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Archive & Collections Manager at IKEA in Älmhult, Sweden Company Description Are you curious about the Story of IKEA and how we want to make a better everyday life for many people? IKEA Museum in Älmhult, Sweden is a unique place for many people. Here we share the IKEA story by providing a three-dimensional experience of the IKEA Brand built on the dimensions of Democratic Design: beautiful form, great function, long-lasting quality, responsible sustainability and truly low prices. Besides our public museum, we also have the exciting a great assignment to safeguard, structure and share IKEA heritage, today and in the future. This important task is the responsibility of the Archive & Collections organisation. We are now looking for an Archives & Collections Manager to IKEA Museum in Älmhult, with the main task to lead and develop both people and our strategical agenda within the archive & collections scope. Job Description Assignment: In the role as Arch...

Dear Subscribers to The Exchange, The Business history and race: a partial, open bibliography has been updated with new references (a total of 207 entries). Visit the BHC website to copy the list or visit and join the Zotero Group Bibliography to export the references or contribute to the list. Contributors may also send suggestions by (a) emailing additional references to Anne Fleming of the BHC Electronic Media Oversight Committee <acf80 at law.georgetown.ed> or BHC Web Editor Paula de la Cruz-Fernández <padelacruzf at gmail.com> and (b) tweeting titles to @TheBHCNews .

Consider participating in the BUSINESS HISTORY COLLECTIVE - BUSINESS HISTORY IN IBEROAMERICA Colectivo de Historia Empresarial | Historia Empresarial en Iberoamérica The BUSINESS HISTORY COLLECTIVE* will start in August 2020 the series of webinars BUSINESS HISTORY IN IBEROAMERICA for researchers from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula interested in presenting their work in progress. We hope we can count on your participation, for this please complete the information requested in the following link. El Colectivo de Historia Empresarial comenzará, en agosto de 2020, una serie de seminarios virtuales para investigadores de América Latina y la Península Ibérica que estén interesados en presentar su trabajo. Los coordinadores del proyecto esperan contar con su participación, para lo que se requiere cumplimentar el siguiente formulario (link): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezi8CO3jEh00TZRCdF4MYd23dq6a9N7rM_K7D-nDwolGEQOQ/viewform Note that the presentations ...

Historian at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in Alexandria, Virginia This position is located in the Office of the Chief Communications Officer (OCCO), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in Alexandria, Virginia . The individual selected for this position will: Plan and conduct detailed research on various periods and aspects of agency history; Gather primary and secondary materials to establish historical facts, adhering to the highest academic and professional historical standards. Develop and maintain a comprehensive and official historical narrative of the agency for a broad public audience. Identify, select, and organize a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, including but not limited to personal interviews, staff meetings, conference proceedings and briefings, reports, studies, directives and instructions, official and commercial publications, and other internal and external sources. Collaborate closely with other “creati...

Upcoming online seminars by the Economic History Society [more information here ] Human Capital & Development – 29th July @ 5:00pm Kathryne Crossley (University of Oxford) Honest, sober and willing: Oxford college servants, 1850-1939 Matthew Curtis (University of California) The quantity and quality of pre-industrial children: Evidence from Québécois twins Equality & Wages – 5th August @ 9:00am Tamer Güven (Istanbul University) Wages in the Ottoman textile factories, 1848-99 Theresa Neef (Freie Universität Berlin) The long way to gender equality: Gender differences in pay in Germany, 1871-2016 Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University) The deep roots of inequality Government & Colonization – 12th August @ 3:00pm Matthew Birchall (University of Cambridge) British company colonization, 1820-40 Luise Elsaesser (European University Institute) Coordinating decline: Governmental regulation of disappearing horse markets in Britain, 1873-1957 Spending & Networks...

H-Business seeks new editor Overview   H-Business is looking for a new Network Editor-in-Chief. H-Business is the digital network for the Business History Conference, an international organization devoted to the study of business enterprise and organization and of all aspects of the interactions of business with society, government, and culture in a historical context. H-Business provides a forum for subscribers to exchange inquiries about their research, share news of archival holdings, post notices and programs of meetings, discuss issues relevant to the study of business history, and participate in H-Net Reviews. The new editor can reside in any country, but must be a member of the BHC. The editor will serve for a three-year term (with potential for renewal), to begin in late summer or early fall of 2020. No previous experience or technical knowledge is necessary; H-NET will train you how to use its content management system.  This is an uncompensated position....

Business history and race: a partial, open bibliography The Business History Conference is working to facilitate the creation of a bibliography of scholarly work on race and business history. We hope that the bibliography will serve as a resource for those seeking to create more inclusive syllabi and understand the historical context for our present moment of reckoning with structural racism in the United States and across the globe. The bibliography is crowdsourced and draws on the collective expertise of the BHC membership. The BHC wishes to expand the list of references already curated and invites your contributions to the bibliography (The current list of references contains 154 titles). Submit your suggestions by (a) emailing additional references to Anne Fleming of the BHC Electronic Media Oversight Committee <acf80 at law.georgetown.ed> or BHC Web Editor Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez <padelacruzf at gmail.com>, (b) tweeting titles to @TheBHCNews or (c) adding it ...