Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Z. Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Susan E. Zimmermann
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Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century: activism, governance, and scale
This issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe brings together a set of articles that discuss the history of women’s labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally. The seven contributions are the result of recent and ongoing primary research within the research project Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally, From the Age of Empires to the Late 20th Century (ZARAH). In our research we aim to advance approaches to the history of women’s labour struggles that are long-term, transregional, integrative, and critical. Our overarching goals are: to contribute to establishing the chronology and cartography of women’ labour activism in Central and Eastern Europe and adjacent territories; to explore this activism’s crossborder, cross-regional and transnational dimensions; to conceive of its variety in terms of worldview, repertoires, and agendas within a common conceptual framework which contextualizes and examines from a critical perspective all varieties of activism; and to “think into” the global history of labour activism the labour struggles of women from Central and Eastern Europe (Çağatay et al., forthcoming). We define women’s labour activism broadly as action and organizing to improve the labour conditions and life circumstances of lower and working-class women and their communities. The cluster of articles presents selected elements of our research that revolve around two large, interrelated issues. These, we argue, must be centrally addressed when pursuing the overarching goals defined above. The first issue concerns the relationship between women’s labour struggles, on the one hand, and governance, on the other. Governance includes the regulatory frameworks that shape institutions and the practices characterizing the “behaviour” of institutions, ranging from social movement institutions (including, e.g. trade unions, cooperatives, and women’s and workers’ associations), through institutions of the layered state, to international networks and organizations that involved state and/or social movement actors (Bereni and Revillard 2018; Caglar, Prügl, and Zwingel 2013; Shin 2016; Storrs 2000; Wilhoit 2017). We pursue, in other words, an integrative approach to the history of women’s labour activism, arguing that to capture the full range of such activism, we need to consider three (repeatedly overlapping and entangled) varieties: women’s action within or via various “classical” social movements; their “unorganized” or “spontaneous” activism, a focus well established in feminist labour history; and women’s involvement – within and beyond the confines of social movement activism – with the various dimensions of how women’s work was governed. Such