The People’s Business – 150 Years of The Co-operative

A conference exploring a range of themes related to the 150 year history of The Co-operative
25 January 2014
Time 10:30 - 17:00
Duration 6 hours 30 minutes
Cost £25 / £20 concessions

Tying in with our changing exhibition The People’s Business – 150 Years of The Co-operative, this conference explores a range of themes related to the 150 year history of the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), which became The Co-operative Group in 2001.

OSA Signs Public Archive Agreement with OHR

On October 25, 2013, OSA signed a Public Archive Agreement with the Office of the High Representative (OHR), the ad hoc international institution responsible for overseeing the implementation of civilian aspects of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the Agreement, OSA will preserve and publish online the public documents created and maintained by OHR’s headquarters in Sarajevo, and its field offices across the country.

Dal punto di vista del lavoro - Convegno SISLav

Convegno SISLav 2013 Bologna 12-14 dicembre 2014
Programma completo
in collaborazione con la Fondazione Gramsci Emilia-Romagna e il Dipartimento Storia Culture Civiltà, con il sostegno di Regione Emilia-Romagna e Spi-Cgil

GIOVEDÌ 12 dicembre 2013 - Mattino
Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà dell’Università di Bologna
Aula Prodi, P.zza S. Giovanni in Monte 2

9.30
Apertura e introduzione dei lavori

Saluti istituzionali
Stefano Musso (Univ. Torino, presidente SISLav): Introduzione ai lavori

Labor History, October 2013 is now available online

Labor History, Vol. 54, No. 4, 01 Oct 2013
is now available on Taylor & Francis Online.

This new issue contains the following articles:

*Article *
Tragedy or farce? The repetition of Australian industrial relations history, 1929 and 2007
Raymond Markey
Pages: 355-376
DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2013.804273

*Original Article *
Did unemployed workers choose not to work in interwar Britain? Evidence from the voices of unemployed workers
Kitae Sohn
Pages: 377-392
DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2013.807097

Job Ann.: Executive Editor International Review of Social History (IRSH)

The IISH conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.

In addition to its core mission the Institute is active in the area of scholarly publications: journals, books, and, increasingly, online open access publications.

New Directors for Labour Movement Archives and Library (Sweden) and Sozialarchiv (Switzerland)

Both the Labour Movement Archives and Library (Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek, Huddinge, Sweden) and the Swiss Social Archive (Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Zürich, Switzerland) recently appointed a new director.

In Sweden, Nina Sjöberg succeeds Lars Ilshammar, and in Switzerland Christian Koller succeeds Anita Ulrich.

More information through the links below (in Swedish and German):

http://www.arbark.se/2013/11/ny-chef-pa-arbetarrorelsens-arkiv-och-bibliotek/

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