In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev hailed the development of a "world socialist system," which he defined as "a social, economic, and political community of free, sovereign nations [. . .] united by common interests and goals, by the close ties of international socialist solidarity." This day-long workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of early-career scholars to examine the socialist system from a global and transnational perspective.

Il lavoro, le guerre
Europa 1914-’18 / 1939-’45

Adalberto Minucci
Quando a Torino c’era la FIAT

Lunedi’ 15 Dicembre 2014 ore 16.45

Sala Colonne
Piazza Palazzo di Città, 1
Torino

Il Sindaco di Torino Piero Fassino
il Presidente del Consiglio Comunale Giovanni Porcino
Il Presidente dell’Associazione tra i Consiglieri Comunali
già componenti il Consiglio Comunale di Torino
Giancarlo Quagliotti
sono lieti di invitare la S.V.
alla presentazione del libro

THE HIDDEN ABODES OF PRODUCTION

LABOUR, COMMODITIES AND REPERTOIRES OF EVALUATION IN THE EUROPEAN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES

Indifference towards any specific kind of labour presupposes a very developed totality of real kinds of labour, of which no single one is any longer predominant. As a rule, the most general abstractions arise only in the midst of the richest possible concrete development, where one thing appears as common to many, to all. – Karl Marx

1. Report on the International Conference “Slavery and Forced Labour in 16th to 19th Century Spain and Hispanic America” by Victoria López Barahona and Álvaro París Martín
2. Grupo Taller de Historia Social – Social History Working Group (Madrid) – A collective interview with the members of the group
3. Zapruder World – A new project and on-line journal
4. Social History Worldwide – Panels at the next ICHS Congress, Jinan, August 2015
5. Call for papers

Gantoise 150 - 101 indianenverhalen

Het is zover: het boek Gantoise 105 - 101 indianenverhalen dat Amsab-onderzoekster Martine Vermandere schreef over de 150-jarige geschiedenis van KAA Gent, is vanaf nu verkrijgbaar.

Boekvoorstelling in de Ghelamco Arena

Op donderdag 27 november stelden we in de Ghelamco Arena het boek Gantoise 105 - 101 indianenverhalen voor. Een heel mooie avond met een fantastische opkomst. Bekijk hier een fotoreportage van Bart Dewaele.

Boek Gantoise 150 in de media

Seminarios

Dear Colleague

we write to advise that our site www.abmo.it has been completely updated with the biographies and documentary material published in the fifth volume of the series Individual and collective biographies of the Italian working-class movement. It is now possible to consult 1699 biographies, 1087 photos, 2982 individual archives and 93 literary works, all completely digitalised.

On Thursday 4 December Rana Behal will present his book:

One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam

The book presents a hundred-year history of tea plantations in the Assam (Brahmaputra) Valley during British colonial rule in India. It explores a world where more than two million migrantlabourers worked under conditions of indentured servitude in these tea plantations, producing tea for an increasingly profitable global market.

Current news
November 2014

2015 Eric Fry Labour History Scholarship

The closing date for applications for this scholarship is now the end of March each year. It is open to honours and postgraduate students who intend using collections in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre in their research. 

Database launch