The workshop, to be held on 12-13 December 2008, is cancelled
The IISH invites scholars to submit papers for a workshop "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008". The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 October 2008.
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is directing a workshop on the project "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008." The workshop will take place in Amsterdam on 12 and 13 December, 2008. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 October, 2008 and the organising committee aims to finalise the workshop programme and notify abstract-senders by 31 October, 2008. The IISH will cover the cost of travel and accommodation expenses for those who present papers in the workshop.
This project, which is in the preliminary stages of background research and planning, has been inspired by a major programme on Global Labour History at the IISH, and the associated discourse that has been developed by debates over the past few years. Evidently, over the past three decades, the monopoly of European and North-American labour historiography has been challenged by the growth of studies on labour history in Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, developments in this terrain have been very slow concerning the Middle East in general and Iran in particular. This project seeks to fill this critical gap.