CfP: Status and Social Conditions under the Risk of Social Demotion (Western and Southern Europe, 16th to Early 19th centuries)

Status and Social Conditions under the Risk of Social Demotion (Western and Southern Europe, 16th to Early 19th centuries)
Rome, 24-25 May 2018
A conference organised by the École française de Rome, LARHRA, IDHE.S-ENS Paris-Saclay and the University of Milan
Coordinators: Jean-François Chauvard (University of Lyon II – LARHRA), Michela Barbot (CNRS, IDHE.S-ENS Paris-Saclay), Stefano Levati (University of Milan)

Das Kapital published 150 years ago - Marx's personal copy digitized

Exactly 150 years ago, on 14 September 1867, the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital was published. Capital remains one of the most influential books in world history. The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam possesses a unique first edition, containing Marx’s own handwritten corrections and marginals. This edition has now been fully digitized, and has been made available to the general public through the Institute’s website.

Buchvorstellung "Streiten für eine welt jenseits des Kapitalismus"

Buchvorstellung "Streiten für eine welt jenseits des Kapitalismus"
Date: 18 October 2017
Location: Berlin

Programm

18:00 Begrüßung
Dr. Wolfgang Jäger, Geschäftsführer der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

18:10 Einleitung
Prof. em. Dr. Helga Grebing, Berlin

18:25 Wie aktuell ist Sternberg für den DGB?
Reiner Hoffmann, Vorsitzender des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes und
Vorsitzender des Vorstandes der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung

CfP: The Future of Work in the Mirror of the Past

Call for Papers

‘The Future of Work in the Mirror of the Past’

XII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LABOUR HISTORY
organized by THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN LABOUR HISTORIANS and V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE,
26-28 MARCH 2018 AT V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, NOIDA/New Delhi, INDIA

The broad theme for the conference is ‘The Future of Work in the Mirror of the Past’. The focus of the conference will be on the relation of technology with changing forms of work and work relations in the past and the present in the light of possible future trends.

'Invisible Histories' at the Working Class Movement Library

 

The Working Class Movement Library (WCML) in Salford presents a series of talks focussed on overlooked aspects of working class and labour history, ranging from reflections on the Co-operative Party, to the National Federation of Women Workers, to the Russian Revolution. This series follows similar talks in 2016, including a specific focus on the First World War.

Invisible Histories talks – Wednesdays at 2pm