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Workshop: Coercion, worksites and historical change: a source-based approach (Call for Papers)

TPetrik2022-01-07T12:53:12+00:00January 7th, 2022|Calls and Open Positions, Events, News|

14-15 June 2022 Bonn (Germany) The WORCK Working Group 2 began with the ambition to study work-related coercion in designated worksites, seen as loosely defined spatial entities. These sites were related to wider spatially [...]

Call for Papers: WORCK Training School

TPetrik2022-01-18T08:21:27+00:00December 19th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, Events, News|

Rewriting Labour Histories: Perspectives from the Globe WORCK Training School 2022 Warsaw, Poland – 23-27 May 2022 The WORCK Training School will bring together 20-25 MA and PhD students from all over Europe. [...]

Call for Papers: Workshop Coercive Archives: Labour Coercion in the Courtroom and Its Afterlives

TPetrik2021-12-15T17:09:03+00:00December 15th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, Events, News|

The courtroom has long been understood as a space mirroring the social hierarchies and power dynamics of society at large. Cultural and social historians have developed approaches to the courtroom that recognize it as [...]

Call for Applications: 3 Open Positions for ERC-Project (University of Vienna)

TPetrik2021-12-09T12:31:15+00:00December 9th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, News|

DATAREV, “Leading the first data revolution in European agriculture: farm accountancy data and their impact 1870-1945” is funded by ERC Starting Grant 949722 and investigates the diffusion of farm accountancy offices of continental Europe since [...]

Event Announcement: The Future of Work Conference (Istituto Svizzero)

TPetrik2021-11-26T12:32:29+00:00November 26th, 2021|Events, News|

Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Work Covid-19 demonstrated that change is needed to address not only an unexpected virus, but also the long-term transformations that have occupied our minds and behaviour for years. [...]

Online-Talk: Work at the Crossroads

TPetrik2021-11-09T12:04:58+00:00November 9th, 2021|Events, News, Public Outreach|

Next week, the Action Chair of our COST Action, Juliane Schiel (University of Vienna) will participate in the Online-Talk Work at the Crossroads, which is the kick-off talk introducing The Future of Work, an international conference focusing on [...]