Events

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".