Made in Eccles
An exhibition of black and white photographs from a working class Eccles lad in the 1970s and 1980s, Martin O’Neill

24 January 2015 — 19 April 2015

The Working Class Movement Library has lots of events and exhibitions planned for 2015.

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The International Institute of Social History (IISH) conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.

Giovedì 22 gennaio 2015, ore 10.45
Sala Vera Nocentini, Via Madama Cristina 50

Dibattito sul tema:
Il futuro del sindacato negli anni della crisi e del “Renzismo” 

Discussione intorno all’uscita di due libri scritti da due importanti e “storici” dirigenti della Cisl, Sandro Antoniazzi e Luigi Viviani.

Call for Papers Conference “Gender, household labour relations and (post)colonialism, 1800-present”

Date: 25-27 July 2016
Venue: Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Workers of the Sea, Unite? The Internationalist Legacy of the Pre-WWI Years

28 januari 2015
10:00 till 12:00

Seminariet ingår i serien Global arbetarhistoria
Seminarium inom ramen för serien Global Arbetarhistoria, med Leon Fink, University Illinois-Chicago

’Casualties Inevitable’ - Consumer Co-operation in British Africa
by Linda Shaw

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‘Casualties Inevitable’ - Consumer Co-operation in British Africa, by Linda Shaw (410 kB)

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the history of socialism and communism still presents itself as one of the most polarizing and controversial themes in Europe's culture of memory. While some countries of the former Eastern Bloc utilise their socialist past in the formation of national identities, others tend to construct nostalgic memories of their lived experiences in socialist times.

The Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI,Greece/member of IALHI) has published a new brochure in English, which reflects its collections, activities and public history programs. 

In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev hailed the development of a "world socialist system," which he defined as "a social, economic, and political community of free, sovereign nations [. . .] united by common interests and goals, by the close ties of international socialist solidarity." This day-long workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of early-career scholars to examine the socialist system from a global and transnational perspective.