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:

Supporting the work of Professor James Mark, 1989 after 1989 and the AHRC Socialism Goes Global, we have 3 vacancies for Postdoctoral Research Associates with immediate start.

The 12 month fixed term post with 1989 after 1989 and based in Exeter, UK will focus on the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe in global perspective, focusing on political, economic and cultural themes.

Workshop: Comparing the Copperbelt: Political culture and knowledge production in Central Africa, 23-24 July 2018 (Kitwe, Zambia)
Call for papers

This call for papers concerns a conference held on 21-23 June 2018 at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Fees

The conference fee for the delegates is £120; for non-attending authors £80; APCs for authors submitting their papers directly to the journal is €100. PhD students will be offered discounts. Authors of selected papers will be exempted from APCs.

Keynote speakers

(confirmed):

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program

Winnipeg General Strike Centenary Conference:

Building a Better World – 1919 / 2019

May 9 to 11, 2019                                                      

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Popular Policing in Europe (18th -20th centuries)