Books in the Comparative and International Working-Class History series

Presents the story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who came to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry in the US. This book also provides an examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference.

Connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class. This title shows how workers' refusal to be treated "like cattle and horses" (a line from an anonymous worker's poem on poor working conditions) derived from a fresh but powerfully felt sense of dignity.

Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists.

Explains why the workers at the Ashio copper mine joined together for three days of rioting against the Furukawa Company in February 1907. In the course of this historical analysis, this book takes on some of the most influential critical perspectives on Japanese social and labour history. It will interest scholars of labour history.

Presents the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. This book is useful for labour historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and scholars of Dutch or European history.

Brings together research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Emphasising the integration of traditional labour history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, and community, this volume explores working women's agency and consciousness and offers details regarding women's lives as daughters, housewives, mothers, factory workers, trade union leaders, and political activists.

Brings together research on the social history of Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book shows is suitable for Caribbeanists and Central Americanists, as well as students of gender studies, and labor, social, Latin American, and agrarian history.