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.

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Recent News

European Labour History Network Conference: CfPs from Working Groups

From 11-13th June 2024, the 5th Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) will take place in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference programme is structured around the ELHN Working Groups, several of which have [...]

New WORCK Publication: Gender, War and Coerced Labor (Special Issue of Labor History)

We are happy to announce the publication of the special issue "Gender, War and Coerced Labor", edited by Julia Heinemann, Christine de Matos, Fia Sundevall and Anders Ahlbäck! While in recent decades there have [...]

Call for Contributions: Nested internationalisms: New Perspectives on Labour Activism Across Borders and Boundaries

Call for contributions, deadline 15 August 2023 We seek proposals for chapters to be included in the volume “Nested internationalisms. New Perspectives on Labour Activism Across Borders and Boundaries” to be published in the series [...]

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Beyond Multilingualism: Constructing Common Language and Database Terms to Write Comparative and Entangled Histories. A Response.

By Justus Hillebrand (Independent Scholar/Digital History Consulting) I remember sitting in a session at the Rural History conference in 2017 in Leuven, Belgium. After presentations on fertilisers and state building from the eighteenth [...]

Solidarity with Iranian Women

By the Società Italiana delle Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians) The Società Italiana delle Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians) is following the recent events in Iran with admiration and concern in [...]

Projektemacherei und Diskursimperialismus statt Kooperation und Innovation? Ein Erfah-rungsbericht aus der europäischen Forschungslandschaft

English Von Peter-Paul Bänziger (Universität Basel) In einem 2017 geführten Gespräch geht Tuğrul Erbaydar, Arzt und Gründungsmitglied von AİDS Savaşım Derneği (Verein für den Kampf gegen Aids) auf die Geschichte von [...]

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