Dear colleagues,
Please, find program and registration form of the International Conference Labour and Organisation: Research combining History and Ethnography
May 30-31, 2006
Maison mediterraneenne des sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence, France
on [url]http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/lames/Actualites.htm[/url]
This conference is planned by the multidisciplinary group PraTO (Pratiques Travail Organisation) -- within which research of this type has been conducted and discussed since 1996 -- and co-organized by the LAMES, the LEST, the CRH, and the CSU.
For a number of years now many social science researchers on labor practices and organization have been combining ethnographic and historical investigation techniques and working on the links between the present and the past. Researchers in Sociology, Management Science or Anthropology couple contemporary investigation with examination of the past through archival sources and historical traces of activity. Historians of labor and organization not only apply the founding principles of the Annales in using conceptions that emerge from contemporary debate to question the past. They also engage in ethnographic inquiry in the present: monographic studies, long-term field work, enriched archives from first-hand (we mean: non only oral sources). Generally speaking these researchers aim at clear and explicit description of practices, activities, experiences, customs rather than enumeration of formal processes, official statements or disembodied managerial plans.As a matter of fact, these methodological crossings are also used and developed on other objects of the human and social sciences: all curious scholars will be welcome.
With my best wishes,
Yves Cohen
Yves Cohen
Directeur d'études
CRH-EHESS
54 boulevard Raspail
75270 Paris Cedex 06
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