English title: Recent Avenues of Research in the Field of Labor History Concerning Romania in after 1900
https://doi.org/10.47743/RRISXX.2025-3-9
Issue: 3/2025
Pages: 193-202
Language: Romanian
Author: Dan-Alexandru SĂVOAIA
Author affiliation: “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Abstract: This essay reviews recent scientific contributions relating to the social history of labor
in Romania. The review starts from a series of recent publications by domestic and
foreign publishers, signed by authors such as Călin Cotoi, Victor Rizescu, and Alexandra
Ghiţ, and seeks to further contextualize them in combination with ideas formulated in
foreign journals on the history of Central and Eastern Europe. My text thus aims to
capture the main characteristics of these approaches, thereby contributing to the outline
of possible lines of inquiry for combining empirical approaches of exploring the past
with individual methodological developments stretching beyond the strictly national
framework.
Keywords: social history, labor history, Romanian historiography, East-Central Europe