6th European Labour History Network Conference
Barcelona 4-6 September 2026
Session 40:
Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women’s Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities (18th–20th Century)
The decades following World War II saw major demographic shifts in Europe due to forced displacements, decolonization, labor migration, and rural-to-urban movement. These flows—sometimes encouraged by european states to support reconstruction and modernization—reshaped the social and spatial fabric of cities, generating urgent housing and infrastructure demands.
This panel offers to bring together historians and social scientists studying modern urban sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries around the following theme: is there a common sexual culture in large cities of the late modern and contemporary eras, and what role do inter-urban circulations and networks play in its development?
Guelmim/Morocco
Ce colloque se propose d’explorer de manière approfondie les évolutions concrètes induites par l’intelligence artificielle dans le management : de l’automatisation des tâches décisionnelles à l’émergence de nouvelles formes de collaboration homme-machine, en passant par la personnalisation de l’expérience employé et client. Comment les structures organisationnelles s’adaptent-elles à cette nouvelle donne ? Quels sont les impacts sur les rôles et les compétences des managers ?
Berlin/Germany
Organizers
The conference is organized by the IG Metall and the working group “Trade Union History”, part of the joint project “Contemporary Trade Union History” of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Organization committee: Knud Andresen (Hamburg), Chaja Boebel (Berlin), Marcel Bois (Hamburg), Alexandra Jaeger (Bonn), Michaela Kuhnhenne (Düsseldorf), Jörg Neuheiser (Pittsburgh)
