Workshop at re:work
Across the 'Post‐Industrial' Divide:
Rearticulating the Factory as an Object of Inquiry in History and
Anthropology
(IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History)
Georgenstr. 23, 10117 Berlin
Thursday, 3rd May 2018
Organisers: Görkem Akgöz (re:work) & Nico Pizzolato (Middlesex University)
This workshop aims to bring together historians and anthropologists to discuss new research that chooses the factory as a unit of analysis. The focus is on inquiring new methodological and epistemological perspectives on the subject in order to explore the historical and contemporary dynamics of capitalism at the point of production in an interdisciplinary fashion.
The workshop aims to initiated a collaborative, interdisciplinary conversation preliminary to the preparation of a thematic issue on factory as an object of inquiry to be submitted to journals such as History & Anthropology or International Labor and Working‐Class History.
Participants to the workshop will contribute to establish an agenda for research, the themes to be explored in the issue and invited to submit their papers for consideration
See the attached PDF for details!