Working-Class History

El debate sobre qué son hoy las clases sociales también se refleja en la forma en que el movimiento sindical se nombra a sí mismo y convoca a la sociedad. Las consignas elegidas cada año no son solo lemas circunstanciales: expresan una manera de leer la sociedad.

Nel XIX secolo gli operai italiani ricevevano spesso gettoni validi solo negli spacci aziendali invece della paga in moneta legale. Lo stesso principio di "denaro chiuso" e vincolato si è ripetuto in contesti diversissimi: dalle società di mutuo soccorso, ai buoni (token) della Resistenza, alle valute emesse dagli Alleati o dagli ebrei nei campi di lavoro.
Oggi quel meccanismo sopravvive nei buoni pasto, trasformato in strumento di welfare.
Un filo rosso che attraversa oltre 150 anni di storia italiana ed europea.

La Nueva Historia Social. ¿La historia de los excluidos o de los
excluyentes?, es un testimonio escrito de 25 años de trayectoria
académica, donde se ha hecho un contrapunto a la corriente
historiográfica más influyente en Chile de las últimas cuatro
décadas. Utilizando un repertorio variado de crítica, como
reseñas, columnas y entrevistas, el autor desnuda los vacíos,
inconsistencias y errores que subyacen a la Nueva Historia
Social, sin dejar de reconocer su aporte, aunque dejando en
claro que dicha corriente ya no responde a las necesidades de
pensar el pasado reciente y actual de Chile.

The first half of our special issue on Marx and revolution is organized around the investigation of a speculative identity: capitalism is theology. This second half works with and against another: capitalism is slavery. Marx, of course, was not a thinker of simple unity. From Hegel, he refined a reflexive relationship to "the identity of identity and non-identity." 1 Our first set of essays investigates how the internally differentiated unity he called capitalism manifests a topsy-turvy world, where things are not as they seem. Marxist engagements with slavery have taken various shapes within this differentiated totality: (1) the identity of "capitalism" and "slavery," figured through the polemic "wage slave" 2 ; (2) the negation of slavery, such that capitalism is "not-slavery," figured by Political Marxists and value-form theorists alike through the dialectical sublation of "direct slavery" by "abstract labor" 3 ; (3) an inversion, whereby "slavery is capitalist," and primitive accumulation returns us to the world market and a more capacious unity figured by "living labor" 4 ; and (4) the proposition of mediation, whose figuration in "racial capitalism" returns us to problems of identity anew. 5 Each form of slavery's theoretical appearance can be reflected back on the whole, as the "vantage point" not only of a certain articulation of method and politics but also of social relations themselves. 6 By understanding the social validity of a certain vantage -less covering a truth than expressing a partial one -the Marxist belief is that we can better "apprehend the course of historical development of both individual slave formations and the world economy as a whole." 7 While a unified vision of Marxism would see these vantages as interconnected -and, in their interconnectedness, redeemed -the movement from one vantage to another also bears the unanswered weight of Hegel's stadial theory. The second half of this special issue is an answer back to this weight, through the pressure of bearing nothing, and

is a book with many beginnings. Layered intellectually with a book review of Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files, politically in the riots that erupted after the murder of George Floyd, and visually through a frontispiece of Friedrich Engels's doodles on a draft page of what became The German Ideology, such beginnings activate the authors' critical relay between reading and politics. Together, reading, writing, and politics mediate one another, produced through and productive of collaborative, if uneven and indeterminate, modes of community making. "Every scene of reading and writing involves a crowd," they write, for "we never read or write alone" (9). On the page, Cadava and Nadal-Melsió endeavor to enact and intensify this crowd through what they call a "red common-wealth" (27), drawing readers elliptically into a "reading loop" of authors and contexts that cut across chapters and notes, requiring agility "to move backward and forward, to return to pages already read and to read them differently after having read other parts of the book" (26). Quite unlike Marx with his logical method of presentation in Capital (which, while not entirely hermetic, is meant to dialectically stage one's starting position as immanent to a totality), Cadava and Nadal-Melsió swim more leisurely in the streams of fragmentary, heretical, and open interpretations of Marxism, along with those interested in his later ethnographic notebooks, his processes of revision, and his collaborative intellectual spirit. If asked to choose between Marx's logic (often posed as essentialist and limiting) and his

Resumen: Este artículo aborda la posición conflictiva, y sin embargo central, del concepto de libertad en el pensamiento político de François Guizot. Se trata de una libertad limitada, fiel al recelo que el autor manifiesta hacia la libertad del individuo en la nueva sociedad contemporánea. Analizamos cómo Guizot, en su propósito de esclarecer la incógnita de la libertad, la reduce dialécticamente a una limitada libertad a disposición de la élite de los capaces.

