LiM WG – Newsletter 7 – February 2023
Dear members and friends of the Labour in Mining – Working Group.
Happy New Year 2023!
We warmly welcome you to LiM’s 7th Newsletter.
This is a periodic update on the activities of the WG and the most relevant events, publications, and conferences in the field of mining history selected by LiM’s coordinators.
This year 2023 has begun with great news: the Special Issue “Social and environmental effects of mining in Southern Europe” in AREAS-Revista Internacional de ciencias sociales has been published !
The issue gathers some contributions presented during the 3rd ELHN Conference 2019 in Amsterdam, in which LiM organised 2 sessions related to living conditions in mining towns and professional health and diseases in mining.
Enjoy the readings!
New members
The most valuable resources of this network are members. We would like to welcome those who have recently joined LiM:
Adrián Palacios Mateo, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zaragoza, works on education from a historical perspective. His research focuses on the relationship between the industrialization process brought by the mines during the 19th century, and the literacy levels of miners, the requirements for skilled workers or child labour.
Clara Lea Dallaire-Fortier, PhD candidate at Lund University, works on the ecological transition and historical systemic changes. Her research focuses on how lived experiences and needs from local populations can inform and interact with large industrial changes and macroeconomic dynamics with a special attention to mining industry. Se is a member of oikos LEAP program’s Early Career Researchers Track, and a Student Representative on the Board of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE).
Welcome!!
New on the Blog
Books’ selection is our annual list of interesting books published in the previous year, related to Mining History and similar disciplines.
Discover the Books’ selection 2022!
The Young Mining Historians Corner – new issues and new co-editor!New Issues…
#9: Education and household decision‑making in Spanish mining communities, 1877–1924 by Adrian Mateo Palacios (Post-doc at University of Zaragoza)
#8: Aspects of the occurrence of gold deposits in Minas Gerais in the 18th century – by Q. I. Lopes
#7: Utopia, nostalgia and vision: deindustrialisation in a former Hungarian mining area – by P. Alabán
Issue #10 about ancient mining in Greece by E. Favier is coming soon (February 20) !You can find all the previous issues here
…also a new co-editor recently joined the team of the Young Mining Historians’ Corner : Nikolaos Olma, research fellow at the Leibniz Center in Berlin !
CFP: The series is open to contributions from WG members and external ECRs. If you are interested in participating, contact us to labouri…@gmail.com.
Article’s SelectionThe Articles’ selection #15: winter 2022 is out!
In this issue you find, among others :
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Special issue “Miners”, Twentieth Century Communism, 23, 2022.
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Special Issue “Social and environmental effects of mining in Southern Europe” in AREAS-Revista Internacional de ciencias sociales
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Murray, John E., and Silvestre, Javier (2022). “Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913”
New entries:
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Social History Collections on the Social History Portal: a gateway to several collections about social&labour history from the late 18th century. You have access to more than 2 million objects.
Discover the complete database here
News, Publications and MediaWebinars, Seminars, Conferences-
Seminar: “Desafiando la masculinidad del trabajo en las minas: Puntadas a través de la historia” (Challenging the masculinity of work in the mines) by our colleague and member of our group Dr. Rossana Barragan, 16 nov. 2022
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Extractive industries and postcolonial masculinities in Asia and the Pacific“, Workshop in CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, 1.12.2022 (hybrid), organised by Prof. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt.
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AFREXTRACT Conference, Pretoria, 15-16 May 2023 and Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa, AFREXTRACT project
More info about the news, conferences and seminars
Podcasts and Videos-
The recordings of the ELHN Working Group Roundtables 2021 and 2022 are available online on the Social History Portal
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The Keynote speeches of the XIXth World Economic History Congress, Paris, 2022, online on youtube, and in particular the one by Pr. Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): “Environmental change, renewable resources and the economic history of the pre-industrial world”
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Mining our Way to a New Low Carbon Future, Tedx event organised by “Women in Mining”
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Secret Data, Tiny Islands, and a Quest For Treasure on the Ocean Floor, by Eric Lipton (NYTimes, 29 August 2022)
Online Resources
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The catalogue for the digitised Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia archive is now available
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Cahiers du Centre d’études et de recherches marxistes now available online
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AFREXTRACT Blog
Find other media contents here
CallsLabour History beyond Europe and North America: Challenges, Initiatives, Debates, 53rd Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions, Buenos Aires, September 2023, deadline 31 March 2023
CFP: Living in the Mines: Mining and Working Worlds in the 15th-18th Centuries, Mundos do Trabalho, deadline 30 August 2023
Grants and Prizes
Allan Nevins Prize in American Economic History, deadline May 31, 2023
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in the economic history , deadline May 31, 2023
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The LiM-WG wishes you a good time until the next Newsletter!
Do not hesitate to send us news to highlight in the next newsletter, on our social networks or in the blog!
You can download a PDF version of LiM – Newsletter 7 here
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