Informal Work in Europe, ca. 1870–1970

Informal Work in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe - Sibylle Marti and Christof Dejung

NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR: INFORMAL WORK AT THE BEGINNING OF LABOR FORMALIZATION

When the State Arrived in the Rural Workshop: Laws and Taxes for Home Industries in Austrian Galicia, 1859–1914 - Corinne Geering

Ambivalences of (In)Formality: Prospects, Problems, and Pitfalls of Investigating “Informal Work” in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - Sigrid Wadauer

The Political Economy of Informal Crafting Commerce in Helsinki at the Turn of the Twentieth Century - Leena Enbom

THE INTERWAR YEARS: INFORMAL WORK IN TIMES OF CRISES

Moving Between Formal and Informal Labor in Greek Cities, ca. 1890–1940 - Leda Papastefanaki

Informal Labor and the “Extra Waiter” in Inter-War Britain - David Cowan

Women’s “Return” to the Household? Struggles over the Regulation of Industrial Homework in Interwar Austria - Elisabeth Luif

Distinguishing Between Workers, Establishing Hierarchies: Categorizing Farm and other Workers in Disputes over Unemployment Insurance in Austria, 1920–1938 - Jessica Richter

THE POST-WAR PERIOD: INFORMAL WORK BETWEEN INDUSTRIALIZATION, MODERNIZATION AND BOOM

The Vulnerable Lives of “Unemployment” in Portugal’s Estado Novo Dictatorship, ca. 1930–1960 - Elisa Lopes da Silva

Rethinking Precarity: Labor, Law, and the Literary Imagination on the Margins of Europe, Late 1940–1960s - Adrian Grama

Laboring in the Twilight Zone: Contract Workers and Temporary Employees in Mid-Twentieth-Century (West) Germany - Anna Elisabeth Keim

“Agriculture is Female”: Informality, Exploitation, and Modernization in the Lives of Italian Rural Women, 1950–1970 - Eloisa Betti

Informal Work and Labor Struggle: Domestic Workers’ Private and Public Conflicts during the Franco Era in Spain, 1960–1975 - Diego Latorre Manglano

The Gender of Informality: Intimate Labors in Transnational Perspective during the Century of Labor Formalization - Eileen Boris

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Biography

Sibylle Marti is a SNSF Assistant Professor at the University of Bern. Her research is situated at the intersection of the global history of work, the history of knowledge, and the history of capitalism. She is currently working on her second book about the history of informal work since 1970.

Christof Dejung is a Professor in Modern History at the University of Bern. He is the coeditor of The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (2019) and the author of The Primitive Within: The Entanglements Between Anthropology and Folklore Studies in Germany, 1850s–1930s (forthcoming).