Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’une journée d’étude organisée en 2010 à la Maison du peuple de Saint-Claude (Jura). Dès son inauguration en 1910, l’édifice devint le centre névralgique et l’immeuble symbolique du mouvement ouvrier jurassien. Ce mouvement social se référait d’abord à un pragmatisme volontaire. Mais l’écoute et la lecture attentives des voix et des textes laissent affleurer l’utopie. Car sans être continuellement revendiqué, le rêve n’en apparaît pas moins comme essentiel.

Nieuwsbrief Amsab-ISG

10e jaargang, nr. 6, juni 2015 

Fotofestival 80 Days of Summer

Van 12 juni tot 30 augustus 2015 vindt in Gent 80 Days of Summer – Stories of Identity plaats. Het is de eerste editie van een nieuw fotofestival, met 27 tentoonstellingen op 10 locaties in de stad. In Amsab-ISG kan je een selectie van cartes de visite uit onze fotocollectie bekijken.

Website over 100 jaar Romain Deconinck

The emergence of international capitalism depended on the creation of a highly mobile working class that built, loaded, and sailed the ships that connected the globe. These ships inaugurated the Atlantic slave trade and other labor migrations, making possible new regimes of accumulation and labor based in port cities, dynamic centers of power that linked the slave labor of colonial plantations to Europe and other parts of the world. The laborers of port cities - sailors, indentured servants, and slaves, workers free and unfree - are the subjects of this workshop.

La Commune de Paris, période insurrectionnelle qui opposa le gouvernement d’Adolphe Thiers et des insurgés parisiens, débute le 18 mars 1871 et se termine le 28 mai 1871 après la fameuse et meurtrière « Semaine sanglante ». Elle est due largement à la défaite française de la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870 et à la capitulation de la France. Elle trouve son élan dans la Première République et son gouvernement révolutionnaire (la Commune de 1792), ainsi que dans l’héritage de l'insurrection populaire de 1848.

African Socialism / Socialism in Africa

Paris, April, 7-9, 2016

Call for papers

Scientific Committee

2015 marks 70 years since the 1945 election. Labour’s landslide victory in that year and the party’s wide ranging reform programme came to define politics in post war Britain. To mark the event the People’s History Museum has brought together leading historians to discuss the impact of the 1945 election, then and now.
The conference will be held in the first days of the new 2015 parliament, and also coincides with our changing exhibition Election! Britain Votes, running until Sunday 28 June 2015.

Programme:

9.30am – 10.00am: Registration

Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power is a joint conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association and the Working-Class Studies Association.

Preview and peruse the schedule of plenary sessions, presentations, and register at:.

http://fightinginequality.org/

Plenary and Special Sessions: 

Plenary Sessions

Reinventing the Labor Movement to Fight Inequality—and Save Democracy
Thursday, May 28
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Vorwärts : Central-Organ der Sozialdemokratie Deutschlands

Am 1. Oktober 1876 erschien der "Vorwärts", die bedeutendste periodische Publikation der deutschen Sozialdemokratie, zum ersten Mal. "Sozialistengesetz", Erster Weltkrieg mit der Spaltung der SPD und die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten - in der Geschichte des "Vorwärts" spiegeln sich diese und noch viele weitere historisch bedeutende Ereignisse. Entsprechend groß war und ist das Interesse an einer allgemein zugänglichen digitalen Ausgabe.

In the latest issue of the International Review of Social History (volume 60 part 1, April 2015), Niall Whelehan compares cartoons on revolting peasants in British and Italian 19th century satirical magazines. In some 19th century British satirical magazines, ape-like facial features were employed to illustrate anarchists and nihilists, in order to personify visually political threats to order and stability. During periods of rural unrest in Ireland, however, the figures of simian and reptilian monsters became primarily attached to Irish agitators and peasants.

Workers’ consent to populist/fascist/extreme-right movements
Call for papers

First Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN),
Turin (Italy), 14-16 December 2015