Call for Papers: Workshop on Historical Social Mobility in a Global Perspective
Date: 7 March 2014
Format: 1-day workshop
Venue: Department of Economic and Social History, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Organizers: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Felix Meier zu Selhausen, and Jacob Weisdorf
Huddersfield Local History Society and the University of Huddersfield would like to invite you to the inaugural Luddite Memorial Lecture on Thursday 16 Jan 2014 at 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm) , Canalside East CEG/28
Dr Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University) will be speaking on
'Luddism through the Chartist-Looking Glass: Shirley and the Modernisation of Popular Protest'.
If you would like to attend this event please rsvp huddhistorysecretary@gmail.com.
The Marxists Internet Archive, Holt Labor Library and the Riazanov Library Project have completed another set of digitization of important journals published by North America revolutionary orgnizations:
The Agitator/The Syndicalist (1910 – 1913), the journal of the Syndicalist League of North America before WWI, it was William Z. Foster's first organization in the working class and represented the transplant of France's revolutionary syndicalism to the United States.
In 'The Dutch State as a Pimp', an (English-language) research article in the new issue of TSEG 10 (2013) 3, the history of the largest open-air brothel in the world, Campo Alegre on the Caribbean-Dutch island Curaçao is unfolded. Dutch authorities started this state brothel in 1949 in an attempt to stop the spread of venereal diseases.
Articles
Akin Sefer 'From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire' [summary]
Kevin Morgan 'Class Cohesion and Trade-Union Internationalism: Fred Bramley, the British TUC, and the Anglo-Russian Advisory Council' [summary]
Steven Parfitt 'Brotherhood From a Distance: Americanization and the Internationalism of the Knights of Labor' [summary]
Survey
Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey is the title of IRSH special issue vol 58 (December 2013) edited by Clare Anderson, Niklas Frykman, Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcus Rediker.
I'd like to divulge the table of contents of the first number of the Labor Sciences Journal, a new academic/activist journal founded by DIEESE - the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies in Brazil. The titles of the articles are below, in Portuguese and English, as well as the link to access them. It's an excellent resource for scholars of labor in Latin America.
Cordially, Prof. Dr. Sean Purdy
Departamento de História
Universidade de São Paulo
La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
tiene el gusto de invitarle a la presentación del libro
EL PARO GENERAL DEL
14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1988:
CAUSAS, DESARROLLO Y CONSECUENCIAS
DE LA HUELGA CON MAYOR SEGUIMIENTO
DE LA DEMOCRACIA
Intervendrán:
Almudena Asenjo, Directora de la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
Álvaro Soto Carmona, Catedrático de Historia y coautor del libro
Rodolfo Serrano, Periodista y coautor del libro
Cándido Méndez, Secretario General de UGT
FECHA:
Miércoles, 18 de diciembre de 2013
43 additional oral history interviews have just been added to the Britain at Work website at www.unionhistory.info/britainatwork , making a total of 69 audio interviews [audio-clips and transcripts] and 11 filmed interviews.
http://www.unionhistory.info/britainatwork
See also:
En nuestro tiempo todo ha cambiado. Aquello que entendíamos por cultura – en su sentido más amplio – se ha esfumado. La noción de cultura se volvió fantasmal, mezcla de frivolidad política, banalización del arte, propensión al entretenimiento. La cultura fue una forma de la conciencia que nos acercaba a la realidad, a comprender o intentar comprender el ser, nuestra sociedad, nuestro estar en el mundo. Hoy parece que fuera un mecanismo de diversión cuando no de chabacanería y dejadez. Casi no hay polémicas ni debate público. La pesadilla orwelliana está entre nosotros.
