Introduction: Women's Labor in the North-Eastern Adriatic during the Postwar Transitions of the 20th Century

The present volume serves as a comparative and transnational analysis of women’s labor in the postwar periods of the twentieth century in the northeastern Adriatic, an area that encompasses the borderlands of Italy and Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia. The studies published in this volume are the result of the ERC EIRENE project Post-War Transitions in Gendered Perspective: The Case of the North- Eastern Adriatic Region. ¹ As such, they are the result of an effort to explore individual issues related to women’s labor during transition periods as deeply as possible, with an equal focus on comparativeness. With an emphasis on comparability and based on the analysis of yet unexplored archival sources, the historicization of women’s work focuses on the analysis of issues related to gender, education, class, and ethnicity and confirms the necessity of addressing intersectionality in labor history.