Blog Series I: Finding Women in the Sources

Blog Series II: Putting Activists Centre Stage

Blog Series III: Transnational Links and the History of Women’s Labour Activism

Blog Series IV: Through the Lens of Women’s Work and Activism: ZARAH Guest Blog Series

Through the Lens of Women’s Work and Activism

03/11/2022

by Selin Çağatay and Jelena Tešija Illustration: Agricultural workers in...

Through the Lens of Women’s Work and Activism: Introducing the ZARAH Guest Blog Series

11/11/2022

by Jessica Richter In the interwar period, two large interest...

“Bitter Years of Exploitation”: Domestic Workers’ (Un)organized Labour Struggles (1890s-1938)

25/11/2022

by Minja Bujaković On a summer night in 1920, the...

Establishing the Communist Women’s Movement in the 1920s: Individual Activism and the Activist Networks

12/12/2022

by Doreen Blake “Work” has had different meanings in time...

The representations of work in the Catholic women’s press in Austria (1918-1934)

27/01/2023

by Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek The main problem of urban households...

Women’s Organizing and Household Work in Socialist Yugoslavia (1950s-1960s)

10/02/2023

by Adela Hîncu By the 1960s, statistics clearly showed that...

The “Feminization of Agriculture”: Rural Women, Family Structures, and the Political Economy of State Socialist Romania

24/02/2023

by Isidora Grubački In 1934, worker, writer, and communist and...

Kaja’s Path and Milka Žicina’s Path: The Uses of Literary Works for Labour and Intellectual History

10/03/2023

by Adrienn Kácsor An obsolete library label in the upper...

Conditions of Invisibility: Jolán Szilágyi’s Communist Artmaking Between the Two World Wars

24/03/2023

by Clara Vlessing Born on 5 May 1882 in Old...

Socialist-Suffragette, Suffragette-Socialist: Intersecting Struggles in Sylvia Pankhurst’s Life and Memory

31/03/2023

by Ivana Hadjievska The magazine Makedonka, an official organ of...

Women’s emancipation through a planned economy. Representations from the socialist magazine “Makedonka” (1947-1951)

28/04/2023

by Sára Bagdi Little is known about the role of...

Beyond Trade Unions: Labour Activism Among Women Workers of the Újpest Jute Factory in the 1900s

Transnational Links and the History of Women’s Labour Activism

16/11/2021

by Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, Eszter Varsa Illustration: The title...

Transnational Links and the History of Women’s Labour Activism: An Introduction to the ZARAH Blog Series III

06/12/2021

by Alexandra Ghit In August of 1931, Marion Phillips proudly...

Solidarity and Inequality: European Socialist Women’s International Organizing in the Interwar Period

21/12/2021

by Ivelina Masheva Thinking about women’s labour activism from a...

Transnational Communism on Domestic Soil: Exchange and Cooperation between Bulgarian Communist Women and the International Women’s Secretariat of the Comintern in the early 1920s

03/02/2022

by Olga Gnydiuk In 1948 at the session of the...

In the Web of a Male-dominated Trade Union International: Women and the World Federation of Trade Unions

02/03/2022

by Eszter Varsa In a letter written on 3 June...

“Let Us All Stand Under the Banner of Freedom and Sisterly Love”: Gender, Anarchist Thought and Women in the Agrarian Socialist Movement in Hungary and Internationally

31/03/2022

by Selin Çağatay Trade unions are known as male-dominated structures...

Tracing Transnational Connections in Trade Union Women’s Education: The ICFTU Women’s Committee in Turkey

Putting Activists Centre Stage

28/01/2021

by Zhanna Popova and Veronika Helfert Illustration: A group of...

Putting Activists Centre Stage: An Introduction to the ZARAH Blog Series II

10/02/2021

by Alexandra Ghit

Tatiana Grigorovici: Ambiguities of a Social Democrat’s Career

25/02/2021

by Zhanna Popova

Halina Krahelska: Multifaceted Activist Legacy

11/03/2021

by Ivelina Masheva

Ana Maimunkova: Trials and Tribulations of a Communist Activist

02/04/2021

by Veronika Helfert

Gabriele Proft: A century of Labour Related and Political Activism

Finding Women in the Sources

30/09/2020

by Veronika Helfert and Zhanna Popova Picture: Szakszervezeti kirándulás /...

Finding Women in the Sources: An Introduction to the ZARAH Blog Series I

14/10/2020