Worlds of Related Coercions in Work
The COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work” (WORCK) calls for a radical change of perspective in labour history. It links the stories of work and production with those of violence, expropriation, and marginalisation. By studying the persistence and transformations of coercion and bondage across gender orders, geographic regions and historical eras, WORCK shifts the focus of labour history: from the male-breadwinner model and the free wage labourer or the capitalist mode of production to the understanding of the mechanisms of coercion in all work relations throughout history; from the analytical framework of the modern West to radical historicisation that helps reconceptualising labour history as a specific approach to social history and to link the study of the past with current debates on social inequalities and the flexibilisation and precarisation of work worldwide.
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Recent News
WORCK Training School 2: Programming Labour History. Digital Methods for Social and Labour Historians (Call for Applications)
Bielefeld University, Germany 12–15 February 2024 Since 2019, the COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK)” (CA18205) has been bringing together scholars from all over Europe and beyond scholars working on labour [...]
CfA: Dépendance économique / Wirtschaftliche Dependenz (French/German)
Mit dem Begriff der wirtschaftlichen Dependenz wurden in den 1960er Jahren die ungleichen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen Industrieländern und ehemals kolonialisierten Ländern angeprangert [1]. Das Konzept der Dependenz stand im Mittelpunkt von in Lateinamerika entwickelten Theorien [...]
global dis:connect summer school 2023: Sea of absence? Globalisation, the Mediterranean and beyond
Concept and organisation by Hanni Geiger and Tom Menger, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU, Munich. Munich, 24-27 July 2023 The global dis:connect Research Centre invites MA, doctoral students and creative professionals in [...]
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Knowledge and Power: The Languages of Academia
Italian By Christian De Vito (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies) This text was originally written 2019 in Italian, and published under the title Sapere e potere: le lingue dell’accademia [...]