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| International Review of Social History | |
|---|---|
| Title | International Review of Social History |
| Discipline | Social history |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1956–present |
| Issn | 0020-8590 |
| Eissn | 1474-0699 |
International Review of Social History is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in the historical study of labor, working-class movements, and social change. Established in the mid-20th century, the journal has published scholarship connecting archives, biographies, institutions, and movements across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It engages historians, archivists, and scholars associated with major research centers and cultural institutions.
The journal was founded in the context of postwar reconstruction alongside institutions such as the International Institute of Social History, the British Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and networks of archivists linked to the League of Nations successor institutions. Early editorial figures worked with collections that included papers from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and correspondence related to the Paris Commune and the Revolution of 1848. Over decades the journal intersected with events and organizations such as the Cold War, the European Coal and Steel Community, the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Indian National Congress as historians traced labor movements through industrial crises, revolutions, and decolonization. Editors and contributors have included scholars connected to the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The journal publishes work on subjects ranging from artisan revolts and factory committees to trade unionism, welfare institutions, and revolutionary parties. Typical articles situate actors such as Matthew Boulton, E. P. Thompson, Sydney and Beatrice Webb, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, León Trotsky, Emmeline Pankhurst, Antonio Gramsci, Clara Zetkin, and Che Guevara within broader institutional contexts like the International Labour Organization, the Third International, and the European Trade Union Confederation. Comparative pieces connect regions such as Latin America, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and North America by drawing on archives including the British Library, the Hoover Institution, the Bodleian Library, the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, and the Russian State Archive. Methodological approaches encompass microhistory centered on figures linked to the Chartist movement, macroanalysis of episodes such as the Great Depression, and studies of legislation like the Factory Acts and peace settlements such as the Treaty of Versailles that affected labor regimes.
Peer review is managed by editorial boards composed of scholars affiliated with institutions including the Institute of Historical Research, the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, the Sciences Po, the University of Toronto, and the National University of Singapore. The journal follows standard blind review procedures practiced in periodicals like Past & Present and The Journal of Modern History. It is abstracted and indexed in major databases used by researchers working with collections from the International Council on Archives, the American Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society, and libraries such as the Library of Congress. Indexing partners include services analogous to those used by Economic History Review and Social History journals that assist discovery in bibliographic platforms used by the Modern Language Association community and researchers associated with the European University Institute.
Scholars have cited the journal for influential essays that reframed narratives associated with figures such as Karl Marx, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Adam Smith by situating their writings within labor movements and institutional developments. Reviews in venues tied to the Times Literary Supplement, the New Left Review, and university presses at Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press have discussed its role in debates about modernization, industrialization, social legislation, and revolutionary strategy debated at conferences like those of the International Economic History Association and the World Congress of Jewish Studies. The journal has been used in syllabi at departments including the London School of Economics, Columbia University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Leiden University.
The journal's special issues and landmark articles have addressed episodes such as the Industrial Revolution, the Long Depression, the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution of 1949, anti-colonial movements involving the Indian National Army and African National Congress, and labor responses to crises like the 1973 oil crisis. Notable thematic issues examined the archives of figures connected to the Second International, the history of socialist feminism involving Alexandra Kollontai and Millicent Fawcett, and comparative studies of trade union strategies in contexts like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Japan. Contributors have included historians associated with projects at the National Archives (UK), the Smithsonian Institution, the German Historical Institute, and the Hispanic Society of America.
Category:Academic journals Category:History journals Category:Social history