Date: 3 December 2012 to 5 December 2012
Location: La Paz, Bolivia
At times, it may seem that our bread-earning labour and our life styles are local and national, but what we produce is commercialized in foreign markets, and what we consume in our local fiestas is produced overseas. We need to go beyond what is local and national to understand the broader and global aspect in the history of labour relationships and tele-connections between labour in spatial terms.
Labour is the axis that social structure revolves around associated with exploitation, productive process managements, the creation and evolution of labour legislations, collective affairs of diverse groups and social classes. Work also has many faces: from technological and economical to social and cultural.
The International Institute of Social History, focuses on the global history of labour. The CIDES-UMSA focuses on the analysis of changes in societies. Both of them with the cooperation of Conexión - Emancipation Fund and OXFAM are organizing the seminar Changing worlds of work: between the local and the global.
The seminar will take place in La Paz-Bolivia, between 3 and 5 December 2012. The seminar aims to create a new space for researchers willing to contribute to new perspectives on labour studies; to exchange ideas, discuss current debates and finally to rethink labour and social history. The challenge of the seminar is to understand the complex interconnections between class, culture, gender, labour spheres, union organizations, social protests, etc.
Objectives
To contribute from an interdisciplinary perspective to the comprehension of social and historical concepts of labour from a non-euro Atlantic perspective; understand the dynamics of labour connections and organizations; to review local social movements and their history in the light of global history; and analyse the impacts that these issues have on political and economic changes.
To exchange theoretical and methodological perspectives on local and global issues.
To analyse labour structures and modes of production considering gender, natural resource management, state action, migration and popular culture.
To explore changes and challenges in the workers’ ways of life.
To publish a book with the proceedings of the seminar.
Programme
The seminar will last three days with Bolivian, Latin American, European and North American researchers. The seminar will be open to students and to a general public. During the seminar’s first day, Marcel van der Linden will give the keynote lecture. The three main themes of the conference are:
Labour: state of the art;
Gender and work in the urban sphere; and
Work on time of changes.
http://socialhistory.org/en/events/seminar-changing-worlds-work-between-local-and-global