В учебном пособии предлагается анализ исторического пути становления и развития системы надзора в сфере труда в России. Рассматриваются ключевые этапы эволюции контрольно-надзорных органов: возникновение и деятельность фабричной инспекции в Российской империи, количественные и качественные структурные изменения инспекции труда в советский период и формирование Федеральной службы по труду и занятости и Государственной инспекции труда (ГИТ) в Российской Федерации. Характеризуются социально-экономические предпосылки изменений, нормативная база, институциональное оформление и практическая деятельность органов надзора, а также их роль в защите прав работников и обеспечении безопасных условий труда в разные исторические эпохи.

Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по образовательным программам «Контрольно-надзорная деятельность в сфере труда», «Охрана труда», «Кадровый менеджмент в сфере охраны труда», «Федеральный государственный контроль в сфере социального обслуживания», «Экономика и регулирование рынка труда», «Юриспруденция», «Государственное и муниципальное управление», «Социология труда», а также для всех, кто интересуется историей государственных институтов и социально-трудовых отношений в России.

This article examines the everyday life of brigadiers involved in the Constructing Sites of National Youth organized between 1968 and 1989. It focuses on three case studies: the Danube-Black Sea Canal, the Poarta Albă-Midia-Năvodari Canal, and the Siret-Bărăgan Main Canal. Drawing on Katherine Verdery’s concept of the „etatization of time,” the study demonstrates that these development projects constituted a mechanism through which the state sought to occupy and regulate young people’s leisure time by involving them in projects deemed of national interest. The contribution explores directions previously unaddressed by historians. It analyzes the effects that the economic and social policies adopted by the community party had on the daily lives of young people. Without neglecting the existing secondary literature, the reconstruction of the legislative framework, the organizational structure of these projects, and their implementation relies primarily on documents from the National Archives of Romania, especially the Chancellery Fond and the Union of Communist Youth Fond. The author contrasts the ways in which the state regulated youth activity on the constructing sites with on-site everyday dynamics. This approach also relies on files from the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, interviews and newspaper articles about brigadiers prominent in the three cases. I also use the testimony of Aurelian Dănescu, a brigadier at the Siret-Bărăgan Main Canal, which has been published. The construction sites of national youth represented an attempt by the communist party to use cheap labor for the achievement of local and national objectives. Youth followed a strict daily schedule and acquired elements of military-style training. This approach reflected Nicolae Ceauşescu’s ideas about combating youth „hooliganism” by channeling leisure time into work for the homeland.

Il contributo esplora il valore educativo e documentario della memoria autobiografica operaia come fonte per una storia dell'educazione dal basso. Attraverso archivi, letteratura working class e testimonianze orali, si analizzano esperienze di apprendimento formale e non formale con particolare attenzione all'istituto delle 150 ore, considerato un importante dispositivo pedagogico di coscientizzazione e autoformazione. L'obiettivo è offrire strumenti per rileggere criticamente i processi educativi secondo il punto di vista delle classi lavoratrici e della loro memoria collettiva.

Copyright © Bu kitabın Türkiye'deki her türlü yayın hakkı Eğitim Yayınevi'ne aittir. Bütün hakları saklıdır. Kitabın tamamı veya bir kısmı 5846 sayılı yasanın hükümlerine göre kitabı yayımlayan firmanın ve yazarlarının önceden izni olmadan elektronik/mekanik yolla, fotokopi yoluyla ya da herhangi bir kayıt sistemi ile çoğaltılamaz, yayımlanamaz.

Although rarely compared, John Clare and Mary Webb both wrote with precision about the natural world. I here argue that they also share ecopoetic methodologies. The first of these, a linguistic fusion of the physical with the nonphysical, resembles certain Shelleyan imagery that threatens the subject and its environs. The second impulse is a sense of nature as being in the state I have termed 'enduring precarity'. Through its struggle, we learn precisely what in nature we must look after. Then, in a final ecological approach, Clare and Webb show how we may carry out this duty of care. Namely, through writing-and, I argue, reading-with ruthless self-abnegation, striving for Bridget Keegan's concept of a 'world without us'. By tracing nature's vulnerability as the central and developing tenet of these writers' conception of their environment, this dissertation demonstrates that a comparison is worthwhile; indeed, has been overdue.

