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bho.bsky.social
Really good series of posts from the Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social , on Places in Labour History:

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#History #LabourHistory
Place in labour history – Society for the Study of Labour History
The articles below were part of a series in which labour historians were asked to write about a place in labour history that they thought significant, either to them or more broadly. The series was…
sslh.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
valerawlings.bsky.social
More details of the launch of my new book are live on the Forgotten Burton Stories website - www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/friends... #Tradeunions #LabourHistory #BurtonUponTrent #SocialHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Socialism #FriendshipLoveTruth #ValeRawlings
Friendship, Love & Truth is launched
The Vale Rawlings book Friendship, Love & Truth, written by Elaine Pritchard, has been officially launched at Burton upon Trent public library.The book can now be bought, priced at £15.99, with all pr...
www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...

Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Women of the Inshore Fishery
YouTube video by Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
katrinanavickas.bsky.social
New publication by Grace Simpson, who is fab
@sslh.bsky.social #labourhistory
Advance About Us Subjects Browse Products Request a trial Librarian Resources Wha Home > Humanities > History > Social & Cultural History Embodied Labour > Brutally forcing them to work safely Chapter Brutally forcing them to work safely EMBODIED LABOUR A vignette of occupational health and safety at a Polish hard coal mine in the 1960s ƏR By Grace Simpson Book Embodied Labour Edition 1 st Edition First Published 2025 Imprint Routledge Share Pages ABSTRACT
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
ablabourhistory.bsky.social
From Left: Paula Kirman, Alvin Finkel, and Donna Coombs-Montrose presenting about their work with ALHI at the Canadian Committee on Labour History conference, November 14th in Montreal. #yul #yeg #conference #labourhistory
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
uclpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf and and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Rent Strikes published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4nP7e8D #UrbanHistory #LabourHistory #HousingActivism #GlobalHistory
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
chesterbeatty.bsky.social
Interested in the history of women, workers, caregivers or empire? Do we have the Zoom talk for you!

Join Dr Arunima Datta for 'Travelling Ayahs, Migration and Care Labour in the Age of Empire' on November 12 at 6pm GMT / noon CST. Book here: ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g

#labourhistory #migrationhistory
A detail from CBL In 12.19, an illustrated manuscript, known as 'the birth of Kamrup' produced in Murshidabad, c. 1755-60. It shows five women in total, dressed in sumptuous, patterned clothing and extensive jewellery, in various seated and standing positions. The central figure, under an ornate arch, cradles a swaddled infant (Kamrup) and gazes down at him.
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
valerawlings.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who has already supported the Crowdfunder for my new book about forgotten British trade unionist Vale Rawlings.
It's 49% funded in just three days. Could you help?
Have a look at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/vale-rawlings
#LabourHistory #TradeUnions #BurtonUponTrent #YMCABurton #SARAC
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ghilondon.bsky.social
#ILO #labourhistory #colonialhistory #globalhistory #epistemic #inequalities

📷 Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Koloniales Bildarchiv, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt a. M., picture nr. 005-1120-1.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
rlshistory.bsky.social
Spannend!!
Call zur Konferenz 2026 dieses wichtigen, transnationalen Netzwerkes von Labour Historians! #labourhistory #ecology #power
ithvienna.bsky.social ITH @ithvienna.bsky.social · Oct 24
📣 Call for Papers!
The 61st ITH Conference will take place in Linz, 17–19 September 2026 🗓️
Next year’s theme:
🌱⚒️ “Working nature – exploring intersections of labour history and political ecology”
📝 Submission deadline: 30 January 2026
🔗 www.ith.or.at/en/cfp-61st-...
CfP: 61st ITH Conference: Working nature – exploring intersections of labour history and political ecology | ITH - Internationale Tagung der HistorikerInnen der Arbeiter- und anderer sozialer Bewegung...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
valerawlings.bsky.social
East Staffs TUC hosts a free meeting Friday Oct 24 7.30pm to discuss the Vale Rawlings story & its relevance in 2025. Lots of union speakers. At Burton Caribbean Association DE14 3JS. #TradeUnions #LabourHistory
October 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
louisebonvalet.bsky.social
CfP : Economic Violence. Domination, Exploitation, and Gender Inequalities in the Long Term
Naples, 8–10 October 2026
Deadline : 15 December 2025
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#genderhistory #violence #economichistory #labourhistory #inequalities
Call for papers : Economic Violence. Domination, Exploitation, and Gender Inequalities in the Long Term
Naples, 8–10 October 2026 Economic violence is both a mechanism and a manifestation of gender-based violence. Whether acting alone or combined with other forms of discrimination and abuse, it contribu...
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October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
historysmu.bsky.social
New publication by Dr. Michael Vance: “‘Red Haggis’: A Depression-Era Comic Strip in the Young Worker” in Labour/ Le Travail! #cdnhist #cdnhistory #labourhistory See: lltjournal.ca/index.php/ll...
October 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
archasa.bsky.social
Catalina Benavente, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek & Örjan Simonson, Folkrörelsearkivet, Uppsala county
"Labour's Memory". Project to digitalise archival materials from Unions, both local and international stories.
#Digikult2025 #LabourHistory
Catalina Benavente and Örjan Simonson
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
kanicholls.bsky.social
New Blog Post! 🎉

