Union History newsletter from Sydney Trades Hall
January 2021
HOLIDAYS
'Tis the holiday season and Trades Hall has been lucky enough to enjoy holidays. Some of it was spent at a former trade union holiday spot at Pittwater in Sydney northern beaches area Almost missed out because of the lockdown that happily ended not long before our break.
For the second time, the German Labour History Association (GLHA) will confer an award for dissertations of innovative content, methodology or theory in the field of Labour History.
Workplace democracy: a European ideal? : discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945.
EURO-DEM studies with the methods of conceptual and social history, and political theory, the circulation of the idea of workplace democracy among European trade-unions and the academia after 1945. In the 20th century industrial democracy has been a vibrant movement that encompassed a broad spectrum of meanings, from internal union democracy over collective bargaining to co-determination at shop-floor, enterprise, industry and national economic level.
La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, en colaboración con la Universidad de Alcalá y el Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares, convoca el III Certamen Literario Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, que este año lleva el título de “El trabajo en la Historia”, con el objetivo de promocionar la lectura y la escritura literaria sobre la presencia de los trabajadores en la Historia.
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Our evening of poetry with Oliver James Lomax last Thursday saw us reach our maximum limit of 100 Zoom attendees for the first time - wow. If you were too late in trying to log on and therefore didn't get to 'attend', you can see the full event now on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wcmlibrary - alongside all of our online talks from 2020. Happy watching.
Le dossier consacré aux configurations des héritages féministes cherchera à mettre en évidence les héritages symboliques et matériels que reçoivent les féministes, et également les héritages qu’elles désirent léguer aux générations suivantes. Par héritage, nous entendons ce que l’on retient ou ce qui est transmis par celles qui nous précèdent, et ce, que les liens avec elles soient choisis, imposés, familiaux ou identitaires. La notion d’héritage est relationnelle, car nous considérons, à l’instar de Françoise Collin, que « la transmission n’est pas un mouvement à sens unique.
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 in Historical Refugee Studies, which will be held at the KWI in Essen, October 12–15, 2021.
