Containerisation and Dock Labour since the 1960s: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work, Security, and Intermodal Transport in an Uncertain Setting
Workshop in Bielefeld (Germany), 12 to 14 September 2024
Exploring Gender, Human Capital, and Labour Intersections in Economic History
Winter School at the University of Tübingen, 09 - 11 October 2024
Middlemen in the work relationship in slave and post-slave societies from the 15th century to the present day (Quadrilingual)
Slaveries and Post-Slaveries » Journal
This issue examines the long-term situation of Middlemen, both under slavery and in the post-slavery era. Enslaved themselves, overseers, and occasionally even recruiters of workers after the abolition of slavery, these intermediaries in the chain of command of coerced labor were essential to the smooth functioning of the slave and post-slave system. What role did they play? Were they agents of coercion or of worker protection?
Materiality of Migration in the Indian Ocean & Global Asia: Artifacts, Self-Fashioning, Belonging
Doha/Qatar, 18 to 19 September 2024 or Davis/California, 16 December 2024
This conference aims to uncover the unwritten histories of migration through the material culture that people most valued and brought with them as they traversed the space of the Indian Ocean world and beyond. We invite papers about the flow of peoples in relation to their belongings across the Indian Ocean and Asiatic geographies.
Winter School: In-between - Intermediaries and Intermediate Places in Global Labour - Past & Present
New Delhi/India, 17 to 21 February 2025
Founders and Shapers of Labour Law. National and Transnational Perspectives
International Conference of the Network Labour Law History from a Global Perspective, Frankfurt am Main, 3-4 September 2024
Labour History Review (Volume 89.2)
Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW, a highly regarded publication that is essential reading for those working in and researching social and political history, and the working lives and politics of 'ordinary' people.
CfA Gendered labour history in Europe and beyond
Call for Articles for the special issue “Gendered labour history in Europe and beyond”
The Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invite submissions for a special issue of Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History to be published in Nov. 2025.
Basic book on syndicalism
In the fall of 2021, the Umeå Local of SAC published Swedish syndicalism as a simple PDF file. In 2024, SAC releases the text as a printed book, ebook and audio book in collaboration with Federativ Publishing House. The text has been refined before printing and SAC’s central committee has added a preface.
L’industrie textile en France : une affaire d’État ? (milieu XVIIe -XXIe siècle) (French)
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine/France, 23-24 January 2025
Dans le cadre de l’exposition Made in France, une histoire du textile qui se déroulera du 16 octobre 2024 au 25 janvier 2025, les Archives nationales organisent un colloque de clôture centré sur le rôle joué par l’État dans l’encadrement et le soutien de l’industrie textile, de Colbert à nos jours.