New OA collaborative monograph by ZARAH project team: “Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history” (UCL Press, August 2025)

The collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twentieth century. It explores women’s activism and organizing to improve the working conditions and living circumstances of lower-income and working-class women and their communities in the region and internationally.

The volume appears in print and as an Open Access ebook, in the series “Work Around the World”.

It represents one of the main research results of the ERC-funded project ZARAH “Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century” (Grant agreement No. 833691 – ZARAH, PI Susan Zimmermann), co-hosted by the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Historical Studies at CEU.