Final Program 2015 Conference International Association of Labour History Institutions

The final programme of the 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) has been released, see the attached document (in PDF).

The programme in brief:

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
From 16:00: Registration and Reception

Thursday, 17 September 2015
General Assembly
IALHI Projects
Members' Presentations

Friday, 18 September 2015
Theme Day:
Global Connections in Labour History: Collecting and Discovering Migrant Workers' Heritage

Saturday, 19 September 2015
Excursion

TOC: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv Newsletter 4/2015

Vor 90 Jahren: Die Erste Arbeiterolympiade

Veranstaltungen und Kooperationen des Schweizerischen Sozialarchivs

Andreas Schwab ist Gast im Sozialarchiv 2015

Veranstaltungsreihe „Wege zum Glück? – Utopien und alternative Lebensformen gestern und heute“

27. August 2015, 19.00 Uhr:
Utopien revisited – im Schnellgang durch 200 Jahre anderes Leben

12. September 2015, 14.30 Uhr:
Freiheit im Freidorf? Ein genossenschaftliches Pionierprojekt auf dem Prüfstand

CFP: Labour (dis)united. Disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Labour (dis)united. Disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement”

Monday 4 April 2016, People's History Museum, Manchester

The conference, organised by the Centre for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW, Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University), is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and the Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA).

The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender

Please note the following recently published book, available open access on the web, which touches a variety of labour issues:
 
Norbert Götz (ed.). The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender. Södertörn Academic Studies 60.
Huddinge: Södertörn University, 2014.
 

TSEG Special Issue on 'Great Divergence'

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis

Jrg. 12 (2015) nummer 2 - Inhoudsopgave

Special issue:
Escaping the Great Divergence?
A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries's Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth
Guest-editor Eric Vanhaute

Introduction

Escaping the Great Divergence? A discussion about and in response to Peer Vries's Escaping poverty. The origins of modern economic growth. An introduction
Eric Vanhaute

Dream Factories

After the 2nd World War, two different models of society developed in the Nordic and Baltic countries, which were divided by the Cold War: the Nordic welfare states under Social Democratic governments and the Baltic socialist republics under Soviet occupation. Industrial production was the economic foundation for the welfare states and the socialist countries. In spite of ideological and national differences through the two shores of the Baltic Sea went through radical industrialization and modernization process in post-war high-industrial age.

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