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CfP: International conference New perspectives in feminist labour history: work and activism Bologna, 17-18 January 2019
The two-days conference called by the EHLN working group “Feminist Labour History” and the SISLAV working group “Gender and Labour”, supported by the Department of History and Cultures at Bologna University, explores new perspectives in gendered labour history as arising in Europe and around the world since the beginning of the 21st century. The conference builds on and moves forward the debates on and within feminist labour history which took place during the Turin (2015) and Paris (2017) conferences of the ELHN, with the aim of including selected papers in prospective book projects.
Topics include (but are not limited) to the following:
- precarious, informal, subsistence work
- gender in typically male occupations or branches
- gender and deindustrialization
- the home/household/work nexus biographies and digital humanities
- varieties of work-place related activism
- women and trade unions
- women’s movements and women workers’ rights

Please send a 500-word abstract and a short academic CV (max 500 word) to feministlabourhistory2019@gmail.com The proposal should include name, surname, current affiliation and contact details of the proponent. The subject of the email needs to be: “New perspectives in feminist labour history”.

The conference will take place on January 17 – 18, 2019, hosted by the Department of History and Cultures of the University of Bologna (Bologna, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2).
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International conference New perspectives in feminist labour history: work and activism
The two-days conference called by the EHLN working group “Feminist Labour History” and the SISLAV working group “Gender and Labour”, supported by the Department of History and Cultures at Bologna University, explores new perspectives in gendered labour history as arising in Europe and around the world since the beginning of the 21st century. The conference builds on and moves forward the debates on and within feminist labour history which took place during the Turin (2015) and Paris (2017) conferences of the ELHN, with the aim of including selected papers in prospective book projects.
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