Diegetic Labor History - Bisbee ’17 (Film, directed by Robert Greene, 2018).

“That the number of our Members be unlimited” … Today we might pass over such a rule as a commonplace: and yet it is one of the hinges upon which history turns. It signified the end to any notion of exclusiveness, of politics as the preserve of any hereditary elite or property Group … To throw open the doors to propaganda and agitation in this “unlimited” way implied a new notion of democracy, which cast aside ancient inhibitions and trusted to self-activating and self-organising processes among the common people.E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class The decline of labor history in the research agenda of senior Spanish scholars matches the surprising interest in it of young researchers as indicated by the opening of new lines of research and the explosion of studies on other social movements that also have a strong class character in their origins. Moreover, despite the progressive decline of published academic research on the quintessential social movement, the truth is that its history is still crucial for understanding the political and social dynamics of the late Franco regime and the first years of democracy for at least two reasons.

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The Multitude and the Many-Headed Hydra: Autonomist Marxist Theory and Labor History

International Labor and Working-Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547913000100 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 83 ◽

pp. 170-190 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Verity Burgmann

Keyword(s):

Labor History ◽

Marxist Theory ◽

Capitalist Development ◽

Internal Momentum ◽

Autonomist Marxism ◽

The World ◽

The Many

AbstractThe autonomist Marxist critique of determinist Marxism offers even more valuable insights for labor historians than that mounted by earlier antideterminists, such as Sartre and Thompson, who emphasized proletarian agency to counter determinist orthodoxy in which the accumulative logic of capital unilaterally shapes the world. Autonomist Marxism is more far-reaching. It places labor at the very beginning of the labor-capital dialectic: Labor can exist independently of capital, but capital needs to command labor to ensure profit; therefore, capitalist development does not occur due to internal momentum but in reaction to labor's tendency to unloose itself from capital. Linebaugh and Rediker offer a similar hypothesis in exploring the myth of the many-headed hydra—and demonstrate the fruitfulness of such an approach. By contrast, the notion of the multitude in Hardt and Negri'sEmpirehas not been well received by labor historians due to its inexplicable abstraction when read in isolation from other autonomist texts. This article attempts to rescue the ideas of autonomist Marxist philosophers, especially Toni Negri, from the enormous condescension of labor history.

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Labor history resources in the national archives

Labor History ◽

10.1080/00236566708584025 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 330-351 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Meyer H. Fishbein

Keyword(s):

Labor History ◽

National Archives

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Labor history

Journal of Labor Research ◽

10.1007/bf02685216 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 299-299 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Labor History

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A "Labor History" of Mass Incarceration

Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas ◽

10.1215/15476715-1275217 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 5-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

A. Lichtenstein

Keyword(s):

Labor History ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

History Of

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Maids, Clerks, and the Shifting Landscape of Labor Relations in Rio de Janeiro, 1830s–1880s

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s002085901700061x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (S25) ◽

pp. 45-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Henrique Espada Lima ◽

Fabiane Popinigis

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

Labor Relations ◽

Labor History ◽

Domestic Service ◽

Men And Women ◽

Gender And Race ◽

Legal Proceedings

AbstractThis article focuses on the lives of workers in small commerce and in domestic service in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. It seeks to understand both what united and what differentiated maids (criadas) and clerks (caixeiros), two types of laborers whose lives and work had much in common, and two categories of labor that, although ubiquitous, are frequently overlooked in Brazilian labor history. We consider how, together, class, gender, and race shaped the divergent trajectories ofcriadasandcaixeirosover the course of the nineteenth century, and what the legal disputes in which they were involved during that period can teach us about the shifting dynamics in labor relations in a society marked by both slavery and labor dependency more broadly. As sources for this analysis, we draw on documents produced by legal proceedings from the 1830s through the 1880s, in which men and women involved in petty commerce and domestic service presented their cases before the courts to claim their unpaid wages.

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