Call for papers: IRSH, Special Issue 22, 2014: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America)

Editors: Chitra Joshi, Jan-Georg Deutsch, and Stefano Bellucci

"The omnipresent porter has become almost invisible - part of the scenery. History has relegated him or her to the background - to the 'enormous condescension of posterity' - like E.P. Thompson's English croppers, hand-loom weavers, and artisans."[1]

It may be of interest to readers of this list that History Workshop Online has recently posted an online exhibition of material from the History Workshop archives held at Bishopsgate Institute.

As of 19 November 2012, Henk Wals will be the new director of the International Institute of Social History. Henk Wals will succeed Erik-Jan Zürcher, who stepped down earlier.

Henk Wals has been deputy director of the IISH from 1993 until 2004. He studied Social and Economic History at the University of Amsterdam and entered employment at the IISH in 1982. In 2000, he gained his PhD with a study on survival strategies of construction workers in Amsterdam during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Call for papers: international symposium "The League of Nations and its work on social issues"
Geneva, 31 October - 1 November 2013

"Zum Wohl unserer Landsleute in der Schweiz und zur Ehre unseres Vaterlandes"

Die Jahresberichte der deutschen Hilfsvereine

Im Zuge der Rekatalogisierung der Berichtsliteratur sind wir auf eine Reihe von interessanten Beständen gestossen, darunter auch rund zehn Schachteln mit Jahresberichten verschiedener deutscher Hilfsvereine in der Schweiz (K 492, K 492 b, K 492 Z) und im Ausland (K 492 a).

In recent years the field of labour history has expanded its scope of
research from an almost exclusive focus on industrial, blue-collar,
unionized, male labourers to include workers’ multiple, overlapping
identities as well as concepts like work, occupational categories, and
labour relations in a broader and gendered perspective. To this end, this
mini-symposium has two related objectives. The first aim is to highlight
the work of artisans, craftsmen, labourers, and the concomitant labour

Date: 29 November 2012
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Panel, organized at the African Studies Association, 55th Annual Meeting, 29 November - 1 December 2012 in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Date: 3 December 2012 to 5 December 2012
Location: La Paz, Bolivia

At times, it may seem that our bread-earning labour and our life styles are local and national, but what we produce is commercialized in foreign markets, and what we consume in our local fiestas is produced overseas. We need to go beyond what is local and national to understand the broader and global aspect in the history of labour relationships and tele-connections between labour in spatial terms.

We write with exciting news of the takeoff of LaborOnline, a new blog on
the LAWCHA website that will deepen and extend the content of LAWCHA's
flagship journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
Piloted by new Associate Editor Rosemary Feurer--and assisted by an
all-star cast of designated blog contributors--LaborOnline will feature
commentary on a host of issues, contemporary and historical, as well as
"instant" dialogue and debate among readers and authors about the contents
of the print journal.

Cet ouvrage offre un choix de vingt-deux des multiples travaux d’histoire contemporaine
de Marc Vuilleumier. Disséminés jusque-là dans différents supports éditoriaux,
ces articles sont consacrés à l’histoire du mouvement ouvrier et du socialisme
en Suisse, de la première Internationale à 1960. Chacun d’eux est précédé d’une introduction
de l’auteur qui précise les circonstances de son élaboration et indique, le cas
échéant, le jugement rétrospectif de l’historien sur son propos ou les directions nouvelles
prises depuis lors par l’historiographie.