posts categorized asCall for Proposals
“The Nature of Work”: 36th Annual North American Labor History Conference
October 16-18, 2014, Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
The Program Committee of the NALHC, an international conference with global perspectives, invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, etc. on the theme of “The Nature of Work” for our thirty-sixth annual meeting. Other thematically related proposals will be considered, especially if part of a full panel or roundtable.
Read more →Open Access Journal Class, Race and Corporate Power Seeking Submissions
Class, Race and Corporate Power is an open-access, online academic journal examining the politics of corporate power. This includes an analysis of capital, labor, and race relations within nation-states and the global economy. We encourage contributions that explore these issues within holistic frameworks that borrow from a range of scholarly disciplines.
Read more →Lawrence History Center, Upcoming “New Immigration” Symposium (Deadline: December 31)
UALE 2014 Annual Conference, “Organizing for Power”
Organizing for Power: A New Labor Movement for the New Working Class Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2014. Proposals are due December 15.
Read more →44th Annual PNLHA Conference, “Mining Our Past”
The 44th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association (PNLHA) takes place in the historic village of Cumberland, B.C., June 13-15, 2014. Proposal deadline is December 13, 2013.
Read more →MLWCH Colloquium, “Resistance and Remembrance: Collective Identities and the Uses of History”
Held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2014 the annual Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium is announcing its call for papers. Proposals are due Monday, December 16, 2013, and completed papers are due Friday, February 28, 2014.
Read more →Food and Work (Deadline: October 1)
Susan Levine and Steve Striffler send a call for papers for a special issue of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas entitled “Food and Work.”
Read more →Labor and Empire Small Conference
The journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas invites paper submissions for its upcoming conference–tentatively slotted for November 13-15, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California–on working people and imperial history.
Read more →CISH Congress Session, Jinan, “Commodifying Home Labor: Domestic Work Over Time” (Deadline: Nov. 30)
ST 28 “Commodifying Home Labor: Domestic Work Over Time” (Specialized theme).
Cooking, cleaning, and caring are not naturally the work of women, but rather emerged as central components of household labor assigned to most women and to men from subordinate groups.
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