CALL FOR PAPERS WEHC Kyoto 2015 – DEADLINE abstracts 25 August 2013 Please email your Word document (maximum 500 words) to bert.demunck [at] ua.ac.be.

Human capital formation compared: knowledge investments in different regions before and during the industrial revolution

Organizers:
Annelies De Bie (Centre for Urban History – University of Antwerp) Bert De Munck (Centre for Urban History – University of Antwerp) Patrick Wallis (Department of Economic History – LSE)

12. August 2013, 19 Uhr: Buchvernissage: August Bebel – Kaiser der Arbeiter

August Bebel, der "Kaiser der Arbeiter", war die Führungsfigur der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung von Mitte der 1860er-Jahre bis zu seinem Tod am 13. August 1913. Sein Weg vom einfachen Drechslergesellen zum Politstar des deutschen Kaiserreichs stand paradigmatisch für den Aufstieg der Arbeiterbewegung.

Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 72 - julio 2013

Table of contents

Actividades Culturales

Mesa redonda en el Curso Verdad, Justicia y Reparación en los Cursos de Verano de la Universidad Complutense de 2013

Archivo

Donaciones

Trabajo Técnico

Actuaciones en el depósito del Archivo

Otras actividades

Homenajes

Biblioteca

Donaciones y Transferencias

Colaboración en exposiciones, publicaciones y otras actividades culturales

Van alle markten thuis? Ondernemers en ambachtsmeesters in de Brusselse bouwsector tijdens de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw
Boris Horemans

Real wages at the Cape of Good Hope: a long-term perspective, 1652-1912
Pim de Zwart

South Asians in East Africa, 1800-2000. An entrepreneurial minority caught in a 'Catch-22'
Gijsbert Oonk

The Stranger's Code: Explaining the Persistence of Distinct Identity among West African Traders in Brazzaville, Congo
Bruce Whitehouse

Articles

Peter Cole 'No Justice, No Ships Get Loaded: Political Boycotts on the San Francisco Bay and Durban Waterfronts'

Matt Perry 'In Search of "Red Ellen" Wilkinson Beyond Frontiers and Beyond the Nation State'

Marcel Hoogenboom 'Transnational Unemployment Insurance: The Inclusion and Exclusion of Foreign Workers in Labour Unions’ Unemployment Insurances (ca. 1900-1940)'

Survey

Christian de Vito and Alex Lichtenstein Writing a Global History of Convict Labour

Book reviews

The Global E. P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working
Class after Fifty Years

Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

4:00 – 6:00 PM
Thompson and his Times

Madeline Davis, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
“Edward Thompson's ethics and Activism 1956-1963: Reflections on the
political formation of The Making of the English Working Class”

44th Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)

OPENING UP SOCIAL HISTORY REPOSITORIES: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW METHODS
26 – 28 September 2013

Open Society Archives at the Central European University
Nádor Street 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary

Preliminary Program, September 25-28, 2013.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013.

17:00 Welcome Speech by István Rév, Director, Open Society Archives
Welcome Drink and Guided Tour of OSA holdings

Thursday, September 26, 2013.

NW Posthumus network 'Drivers and Carriers of Globalization' / Ghent University 'Communities Comparisons Connections'-Research Group 06.09.2013-07.09.2013, Ghent

The workshop investigates the role of borders and frontiers in transnational and global history (15th - 21st centuries). Anyone wishing to attend is more than welcome to, but should contact torsten.feys [at] ugent.be before the end of August.

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Friday, 6 September

Production of Work, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien 10.09.2013-11.09.2013, Wien, Campus of the Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Seminarraum des Instituts für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin (=Alte Kapelle), Hof 2.8

This workshop will investigate how science and/or scholarship (in the broadest sense) from the late 19th to the first half of the 20th century contributed to the historical production of work.

CFP: Fascism without Borders. Transnational Connections and Cooperation among Movements and Regimes in Europe between 1918 and 1945 - Berlin 06/14

Freie Universität Berlin
20.06.2014-21.06.2014, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
Deadline: 30.09.2013