Adrian Grama
Biographic Data
| ID | 4168639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Grama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Grama |
| SIGNATURE | GRAMA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2551-2857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster
The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024
The revenge of civil society
Original Dualisms Labor Law and Casual Work in Portugal and Romania (1920s–1960s)
This article argues that any historical explanation of the emergence of dualism in the labor market should take labor law seriously for two intertwined reasons: first, because before there could be a dualism of insiders and outsiders in the market, there was an original dualism inscribed in statutory legislation covering employment contracts; and second because before there could be a neat distinction between a primary and a secondary sector, the…
Law, labour, sovereignty
Devised to irrigate the diplomacy of the cordon sanitaire at the end of the First World War and revived to lubricate the transition to liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War, what role did anti-communism play in the distributional struggles between labour and capital in twentieth-century Romania? Rather than an intellectual mood or a body of ideas, this article argues that anti-communism should be better approached as a framework of sove…
Exiled Trade-Unionists and the Language of Totalitarianism during the Early Cold War
Der vorliegende Aufsatz erforscht die Aktivitäten des International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile (ICFTUE), indem er sich auf das intellektuellen Wirken ihres langjährigen Vizepräsidenten, des rumänischen Gewerkschaftsführers und Sozialdemokraten Eftimie Gherman (1894–1980), konzentriert. Im Jahr 1948 in Paris gegründet, vereinigte das ICFTUE exilierte Gewerkschafter aus Ostmitteleuropa und den Baltischen Staaten und fungierte als wesen…
People's History in the Age of Populism
Why write people's histories in our age of populism? Much of the original appeal of the genre derived from the marginality its subject once occupied in public life. Ordinary lives were hardly mentioned in school textbooks; popular culture was assigned to the bottom of the nation's hierarchy of values; and popular politics was either criminalised or disciplined to fit national voting patterns in states ruled by bullet and ballot alike. Defining th…
Antidotes To Alienation
Interrogation of Hartmut Rosa’s phenomenology of social acceleration and call to repoliticize the question of the good life, along axes of vibrant ‘resonance’ with the world. The intellectual heir of Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, between critique and adaptation
The Cost of Juridification
This article explores the relationship between the development of labor law and the cost of labor in Romania between the end of World War I and the 1960s. Drawing on a variety of archival and printed sources, the author argues that the historical trajectory of this peripheral East European country shows in exemplary fashion how the increasing juridification of labor relations was first enabled by policy makers’ concern to neutralize class conflic…
Negt without Kluge
Laboring Along
Iwantt ot hank Marsha Siefert and Susan Zimmermannf or their unstinting supporta nd guidance. At an early stage of research, Ib enefitted from the adviceo fJ oszef Brcz,C onstantinI ordachi, the lateJ acek Kochanowicza nd SandrineK ott.Iam gratefult oM ariaB ucur and Lewis Siegelbaumf or suggestingw ayst oi mprove the manuscript. My new home,the GraduateS chool for Easta nd Southeast European Studies in Regensburghas beenthe ideal placetofinish t…
The art of link-making in global labour history
Benefiting from the ‘global’ and ‘trans-national’ turns in the larger historiography, labour historians in the past two decades have greatly expanded their geographical scope, developed new methodologies, refashioned categories of analysis and largely abandoned teleological assumptions. In this context, the history of labour in Eastern Europe still constitutes one of the least-globalized research topics in the field, even though the region attrac…
A Passion for History
The Cost of Juridification
This article explores the relationship between the development of labor law and the cost of labor in Romania between the end of World War I and the 1960s. Drawing on a variety of archival and printed sources, the author argues that the historical trajectory of this peripheral East European country shows in exemplary fashion how the increasing juridification of labor relations was first enabled by policy makers’ concern to neutralize class conflic…
The art of link-making in global labour history
