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
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