Uncategorized Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu/category/uncategorized/ 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 Uncategorized Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu/category/uncategorized/ 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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]]> 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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]]> 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 Papers: “Labour & Coercion” at the 5th ELHN Conference https://worck.eu/2023/06/08/call-for-papers-labour-coercion-at-the-5th-elhn-conference/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:22:47 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5146 Uppsala, 11–13 June 2024 Deadline: 20 August 2023 ELHN’s “Labour & Coercion” working group, currently known as COST Action WORCK, invites proposals for papers for the fifth European Labour History Network conference. The event takes place from 11–13 June 2024 in Uppsala, Sweden, and is organised by the Swedish Labour Movement’s Archives and Library. [...]

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]]> New Calls for Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) and Virtual Mobility (VM) Grants https://worck.eu/2023/03/08/new-calls-for-short-term-scientific-mission-stsm-and-virtual-mobility-vm-grants/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 11:26:17 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5093 We are happy to announce that one can now apply for STSMs (Short Term Scientific Mission) and Virtual Mobility Grants (VMs) for Grant Period 4! The WORCK Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) are Mobility and Collaboration Grants aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers within the COST Action. [...]

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]]> 4 Post-Doc Fellowships in the Global History and Governance Program – Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli https://worck.eu/2023/01/06/4-post-doc-fellowships-in-the-global-history-and-governance-program-scuola-superiore-meridionale-napoli/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:16:28 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=5030 The Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples (Italy), invites applications for four 1-year (renewable for up to 3 years) postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance for the academic year 2022-2023 Postdoc fellow The program in Global History and Governance: Applicants should submit research projects characterized by a comparative and/or global historical and/or legal perspective on [...]

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]]> Labour History & Memory in the Urban Space: The Case of Warsaw https://worck.eu/2022/08/24/labour-history-memory-in-the-urban-space-the-case-of-warsaw/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:42:54 +0000 https://worck.eu/?p=4496 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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]]> Interview with Juliane Schiel: “Work always contains coercion” https://worck.eu/2021/10/07/interview-with-juliane-schiel-work-always-contains-coercion/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:36:03 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=3857 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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]]> Call for Applications: Junior Professorship in Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution (Leipzig) https://worck.eu/2021/07/08/call-for-applications-junior-professorship-in-global-dynamics-of-resource-use-and-distribution-leipzig/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:58:46 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=3396 The Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Leipzig University seeks to fill the following tenure track professorship, funded by the Tenure Track Programme of the German Federal Government and the Federal States, from 1 April 2022: Junior Professorship in Global Dynamics of Resource Use and Distribution  (W1 with tenure track leading to W2) Academic [...]

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