Benefiting from the ‘global’ and ‘trans-national’ turns in the larger historiography, labour historians in the past two decades have greatly expanded their geographical scope, developed new methodologies, refashioned categories of analysis and largely abandoned teleological assumptions. In this context, the history of labour in Eastern Europe still constitutes one of the least-globalized research topics in the field, even though the region attrac…
Antidotes To Alienation
Interrogation of Hartmut Rosa’s phenomenology of social acceleration and call to repoliticize the question of the good life, along axes of vibrant ‘resonance’ with the world. The intellectual heir of Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, between critique and adaptation
A Passion for History
The revenge of civil society
A Passion for History
The art of link-making in global labour history
Benefiting from the ‘global’ and ‘trans-national’ turns in the larger historiography, labour historians in the past two decades have greatly expanded their geographical scope, developed new methodologies, refashioned categories of analysis and largely abandoned teleological assumptions. In this context, the history of labour in Eastern Europe still constitutes one of the least-globalized research topics in the field, even though the region attrac…
Laboring Along
Iwantt ot hank Marsha Siefert and Susan Zimmermannf or their unstinting supporta nd guidance. At an early stage of research, Ib enefitted from the adviceo fJ oszef Brcz,C onstantinI ordachi, the lateJ acek Kochanowicza nd SandrineK ott.Iam gratefult oM ariaB ucur and Lewis Siegelbaumf or suggestingw ayst oi mprove the manuscript. My new home,the GraduateS chool for Easta nd Southeast European Studies in Regensburghas beenthe ideal placetofinish t…
The Cost of Juridification
This article explores the relationship between the development of labor law and the cost of labor in Romania between the end of World War I and the 1960s. Drawing on a variety of archival and printed sources, the author argues that the historical trajectory of this peripheral East European country shows in exemplary fashion how the increasing juridification of labor relations was first enabled by policy makers’ concern to neutralize class conflic…
Negt without Kluge
Antidotes To Alienation
Interrogation of Hartmut Rosa’s phenomenology of social acceleration and call to repoliticize the question of the good life, along axes of vibrant ‘resonance’ with the world. The intellectual heir of Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor, between critique and adaptation
Exiled Trade-Unionists and the Language of Totalitarianism during the Early Cold War
Der vorliegende Aufsatz erforscht die Aktivitäten des International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile (ICFTUE), indem er sich auf das intellektuellen Wirken ihres langjährigen Vizepräsidenten, des rumänischen Gewerkschaftsführers und Sozialdemokraten Eftimie Gherman (1894–1980), konzentriert. Im Jahr 1948 in Paris gegründet, vereinigte das ICFTUE exilierte Gewerkschafter aus Ostmitteleuropa und den Baltischen Staaten und fungierte als wesen…
People's History in the Age of Populism
Why write people's histories in our age of populism? Much of the original appeal of the genre derived from the marginality its subject once occupied in public life. Ordinary lives were hardly mentioned in school textbooks; popular culture was assigned to the bottom of the nation's hierarchy of values; and popular politics was either criminalised or disciplined to fit national voting patterns in states ruled by bullet and ballot alike. Defining th…
Original Dualisms Labor Law and Casual Work in Portugal and Romania (1920s–1960s)
This article argues that any historical explanation of the emergence of dualism in the labor market should take labor law seriously for two intertwined reasons: first, because before there could be a dualism of insiders and outsiders in the market, there was an original dualism inscribed in statutory legislation covering employment contracts; and second because before there could be a neat distinction between a primary and a secondary sector, the…
Law, labour, sovereignty
Devised to irrigate the diplomacy of the cordon sanitaire at the end of the First World War and revived to lubricate the transition to liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War, what role did anti-communism play in the distributional struggles between labour and capital in twentieth-century Romania? Rather than an intellectual mood or a body of ideas, this article argues that anti-communism should be better approached as a framework of sove…
The Political Ecology of Work in Times of Disaster
The global polycrisis and the Romanian elections of 2024
The revenge of civil society
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Labour law (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works)