A Domestic Worker’s Life across the Empire and Beyond: A Servant’s Employment Book
Tracing the lives of migrant women can be especially challenging, even when compared to other working-class women. Mobile working women rarely moved only once, and official records of their trajectories are usually fragmentary at best.
Breaking Silence: A Peasant Woman’s Autobiography
Viktória Cseh Istvánné Túri’s autobiography is a vivid, first-hand account of a woman’s struggles within the Hungarian rural labour movement during the early twentieth century.
Labour and Motherhood in State Socialist Bulgaria: The 1973 Politburo Decision
In the decades after World War II, Bulgaria developed as a one-party socialist state in which women were formally granted equality in education, employment and political life.
The Day that Never Ends: The Family Wash
The Family Wash, a booklet published in 1927 by the International Co-operative Women’s Guild (ICWG), centres on working-class women's experiences
What Can We Learn from a Short-Lived Industry Newspaper?
On the pages of Solidaritatea: Journal of the Workingmen and Workingwomen of the Tobacco Manufactories and Matches Factories, readers catch rare glimpses of the gendered dynamics of labour activism in Cluj, Romania.
Women’s Labour Activism
in Eastern Europe and Transnationally,
From the Age of Empires
to the Late 20th Century
This research project, led by Susan Zimmermann at Central European University (Vienna, Austria), has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 833691 – ZARAH).