Events

Wie kein zweites Gebäude steht der Karl-Marx-Hof für die Geschichte und Gegenwart des “Roten Wiens”. Die Führung bietet einen Einblick in diesen ikonischen Gemeindebau und in die Geschichte der Errungenschaften der Wiener Arbeiterbewegung.

This roundtable will explore the intersections of care work, informal labor, and labor migration in East-Central Europe. Drawing on both academic research and practitioners' perspectives, we will analyze how crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed and intensified existing vulnerabilities, while also generating new forms of collective response and…

Long before taxi drivers shut down city center streets to protest ride-sharing apps, rewards were being offered to catch those textile workers who, in the Luddite protests, "wantonly and feloniously" smashed the knitting frames they held responsible for their impoverishment. In our roundtable, we consider these and other ways in which people have…

As the latest advancement in the development of digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence represents a major challenge for the world of labor. Like past innovations, excitement about novel applications and progress go hand in hand with fears about the displacement and obsolescence of human labor and concomitant social disruption. This discussion will…

Das Jahr 2026 markiert den sechzigsten Jahrestag des Anwerbeabkommens Österreichs mit Jugoslawien. Das Podium bringt zu diesem Anlass Künstler:innen und Aktivist:innen zusammen, die sich in ihrer Arbeit für die Sichtbarkeit und Anerkennung der Gastarbeiter:innen und ihrer Nachfolgegenerationen einsetzen. Während die Leistung der ersten Generation nach wie…

Das Archiv des Vereins für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung bewahrt, betreut und sichert das geistige Erbe der österreichischen ArbeiterInnenbewegung in ihrem internationalen Kontext. Die Führung bietet einen Einblick in diese einmalige Sammlung, einschließlich des Teilnachlasses von Ilona Duczyńska, Revolutionärin, Journalistin und Ehefrau von Karl…

In the Anthropocene era, extractivism has become a central concept for analyzing the global economy and ecology. Countries in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe that previously pursued endogenous industrialization now increasingly reorient toward primary commodity exports. This transformation is driven by the expansion of demand for raw materials, the…

Gender and labor structured modernity and underpin our current, post-modern, late capitalist age. What are new ways of understanding what gender does to work and what work does to gender? What transformative potential do gender and work hold in an age of simultaneous crises?

Labor history has undergone profound renewal over the past two decades, expanding beyond its traditional focus on industrial workers and trade unions to encompass global, gendered and non-waged forms of work across time and space. This roundtable brings together historians working at the cutting edge of the field. We discuss labor history's new directions:…

Alexandra Ghiţ's 'Welfare Work Without Welfare' argues that women activists, workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others’ well-being in the interwar period through their "austerity welfare work".

How to bring the best ideas to the world and enrich the global conversation in an age of political uncertainty, distraction and AI? From the perspective of somebody who has worked in scholarly publishing all her life, Brigitta van Rheinberg, Associate Director of Princeton University Press, will try to give some answers to this question.