Working class self-help

Call for Papers, on the theme:

Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist strands of working class self-help & popular voluntary association in C20th Europe

Peter Ackers (Loughborough University, UK) and Alastair Reid (Girton College, Cambridge, UK) are planning a stream of panels within the Labour network of the 9th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), at Glasgow, from Wednesday 11 to 14 April 2012. There is the possibility of an edited collection arising from the stream.

Community House Labour Project, Cape Town

COMMUNITY HOUSE HERITAGE SITE DEVELOPMENT
Project Manager: Information and Outreach Coordinator for the Community House Labour Project

Terms of Reference
The Labour Research Service based in Salt River, Cape Town, South Africa, is looking for an individual who is passionate about labour and civil society struggles to work as an information and outreach coordinator for the reestablishment of the Trade Union Library [TUL.]

Greek Migrants in Limburg

Odyssee naar het geluk. Griekse migranten in Limburg 
 
Via unieke familiefoto’s vertelt de tentoonstelling het verhaal van de zoektocht naar een beter leven, die heel wat Grieken een halve eeuw geleden naar Limburg bracht. Een thema actueler dan ooit.
 

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell's famous novel 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' is one of the classic novels on how capitalism operates in the workplace. The book is still a leading best seller and many politicians, writers and historians have acknowledged the ongoing legacy of this book. The original manuscript of ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’ has been in the care of the Trades Union Congress since 1958 and is now held in the TUC Library Collections at London Metropolitan University.

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