The struggle for an eight-hour day was foundational to the emergence of the modern labour movement, and the battle over working time remains significant to labour activism across the globe. The ELHN Working Group Histories of Working Time aims to encourage collective examination of global histories of working time. It also aims to connect scholarship to contemporary struggle.
The ELHN Working Group ILO Histories seeks to bring together scholars interested in the rich history of the International Labour Organization [ILO] and its promotion of global labour standards and tripartism since 1919. We envision a broad scope as detailed herein.
On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, join us for a conference that presents papers that rethink the cultures, events, and experiences of the American Revolutionary War across the liminal borders (regional and proto-national) of British North America. Our organizing premise insists that participants recuperate and center the aspirations, resistance, perspectives, and experiences of enslaved people and communities.
The two-day international workshop will bring together different perspectives on recycling in the Cold War era. It aims at a broader understanding of how capitalist and socialist recycling models were formed, developed, and interacted across historical contexts – including continuities, ruptures, and their impact on global and regional material flows. Our keynote speaker is Zsuzsa Gille with a talk on “Recycling in the Socialocene.”
