Cambridge Labour History

Tomorrow our Core Economic and Social History Seminar continues! Our very own Prof Paul Warde will be giving a talk titled: "Tamlaght 1840: Work, gender and production in a proto-industrial community" Nov 9 | 5:15pm | Room 6 & Zoom talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/207…

#Michaelmas 2023 #TermCard. Scan the QR code to join the mailing list to receive further details.

We've just released our Michaelmas Term card - do check it out! 👇 Topics from late-antique booze to women's work in fin-de-siècle factories - do come along and spread the word @Cambridge_Uni @CamUniCampop @CamEcSocHist

📢SWEAT AND DUST: An environmental history of work and labour — Toulouse (France) June 19-21, 2024 CFP here (page 9 for English): leruche.hypotheses.org/files/2023/09/… ECRs are encouraged to apply! #envhist #labourhist

It's an honour and pleasure to be giving this year's Ewen Green Memorial Lecture at Magdalen College, Oxford, speaking about my new research on the labour of disabled people, and reflecting on questions of scale and power in writing history magd.ox.ac.uk/events/ewen-gr…

Welcome back to a new year! We are happy to announce the schedule for our core seminar in Economic and Social History for MT '24. Thursdays at 5:15 pm in the History Faculty Room 5, and on zoom. Stay tuned for more info: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/604…

1/6🚨 New book out! What can history tells us about the social construction of the value of work? Beyond supply and demand, how do values, conflict and knowledge determine the unequal wages and conditions? #inequality #history #economics #work tinyurl.com/3fnttzdt

📌La 5a conferenza dello European Labour History Network si terrà all'Università di Uppsala 🇸🇪tra l'11 e il 13 giugno 2024. Sono previste diverse sessioni, per ognuna delle quali è stata pubblicata una CFP 🗓️SCADENZA: 30 settembre 2023 Per saperne di più➡️storialavoro.it/notizie/notizi…

PhD Studentship - SGSAH CDA Project - A Hidden Migration History: South Asian Medical Professionals in Scotland 1872-2022 University of Strathclyde jobs.ac.uk/job/DCK562/phd…

2 weeks until The MRC at 50 symposium! Papers on trade unions, sexual health, cycling, disability, Higher Education, and more! Sign up by 10 September: tinyurl.com/yckh4ucr Everyone is welcome! #MRC50 @uniofwarwick @warwicklibrary

Reminder that this event starts tomorrow!

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Next week, 24-25 July, we have our Cambridge workshop at The Audit Room (King's College) to discuss current findings with the the ongoing project titled 'Where have the workers gone? Labour and work in Ghana, 1951-2010'. Please inform Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) to attend.

Next week we're hosting presentations on segregation in 19th c. Manchester, and the economic development of the Cayman islands. Do come along to hear what what our grad students have been up to! (details here: hist.cam.ac.uk/economic-and-s… ) @CamEcSocHist @CamUniCampop

A feast of diverse papers at today's workshop on coerced labour, spanning Venetian-colonised serfs on Crete, Mughal-era eunuchs, late antique slavery... @CamHistory @Labourhistcam

FINAL REMINDER! Our keynote speech by Benedetta Rossi will be happening today! Please find the details in the below tweet.

REMINDER that this event will be happening tomorrow! Details can be found below.

FYI! @CamIntelligence @EModCam @CamModBrit @camericanist @CamGradPTIH @CambridgePolish @CambridgeGender @dhiptweets @CamDigHum @ineqhist @OxEuroHist @CSStudiesGroup @ModEuroHistColl @EuropeModern @CamCulturalHist @LeibnizIOS @recetvienna @historyecon @europeanseminar

FYI! @CamOceanicHist @EconomicandSoc2 @OpenHistoryCam @HistoryIr @MEHcambridge @HabsburgStudies @CamLegalSocial @EMGSCam @CamGendSexHist @CamGIH @camb_heritage @CentreGHuM @GermanHistReGr @CIRNCambridge @CamEcSocHist @DAADCamHub @MIH_Cam @camedieval @cambridge_cpt

Next week, we have our keynote speech for the Coerced Labour in Global Historical Perspective seminar. Benedetta Rossi will present at 17:30-18:45 on 4 May at King's College, Cambridge @Kings_College. If interested, please DM or contact us on labour@hist.cam.ac.uk!