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Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first national railway, it produced and disrupted various kinds of... more
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      Mobility/Mobilities, Transnationalism, Space and Place, History of Technology
How does one craft an explicitly left theory of anti-imperialism that would animate an anti-imperialist praxis? World-systems analysis has a long history of engagement with theories of anti-imperialism from an explicitly Leninist... more
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      World Systems Analysis, Capitalism, Labour Studies, Labor History and Studies
Préface au livre de Simon Pirani, La Révolution bat en retraite, La nouvelle aristocratie communiste et les ouvriers (Russie 1920-24), [2008] / Foreword to the French edition of Simon Pirani's The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920–1924:... more
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      Soviet History, Labour history, Social History, Labor History and Studies
This article examines postmortem inventories and notarial records from Brazilian slaveholders in southern Brazil in the nineteenth century. By discussing selected cases in detail, it investigates the relationship between “precarious... more
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      Legal History, History of Slavery, Labor History and Studies, Labor History
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      Working Classes, Labour history, Modern Greece, Modern Greek History
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      Theatre Studies, Theatre History, Labour history, Theater and film
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      Theatre History, Working Classes, Labour history, Modern Greece
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      Women's History, Gender History, Working Classes, Labour history
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      Working Classes, Labour history, Class, Modern Greece
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      Politics, Labor History (History), Marxist theory, Labor History and Studies
In between teaching, writing, and researching, this book emerged while working outside of work: it is the product of nearly six months of dialogue and debate, over 500 essay-length e-mails exchanged, a half-dozen group calls, and... more
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      Architecture, Higher Education, Social Activism, Theory Of Architecture
Con questo agile volume, Paolo Barcella affronta il tema complesso e poco studiato delle migrazioni a breve raggio dei "frontalieri", ricostruendone dimensione storica e trasformazioni nel contesto europeo. L'analisi di questo fenomeno,... more
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      Labour history, International Migration, Migration Studies, Labor History and Studies
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      Gender Studies, Industrial Relations, Labor History and Studies, Labor law
In this piece, I analyze first the interweaving of the factory and factory women as two principle images of visible industrial modernity in Turkish republican representations. I then move on to show how these representations sat uneasily... more
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      Industrial And Labor Relations, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Gender Studies
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      Industrial And Labor Relations, Management, Marketing, Sociology of Work
A history behind Santiago's subway system and why a fare increase sparked massive protests.
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      Urban History, Urban Studies, Chile, Labor History and Studies
Pullman NM needed a synthesis of academic writing about Pullman and a catalog of related cultural and historical resources related to the monument’s purpose statement, which includes three charges: 1. To preserve the historic resources... more
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      Cultural Heritage, Labor History (U.S. history), Urban Planning, Labor History and Studies
This article explores the experiences of Palestinian citizens in Israel's construction industry in the twenty-five years following the Palestinian Nakba and the establishment of Israel. The article relies primarily on the narratives of... more
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      Middle East Studies, Israel/Palestine, Labor History and Studies, Racialization
A presente dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as relações, tanto de diálogo quanto de tensão, entre as lideranças militantes do movimento negro e do movimento operário -- este formado majoritariamente por imigrantes e seus... more
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      Immigration History, Labor History and Studies, Racismo, Working-Class History
Nas décadas seguintes à abolição na cidade de São Paulo, a chegada em massa de imigrantes europeus somada ao racismo dos empregadores e às políticas de branqueamento do Estado geraram dificuldades e acentuaram a marginalização da... more
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      Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Labor History and Studies, História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira