International Conference on the Comparative Social Histories of Labour in the Oil Industry

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) organizes a conference to be held from 13 until 16 June 2013 in Amsterdam on the comparative social histories of labour in the oil industry.

The conference is part of the larger project Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry at the IISH, which is supported by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).
Background

Working in the British Film and Television Industries - session ESSHC, Vienna, April 2014

Call for Papers: Working in the British Film and Television Industries

Dr. Sean Holmes (BrunelUniversity) and Dr. Andrew Dawson (University of Greenwich) are planning a session for the European Social Science History Conference in Vienna in April 2014 on working in the British film and television industries. Our intention is that the papers presented at this session should form the basis for an edited collection, a follow-up toDawson and Holmes, eds., Working in the Global Film and Television Industries: Creativity, Systems, Space, Patronage (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012).

Working Class Culture area, MAPACA

The Working Class Culture area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association invites you to participate in the annual MAPACA conference. This year's conference will be in Atlantic City, NJ, Nov. 7-9, 2013. Papers in the Working Class Culture area include representations of the working class in all areas of culture, including but not limited to art, literature, film, and the media.

New publication on on auto workers in Detroit and Turin in the 2nd half of the 20th century

I thought list readers might be interested in the following new book from
Nicola Pizzolato on auto workers in Detroit and Turin in the second half of
the twentieth century:

Nicola
Pizzolato, Challenging Global Capitalism:
Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban
Change in Detroit and Turin, Palgrave
Macmillan Transnational History, 2013

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