Настоящий альманах представляет собой публикацию уникального фотодокументального комплекса, освещающего историю труда в Ленинграде в период Великой Отечественной войны и блокады. В фокусе исследования — трансформация промышленности и трудовых отношений в экстремальных условиях, эвакуация предприятий, мобилизация всех ресурсов, а также героические усилия рабочих по обеспечению жизни осажденного города и фронта.
Основу издания составляет обширный корпус фотографий из Центрального государственного архива кинофотофонодокументов Санкт-Петербурга (ЦГАКФФД СПб), многие из которых публикуются впервые. Снимки, сделанные корреспондентами ЛенТАСС, систематизированы по ключевым промышленным предприятиям и отраслям («Кировский завод», «Электросила», «Балтийский завод», «Скороход», «Красный треугольник» и др.) и снабжены комментариями.
Альманах вносит вклад в восполнение лакуны в изучении тыловой повседневности и экономики блокадного Ленинграда, визуализируя такие их аспекты, как массовое участие женщин и подростков в производстве, формы социалистического соревнования, организация питания в условиях голода и процесс восстановления города после снятия блокады.
Издание адресовано историкам, специалистам по визуальным исследованиям, архивистам и всем интересующимся историей России.

Este estudio analiza las prácticas cotidianas, percepciones y de Movilidad Independiente (MI) en el barrio de Villa Madero, Puebla, a partir de un enfoque de los Sistemas complejos y de la Investigación-Acción Participativa (IAP) desarrollado con niñas, niños y actores comunitarios. La investigación se construyó en tres periodos de tiempo (2018-2019, 2020-2021 y 2022-2023) y combinó herramientas cualitativas y cuantitativas orientadas a recuperar la experiencia situada de los propios participantes como fueron los recorridos exploratorios, mapeos sociales elaborados por los niños, conversaciones estructuradas con las familias y revisión colaborativa de documentos conceptuales. Asimismo, se integró información geoestadística de fuentes oficiales. Los hallazgos muestran que las nuevas tecnologías en el hogar han modificado la manera en que los niños se relacionan con el espacio público, reduciendo su presencia en la calle y limitando la interacción espontánea con sus pares. Las madres y los padres señalaron que la independencia infantil está mediada por miedos compartidos y por narrativas de riesgo amplificadas en redes sociales y medios de comunicación. La pandemia de COVID-19 acentuó estos temores, restringiendo aún más el uso de espacios abiertos y reforzando dinámicas de aislamiento. En conjunto, el estudio evidencia cómo la voz de los participantes permite comprender la Movilidad Independiente como un fenómeno territorial y un proceso social atravesado por percepciones, prácticas de cuidado y transformaciones culturales que reconfiguran la vida comunitaria.

Although artifact analysis was completed and a major portion of the following text was drafted in 1998, this report on the 1997 investigations at Ulysses S. Grant National Historical Site (ULSG) was not finalized until 2008. A number of other archeological projects at the park have been undertaken and published since the 1997 fieldwork was completed. In the interest of time and simplicity, no attempt has been made here to incorporate the findings of those later projects in this text.

"La nuit des prolétaires" est l’une des œuvres les plus originales de Rancière et un ouvrage clé pour comprendre sa pensée de jeunesse. Cependant, plus de quarante ans après sa publication, il demeure un livre peu discuté et mal connu, notamment en dehors de la France. Dans ce travail, je m’appuie sur des matériaux inédits conservés dans les archives de Rancière à l’Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) pour proposer quelques repères permettant de mieux comprendre le contexte de publication de l’œuvre, son contenu, ses choix méthodologiques et stylistiques, ses dialogues implicites et sa réception. Dans la première partie, je mets l’œuvre en relation avec le contexte politique et intellectuel d’après Mai 68 et propose une vue d’ensemble de l’évolution de l’archéologie ranciérienne de la classe ouvrière au cours des années 1970. Ensuite, j’éclaircis les motivations théoriques sous-jacentes à ses innovations formelles et méthodologiques. Dans la troisième partie, je présente l’un des arguments centraux du livre en suivant le fil du débat de Rancière avec la social history. Enfin, je consacre la conclusion à examiner la réception de l’ouvrage en France dans les années 1980.

