Calling for a radical change of perspective in labour history, linking stories of work and production with those of violence, expropriation and marginalisation
COST Action, no 18205
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Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) retweeted
How were coercion and military labour intertwined throughout the early modern and modern period? Check out our call for a panel at the European Labour History Network Conference 2026 im Barcelona and submit your paper proposals until 7 July! #labourhistory #militaryhistory
Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) retweeted
CfP: The Working Group "Labour and Coercion" invites proposals for the upcoming ELHN Conference!
We seek papers that engage with practices, experiences and representations of coercion in any time period or location: socialhistoryportal.org/news…
Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) retweeted
Happening next week: WORCK Training School 2: Programming Labour History. Digital Methods for Social and Labour Historians. Looking forward to participating in a roundtable on the history of data and data in history
The deadline for our upcoming Training School on digital methods has been extended to 20 October - we are looking forward to receiving your applications!
Find the call on our website: worck.eu/2023/10/10/deadline…
We are happy to announce a new WORCK publication: The volume "Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art", edited by Anamarija Batista, @_VMueller and Corinna Peres, is now available open access.
worck.eu/2024/01/25/new-publ…
The publication is connected to the exhibition "Coercion and Wage Labour", which was displayed at the WORCK Conference 2 in Vienna, and can now be accessed as a virtual exhibition: worck.eu/virtual-exhibition-…
The Labour Network of the European Social Science History Conference invites proposals for sessions and papers at the upcoming #ESSHC in Leiden.
Find more information on our website: worck.eu/2024/01/17/call-for…
We congratulate our WORCK members Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid and Müge Özbek on the publication of this special issue in the journal "Labor History"!
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The Department of History at Brown University invites applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Labor History, 1500–Present.
Find more information on our website: worck.eu/2024/01/15/call-for…
New Call for Articles for a special Issue of @ILWCHJournal on "Counting Work and Workers in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa": worck.eu/2023/12/27/call-for…
Call for Applications: 3 Doctoral fellows in ERC project "CATTLEFRONTIERS" (Ghent University). The deadline for applications is 18 December.
worck.eu/2023/12/12/cfa-3-do…
Our new blog post presents a project coordinated by Müge Özbek: A photo story collection that centers the narratives of those who survived the earthquake which struck Syria and Turkey this year, and draws attention to the emerging new precarity in the aftermath of the disaster.
Find out more about the project here: worck.eu/2023/11/30/in-the-a…
Check out this blog post on the relationship between language and power in history by our Action Chair Juliane Schiel (in German):
Neuer Blogbeitrag: Juliane Schiel über das Verhältnis von Sprache und Macht in der Geschichte: "Sprache Macht Geschichte", zu lesen auf der OeZG-Website journals.univie.ac.at/index.… @CoercionsInWork
Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) retweeted
In this week’s blog, @DrJSpicksley talks about testing ideas with the best in the business at the WoRCK (Worlds of Related Coercions in Work) Conference in Prague. Read the blog:
hull.ac.uk/research/institut… More about WoRCK here: worck.eu/ @CoercionsInWork @UniOfHull
We are happy to announce our newest WORCK publication!
The special issue "Work Semantics" explores how historical semantics can help overcome the established categories of the modern West, and work towards a new analytical language of labour and power relations.
The publication is available open access: journals.univie.ac.at/index.…
Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK) retweeted
📣The #CfP for the 59th ITH-Conference is out! We appreciate contributions that deal with the role of industrial relations, labour struggles and knowledge regimes in the history of computing and IT.🤖💻💾 👉Check out the entire call via: ith.or.at/wp-content/uploads…
The deadline for our upcoming Training School on digital methods has been extended to 20 October - we are looking forward to receiving your applications!
Find the call on our website: worck.eu/2023/10/10/deadline…
Here's a little teaser for our next upcoming WORCK publication:
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The Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History at Harvard University applies for applications for Fellowships in the academic year 2024/25. Find more information here: worck.eu/2023/10/09/call-for…
