On 25 February 2016 the seventy-fifth anniversary of the February Strike will be commemorated in front of the synagogue and the Dokwerker [Dockworker] Monument in Amsterdam. Exactly seventy-five years ago, on 25 February 1941, a general strike broke out in Amsterdam in protest at the German occupation and persecution of the Jews. It was commemorated for the first time in 1946, and then in every subsequent year.
The struggle for self-determination and independence of Portuguese colonies benefited from an international solidarity promoted by different entities, namely governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations, such as churches, trade unions or political, student and women's organizations. The solidarity was instigated by different ideological commitments across the national boundaries and aimed different goals.
Journal de la BDIC - la bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine & ses lecteurs
N°40 - Février 2016
Page 1. Internationales graphiques
Page 2. Le mot des lecteurs : Former les lecteurs de licence d’histoire à l’usage et à la fabrication de la source orale
Page 3. Suivre la BDIC sur les réseaux sociaux
Pages 4 et 5. Exposition : Internationales graphiques. Collections d’affiches politiques 1979-1990
Join a Salford WW1 conscientious objector as he tells his story
We are so looking forward to the 30-minute free performances of our Living History play about WW1 conscientious objector James Hudson, commissioned as part of our Heritage Lottery Fund WW1 project.
Rapper dance - its creation and what it meant to working communities
On Wednesday 2 March at 2pm our free Invisible Histories talks series starts up again with a talk by Tom Besford.
Labour (dis)united. Disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement
Monday 4 April 2016
People's History Museum, Manchester
Conference organised by the Centre for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW / Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
and sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and the Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA)
PROGRAMME
9 - 9.30 Emmanuelle AVRIL & Yann BELIARD (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
Registration, welcome address and introduction
The School of Management & Business at King’s College London invites applications for a series of funded, full-time PhD studentships to start in the 2016-17 academic year.
PhD students who want to pursue a critical approach to any topic in the sociology of work and organizations, labor markets or comparative political economy. Any interested students can contact Dr Matt Vidal directly: matt.vidal [at] kcl.ac.uk
Irene Wagner, former Labour Party librarian and one of the founding members of the International Association of Labour History Institutions, passed away on 4 February 2016, at the age of 99.
Our condolences go out to her relatives.
Irene Wagner was an extraordinary person. A part of her life story can be found on the TUC history website at http://www.unionhistory.info/workerswar/display.php?irn=557&QueryPage=a…
The International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre annually awards research grants to students who are currently engaged in research for a Ph.D. on the First World War or a subject directly related to the conflict.
Scholarships
Conference: Histories of Capitalism, v2.0
CALL FOR PAPERS
Histories of Capitalism, 2.0
Cornell University
September 29 to October 1, 2016
Dear Colleagues,
I am a PhD candidate looking to organize a panel for the Labor Network at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting in Chicago (November 17-20). My work concentrates on clerical workers in the United States organizing for equality and rights in the workplace through unions and associations. I focus on campaigns in higher education from the 1970s through the early 1990s.
