TPetrik, Author at Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu WORCK represents a radical change of perspective on labour history Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:27:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://worck.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-Logo-gros-32x32.png TPetrik, Author at Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu 32 32 Call for Abstracts: “Punish and Rehabilitate through Work: Institutions, Discourses, and Agency in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe at the End of the 19th and in the First Half of the 20th Century” (Prague) https://worck.eu/2024/03/11/call-for-abstracts-punish-and-rehabilitate-through-work-institutions-discourses-and-agency-in-central-eastern-and-western-europe-at-the-end-of-the-19th-and-in-the-first-half-of-the-20th-centur/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:27:01 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5441 13-15 November 2024 Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO German Historical Institute Warsaw Faculty of Humanities, Charles University Deadline for Applications: 4 April 2024 Workhouse, house of correction, reformatory, forced labour colony, disciplinary labour camp, etc. – these are only a few [...]

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]]> New Publication: “Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art “ https://worck.eu/2024/01/25/new-publication-coercion-and-wage-labour-exploring-work-relations-through-history-and-art/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:54:38 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5431 We are pleased to announce the publication of the edited volume "Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art", edited by Anamarija Batista, Viola Müller and Corinna Peres. Coercion and Wage Labour presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. [...]

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]]> Call for Sessions and Papers on Labour and Working Class Studies: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) https://worck.eu/2024/01/17/call-for-sessions-and-papers-on-labour-and-working-class-studies-european-social-science-history-conference-esshc/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:12:06 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5425 Call for Sessions and Papers on Labour and Working Class Studies Fifteenth European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) Leiden, the Netherlands 26–29 March 2025 Deadline: 15 April 2024 On 26–29 March 2025, the 15th European Social Science History Conference will take place at Leiden University in Leiden (the Netherlands) – https://esshc.socialhistory.org/. The ESSHC brings [...]

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]]> New Publication: “Exploring Labor Coercion through Im/mobility and the Environment” https://worck.eu/2024/01/16/new-publication-exploring-labor-coercion-through-im-mobility-and-the-environment/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:06:38 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5422 We are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Exploring Labor Coercion through Im/mobility and the Environment (18th-20th centuries)" in the Journal Labor History. edited by Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid, and Müge Özbek. Labour migrations have been a major topic of discussion for migration scholars along the 20th century. In the first decade [...]

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]]> Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Labor History, 1500-Present (Brown University) https://worck.eu/2024/01/15/call-for-applications-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-labor-history-1500-present-brown-university/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:25:51 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5420 Deadline: 15 February 2024 The Department of History at Brown University invites applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Labor History, 1500–Present. Open to any geography, but with a preference for scholarship focused outside the US and Europe. Applicant should have investments in Labor History as a distinct subfield within the discipline. The PhD, [...]

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]]> Call for Articles: “Counting Work and Workers in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa” (Special Issue) https://worck.eu/2023/12/27/call-for-articles-counting-work-and-workers-in-colonial-and-post-colonial-africa-special-issue/ Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:20:59 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5412 CALL FOR ARTICLES – SPECIAL ISSUE International Labor and Working-Class History “Counting Work and Workers in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa” Deadline: 9 January 2024 Editors: Chikouna Cissé, Annick Lacroix, Baptiste Mollard, Laure Piguet, Léa Renard This project stems from the collective discussions initiated by the French ANR program “Cocole - Compter aux colonies” coordinated [...]

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]]> CfA: 3 Doctoral fellows in ERC project “CATTLEFRONTIERS” (Ghent University) https://worck.eu/2023/12/12/cfa-3-doctoral-fellows-in-erc-project-cattlefrontiers-ghent-university/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:23:55 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5408 Deadline: 18 December 2023 The History Department at Ghent University is recruiting 3 doctoral fellows for the ERC Starting Grant Project ‘CATTLEFRONTIERS – (Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s’ (2023-2028), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Samuël Coghe. CATTLEFRONTIERS explores how colonialism, global capitalism and science transformed cattle production [...]

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]]> In the Aftermath of Disaster: Death, Destruction, and the Emergence of a new Precariat (Virtual Mobility Grant) https://worck.eu/2023/11/30/in-the-aftermath-of-disaster-death-destruction-and-the-emergence-of-a-new-precariat-virtual-mobility-grant/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:22:55 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5388 This photo story collection was curated after the devastating earthquake that struck a significant area in Syria and Turkey on February 6, 2023. The project aimed to lend an ear to the narratives of those who survived the earthquake and draw attention to the emerging new precarity in the aftermath of the disaster. The [...]

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]]> Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Digital Humanities (CEU Vienna) https://worck.eu/2023/11/28/call-for-applications-assistant-professor-of-historical-studies-and-digital-humanities-ceu-vienna/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:27:10 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5392 Assistant Professor of Historical Studies and Digital Humanities (f/m/d) Department of Historical Studies, Central European University Starting date: 1 September 2024 Application deadline: 31 January 2024 Location: Vienna Full- Or Part-Time: Full-time The Department of Historical Studies at Central European University invites applications for an Assistant Professorship position in Historical Studies and Digital Humanities. [...]

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]]> Deadline extended: WORCK Training School 2: Programming Labour History. Digital Methods for Social and Labour Historians https://worck.eu/2023/10/10/deadline-extended-worck-training-school-2-programming-labour-history-digital-methods-for-social-and-labour-historians/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:58:35 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5360 Bielefeld University, Germany 12–15 February 2024 Update: The deadline for applications has been extended to 20 October 2023. 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 and coercion in different periods and regions to [...]

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