Latest Issue of International Review of Social History
International Review of Social History, Volumne 69 Issue 2:
To the Articles: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-…
Streaming Films about Work and Industry in the Early Twentieth Century Available
The Moving Past website creates the opportunity to see what was being seen in the 1920s, with a focus on work and industry. The fifteen films available on the website are from 4 to 15 minutes long and present varying types of workplaces and industry. They were made by two government sponsored institutions, the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, which operated from 1917 to 1934 and the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, was which was created in 1918 and operated until the late 1930s.
Residue and oblivion: the manufacture of toxic legacies. Cross-reflections based on the exemplary case of asbestos. 20th to 21st centuries
Please find attached the call for papers for the international conference ‘ Residue and oblivion: the manufacture of toxic legacies. Cross-reflections based on the exemplary case of asbestos. 20th - 21st centuries’, to be held on 23 and 24 June 2025 in Grenoble.
Labour & Empire seminar series 2024-2025
Organised by the Labour & Empire Working Group of the European Labour History Network - labourempire.elhn@gmail.com
Online, All the events at 4-5:30pm GMT
Register here to receive the Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ds547d7k
11 December Seminar
Zaen Alkazi
Workers’ Experiences. Lives, bodies, struggles. A digital exhibition
Curated by Gilles Guiheux (Université Paris Cité) and Eric Florence (Université de Liège), this digital exhibition “is the fruit of the collective work of historians and sociologists as part of the Eurasemploi program directed by Bernard Thomann (Inalco) and funded by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR). The research focused on the workers' experience of precariousness in Japan, France and Belgium during the Trente Glorieuses period, on the one hand, and on China from the 1980s to the present day, on the other.
Labour History Review essay prize 2025
Entries are invited for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize for 2025. The deadline for entries is 31 March 2025, and details are set out below.
The editors of Labour History Review established this essay prize with the purpose of encouraging a high standard of scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in the United Kingdom and abroad.
The winner’s prize will consist of:
New publication: Les dockers du Havre, de la révolution à nos jours (French)
Les dockers du Havre, de la révolution à nos jours
Mont-Saint-Aignan, PURH, 2024
ISBN 9791024017952
L'adieu au plomb. La Fédération suisse des typographes et le changement technique (1945-1980) (French)
by Frédéric Deshusses
Intitulé L'adieu au plomb: la Fédération suisse des typographes et le changement technique (1945-1980), cet ouvrage est issu d'une recherche dans les archives centrales de la Fédération suisse des typographes, mais aussi sur des fonds individuels de typographes syndiqués.