Susan Zimmermann, Principal Investigator
University Professor
Central European University, Department of History and Department of Gender Studies
ZARAH Component Study: Shifting the Scene: Women Trade Unionists and the Politics of Women’s Work in Hungary and Internationally, 1950s-1980s
Program Manager
Lukas Neissl
Software and Database Developer
József Gábor Bóné
Researchers
All ZARAH research team members contribute to the collaborative work, and pursue one component study. The component studies involve a focus on both a specific region and related trans- and international connections and organizing.
The ZARAH team includes the following researchers:
Selin Çağatay
Component Study:
Women into Gainful Work in Turkey and Transnationally: Labour Activism and Gendered Education in the Semi-Periphery, 1950s to 1990s
Mátyás Erdélyi
Component Study:
White-collar Workers’ Activism in the Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Lands and Internationally
Alexandra Ghiț
Component Study:
Women’s Work and Entangled Organizing in the Tobacco Industry, in Transylvania from the 1890s, and Romania from the 1920s, to the 1990s
Olga Gnydiuk
Component Study:
A Story of Women’s International Endeavor: The Politics of Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work in and beyond the World Federation of Trade Unions, 1940s to 1980s
Veronika Helfert
Component Study:
Ruptures in Consensus? An Entangled History of Women’s Labour Activism in Austria and Transnationally, 1945 to the 1980s
Ivelina Masheva
Component Study:
Competing for and Marginalizing Women Workers: Trade Unionism, Syndicalism and Corporatism in Bulgaria and Internationally, 1920s-1940s
Zhanna Popova
Component Study:
Polish and Jewish Women Labour Activists in the Polish Lands and Internationally from the 1880s to the 1930s
Jelena Tešija
Component Study:
The International Co-operative Women’s Guild and Central and Eastern Europe, 1921-1963: Labour Activism Beyond the “Usual Suspects”
Eszter Varsa
Sisters and Comrades of the Land: A Gendered History of Agrarian Socialism in Hungary, 1890s-1920s