Environmental Studies Iva Peša, Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000, Environment and History Mining Heritage Mark Pendleton, Some New Directions for the Study of Coal Mining History and Heritage, Waseda Rilas Journal, n. 8, 2020, p. 395-398. Lucy Grim...
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 (Vienna University, Vienna, 30 August - 3 September 2021) Deadlin...
The historian Rossana Barragan discuss her recent research on women's work in the mines of Potosi in the colonial period. (in spanish https://soundcloud.com/historiaspod/historias-92-precaridad-informalidad-y-el-trabajo-femenino-en-potosi-colonial?fbclid=IwAR0sQYRojvqjDXYUo4vYSjFf_OE5HKWND1aB7rze_YB...
This post aims at providing some insight into mining world facing covid-19 crisis: an open collection of analysis and commentaries from different journals and institutions. This is not a selection of academic papers about mining history as we are used to publish. Contents are continously updated. La...
Ancient history & Archeology: Vidan B. Dimic, "Hammering the past: The experimental (re) construction and usage of prehistoric mining hammerstones from the Prljuša-Mali Šturac site, Rudnik Mountain", Starinar, 2019 Economic History John E. Murray Javier Silvestre, "Integration in European coal marke...
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 the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we will be hosting a two-day conference exploring new...
For this new year 2020 the LabourInMining WG has many projects in mind, from workshops to publications. Our first target will still be communication and networking. This is why we decided to start a new communication campaign, adding a newsletter to our Twitter, Facebook and Blog activity. We now ca...
"Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History" in the International Review of Social History The image people in the global North have of mining labour is largely based on the European coal mines of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. We tend to think of mining labo...
Mining Techniques Miguel Á. López-Morell, Miguel Á. Pérez de Perceval Verde, "From old mining to new mining: the introduction of differential flotation in Spanish mines and its environmental impact", Revista de Historia Industrial, N. 77, 2019, pp. 119-148. Peter Davies, Susan Lawrence, "Cornish Ti...
A call that might interest mining historians, senior and young researchers. Heinrich Winkelmann fellowship Since 2014, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum has offered two research fellowships per year in the areas of mining history and mining archaeology. The three-month research visits to the DBM...
? Environmental studies: Bindler, Richard; Myrstener, Erik; Liu, Enfeng; Bigler, Christian, Reshaping the landscape: mining, metallurgy and a millennium of environmental changes in south-central Sweden ⚕ Health and social issues: A Setiawan "The socio-economic impact of national and foreign oil mi...
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 interest among researcher. This is why we decided to gather every mining history related paper whi...
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 what extent such approaches can...
? Environmental studies: Cecilia Campero, and Leila M. Harris, "The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile" Water 2019, 11, 886, online Jiefang Tian, "Mining City Resilience" Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer, 2019 ⚕ H...
[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 the Red Española de Historia del Trabajo (REHT) that is carried out within the framework of the Universid...
First post for a new series related to mining history: Article Selection. Every two months a selection of articles by LIM to keep yu updated about the latest news in mining history world. Keep informed to be innovative. #research Main theme of the #1 ✍#Methodology: Jeroen Cuvelier "Mining in compara...
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 and environmental problems in the Iberian Mining". Here the program with all the discussants: Nutriti...
We are working at a new series of posts related to mining history: Articles Selection. Every three months a selection of articles by LIM to keep you updated about the latest news in mining history world. Don't miss the first post that will be published in MAY 2019. Be Informed to Be innovating #rese...
We draw your attention on a new article published by two of our members: Andrew Perchard & Keith Gildart, "ʽRun with the fox and hunt with the houndsʼ: Managerial Trade-Unionism and the British Association of Colliery Management, 1947-1994", Historical Studies in Industrial Relations, v. 39 (2018),...
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, De l'accident à la maladie : les contours de la notion de risque du travai...
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 Group, born inside the European Labour History Network, but we have grown fast, receiving lot...
An interesting CFP for Mining Historians: the complete document here " Ce numéro thématique profite de ce regain d’intérêt pour sonder l’évolution historique des relations humaines au sous-sol. En partant de l’idée que les niveaux du « dessus » et du « dessous », sur et sous le sol, interagissent de...
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. The main theme of this conference, Technology and Power, seeks to interrogate...