La quarantesima edizione dell' Annual North American Labor History Conference, che si svolgerà presso la Wayne State University di Detroit (Michigan) dal 18 al 20 ottobre 2018, sarà dedicata al tema Labor and history in the 21st century.
Il lavoro e il movimento dei lavoratori sono al centro del meeting, che intende coinvolgere ricercatori da tutto il mondo per presentare casi di studio in prospettiva storica e globale. I temi di principale interesse riguardano: New Approaches to Working-Class And Labor History; Challenges Confronting the 21st Century Labor Movement in Historical Perspective; 1978 and 2018: Forty Years of Labor And Labor History; Crucial Decades in Labor and Working Class History: Turning Points or Dead Ends?; New Voices in Labor/Labor History; Then and Now: Evolving Working Class, Transforming Labor Struggle; Remembering Labor; Labor and Working Class History in the Changing Economic and Educational Landscape; Labor and Work in Higher Education; Public History and Labor History in the Classroom; Public History of Labor and Working-Class Social Movements; Collaborations between Academics, Practitioners, and/or Activists and Organizers in Supporting Labor in these Times.
La deadline per la presentazione delle proposte è fissata al 15 aprile, maggiori informazioni sul bando in allegato.