Статья посвящена представлению проекта «PETROWORKERS: Урал и Сибирь в воспоминаниях рабочих», состоящего из корпуса воспоминаний рабочих Петербурга – Петрограда – Ленинграда о событиях конца XIX – начала ХХ в., связанных с Уралом и Сибирью, показана основная идея проекта, его значимость и ожидаемые результаты.

Статья посвящена лидеру скороходовских коммунистов Я.А. Калинину, убитому 1 апреля 1919 г. Рассматривается гибель партийного лидера как политическое событие в контексте борьбы власти и оппозиции. В работе проанализирован широкий круг источников, в т.ч. документы, извлечённые из фондов Центрального государственного архива историко-политических документов Санкт-Петербурга.

This contribution offers a preliminary framework for analysing the intersection between class dynamics and legal institutions in the ancient Greek poleis. Drawing parallels between ancient debates on the rule of law and modern critiques of legal systems as instruments of class power, the chapter examines how different socioeconomic groups—particularly the popular classes—exercised agency through legal means. The investigation proposes a taxonomy of popular agency in Greek law, identifying four primary manifestations: procedural agency through institutional access; the institutionalisation of popular justice practices within formal legal structures; substantive influence over legislative content; and class-oriented values embedded in legal frameworks. By examining examples ranging from Solon’s ban on slavery for debts to regulations concerning grain trade, wood, and charcoal supply, the paper explores how the popular classes secured legal protections for their economic interests against elite exploitation. Contrary to scholarly traditions emphasising elite competition and exclusively procedural concerns, this analysis reveals Greek law’s substantive orientation toward regulating behaviour along class lines. The contribution argues that even when elites controlled legal institutions, their codification of laws created spaces for popular agency by establishing fixed standards that all (citizens) could appeal to. The chapter contends
that bringing class analysis to ancient legal history is not anachronistic but
rather follows threads of ancient reflection on power relations, offering new
interpretative possibilities for understanding Greek legal traditions and their
socioeconomic foundations.

Classics runs through the stories, streets and stones of South Shields. This is Classics experienced by everyone in all classes. It is Classics that does not come from education or self-betterment, through exclusive channels. It is Classics on the ground; Classics ‘from below’. In this chapter, we trace popular awareness of the Roman past as it emerges from the stories and schemes of (mostly) working-class people associated with Marsden Bay from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. We explore how tales about the Roman occupation were part of the experience of these people and played a part in shaping their lives, from their political inclinations to their attempts at enrichment. The characters we introduce, from anarchic Jack ‘the Blaster’ Bates to Newcastle radical Thomas Spence to Mazzini-supporter Sydney Hawkes, make Marsden a focal point for reflections on power and class dynamics.

Thematic workshop: Gender and Labour.

Speakers: Manon Roy (Université d’Orléans – Laboratoire POLEN) "Representation of female sociability in the workshop: the example of ecclesiastical and moral novels (1830-1870)"; Sue Ann Malitte-Arminjon (Université Paris Nanterre) "Working-Class Women Writers in the 19th Century: Aesthetic and Social Issues, 1830-1892, Between the Rise of Working-Class Literature and the changing status of Women.

Scientific Coordinators: Louise Bernard (Université Paris Nanterre); Sue Ann Malitte-Arminjon (Université Paris Nanterre); Niccolò Amelii (Università di Chieti-Pescara).

“Il dibattito sul folklore in Italia” a cura di Pietro Clemente, Maria Luisa Meoni, Massimo Squillacciotti, Milano, Edizioni di Cultura Popolare, 1976/2, pp. 424.

Versione in formato pdf con la funzione della ricerca per parole, a cura di M. Squillacciotti, 2026, pp. 485.

Prima edizione in offset: “Aspetti del dibattito sul folklore in Italia  nel primo decennio del secondo dopoguerra: materiali e prime valutazioni”, Università degli Studi di Siena, 1974-75.

NOTA.
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Salt, Türkiye’de Üretim Mekânları: Endüstriyel Mirası Belgelemek başlıklı yeni araştırma projesine bir kamu programı ile başlıyor.

