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
Profile on CEU Website
Component Study (Abstract):
Women’s labour activism in Turkey and internationally (general thematic area)
Alexandra Ghit
Component Study (Abstract): Transnational state vs. transnational workers: Women workers’ organizing in the (state-run) Romanian tobacco industry, 1880s-1990s
Olga Gnydiuk
Profile on CEU Website
Component Study (Abstract):
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 (Abstract):
Ruptures in consensus: An entangled history of women’s labour activism in Austria and transnationally, 1945 to the 1990s
Ivelina Masheva
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Component Study (Abstract):
Competing for women workers. Trade unionism, syndicalism, and corporatism in Bulgaria and internationally, 1920s-1940s
Zhanna Popova
Component Study (Abstract):
Women’s labour activism in the Galician and Polish lands and internationally, 1880s to 1920s (general thematic area)
Ivana Pruchova
Component Study (Abstract):
Unruly Margins: Defiant female workers in the textile centres of Cisleithania, 1880s-1920s
Jelena Tešija
Component Study (Abstract):
Zadrugarke in the Yugoslav lands: A history of women’s activism within the co-operative movement from the late 19th century to the 1950s
Eszter Varsa
Component Study (Abstract):
A gendered history of agrarian socialism in the Hungarian Kingdom and interwar Hungary