KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 77, January/February 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

Labor Politics in the Oil Industry: New Historical Perspectives

University of Padua, October 23-24, 2014

The importance of labor in the history of national and international oil politics has been largely overlooked by scholars. Yet, as recent events in Libya, Algeria and Nigeria show, oil workers play (and have played) a crucial role in blocking or rederecting the flow of oil, while labor policies have often been central in defining relations between international oil companies and oil-producing states.

Pantarei Editions (Milan) has recently published ‘Un socialismo di rito Ambrosiano-Emiliano: The constituent congresses of the Italian Socialist Party (1891-1893)’ the fifth volume of the series Individual and collective biographies of the Italian working-class movement (348 pages, 25.00 euros). Should you wish to purchase this work, you can do so at 30% off the cover price by ordering directly from ourselves or from the publishers.

The main theme of the worklab conference 2014 is the question, how labour museums can find and redefine their position in a changing social, political and economic environment.

Conference subthemes

In order to make the conference theme as strong as possible, we have decided that all papers should fit within the general theme of the conference, respectively following subthemes:

CFP: Global Impact of Slave Trade and Slavery: a Comparative Approach, Session at the World Economic History Conference - Kyoto 08/15

Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University), Matthias van Rossum (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Ulbe Bosma (International Institute of Social History), Karel Davids (VU University Amsterdam), Henk den Heijer (Leiden University) 03.08.2015-07.08.2015, Kyoto

Deadline: 15.02.2014

Prof. Dr. Susanne Lachenicht / Prof. Dr. Achim von Oppen / Dr. Annalisa Urbano / Dr. Christine Whyte, Teilprojekt 1 "Narratives of the Future", Bayreuth Academy for Advanced African Studies (BA), Bayreuth 02.10.2014-04.10.2014, Universität Bayreuth

Deadline: 01.03.2014

Ann: Early American Marxism website www.marxisthistory.org - Weekly Update no. 14-06 * (February 9, 2014).

(1) "A Day With Debs in Jail at Woodstock: How the Imprisoned Labor Leader and His Associates Lived in Confinement," by A.C. Cantley [July 6, 1895]

Histoire sociale / Social History is pleased to announce that Jennifer A. Stephen has joined the Editorial Board as Co-Editor of English-language articles for the journal.

CFP: Panelists: SSHA - "Work and Neoliberal Ascendancy" (Abstract Deadline: 13/02)

I'm organizing a panel for the 2014 Social Science History Association in Toronto (November 6-9) concentrating on the changing understanding of work from the end of WWII to the present. This includes industrial restructuring or the global transformations of industrial capitalism as well as the role of agricultural or service labor in post/non-industrial economies. My own work concentrates on the process of industrial decentralization/restructuring in Detroit.

In cooperation with the Australian Association for the Study of Labor History (AASLH), the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) is pleased to announce a conference on comparative Australia-US labor history to be held January 8-9, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. The deadline for paper proposals is April 15, 2014. See details below.

Australian-US Comparative and Transnational Labour History Conference

Thursday, 8 January and Friday 9 January, 2015

The University of Sydney, Australia

Call for Papers