CfP: Work and Wellbeing in History

8–9 June 2023

Oslo Metropolitan University

 

 

Work is central to human wellbeing, but job quality has received comparatively little attention in economic history and historical wellbeing studies. The inclusion of ‘decent work’ in the Sustainable Development Goals and the recent profusion of present-day job quality metrics provide an opportunity for historical social science to contribute to discussions about the development of job-related wellbeing and the determinants of good work.

 

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YMHC Issue 9: Education and household decision‑making in Spanish mining communities, 1877–1924 – by A. M. Palacios

The Young Mining Historians Corner is a blog post series edited by the Labour In Mining WG dedicated

to early career researchers in mining history broadly construed.
The Issue 9 has been just published:
 Education and household decision‑making in Spanish mining communities, 1877–1924 – by A. M. Palacios
(https://lim.hypotheses.org/2666)

CfP: Edited Volume: “Gender, body, and colonialism from a global perspective: ruptures and continuities in a long duration”

This collection of essays takes a global approach to exploring the complexities of the body, gender, and work through the lens of colonialism. By using colonialism as a lens, scholars are able to demonstrate that the experiences of women at work in relation to their bodies forsakes temporality.