Dates: 22-23 October 2026

Location: Somerville College, Oxford (Margaret Thatcher Centre)

Convenors: Damiano Bardelli (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford) and Matilde Cazzola (DiSCi, Bologna and mpilhlt), with Joanna Innes (Faculty of History Oxford)

THURSDAY, 22 October

13:30 Welcome and Introduction

14:00 Session 1 – Rural Poverty

Joanna Innes (University of Oxford): The Invention of Rural Poverty in England, from 1760

How important has socialism been to adult education? For most of history, adult education – structured learning, involving organised study and usually teaching – was restricted largely to social and religious elites. During the nineteenth century, however, as the industrial revolution tore apart the bonds of ‘traditional’ economies and societies, propelled migrants to towns and foreign lands, and demanded mastery of new skills, new popular democratic movements arose – most profoundly, the socialist movement.

Haledon, New Jersey - The Annual Labor Day Parade, co-sponsored by the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark and the Borough of Haledon, is scheduled for Sunday, September 6th, 2026.  The opening ceremony begins at the Museum at 10:30AM.  Step-off at the Museum is at 11:00AM, rain or shine.

This year’s Labor Day Parade honors Grand Marshals Kevin Jarvis, Acting Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development and Brian Jackson, President, Passaic County Building & Construction Trades Council.

by Marc Loriol

Pourquoi les Français travaillent-ils ? Pour quelles raisons s’investissent-ils dans leur activité professionnelle ou, au contraire, cherchent-ils à s’en détacher ? Quelle place le travail occupe-t-il dans leur existence et comment cette place a-t-elle évolué au fil du temps ? Ces questions mettent en évidence la complexité et l’ambivalence du rapport au travail. Une même personne peut, au cours d’un entretien, exprimer à la fois un fort attachement à son métier, le souhait d’en changer ou le refus de voir ses enfants exercer la même profession.

Technological change has produced hopes of growth and expectations of unemployment in the history of capitalism. The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into production processes in industry and services across the world economy has given this issue renewed urgency today. Certain dominant firms present AI as the necessary instrument for the reorganisation and automation of labour processes and the replacement of unnecessary jobs. Some economic historians predict rapid change and ‘technological traps’ comparable to the 1960s, 1930s, 1880s, and 1830s.

by Plataforma abierta "Al Alba"

Construido a partir de recuerdos y testimonios directos de sobrevivientes, abogados, familiares y luchadores antifascistas de la época, este libro narra la historia de los cuatro últimos consejos de guerra de la dictadura «franco/fascista» contra un grupo de resistentes. Aquellos procesos judiciales culminaron en los fusilamientos ejecutados el 27 de septiembre de 1975 en instalaciones del ejército español.

Il y a 30 ans, Jacques Chevallier débutait ainsi son article consacré à l’anniversaire du statut de la Fonction publique. « Cinquante ans après, le statut est devenu un élément constitutif du système français de fonction publique.

A decade after Nicole Seymour's chapter “Trans Ecology and the Transgender Road Narrative” in The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, following Susan Stryker’s foreword to the 2020 book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature, and after TSQ: Transge