Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century

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• 2025

  Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history

  Çağatay, S., Erdelyi, M., Ghiț, A., Gnydiuk, O., Helfert, V., Masheva, I., Popova, Z., Tesija, J., Varsa, E. & Zimmermann, S., Aug 2025, UCL Press. 683 p. (Work Around the World: Studies in Global Labour History)

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  • Central and Eastern Europe 100%
  • Labour History 66%
  • Authors 66%
  • Turkey 33%
  • Twentieth Century 33%

• 2023

  Dance Around a “Sacred Cow”: Women’s Night Work and the Gender Politics of the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and Internationally

  Zimmermann, S., 2023, State Socialism in Eastern Europe: History, Theory, Anti-capitalist Alternatives. Bartha, E., Krausz, T. & Mezei, B. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 79-124 46 p. (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms; vol. Part F833).

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  • Night Work 100%
  • Hungary 100%
  • Socialist State 100%
  • Women Workers 50%
  • Central and Eastern Europe 25%

• Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion

  Popova, Z., 29 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 31, 2, p. 301-319 19 p.

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  • Apprentice 100%

• Revisiting feminist historiography on women's activism in Turkey: beyond the grand narrative of waves

  Adak, S. & Çağatay, S., 10 Apr 2023, In: Women's History Review. 32, 5, p. 723-744 22 p.

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  • Feminist Historiography 100%
  • grand narrative 100%
  • Turkey 100%
  • Women's Movement 50%
  • 1980s 25%

• Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959

  Zimmermann, S., 4 May 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 31, 2, p. 339-362 24 p.

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  • Socialism 100%
  • Internationalism 100%
  • Hungary 100%
  • Unionism 100%
  • Trade Union 50%

• The changing politics of women's work and the making of extended childcare leave in state-socialist hungary, Europe, and internationally: Shifting the scene

  Zimmermann, S., 18 Sep 2023, Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History. Ehmer, J. & Lentz, C. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 225-257 33 p.

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• Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century: Activism, governance, and scale

  Ghiț, A., Helfert, V., Masheva, I., Popova, Z., Tešija, J., Varsa, E. & Zimmermann, S., 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 31, 2, p. 227-240 14 p.

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• “The rulers are the causes of the war […] They are the reason there is no bread in our town:” women’s food riots in the Hungarian countryside, 1917–1918

  Varsa, E., 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 31, 2, p. 279-299 21 p.

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  • Ruler 100%
  • Countryside 100%
  • Riots 100%
  • Literature 25%
  • Action 25%

• 2022

  Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance

  Çağatay, S., Liinason, M. & Sasunkevich, O., 2022, Springer Nature.

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  • Russian Federation 100%
  • Turkey 100%
  • Scandinavia 100%
  • Crowds 25%
  • Invisible 25%

• Introduction: Thinking the History of Women’s Activism into Global Labor History

  Betti, E., Papastefanaki, L., Tolomelli, M. & Zimmermann, S., 2022, Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century. Eloisa, B., Papastefanaki, L., Tolomelli, M. & Zimmermann, S. (eds.). Central European University Press, p. 1-32 32 p.

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• Turkey and Eastern Europe: Historicising Geopolitical Convergences in Gender Politics

  Çağatay, S., 28 Jan 2022, Decolonising (Knowledge on) Euro–Mediterranean Relations: Insights on Shared Histories and Futures. Huber, D. & Kamel, L. (eds.). Edizioni Nuova Cultura, p. 43-54

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• 2021

  “Trade Unions Are Also Working Hard in This Regard”: Labour Policy and Gender Issues of Women’s Work in Ukraine in the 1970s – Early 1980s

  Gnydiuk, O., 2021, Women and History: Gender perspectives of everyday life (1970s-1980s). Gnydiuk, O., Qeburia, T., Styazhkina, O. & Parunova, A. (eds.). The Heinrich Boell Foundation, p. 7-17

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• 2020

  “It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, but a Lived Reality”: Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s

  Zimmermann, S., 2020, Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989: Contributions to a History of Work. Siefert, M. (ed.). Budapest: Central European University Press, p. 337-372 36 p. ( Work and labor: transdisciplinary studies for the 21st century; vol. 1).

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