Decades of crises — economic, the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic — have placed the labour movement in a precarious situation and delivered novel and new challenges. In almost all locations, trade unions face decreasing membership numbers, weakening bargaining powers, and declining political influence.
54th Annual Conference
International Association of Labour History Institutions
La Contemporaine, Paris (Nanterre)
September 12-14, 2024
Dealing with «activist artefacts» (products of the workers' movement and social movements):
Conservation, valorisation, history
Call for papers
Numéro coordonné par Marie Alauzen, Anthony Pecqueux et Ange Pottin
Possibilité d’envoyer des résumés d’intention avant : 15 septembre 2024
Date limite d’envoi des manuscrits : 1er novembre 2024
On Monday, May 13th, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania) will deliver a keynote lecture at Ca’Foscari University of Venice (Room B, Ca'Bernardo) on her recently translated book "Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women" (Verso 2022). Professor Ghodsee will engage in dialogue with Duccio Basosi, Chiara Bonfiglioli, and Bruno Walter Renato Toscano (Ca'Foscari).
On May 14th at 1:00 PM, there will be a seminar for master's and doctoral students on ethnographic writing (registration required).
The conference will take place in Warsaw at the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw
(ul. Dobra 55) on 25-27 September 2024 in a hybrid format with possible online participation.
We Are One – Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers’ exhibit by Rachel Bernstein and May Ying Chen at The American Labor Museum, May 1st – Aug. 24th, 2024
Haledon, New Jersey – The American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark proudly opens the exhibit We Are One – Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers by Rachel Bernstein and May Ying Chen on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024.
Auteur: Marie Thirion
Du point de vue opéraïste, les travailleurs de la chimie sont l’incarnation d’une classe ouvrière montrant la voie à suivre. L’intervention à ses côtés semble d’autant plus urgente que le secteur se prépare à se mobiliser pour le renouvellement des conventions collectives à la suite des métallurgistes. Ces derniers ne sont pas parvenus à surmonter la division entre public et privé, ni à créer les conditions d’une lutte commune.
Université de Rouen Normandie, GRHis - Le 106, 12-14 March 2025
