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CfP: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today (deadline 30 gennaio 2026)
University of Warwick, 26-27 June 2026 The workshop entitled “Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History Today” will seek to bring together historians of labour to collectively reflect on a large historiographical shift that has taken place over the last two decades, from the social history of labour (in national contexts) to global and…
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Letture: Mermaids in History. Engendering Maritime Labour and Business History, 1700–1900, a cura di Erica Mezzoli
Questo volume si propone di defamiliarizzare la storia marittima economica e sociale dell’Europa e del Nord America, svelando il ruolo delle donne e i loro molteplici contributi nello spazio economico marittimo a predominanza maschile durante la modernità capitalista industriale. Mettendo in discussione il paradigma delle “sfere separate”, i capitoli di questo volume evidenziano l’intricata e…
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CfP: The Past & Present of Work: Histories of Labor and Its Place in Business (deadline 15 dicembre 2025)
6th Biennial Richard Robinson Business History WorkshopPortland State University, Portland ORApril 30–May 2, 2026 Ever since Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations described labor as “the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things,” economic thinkers have been theorizing the connection between business and the productive forces necessary for its operation.…
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2-year Predoctoral position in Economic History at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
Come work with us! 2-year Predoctoral position in Economic History at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development Salary: £31,637 – £36,130 per annum depending on experience Details and application link here:
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CfP: Cyborg Workers 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Automated Labour – The Social and Environmental Costs of Big Tech (deadline 1 novembre 2024)
International Conference at the European Trade Union Institute Brussels, Belgium, February 13 and 14, 2025 With a keynote lecture by Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire) Contact Information Richard A. Bachmann (North America and Global South Contact): ribachm@umich.edMichele Santoro (Europe Contact): santoromichele7047@gmail.com In recent years, the Big Tech industry has garnered increasing attention as a panacea…
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CfP: WEHC 2025 Session: “Going back to the source: The Firm and the historical development of women’s diverse labour market position, 19th and 20th centuries”
Organizers: dr. Corinne Boter (Utrecht University); Prof. Joyce Burnette (Wabash College), dr. Selin Dilli (Utrecht University) Over the past decades, historical research on women’s labour has expanded drastically (Merouani and Perrin 2022), yet topics such as the extend of the gender wage gap (Humphries and Weisdorf 2015), the development of women’s wage work and entrepreneurship…
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CfP: Labour History special issue on “Gendered labour history in Europe and beyond” (deadline 25 luglio 2024)
The Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invite submissions for a special issue of Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/r/labourhistory) to be published in Nov. 2025. Labour History is an Australian-based journal, keen to bring research from the ELHN to an international English-language readership (primarily…
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Letture: Le Regie Ferriere di Mongiana, di Elia Fiorenza
Il complesso siderurgico di Mongiana, in Calabria, rappresenta un esempio emblematico dell’evoluzione industriale italiana. Originariamente con produzione limitata e metodi arcaici, il polo subì significative trasformazioni, grazie all’adozione di tecniche praticate nell’Europa centrale. Questo portò ad rendere efficiente l’uso degli altiforni e alla razionalizzazione produttiva. Durante il dominio francese, il complesso vide ulteriori miglioramenti tecnologici…
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Assegno di ricerca ‘Lavoro, luoghi di lavoro e mobilità a Urbino e Pesaro in età preindustriale: una prospettiva di genere’ (deadline 20 gennaio 2024)
L’Università di Urbino Carlo Bo ha annunciato l’apertura di un assegno di ricerca di un anno, con possibilità di rinnovo, sul tema affascinante e di grande rilevanza storica e sociale: “Lavoro, luoghi di lavoro e mobilità a Urbino e Pesaro in età preindustriale: una prospettiva di genere” – “Work, Workplaces and Mobility in Preindustrial Urbino…
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CfP: “Exposing and punishing “forgery”: the policing of professions in the early modern era (15th-18th centuries)” (deadline 2 febbraio 2024)
September 12-13, 2024, Paris, Ehess-Université Paris-Ouest The aim of this conference is to examine the uses of the notion of ‘forgery’ in policing any given trade or economic activity in the early modern town and/or its peripheries. In other words, to question whether there existed one or more models of such suitable policing through the…
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