Publications Archives - Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK

New Publication: “Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art “

TPetrik — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:54:38 +0000

We are pleased to announce the publication of the edited volume "Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Work Relations through History and Art", edited by Anamarija Batista, Viola Müller and Corinna Peres. Coercion and Wage Labour presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. [...]

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New Publication: “Exploring Labor Coercion through Im/mobility and the Environment”

TPetrik — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:06:38 +0000

We are pleased to announce the publication of the special issue "Exploring Labor Coercion through Im/mobility and the Environment (18th-20th centuries)" in the Journal Labor History. edited by Claudia Bernardi, Amal Shahid, and Müge Özbek. Labour migrations have been a major topic of discussion for migration scholars along the 20th century. In the first decade [...]

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New WORCK Publication: “Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities”

TPetrik — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:17:48 +0000

We are happy to announce the publication of the volume "Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities"! The book is the outcome of the discussions in Working Group 3, Im/Mobilisations of the Workforce, and has been edited by Claudia Bernardi, Viola Müller, Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson. This book explores how workers [...]

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New WORCK Publication: Gender, War and Coerced Labor (Special Issue of Labor History)

TPetrik — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:24:37 +0000

We are happy to announce the publication of the special issue "Gender, War and Coerced Labor", edited by Julia Heinemann, Christine de Matos, Fia Sundevall and Anders Ahlbäck! While in recent decades there have been growing bodies of literature on gender and war, on war and military labor, and on various forms and degrees [...]

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New WORCK Publication: “The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History” (ed. by Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel)

TPetrik — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:37:52 +0000

We are happy to announce the publication of the "Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History"! The book has been edited by our Action Chair Juliane Schiel (Austria) and MC Member Damian Pargas (Netherlands), and contains numerous contributions by WORCK Members. This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the [...]

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Writers Workshop “Labour and Coercion. Doing Social History after the Social Turn” (Urbino, Italy)

TPetrik — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:29:06 +0000

From 23-25 September 2022, the authors and editors participating in the WORCK publication project "Labour and Coercion. Doing Social History after the Global Turn", which will be published as a Past & Present Supplement, met in Urbino for a writers' workshop. Hosted by Raffaella Sarti, the participants discussed their articles, covering labour in the household as [...]

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Call for Proposals: AHR Special Issue on Histories of Resilience

TPetrik — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:48:52 +0000

Deadline: 21 November 2022 The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue of the journal on histories of resilience. This issue will inaugurate a new annual digital-only special issue of the AHR designed to advance innovative themes, approaches and methods to the past that can contribute to reshaping contemporary historical practice. We [...]

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Conference Report: WORCK Conference 2 / ELHN Conference 4

TPetrik — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:23:48 +0000

From 30 August to 3 September, the joint conference of the COST Action “Worlds of Related Coercions in Work (WORCK)” and the European Labour History Network (ELHN) in Vienna brought together labour historians from two networks aiming to enable collaborative research amongst scholars from all over Europe and beyond. The conference report has now [...]

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New Data Story: Claiming a Runaway Slave in the Holy Roman Empire: The Case of Samuel Johannes (1754)

TPetrik — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:28:55 +0000

The WORCK publication platform documents the ongoing working and discussion process as well as collaborative research results and publications of our Working Groups. The platform enables mutual exchange, collaboration and comparison within and beyond the scientific network of WORCK – on the level of empirical tradition (texts, images, monuments), statistical material and geodata as [...]

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Call for Papers: Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Labour Relations Through History and Art

TPetrik — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:51:31 +0000

Forthcoming Publication "Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring Labour Relations Through History and Art" (Editors: Anamarija Batista, Corinna Peres & Viola Müller) Coercion in work is a universal human experience that can be found in manifold forms of labour relations, both contemporary and historical. The analysis of coercive mechanisms in labour relations draws on various disciplinary [...]

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