Susan Zimmermann, Principal Investigator
University Professor
Central European University, Department of History and Department of Gender Studies
ZARAH Component Study: Trade union women and the struggle for equality and gendered difference at the workplace, in Hungary and internationally, 1960s-1980s
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’s labour activism in Turkey and internationally (general thematic area)
Alexandra Ghit
Component Study:
Women against paternalism and exploitation: Gendered work and entangled organizing in the tobacco industry, in Greater Romania during the twentieth century
Olga Gnydiuk
Component Study:
Women’s and gender politics of the World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Trade Unions, 1945-1990s (general thematic area)
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
Polish and Jewish women labour activists in the Polish lands and internationally from the 1880s to the 1930s
Jelena Tešija
Component Study:
The co-operative movement in and beyond the Yugoslav lands from the late 19th century to the 1950s: Gendered politics and women’s contribution
Eszter Varsa
A gendered history of agrarian socialism in the Hungarian Kingdom and interwar Hungary
Ivana Veselská
Component Study:
Unruly margins: Defiant female workers in the textile centres of Cisleithania, 1880s-1920s