Welcome to H-Labor, a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine. H-Labor is particularly interested in fostering international discussion and colaboration on labor history topics. It also recognizes that teaching the history of workers entails maintaining some knowledge of working people and their unions today.

Discussion published by Emmanuel Comte on Thursday, December 29, 2022

Call for papers, International Conference on "The Global Shift in Mobility and Migration Governance in the Long 1970s," September 7 and 8, 2023, University of Pisa, Italy

Dear researchers,

 

We invite you to submit a paper for the International Conference on "The Global Shift in Mobility and Migration Governance in the Long 1970s," to be held on September 7 and 8, 2023 at the University of Pisa in Italy. This conference will delve into the transformation of migration patterns, perceptions, and policies during the long 1970s and how they may have contributed to the current immigration challenges faced by developed countries.

 

Discussion published by Martha McNamara on Thursday, December 29, 2022

Deadline Extended to 12/20 CFP: Homemaking: Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the New England Household

CALL FOR PAPERS

Homemaking: Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the New England Household

A one-day symposium sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College and Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Discussion published by Emily E. LB. Twarog on Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, “Gender, body, and colonialism from a global perspective: ruptures and continuities in a long duration”

Call for Proposals: Edited Volume, “Gender, body, and colonialism from a global perspective: ruptures and continuities in a long duration”

Discussion published by Carol Ressler Lockman on Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Hagley History Hangout/New Episode Available

Historians of technology once famously asked, “does technology drive history?” Their answer was, “it depends.” The phenomena of history do not float atop of the changes within material practices and technology, but neither do they stand apart from them; the two are intimately intwined in the contingent, in

Discussion published by Thomas Mackaman on Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Labor historians’ “open letter” to Biden falls on deaf ears

Dear Colleagues,

I've just posted the following essay criticizing the recent open letter from labor historians to President Biden. I welcome comments. 

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/05/vtjr-d05.html

 

Thomas Mackaman
Associate Professor of History
King's College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

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