Website launch: "Historia obrera"

A new website on Argentina’s labour history has been launched.

The independent www.historiaobrera.com.ar offers numerous resources and multimedia content including books, postcasts, music, and films.

The initiative counts with the support of a number of worker organisations including the Sindicato de Luz y Fuerza de Mar del Plata, Asociación del Personal de la UNMdP and Asociación Gremial de Trabajadores/as del Subterráneo y el Premetro (AGTSyP).

CfP: Capitalism, Crisis and Covid: Agrarian Political Economy in Disrupted Circuits of Capital and Labour

The Journal of Agrarian Change seeks contributions to a symposium on Capitalism, Crisis and Covid: Agrarian Political Economy in Disrupted Circuits of Capital and Labour

Covid-19 is re-configuring the global capitalist system. It has disrupted the functioning of capitalism in unprecedented ways. The flow of commodities has slowed dramatically, and labour has experienced a mass loss of work. 

Työväenliikkeen kirjasto (Helsinki): Reopening and online materials

The Library of the Labour Movement in Finland, member of the IALHI, has reopened for public after the first COVID-19 pandemia closing. It also provides free access to a number of online materials at: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/139700.

Most of the materials are in Finnish but there are also something in English or other languages for example in the Internationals and the Working life section of the Helda Digital Archive.

CfP: Images et récits de l’exil et des exodes en Amérique latine au XXIe siècle

Ce colloque international, qui aura lieu les 19 et 20 novembre à Nice, est envisagé comme le prolongement de la journée d’études interdisciplinaire et inter-laboratoires (LIRCES et URMIS) organisée à Nice en décembre 2018 et intitulée « Amérique latine : exil, migrations et identités ». À l’occasion de cette nouvelle manifestation scientifique, nous souhaitons recentrer la réflexion autour de la représentation de l’exil et des exodes en Amérique latine depuis le début du XXIe siècle.