Book Series

This series, which is available in Open Access, explores the connectivity between changes in work and shifting labour relations, evolving social and economic inequalities that result from or are connected to these changes, and individual as well as collective responses to these inequalities.

Since 1994, the annual thematic Special Issue of the International Review of Social History has also appeared as a book version, at Cambridge University Press. All titles in the series can be found under the blue button.

Each volume in this peer-reviewed book series addresses at least two continents and aims to visualize contrasts and similarities and to reveal long-distance connections to demonstrate how our present global society has materialized from uneven and combined developments and from interaction between acts 'from above' and 'from below'. The series includes the subseries Studies in Global Migration History and Studies in the Social History of the Global South.

Published under the auspices of the IISH, this series offers transnational perspectives on labour and workers' history. Interest in studies that contrast different national and regional experiences and examine cross-border interactions has increased in recent years. This series aims to provide a forum for these new approaches.

This series was started in 1977 by the IISH in collaboration with Campus Verlag, aiming to publish source publications and monographs on various aspects of social history in German-speaking regions, based primarily on source materials from the Institute's collections. 

This book series collects data for the compilation of Chinese historical statistics from 960 onward. Its main objectives are to fill in the gap in the quantification of the economy of China and to analyze its long-term evolution in this period.