For a better and deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (Central and Eastern) Europe, the Freedom Broadcasting Foundation (formerly the RFE/RL Fund) and the Open Society Archives at Central European University (OSA) offer a grant which covers altogether 108 distant research hours in the Hoover Institution on a competitive basis to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty holdings of the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, and whose current research projects are relevant to these holdings.

Call for papers on the theme:

Perceptions of work among 'social outcasts'

Organiser: Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Call for sessions and papers on Labour and Working Class History for the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Glasgow (UK) 11-14 April 2012

Call for Papers, on the theme:

Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist strands of working class self-help & popular voluntary association in C20th Europe

Peter Ackers (Loughborough University, UK) and Alastair Reid (Girton College, Cambridge, UK) are planning a stream of panels within the Labour network of the 9th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), at Glasgow, from Wednesday 11 to 14 April 2012. There is the possibility of an edited collection arising from the stream.

2011 will be the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871.

On the website of the Amis de la Commune de Paris 1871, a first listing of activities can be found.

These include:

From Women's Club to Group 8

The Separate Organization of Women within the Swedish communist Movement

Guide to the sources at the Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek (Labour Movement Archives and Library), Stockholm, Sweden.

COMMUNITY HOUSE HERITAGE SITE DEVELOPMENT
Project Manager: Information and Outreach Coordinator for the Community House Labour Project

Terms of Reference
The Labour Research Service based in Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa, is looking for an individual who is passionate about labour and civil society struggles to work as an information and outreach coordinator for the reestablishment of the Trade Union Library [TUL.]

Odyssee naar het geluk. Griekse migranten in Limburg 
 
Via unieke familiefoto’s vertelt de tentoonstelling het verhaal van de zoektocht naar een beter leven, die heel wat Grieken een halve eeuw geleden naar Limburg bracht. Een thema actueler dan ooit.
 

Robert Tressell's famous novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' is one of the classic novels on how capitalism operates in the workplace. The book is still a leading best seller and many politicians, writers and historians have acknowledged the ongoing legacy of this book. The original manuscript of ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ has been in the care of the Trades Union Congress since 1958 and is now held in the TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University.

Newsletter International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)

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