Labour In Mining

An interesting contribution by Ad Knotter has recently been published in the volume Handbook Global History of Work edited by Karin Hofmeester & Marcel van der Linden. >>> If you want to send us a brief summary, write us to labourinmining@gmail.com

Waiting for meeting you all again in Vienna for #ELHN2021

#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...

[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...

An interesting seminar about French mining history will begin soon in Marseille (France). Here a brief description: The mine, i.e. the vast field of mining operations and the social, economic, political and cultural phenomena associated with them, constitutes a broad scientific object that has attra...

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...

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...

? 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...

We are glad to inform our community that Ariane Mak, a member of LIM, is going to defend her thesis on the 25th of September 2018 at 14h in EHESS, Salle du Conseil A (salle BS1_28), 1er sous-sol, 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris. Here some information about Ariane's Thesis. Miners on Strike, Miners...

Subject : Health in Mining Industry Historical period: n.s. Institution: Centre Historique Mininer du Nord et Pas de Calais Location: Lewarde (France) Date:  4 - 5 april 2019 Deadline: 9 september 2018 Brief description: The conference organised by the Centre Historique Minier, the largest mining mu...

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),...

A new CFP for the Third Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) (Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2019) !! It's a CFP for a joint session on "Health, Environment and Labour in Mining" organised by (us) the Working Group "Labour in Mining" and the Working Group "Occupational Health and Env...

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...

This blog would like to be a space for communicate and share the projects of the new Working Group Labour in mining, born inside the European Labour History Network The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty schol...

Some mining related papers and panels scheduled in the next WEHC 2018   PANELS Global Copper: Mining, Smelting, Minting, and Manufacturing from the Baroque to the Modern From Mining to Currency and Money Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives Global Production...