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Labour in History & Economics Conference at the  University of Oxford 15-16 April, 2019. Program available The Labour in History & Economics Conference is an interdisciplinary meeting of labour historians, economic historians, and labour economists focused on discussions of migration, labour markets, and the work environment. Recent developments in all three disciplines have brought issues of work and labour to the forefront of scholarship. The empirical turn in economics has led to new research related to labour and work including the use of historical case studies. At the same time, the high-wage economy interpretation of the Industrial Revolution has put workers and wages at the forefront of economic history, and historians of capitalism have advanced the importance of labour repression, especially slavery, as a cause of modern economic growth. This conference will bring together scholars from these disciplines to share research, perspectives, and methodologie...

Gender, Labour and Consumption in historical perspectives at the University of Essex Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2019 ; Conference: September 13-14, 2019 . The Department of History at the University of Essex welcomes proposals for the Gender, Labour and Consumption in historical perspectives conference. The main goal of the organizers is to bring in scholars working on the following topics: histories of shopping as work market regulation & moral economies spaces of consumption as sites of labour retailing racism & racialised consumerism consumer organising & gender relations pleasure, consumption & labour masculinities, consumption & labour total war & redefinitions of gender, labour & consumption Event speakers are Professor Erika Rappaport, University of Santa Barbara, and Professor Pamela Cox, University of Essex. Questions and inquiries may be directed to Professor Peter Gurney pjgurney@essex.ac.uk  or visit the event's we...

The Business History Conference awarded seven  at its annual meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. These are the winners of the 2019 prizes: Franco Amatori (Università Bocconi) was awarded the  Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award.  The BHC's Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a person who, in the judgment of the Grants and Prizes Committee, ratified by vote of the Board of Trustees, contributed in major ways to the work of the Business History Conference and to scholarship in business history. Nominations are solicited from the membership for this award every two to three years as appropriate. The award consists of a commemorative piece in etched crystal, presented at the annual meeting. The first award was bestowed in 2002. Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School) won the Hagley Prize in Business History for his book Danish Modern Furniture, 1930-2016: The Rise, Decline and Re-emergence of a Cultural Market Category (University Press of Souther...

1. Processing Internship (paid, $15/hour; 320 hours) for the Hagley Library’s Department of Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives (AVD) . Learn about conservation, arrangement, and description of an archival collection(s) under the supervision of the Audiovisual and Digital Archivist in the Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department. More information about the position can be found here . 2. Paid Internship (paid, $15/hour; 320 hours) for The Hagley Museum and Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Department (M&A) to assist with the processing of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) records . NAM is the largest manufacturing trade association in the United States and its records are essential for understanding the relationship between business and government in the twentieth century. Once completed, this project will add an additional 880 linear feet of manuscript, audiovisual, and published materials to Hagley’s already extensive NAM ...

39th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History at the University of Algarve (Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal) Conference, Circulations: from local to global Deadline for submissions: 15 April; Conference: 15-16 November. Mobility is a key problem in Economic and Social History. Regardless of the period under analysis, people circulate, carrying with them commodities, capital, ideas, languages, traditions. They circulate to survive, to trade, to explore, to conquer, to migrate, and also for leisure. These constant circulations are at the origin of many interactions, impacts, conflicts, changes and resistances, as well as many social, economic, institutional and cultural transformations. In an increasingly interconnected world, these processes can be analyzed under several perspectives and in various scales, going from the local to the global. We invite scholars, from any nationality, who wish to contribute to this topic to submit their panel or paper ...

The position of Associate Curator of Business and Industry at the History Colorado Collection might be of interest. Deadline: April 3rd, 2019 . These are the specific requirements for the job: Masters Degree in an appropriate field such as History, American Studies, or Museum Studies with specialization in a particular subject area or time period represented in the collection. A minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible c uratorial experience working with business and industry related collections in a museum or other collecting institution with a public audience. Ability to plan strategically and creatively. Knowledge of museum collection standards and best practices and information management techniques and database systems used in curatorial and museum registration departments. Good communication skills, both written and oral, including evidence of scholarly research and writing and lectures and public programs for a variety of audiences. Demonstrated ability t...

Call for Papers for the 13th European Social Science History Conference Deadline: April 15, 2019; Conference:  18 – 21 March, 2020 in Leiden, The Netherlands, The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. The Conference welcomes papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is organized in a large number of networks: Africa Antiquity Asia Criminal Justice Culture Economics Education and Childhood – Elites and Forerunners Ethnicity and Migration Family and Demography – Global History - Health and Environment Labour Latin America – Material and Consumer Culture - Middle Ages Oral History – Politics, Citizenship and Nations - Religion Rural Sexuality - Social Inequality – Spatial and digital History - Science and Technology Theory - Urban Women and G...