Labour History Cluster


2022-10-25 13:00: Labour History Lunch: Worker Resistance to Scientific Management in Sweden 1930-1950 (Arvand Mirsafian, Uppsala University)

2024-06-19 13:00: Historicizing Social Justice: Labour, Rights and Power in 20th-century Central Europe (Radka Šustrová, University of Vienna)

2024-11-19 13:00: Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective (Maria Agren, University of Uppsala)

2025-01-21 13:00: Reasons to rebel: Revisiting the 1980s (Sheila Rowbotham)

2025-02-04 13:00: Gender and the politics of the 'white working class': A feminist history of Brexit Britain (Laura Schwarz, University of Warwick)

2025-04-29 13:00: Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s (Alex Langstaff, New York University)

2025-05-06 13:00: New Books in Labour History (Massimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja)

2025-05-27 13:00: The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain (Kyle Zarif, Yale University)

2025-10-14 13:00: Welcome lunch & New PhD student introductions (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-10-30 17:00: Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy - Caste, Class, and Indenture Abroad' (Kalathmika Natarajan (Exeter))

2025-11-18 13:00: Roundtable: Account books as Sources for Labour History  (Melissa Calaresu, Katie Price, and Amy Erickson (all Cambridge))

2025-12-02 13:00: The Timeless Peasant & the Untimely Labourer: The Travails of Decolonising Labour in 20th Century Sri Lanka (Andi Schubert (Cambridge))