While much of this historiography has focused on liberal democracies, less attention has been given to how concepts of risk operated in state socialist contexts. Building on recent studies in the history of medicine and health, we invite scholars to join a working group examining risk, health, and medicine under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. To what extent did state socialist regimes recognize certain health and medical issues as ‘governable’ through risk? What kinds of practices and ideas emerged in response?

International Review of Social History, Volumne 69 Issue 2:

To the Articles: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-…

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.

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.

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

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.

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 winner’s prize will consist of: