Made by children. Child labour then and now.
20/11/2016 – 07/01/2018

Children are supposed to play and go to school. Only adults are expected to work and earn money. End of discussion. Or not?

If you thought that these days child labour is something that only occurs in ‘the South’, you are mistaken. Despite the introduction of compulsory education in Belgium in 1914 and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, child labour is still the subject of controversy worldwide.

Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic

Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

Keynote speaker: Professor Winston James, University of California, Irvine.

With special performances from Linton Kwesi Johnson (invited) and David Rovics

Uitgeverij Brill, het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis en Atria nodigen u gaarne uit voor de presentatie van het boek

Rosa Manus (1881–1942): The International Life and Legacy of a Jewish Dutch Feminist 

CONFÉRENCE LE SAMEDI 19 NOVEMBRE À 14h30 AU CERMTRI 28 rue des Petites Ecuries - 75010 PARIS

Liliane Fraysse qui a coécrit avec Marika Kovács L'OCTOBRE HONGROIS DE 1956 – La révolution des Conseils présentera
1956: la révolution hongroise des conseils ouvriers

The Working Class Movement Library is thrilled to announce that Christopher Eccleston, Sheila Hancock, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mike Joyce and Maxine Peake, who are all strong supporters of the Library, will participate in an afternoon of prose, poetry and drama telling stories of radicalism and revolution.
 

2017 will mark the centenary of the Russian February and October revolutions. Few events in the twentieth century at the same time evoked such indignation and such admiration. The Russian Revolution remained a source of controversy and inspiration in the period after 1917, marked by military interventions and civil war, hunger, social experiments and political repression. This symposium deals with the reception of the revolution and its aftermath in the Netherlands and the Dutch empire.

On Tuesday November 8, Daniëlle Teeuwen (Wageningen University, Rural and Environmental History Group) will present a paper on: Plantation women. Female coolie labour on private estates in colonial Indonesia, c. 1870-1940

Date: November 8th, 2016
Time: 12.30-14.00 hrs
Location: room C78, Leeuwenborch,
Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen

This newspaper diamond workers confirms Amsab-ISG reiterates its international role as a heritage center by bringing international online digitized collections from France.

Our French colleagues from La Fraternelle retreat since the 1980s the fate of the famous Maison du Peuple of Saint-Claude and have managed to build this historic site to " un espace culturel et artistique, lieu de mémoire, the diffusion et de création contemporary implante au coeur de la ville et du Haut Jura. "

Amsab Nieuwsbrief
11e jaargang, nr. 7, oktober 2016

Wie was Emiel Moyson?

Sinds mei is de Amsab-ploeg gehuisvest in de gebouwen van Bond Moyson in Zwijnaarde (Gent). De Bond Moyson is genoemd naar Emiel Moyson. Maar wie was nu eigenlijk die Moyson? En waarom werd zijn naam zo bekend?

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The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications for its PhD program BIGSSS-departs (doctoral education in partnerships). Under the European Commission’s COFUND scheme the BIGSSS offers several fully funded PhD stipends with a duration of 42 months.

Applications are open to all non-German applicants whose reserach interests fit into one of the three thematic fields ("Global Governance and Regional Integration", "Welfare State, Inequality, and Quality of Life", and "Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts").