All of Marx’s previously unpublished economic manuscripts have now become available in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the historical-critical edition of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It now becomes clear that Marx’s Capital was an unfinished project for good reasons. Marx was constantly exploring new subjects, revising his earlier results, and reformulating Capital’s first volume in several editions after it had been published in 1867.

The 3rd International Conference Strikes & Social Conflicts will be held in Barcelona from 16-19 June 2015. You can find the call for papers here. Participants are invited to submit panel and papers proposals by 15 September 2014.

The international research centre IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin) and the University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Senegal will hold a Summer Academy entitled Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations. The event will take place from 26 January to 1 February 2015 in Dakar.

Dear colleagues,

this newsletter begins with the preliminary programme of the 50th Linz Conference “Work and Compulsion: Coerced Labour in Domestic, Service, Agricultural, Factory and Sex Work, ca. 1850-2000s” from 25-28 September 2014. The final conference programme will be published in August.

The registration form for the Linz Conference 2014 is attached to this newsletter. Registrations are to be submitted until 1 July 2014.

Il Gruppo di Lavoro SISLav Storia del mutualismo, del sindacalismo e del cooperativismo, nell’ambito di una partnership con il network Encounters of European Elites in the 19th Century, lancia una Call for paper sul tema "Alle origini dell’Alleanza cooperativa: i gruppi dirigenti europei e l’International Co-operative Alliance (1895-1913)".

The International Institute of Social History has a time-honoured tradition of writing its own history, as might be expected from one of the world's leading centres of collecting social history. A Usable Collection, Essays in honour of Jaap Kloosterman on collecting social history (Amsterdam University Press, June 2014) fits into this tradition.

International Conference at the University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History
19-20 February 2015

The hidden abodes of production
Labour, commodities and repertoires of evaluation in the European Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Organizers:

September 2014 marks the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of Ethiopia’s Imperial regime, a seminal event in the global history of revolutions. The anniversary offers an occasion to take stock of and interpret the social effects and meaning of the revolution. The assumption is that social dynamics set in motion by the revolution are still in function in today’s Ethiopia and may continue to generate novel social outcomes in the future.

Presentación del libro: Che, una Revista de la Nueva Izquierda (1960-1961)
de María Cristina Tortti (CeDInCI Editores, 2014)
Lunes 16 de junio a las 18 hs. en el aula 208 - Edificio B - FaHCE - UNLP

A principios de los años sesenta, como consecuencia del impacto de la Revolución Cubana y la persistencia de la identidad peronista de la clase obrera, la izquierda argentina vivió una etapa de intensos debates que terminarían afectando el prestigio y la unidad de sus dos partidos tradicionales: el socialista y el comunista.

Archival materials at the IISH are now accessible through Archives Portal Europe. The portal provides access to information on archival material from the inventories of hundreds of archival institutions in Europe. The user can search in 39,323,587 descriptive units linked to more than 141,000,000 digital objects from 397 institutions.