Social and Labour History News

Working Group "Labour in Mining"

Call for Papers for a Session at the III ELHN Conference

"Living conditions in mining towns in history. Labour, production, workers’ organizations, institutions"

2019 will mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest socialist society. Although popularly perceived as a rupture, historians have increasingly emphasised continuities across the 1949 divide, making the end of the Maoist system in 1978 a much more striking transition. The picture that emerges from the early PRC is one in which China is not a top-down totalitarian regime, but one enabled by ordinary people wishing to secure their place, including scientists, farmers, artists, and religious officials.

Call for papers for the 3rd Conference of the European Labour History Network, 19-21 September 2019, Amsterdam

Exploring Workers’ Education: institutions and practices

Working-Class Politics in 20th century Europe

Stefano Musso, Matt Perry, Xavier Vigna

Third Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN)
Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2019

Written and Visual Representations of the World of Work "in and by the Working Class"

Call for Papers for a Session

Coordinators:

Call for papers for the 3rd European Labour History Network (ELHN) conference, 19 – 21 September 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

EXPOSITION D'HISTOIRE
 La médecine du travail du XIXe au XXIe siècles : Plus de deux siècles d'histoire contemporaine à la croisée de quelques chemins...
par Isabelle Cavé
Docteur en sciences humaines (santé)
Représentante des usagers au Groupe hospitalier gériatrique Broca (Broca, La Rochefoucault, La Collégiale).

The Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) in Saint Louis, Senegal, is a citizen initiative for:

International Conference Colonial Cities in Global Perspective

Venue and date : Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018

Call for Papers

The Global History Network, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and the Institute of Advanced Study in Saint-Louis, seek papers for a conference on Colonial Cities in Global Perspective, to be held in Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018.

Thought and Action: Anarchism as Militant Community and Way of Life
Saturday, September 15, 2018
10,30-13,00/ 15,00-18,30
Ateneo degli Imperfetti,
Via Bottenigo, 209
Marghera-Venezia

A seminary on contemporary anarchism starting from the militant thought and lives of Amedeo Bertolo and Eduardo Colombo.
Organized by: Laboratorio Libertario/ Ateneo degli Imperfetti di Marghera and the Centro studi libertari/Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli di Milano.

You are invited to the launch of the new online catalogue for the

Marx Memorial Library's Spanish Collection

24 July 7pm

Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU

Our Spanish Collection is a unique archive on the International Brigades, British Aid Spain movement and anti-Franco campaigns and - at over 8,000 items - includes diaries, letters, photographs, printed ephemera and much more.

The Department invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in U.S. history at the Assistant Professor level to begin August 2019. We are interested in social and political historians whose scholarship engages questions of work, inequality, the economy, or political and working-class culture. We are particularly interested in scholars whose research focuses on the experiences of African-American or Asian-American workers.

Vom 17.-20. September 2015 fand in Berlin der Erste Internationale
Willi-Münzenberg-Kongress statt. Zahlreiche Aspekte des historischen
Wirkens von Willi Münzenberg und der durch ihn repräsentierten
Solidaritätsnetzwerke wurden beleuchtet. In dem nun von Bernhard H.
Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén und Uwe Sonnenberg veröffentlichten Band sind
über dreißíg der dort gehaltenen Beiträge veröffentlicht, als E-Book zum
kostenlosen Download.

https://www.muenzenbergforum.de/ebook/

Feminist labour history has for a long time been engaged in making women’s work visible and to integrate women’s work in households and families in the larger narratives of the history of work and the history of labour. More recent- ly, the economic history and the history of the family have been deeply renewed by studies integrating the gender dimension and focusing on the household economy, a quite neglected issue until present.

Colonial expansion is a common, nearly universal phenomenon in human history. Though colonialism has shaped the modern world in many ways, it is not limited to modernity. Conquering foreign lands and subjugating other people(s) are basic processes in the formation of empires and states, and they existed long before the modern era. This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel, seeks to explore varieties of colonialism throughout history and to uncover their common features.

Labour and the Sea

The Centre for Port and Maritime History, at Liverpool, organizes its Annual Conference on Thursday 13th Sept. 2018. The topic is Labour and the Sea.

A Statue to Jules Durand

Les Amis de Jules Durand is an association dedicated to the memory of Jules DURAND, a social activist sentenced to death for what he was, the secretary of Le Havre’s Coal Porters’ Union, a CGT affiliate at a time when there was only one central labor federation in France. Durand was sentenced to capital punishment on November 25, 1910. At last, 100 years after the injustice, on 15 June a full-fledged public rehabilitation has been organized and his memory has been honoured as it should.

Third Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN)
Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2019
Working Group “Labour in Mining”

Call for Papers for a Session “Living conditions in mining towns in history. Labour, production, workers’ organizations, institutions”

Call for Papers: POEM Opening Conference

Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities, Empowerment, and Recognition of Cultural Heritages in Mediatized Memory Ecologies

Date: 13.-14.12.2018

Place: Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg / Germany

Proposal Deadline: 15.09.2018