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CfP: “The consuming countryside. Rural material living standards, consumption patterns, and economic growth, 17th-19th centuries” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
Call for papers for the international workshop We are excited to announce the “The consuming countryside” -workshop, which will take place at 15-16 December 2023 at the University of Antwerp. We will discuss one of the most striking paradoxes of the late early modern period: how did rural households of almost all social strata improve…
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CfP: “Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1990” (deadline 30 settembre 2023)
Call for papers of the working group “Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East-Europe”5th ELHN Conference 11-13 June 2024 in Uppsala The political regime changes of 1989/90 and the rapid restructuring of the planned economies, also referred to as “shock therapy” in the 1990s radically transformed not only the political, economic and social relations…
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CfP: “Participation at Work: The History of Economic and Industrial Democracy” (deadline 26 settembre 2023)
5th ELHN Conference – European Labour History NetworkProvisional Working Group: Economic and Industrial Democracy, June 11–13, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden After years of silence, debates about the democratization of the economy are currently undergoing a significant resurgence in academic research and the broader public. Against the backdrop of burgeoning populist movements and a widely observed decline…
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CfP: “Women of the Waterfront. Gendering ports, careers, relations and (everyday) life trajectories in Modern times” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
The workshop aims to highlight the modalities through which gender (dis)affiliation shaped or influenced labour and/or business cultures, the relations between sexes, classes, generations, nationalities/‘races’ or other kinds of belonging, and, finally, everyday life patterns in (imperial/colonial) European port/emporium cities in Modern times (19th–20th centuries). The workshop proceedings in English and Italian will be published…
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CfP ELHN Working Group Maritime Labour History (deadline 6 settembre 2023)
The Maritime Labour History Working Group launches a Call for Papers aimed to send a proposal for panels at the Fifth ELHN Conference which will take place in Uppsala on 11-13 June 2024. In this occasion, we propose to have at least four sessions, two of them in collaboration with other ELHN working groups. ELHN…
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CfP Oxford Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History 2023-2024 (deadline 5 settembre 2023)
The University of Oxford programme for Economic and Social History and Nuffield College, Oxford, are inviting applications to present papers for the 2023-2024 round of the Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History. The seminar series is an engaging forum granting graduate students from ac6ross the globe the chance to receive helpful feedback and inflame…
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CfP: “Labour, gender and social mobility during the industrialization” (deadline 10 settembre 2023)
In studies of social mobility, the industrialization debate maintains that in most European countries the pre-industrial period was relatively stable due to the social stratification based on blood lines and family inheritance, but that industrialization created an open society, in which social mobility was based on acquired characteristics such as education and work. However, recently…
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CfP: “La contabilità agraria in area italiana tra età moderna e contemporanea (XVIII-XX sec.)” (deadline 20 dicembre 2023)
L’analisi della contabilità agricola – ossia il modo in cui i proprietari terrieri, gli affittuari e i loro dipendenti tenevano la contabilità delle loro proprietà – è un tema cruciale da una parte per comprendere, tramite l’analisi dei documenti contabili superstiti, come avveniva la gestione delle aziende agrarie, dall’altra per comprendere come questi attori intendessero…
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CfP: Journal of Government and Economics, “Government and Economic Development in History” (deadline 30 gennaio 2024)
The Journal of Government and Economics is pleased to announce a special issue on Government and Economic Development in History. This special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research in economic history and political economy that explores the various ways in which government interventions and policies have shaped economic development throughout history. Professor Stephen Broadberry…
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CfP: ASSI Meeting 2023, “Doing business between globalisations” (deadline 15 settembre 2023)
University of Florence, Campus of Social Sciences, 15-16 December 2023 Phases of global integration and interdependence – characterised by the acceleration of exchanges, trade flows, and transfer of goods, people, and information – represent a long-term configuration of the world economy. Many scholars mostly outline the acceleration of this process during the last two centuries…
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