Conference: Comparing the Copperbelt, Oxford 17-19 June 2021
Originally planned for February 2021, the conference is postponed to June 2021. Click here for more information
Originally planned for February 2021, the conference is postponed to June 2021. Click here for more information
The WG “Labour in Mining” of the ELHN invites proposals for the session “Impact of mining: economic activities, labour markets, living conditions, environmental problems (18th-21st century)” at the 4th Conference ELHN-WORCK 2021...
A call for paper that might interest our followers and members: “To mark the culmination of the ‘On Behalf of People: Work, Community and Class in the British Coal Industry, 1947–1994’ project funded by...
During the last ELHN2019 Conference in Amsterdam, many papers on mining history were discussed. We estimate that this is a sign that mining history is still in good health and probably it’s growing in...
Here you find the Author’s Guidelines to our session Living Conditions in Mining Towns in History, also valuable for the joint session Health, Environment and Labour in Mining. SpeakerGuidelines_ELHN
#reposting: https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/309707 Call for papers, deadline 15 June 2019 December 5-7, 2019, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (Germany). The conference aims to discuss new approaches in the study of material culture and see whether and to...
[in spanish] From 12 to 14 June 2019 the course “History of work: methodological problems and recent lines of research” will be held in Molina de Segura (Murcia). This course is an initiative of...
On March the 30th (14.30h – 16.10h) our coordinator Miguel P. de Perceval Verde will coordinate a session in this conference together with Juan Diego Pérez Cebada. The title of the panel is: “Health...
We are glad to release the names selected for the joint session “Health Environment and Labour in Mining” organized with the WG “Occupational Health and Environmental Labour History (19th-21th c.)” Aron Cohen & Agustin Fleta,...
Announcing our CFP “Living Conditions in Mining Towns in History” in May 2018 we did not even imagine to receive that large amount of proposals we actually received in September. We were a brand new Working...
A CFP that might interest our members: Social theorists from Max Weber to Jürgen Habermas have argued that power relations are among the defining characteristics of every society, along with culture and economic relations....
An interesting seminar about French mining history will begin soon in Marseille (France). Here a brief description: The mine, i.e. the vast field of mining operations and the social, economic, political and cultural phenomena...
Our CFPs’ deadlines are approaching !! 5 september 2018 for the CFP “Living conditions in mining towns in history” 14 september 2018 for the CFP “Health Environment and Labour in Mining” (coorganized with the WG Occupational...
A new CFP for the Third Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) (Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2019) !! It’s a CFP for a joint session on “Health, Environment and Labour in Mining” organised by (us) the Working...