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'Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History' web launch
In Buenos Aires, at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, on March 10 Rossana Barragán will launch the web-page about research and archives on Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History... [News]
Labour History in Africa
The 2014 issue of the Cambridge Journal History in Africa – now online - has a special section on Labour History in Africa (edited by Karin Hofmeester and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva) dedicated to the... [News]
Thesis defence Kaveh Ehsani
On October 2nd Kaveh Ehsani successfully defended his thesis at Leiden University.“The Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry, the Built Environment and the Making of the Industrial... [News]
Attitudes to Work and Workers
The latest issue of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (TSEG 2014, jrg 11 no 1) is largely devoted to "Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe" (... [News]
Fighting for a Living
Historians have long overlooked the labour involved in soldiering. With the publication of Fighting for a Living, the world of military workers is brought to the forefront of scholarly inquiry.This... [News]
European Labour History Network
On 12 October 2013, the European Labour History Network (ELHN) was established during a meeting at the IISH in Amsterdam.The ELHN aims to function as a gateway to share knowledge and (digital)... [News]
Global Labour Needs Research
In 'Outlines of a History of Labour', IISH Honorary Fellow Jan Lucassen provides insights about what we can learn from the new global labour history, using important new research findings to... [News]
Praise for IISH
The Institute and its Global Labour History Research Program were paid a high tribute by the late professor David Montgomery, one of the foremost academics specializing in US labour history.He did so... [News]
Global Labour History Worldwide
The leading French social history journal Le Mouvement Social has embraced IISH's Global Labour History approach.Its latest issue (no 241, 'Travail et Mondialisation')is totally devoted to Global... [News]
Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden
The Global Labour History approach, developed within the IISH research department, is more and more being followed outside the institute. The October 2012 issue of the online, open access journal... [News]

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