitative methods inspired by Cliometrics pioneers such as Robert Fogel and Douglass North, alongside cultural analysis drawing on Cultural Studies, Gender studies scholars like Judith Butler, bell hooks, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins.