Public Outreach Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK

Solidarity with those affected by the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

TPetrik — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 17:33:19 +0000

In the past few days, thousands and thousands of people in Turkey and Syria have lived through unimaginable pain. We mourn with all colleagues and friends in the areas affected by the earthquakes, and would like to express our condolences to all those who have lost loved ones. Many people have lost their families [...]

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Sites and Fields of Coercion: Working Group 2 introduces itself (Video)

TPetrik — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:40:32 +0000

Members of Working Group 2 (Sites and Fields of Coercion) have contributed to the production of this video that explains to the a wider public the notion at the centre of the empirical research ongoing in their working group. The video experiments with a format that tries to explain, through the use of [...]

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Labour History & Memory in the Urban Space: The Case of Warsaw

mrehan — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:42:54 +0000

In the framework of the WORCK Training School “Rewriting Labour History. Perspectives from the Globe”, Jakub Štofaník received a Virtual Mobility Grant aimed at bringing together international doctoral students working on the topic of coercion in labour history, as well as the broader academic public, and to reflect on the representation of labour history [...]

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Lecture: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto – Academic Work in Non-Academic Circumstances (Warsaw)

TPetrik — Fri, 13 May 2022 09:44:44 +0000

Prof. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto - Academic Work in Non-Academic Circumstances The lecture will take place at the Institute of History, on 24 May at 6 pm, in English (questions might be asked also in Polish) The underground archive of [...]

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Online-Talk: Work at the Crossroads

TPetrik — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:04:58 +0000

Next week, the Action Chair of our COST Action, Juliane Schiel (University of Vienna) will participate in the Online-Talk Work at the Crossroads, which is the kick-off talk introducing The Future of Work, an international conference focusing on changes and future developments in labour markets, education and labour relations. The discussion will bring together three perspectives, analysing past, [...]

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Radio Show with Juliane Schiel: Mediterranean Slave Trade (Ö1 Betrifft: Geschichte)

TPetrik — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:59:57 +0000

Last week, our Action Chair Juliane Schiel (University of Vienna) was guest on "Betrifft: Geschichte", a show by the Austrian radio station Ö1. The show aims to make history available to a broad public audience by inviting a different expert each week to narrate an episode based on their research. Juliane Schiel spoke about the [...]

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Interview with Juliane Schiel: “Work always contains coercion”

TPetrik — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:36:03 +0000

In an Interview with the University of Vienna's magazine "uni:view", our Action Chair Juliane Schiel talks about the relation between labour and coercion, her own research on labour and gender in 15th-century Venice, and introduces a public audience to our COST Action. Moreover, she takes part in discussing the University's "Question of the Semester", [...]

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New Data Story: Claiming a Runaway Slave in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Samuel Johannes (1754)

TPetrik — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:28:55 +0000

The WORCK publication platform documents the ongoing working and discussion process as well as collaborative research results and publications of our Working Groups. The platform enables mutual exchange, collaboration and comparison within and beyond the scientific network of WORCK – on the level of empirical tradition (texts, images, monuments), statistical material and geodata as [...]

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Call for Papers: Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Labour Relations Through History and Art

TPetrik — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:51:31 +0000

Forthcoming Publication "Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Labour Relations Through History and Art" (Editors: Anamarija Batista, Corinna Peres & Viola Müller) Coercion in work is a universal human experience that can be found in manifold forms of labour relations, both contemporary and historical. The analysis of coercive mechanisms in labour relations draws on various disciplinary [...]

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New Data Story: Entangled Dependencies: The Case of the Runaway Domestic Worker Emine in Late Ottoman Istanbul (1910)

TPetrik — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:29:27 +0000

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