Between Two Oceans: Connected Histories of Labour, Race, and Gender in the Americas (16th–19th centuries)
Hybrid seminar at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 2 November 2025
ELHN Working Group “Industrial and Economic Democracy” for the Panel "Economic Democracy and Beyond: Re-thinking the role of democratic participation in industry and the economy, past and present"
6th Conference of the European Labour History Network, 16-19 June 2026, Barcelona
Panel Organizers: Aurélie Andry (Ruhr University Bochum), Thomas J. Adams (University of South Alabama), Philipp Urban (Ruhr University Bochum), Philipp Reick (TU Berlin)
"Punitive education. On the relationship between violence, ideology and care in 'total institutions' under communist rule"
Conference in Dresden, 15-17 April 2026
8. Hermann-Weber-Konferenz zur Historischen Kommunismusforschung (2026): “Punitive education. On the relationship between violence, ideology and care in ‘total institutions’ under communist rule”
ILWCH Special Issue on Hot Work
The International Labor and Working-Class History journal (ILWCH) invites submissions for a special thematic issue on “Hot Work,” edited by Eduardo Contreras (Hunter College, CUNY) and Selda Altan (Randolph College)
Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule
International Conference at the German Historical Institute Washington / Conveners: Ulrike von Hirschhausen (GHI Washington) and Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin), 28-29 May 2026
Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and the Third World (1950-1990)
The Africa Centre (London), 9-10 June 2025
This workshop seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of African revolutions and decolonization (1950-1990). Papers from different disciplines are welcome.
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (Volume 22, Issue 1)
Workers and the “Golden Age” of Social Democracy?
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon, Guest Editors
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Stefan Berger, Leon Fink, Jan de Graaf, and Patrick Dixon / Workers and the
“Golden Age” of Social Democracy? An Introduction 1
THE COMMON VERSE
Thomas McGrath / Slaughterhouse Music 8
ARTS AND MEDIA
Kathy M. Newman, Joseph Entin, and Patricia Hills / Philip Tipperman:
Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s 11
La Révolution industrielle et ses périls ; la promesse démocratique à l'épreuve du malheur ouvrier en France (1830 - 1870) (French)
by Dominique Vuillaume
Ce livre analyse la mutation des savoirs consécutive au choc de l’industrialisation et à l’apparition dans son sillage de la classe ouvrière française, sur la période clé allant de la Monarchie de juillet à la fin du Second Empire.