International Workshop

The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War

The international workshop The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses at Congress Center Het Pand in Ghent (7-8 October 2011), will explore the Cold War international history of U.S. labor's relations with worldwide organized labor. Scholarly papers based on a rising tide of scholarship in the field of international labor history will show how labor history can break the boundaries of national borders to be truly international in focus.

Nieuwsbrief, 6e jaargang, nr. 5, september 2011

20 jaar Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth Vlaanderen en Brussel viert dit jaar zijn 20e verjaardag. Naar aanleiding daarvan opent op donderdag 22 september om 19 uur in het Amsab-museum de tentoonstelling Voor Moeder Aarde - Friends of the Earth. 20 jaar engagement.
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The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War

CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL
“SINDICALISMO EN ESPAÑA: DEL FRANQUISMO A LAESTABILIDAD DEMOCRÁTICA (1970-1994)”

Fechas: 4, 5 y 6 de julio de 2012
Universidad de Oviedo, campus de la Universidad Laboral en Gijón
Proyecto de I +D del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. HAR2009-08294: “Lareconstrucción del sindicalismo socialista (1970-1994)”

Public Lecture

Senator John Faulkner presents the annual Archives lecture reflecting on the history of the Labour movement in Australia. His talk also opens the ‘Labour history and its people’ conference hosted by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in association with the National Centre for Biography.

À LA REDÉCOUVERTE DE LA « GRANDE FIÈVRE OUVRIÈRE » (1911-14)
REVISITING THE ‘GREAT LABOUR UNREST’ (1911-14)
15 & 16 September, Paris

Jeudi 15 septembre / Thursday 15
(Salle B203, UFR LSHS, Campus Villetaneuse / Paris 13)

9.00 Accueil des participants / Registration
9.30 Ouverture du colloque / Opening remarks

Une fièvre plurielle : déclinaisons locales et régionales /
The Great Labour Unrests: The Local, the Regional and the National

Newsletter n. 15 – 30 agosto 2011

Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it

Corso di formazione per responsabili della conservazione di risorse digitali
Milano 13-14, 26-27 ottobre 2011

Call for chapter submissions (edited book):

"The European social movement experience: rethinking 'new social movements', historicising the alterglobalisation movement and understanding the new wave of protest"

Laurence Cox, Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Co-chairs, European Social Movements research network
(Council for European Studies)

Conference: ‘Histories of Activism’ Postgraduate Conference
Organised by the Histories of Activism Research Group at Northumbria University and the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH), Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, London, Saturday, 26th November 2011.
To register your attendance or for any enquires please email vanessa.sherriffs [at] northumbria.ac.uk or p.simpson [at] northumbria.ac.uk

Histories of Activism Postgraduate Conference – Programme

Registration 10.00am – 10.45am
10.45am – 11am – Welcome and Introduction

Actividades Culturales

TOC, Volume 56 part 2, April 2011

Research Articles
Mary Hilson, A Consumers’ International? The International Cooperative Alliance and Cooperative Internationalism, 1918–1939: A Nordic Perspective
Custodio Velasco Mesa, Revolutionary Rhetoric and Labour Unrest: Liège in 1886 and Seville in 1901
Cristiana Viegas de Andrade, Migration Systems in Nineteenth-Century North-Western Portugal: The Case of Vila do Conde

Suggestions and Debates
Marianne Maeckelbergh, The Road to Democracy: The Political Legacy of "1968"