ZARAH: Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally (Web)
In February 2020, the ERC-advanced-grant-project ZARAH project started. ZARAH explores the history of women’s labour activism and organizing – from the age of empires to the late 20th century. The aim is to present the working conditions and living conditions of lower class and working class women and their communities and to move these women from the margins of labour and gender studies and European history to the centre of historical research. The Austrian part of this histories is worked out by Veronika Helfert. Read more … (Web).
ZARAH weblog
In September 2020, the ZARAH weblog started. The first blog series were „Finding Women in the Sources“, „Putting Activists Centre Stage“ and „Transnational Links“ (Web):
Series III: Transnational Links and the History of Women’s Labour Activism
- Alexandra Ghit, Olga Gnydiuk, and Eszter Varsar: An Introduction
- Selin Çağatay: Tracing Transnational Connections in Trade Union Women’s Education: The ICFTU Women’s Committee in Turkey
- Eszter Varsar: Gender, Anarchist Thought and Women in the Agrarian Socialist Movement in Hungary and Internationally
- Olga Gnydiuk: In the Web of a Male-dominated Trade Union International: Women and the World Federation of Trade Unions
- Ivelina Masheva: Exchange and Cooperation between Bulgarian Communist Women and the International Women’s Secretariat of the Comintern in the early 1920s
- Alexandra Ghit: Solidarity and Inequality: European Socialist Women’s International Organizing in the Interwar Period
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