Social and Labour History News

The integral contribution of mobile, migrant and transient workers to the development of early and late-modern European agriculture, industry and commerce has been increasingly recognized by labour and migration historians alike. While scholars of these fields have traditionally focused on the young migrant male and the industrial labourer, the diversity of itinerant workers has since the 1970s been underlined, as well as the complexity of transnational, regional and local moves.

Depuis la fin février, les Archives nationales du monde du travail ont mis en ligne leur nouveau site internet : https://archives-nationales-travail.culture.gouv.fr/

 

A workshop for graduate students organised by the Oxford University Labour History Group
25-26 May 2021

Call for Papers

New digital exhibition of the TUC Library, London (UK):

The Life of Mary Macarthur - to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong 

This digital exhibition explores the historical significance of trade union leader Mary Macarthur and the work of the National Federation of Women Workers. Using the TUC Library’s archives it illustrates the harshness of women’s work in the early 20th century and the campaign to organise women workers into trade unions.

https://www.tuc.org.uk/MaryMacarthur

No Future without Memory

Or, archives require a present: 20 years of the Archives for Democratic Socialism

The book is available at: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/IH...

 

AFPP is an international, cross-disciplinary conference on social movements, protest and cognate topics. It has drawn participants from over 60 countries, whether based in departments of sociology, politics, cultural studies, psychology, economics, history, geography or elsewhere. Discussions are marked by a long-established spirit of collegial and comradely participation, making for a friendly meeting ground between academia and activism.

The workshop will be held digitally via Zoom on 28–29 May 2021, due to the Coronavirus pandemic and is funded by the Northern Bridge Cohort Development Fund. Proposals for papers should include title and an abstract maximum of 300 words. Please send proposals to Joe Redmayne (j.redmayne2@newcastle.ac.uk) or Katherine Waugh (k.waugh3@newcastle.ac.uk) by 9 April 2021.

 

Online seminar Research School Political History, 26 March 2021

Dear Future Computational Social Scientist,
Do you have a drive to use social science, computer science, data analytics, and evidence to improve public well-being within underrepresented communities? From June 14, 2021 to June 25, 2021, Howard University and Mathematica are partnering on the first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at a Historically Black College and University. 

Jeudi 11 mars, l'AFHMT organise son 2e apéro-livre virtuel de 2021 autour de l'ouvrage d'Alessandro Stanziani, Les métamorphoses du travail contraint. Une histoire globale XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2020. http://www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/fr/book/?GCOI=27246100935460

De Yalta à la chute du mur, le partage du monde en ce l’on appelle alors des « zones d’influence », exacerbe, en plusieurs endroits et sur tous les continents, les tensions politiques et militaires. Dans les pays sous emprise soviétique ou américaine, des artistes, femmes et hommes, confrontés à la censure ou menacés dans leur propre pays, se voient contraints à un exil plus ou moins volontaires. Parmi ces artistes, certains sont accueillis en France au titre d’exilés politiques.

In general, narratives about the end of the USSR focus on domestic dimensions of the disintegration of the Soviet Union or discuss reasons and consequences of the Soviet decline in the context of Cold War history.

Both perspectives are highly relevant for an interpretation of the events of 1991 and their consequences. Nevertheless, they too often obscure the view on other essential international and global perspectives.

Final Conference of the project “Family planning” in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the approval of the “pill”.

Gleiche Rechte für alle Menschen aller Geschlechter: Das galt lange als ein zwar noch nicht erreichtes, aber unumstrittenes Ziel. Doch diese Einigkeit ist in letzter Zeit brüchig geworden – der Einsatz für Frauen- und Geschlechterrechte wird von unterschiedlichen Seiten als „Gender-Ideologie“ kritisiert.

We are delighted to announce an upcoming international conference on Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa, to be convened at the London School of Economics (LSE). 

The conference is organized by the LSE Middle East Centre in cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG) and the Politics of the Margins Research Project at the University of Ghent

The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice Presents: 2021: A World in Crisis?Free Online Lecture Series- Spring 2021  All talks are open to the public. You do not have to be affiliated to any academic institution or organization to participate. All Havens Wright Center events will be hosted online on zoom this semester. To attend an event you must register in advance on Eventbrite.

The Society of American Archivists’ Labor Archives Section is expanding and updating its directory of cultural heritage materials related to labor unions, labor organizing, and working peoples in the United States and Canada. This important resource, which began in the 1990s is an ongoing listing of labor and labor related repositories and their collections througout North America.

III Jornadas Nacionales
Red de Estudios sobre el Socialismo argentino (RESA)
4 y 5 de marzo de 2021 - Modalidad virtual

Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa,
Santa Rosa, La Pampa (Resoluciones N° 622/19 y 349/20 CD-FCH-UNLPam)

Comité organizador:
Dr. Carlos Miguel Herrera (RESA- CY Cergy Paris Université, Francia), Dr. Ricardo Martínez Mazzola (RESA-CONICET-UNSAM-UBA), Esp. Mirta Ester Zink (IESH-UNLPam) y Dr. Federico Carmelo Martocci (CONICET-IEHSOLP-IESH-UNLPam).

E' online il portale delle fonti per la storia del Partito comunista italiano, promosso e realizzato dalla Fondazione Gramsci in collaborazione con la Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna, la Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci, la Fondazione Gramsci di Puglia, l’Istituto Gramsci Marche, l’Istituto Gramsci Siciliano, l’Istituto Gramsci Tosca

The University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), the German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) and the National History Center of the American Historical Association (NHC), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center for Integration and Migration Research (InZentIM), the Institute for the Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21), are pleased to announce the first International Seminar i