CALL FOR PAPERS
LABOR AND HISTORY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

40th Annual North American Labor History Conference


October 18-20, 2018 - Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan

We announce this recent publication on the Jewish Socialist movement, "Bund".

In attachment, the cover of the book and two book reviews.

For more information, please send an email to Marvin Zuckerman: marvinsigman[at]gmail.com

In occasione del 60° anniversario della scomparsa del suo primo segretario generale, la CGIL nazionale bandisce un concorso finalizzato al ritrovamento ed all’acquisizione (in originale o in copia digitale) di VIDEO, FOTO, LETTERE o DOCUMENTI a firma Giuseppe Di Vittorio, non conservati nei nostri Archivi.

Le domande di ammissione alla procedura di valutazione dovranno essere redatte in carta semplice, debitamente sottoscritte dai candidati e inviate entro e non oltre le ore 17.00 del 31 maggio 2018.

Il Dipartimento di Studi Storici dell'Università di Torino organizza, per le giornate del 22 e del 23 maggio 2018, un convegno dal titolo "Inchieste sulla casa in Italia. La condizione abitativa nelle grandi città italiane nel secondo dopoguerra".

SÉMINAIRE
Dans le cadre du cycle Discipliner l'archive ? (2017-2018)
Archives du militantisme, de Berkeley à Vincennes

07 Mars 2018
14h30 - Max Weber - Salle de séminaire 2
Université Paris Nanterre

Un terrain entre archives et entretiens : une entrée dans la socio-histoire de l'enseignement supérieur et des disciplines de SHS des années 1960-1970
Christelle Dormoy (Univ. Paris Nanterre/CRESPPA)

SÉMINAIRE
Dans le cadre du cycle Discipliner l'archive ? (2017-2018)
Trois usages disciplinaires des archives autour de la guerre d'Algérie (philosophie, sociologie, science politique)

24 Janvier 2018
14h30 - Max Weber - Salle de séminaire 2
Université Paris Nanterre

International Review of Social History

Volume 62 - Issue 3 - December 2017

Research article

“I Thought of it at Work, in Ostend”: Urban Artisan Labour and Guild Ideology in the Later Medieval Low Countries
Jan Dumolyn

Special Theme

Charismatic Leadership and Networks in Anarchism: The Cases of Pietro Gori and Jean Grave: An Introductory Note
Jan Willem Stutje

Pietro Gori’s Anarchism: Politics and Spectacle (1895–1900)
Emanuela Minuto

LABOUR HISTORY NO. 113 – NOVEMBER 2017

LABOUR HISTORY AND THE “COOLIE QUESTION”
Edited by Diane Kirkby and Sophie Loy-Wilson

Introduction
Diane Kirkby and Sophie Loy-Wilson

What Is the “Coolie Question”?
Moon-Ho Jung

Stabilising Violence in Colonial Rule: Settlement and the Indentured Labour Trade in Queensland in the 1870s
Tracey Banivanua Mar

From Slavery to Freedom: Chinese Coolies on the Sugar Plantations of Nineteenth Century Cuba
Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Du "travail ménager" au "care"
Histoire et enjeux actuels

Rencontre-débat

Mercredi 24 janvier 2018
18h45-22h

Université ouvrière de Genève, 3 place des Grottes

Sous la conduite de Jacqueline Berenstein-Wavre, le Collège du travail s'est engagé dès 1983 pour la reconnaissance de la valeur sociale et économique du travail domestique. A l'occasion de la mise en ligne de l'inventaire de deux fonds d'archives, effectué grâce à l'appui de la Fondation Emilie Gourd, cette rencontre-débat revient sur l'histoire de cette lutte et ses enjeux actuels.

Was ‘decolonization’ a European invention designed to ease the ‘White Man’s Burden’ and pave the way for a neo-colonial system of extraction and dependency? Was it a Latin American invention intended to undo ‘the colonial system?’ Or was it an Indian, French Algerian or Caribbean invention? All the above? Is the received ‘wave’ narrative (first, second, third, fourth waves) currently used to tell the global history of decolonization still adequate to the task? Or would notions such as ‘invention’ and ‘reinvention’ be more useful?

We seek papers that address any of the following: