News from the Working Class Movement Library

Working Class Movement Library
51 Crescent, Salford, UK

Events coming up at the Library and elsewhere

Spirit of '45

We have two more free talks coming up which run alongside our Spirit of '45 exhibition:

Wednesday 8 July 2pm
Pat Thane talk on the 1945 welfare reforms
Pat, who is Research Professor in Contemporary British History, Institute of Contemporary British History, King's College, London, will speak about the post-war welfare reforms.

TOC: Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict
Volume I
Number 6
June 2015

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR - 5

COGS IN THE MILITARY MACHINE? WAR EXPERIENCE AND ANTIMILITARISM DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, FERNANDO MENDIOLA - 6

FROM RESISTING MILITARY SERVICE TO THE ANTI-MILITARIST MOVEMENT: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AND RESISTANCE TO COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE IN FRANCE, ITALY AND SPAIN. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR UNTIL THE 1980s, CARLOS ÁNGEL ORDÁS  - 29

Labadie Collection posters now online

Hidden Treasures Now Online!
Julie Herrada

We are excited to share with everyone these Labadie Collection posters. Acquired over the past 100 years, they range in topics from anarchism (our strongest collecting area) to civil liberties, anti-colonialism, anti-war/pacifism, feminism, labor, youth and student protest, ecology, Occupy, and more. Due to their format, until now, we have only been able to provide very limited access. Our hope is that they will get more use now that everyone can view them.

Videos on regime change in Hungary 1988-1996

Using VHS and S-VHS cameras, Black Box Foundation, the first independent film group in Hungary filmed every important event in the years of the regime change and transition between 1988 and 1996, including political, social and cultural events, demonstrations organized by political groups that later evolved into parliamentary parties such as the Alliance of Free Democrats and Alliance of Young Democrats, meetings of oppressed churches, the creation of new independent trade unions and – last but not least – the mass protest against the later aborted construction of the Bős-Gabčíkovo–Nagymaro

CFP: Alternative Global Geographies, Imagining and Re-Imagining the World late 19th century - present day

In contrast to public claims of the early 1990s, space and geographies have not lost their central role in defining an ever more globalized world. We still live in territorialized spaces: not only in the narrow sense of states and societies that reside within their borders, but also geographies and spatial formats on regional and world scales. Research in the aftermath of the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences is increasingly drawing our attention to the importance of understanding large-scale spatial dynamics for global history.

CFP: Women and gender relations in the labour force. The case of mining, 1500-2000

 

1st Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN)

14-16 December 2015, Turin (Italy)

Conference language: English

Call for Papers

Women and gender relations in the labour force. The case of mining, 1500-2000

Organisers: Rossana Barragán (International Institute of Social History) and Leda Papastefanaki (University of Ioannina)

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