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CfP: Les frontières du travail / The boundaries of work (deadline 31 dicembre 2023)
Defining the constituent elements of work in ancient societies is a challenge for historians, as they generally do not correspond to contemporary conceptions of the professional world, which are often ill-suited to the semantic richness and fluidity of the categories in use in the ancient and medieval worlds. It is striking, however, that the notion…
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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: “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: Workshop “Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory” (deadline 31 maggio 2023)
Il 29 e 30 agosto 2023 si terrà a Vác, in Ungheria, nei pressi di Budapest, il workshop internazionale “Identità etniche e memoria industriale”. Il passato industriale è stato fonte di orgoglio nazionale e nostalgia locale. Dall’emergere dell’archeologia industriale dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, le entità spaziali e sociali soggette al boom e al declino…
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