Türkiye’nin toplumsal belleğinin somutlaştığı yapılar arasında, üretim biçimlerini ve gündelik hayat pratiklerini yansıtan fabrika ve endüstri yerleşkeleri öne çıkar. Bu mekânlar, endüstriyel üretimin gerçekleştiği alanlar olmanın ötesinde, sahip olduğu donatılarla birlikte dönemin mimari ve toplumsal dinamiklerine dair ipuçları sunar. Günümüzde hızlı bir mülkiyet değişimi, kamulaştırma, özelleştirme ve kapsamlı yeniden işlevlendirme projeleri ile karşı karşıya olan bu yapılar, döneminin özgün mekânsal kurgusunu, malzeme tektoniğini, sosyal ve tarihsel katmanlarını taşır.

Araştırma, hem söz konusu yapıların mevcut fiziksel ve morfolojik özellikleri ile toplumsal bellekteki izlerini arşiv materyalleri ve sözlü tarih çalışmalarıyla kayıt altına almayı hem de atölye ve programlar aracılığıyla farklı disiplinlerden araştırmacıları bir araya getirerek güncel tartışmalara bir katkı sunmayı ve paylaşım ortamı yaratmayı amaçlıyor.

Mehmet Saner, Eda Yiğit, Hakan Koçak, Günseli Baki, Yücel Tunca ve Hande Ceylan’ın katılımıyla gerçekleştirilecek etkinlikte, muhtelif fabrika mekânlarına odaklanan araştırmalar üzerinden alana dair farklı metodolojik yaklaşımlar, bulgular ve imkânlar tartışılacak.

La entrevista que presentamos es fruto de nuestro trabajo en el
programa de radio El Brote, de la Asociación del Personal Universitario (APU) de la UNMdP, emitido por la Radio de la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, FM 95.7 Mhz. En este marco, desde el 2013 realizamos programas especiales donde entrevistamos en extenso a personas destacadas vinculadas al mundo sindical, ya sean dirigentes gremiales o políticos, investigadores o referentes culturales. La entrevista a Víctor de Gennaro fue realizada en este ciclo. Para su realización fue fundamental la coordinación realizada por el Secretario General de Luz y Fuerza Mar del Plata y secretario adjunto de la CTA Autónoma, José Rigane, a quien volvemos a agradecerle. Nuestro interés se centró en recorrer parte de su biografía como militante sindical pero también en pensar, a través de su vivencia personal, algunos aspectos importantes de las transformaciones del gremialismo desde la década del 70 hasta los 90´s.
Víctor De Gennaro nació en Lanús, en 1948. Se recibió de Maestro Normal en 1965. Al año siguiente ingresó a la Secretaria de Minería de la Nación. Allí, en 1973, fue electo secretario general de la Junta Interna de Delegados por la Asociación de Trabajadores del Estado (ATE). En 1975 fue vocal del Consejo Directivo Nacional de ATE y fue secretario de Organización y Gremial de la seccional Capital Federal de ATE. Durante la última dictadura militar trabajó como canillita. En diciembre de 1977 fue fundador de la Agrupación Nacional Unidad y Solidaridad de la Asociación Trabajadores del Estado (ANUSATE). Participó en la mesa nacional de Agrupaciones Gremiales Peronistas. El 6 de noviembre de 1984, la Lista Verde – ANUSATE lo llevó a la Secretaria General de ATE Nacional. En 1987 fue presidente de la Confederación Latinoamericana de  Trabajadores Estatales (CLATE). Entre 1986 y 1990 ocupó cargos directivos en la CGT encabezada por Saúl Ubaldini. A principios de los 90 participó en la fundación del Congreso de los Trabajadores Argentinos (CTA), redenominado como Central en 1996. Entre 1996 y el año 2006 fue elegido como Secretario General de la CTA, mientras que entre 2006 y 2010 fue Secretario de Relaciones Institucionales de la citada central obrera. En 2011 fue electo diputado nacional por la provincia de Buenos Aires por el partido Unidad Popular, del cual es su presidente desde 2013. En 2015, en las Primarias Abiertas Simultáneas y Obligatorias (PASO), fue
candidato a Presidente de la Nación por el Frente Popular. Es docente en cursos de formación sindical, y coordina la Cátedra “Historia del  movimiento obrero. Una aproximación desde los trabajadores” en la Universidad Nacional de Lanús (UNLa).