Northern Ontario isn’t just rocks and trees — it’s a land built on strikes, blockades, and working-class grit.

From Sudbury’s miners to Indigenous land defenders, the North has radical roots worth remembering.

#NorthernOntario #LabourHistory #WorkingClassPride #PeoplesHistory
The Radical Roots of Northern Ontario: A People’s History of Resistance & Resilience
Northern Ontario has never been just a quiet land of rocks, tree, and longer winters. It is a land forged in struggle, where miners, loggers, and Indigenous nations stood their ground against power…
thegroundbreaker.ca
October 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Aujourd'hui, nous partageons l'article d'Ariane Gauthier sur « Le camp d'internement de Kapuskasing ».

Cet article a été initialement publié sur le blogue de @library-archives.bsky.social

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#envhist #cdnhist #warhistory #WWI #labourhistory
Le camp d’internement de Kapuskasing
Le camp d'internement de Kapuskasing (1914-1920) accueillait principalement des civils ukrainiens, les forçant à travailler dans des conditions difficiles ; les archives préservent les points de vue d...
niche-canada.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we are sharing Ariane Gauthier's piece on the "The Kapuskasing Internment Camp."

This post was originally published on the @library-archives.bsky.social blog.

niche-canada.org/2025/10/01/t...

#cdnhist #envhist #labourhistory #warhistory
The Kapuskasing Internment Camp
Kapuskasing internment camp (1914–1920) confined mainly Ukrainian civilians, forcing labour under harsh conditions; archival records preserve internee and guard perspectives.
niche-canada.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
nichecanada.bsky.social
"Slavery combined with cheap fish made for cheap labour, which in turn made for cheap sugar. Some of this sugar returned to the Northeast and became rum in New England distilleries." - Sandy Hunter

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#envhist #coastalhistory #labourhistory
Codfish drying on the Newfoundland waterfront, pre-1892.
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
electricbluesfan.bsky.social
1/13 🇨🇦 AIR CANADA FLIGHT ATTENDANTS CREATED LABOUR HISTORY IN 'PERFECT STORM' 🇨🇦

First union to defy federal back-to-work order. Woman-dominated workforce broke a pattern of government strike-breaking.

Emma Arkell reports for PressProgress.
#LabourHistory #FlightAttendants
#CDNpoli
September 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
seethetreasures.bsky.social
📷 Balance sheet showing income and expenditures of the Great Strike of East London tailors, London, 1899, RG 116 England Territorial Collection, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

#JewishCommunity #SocialHistory #LabourHistory #Archives
August 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
valerawlings.bsky.social
Book title reveal! Getting real now. www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/vale-ra...

#Staffordshire #BurtonUponTrent #LocalHistory #LabourHistory #WritersLife
Vale Rawlings Book Title Revealed
We've reached an important milestone in the journey towards publishing our book about Vale Rawlings and his life and times in Burton upon Trent. A first draft of the manuscript has been completed by a...
www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
psyphigrad.bsky.social
Further digging and someone beat me to the punch with a short video and lesson plan.

#HistoryLessons #LabourHistory

www.labourheritagecentre.ca/goodwin/
Ginger Goodwin - Working People Built BC
This film looks at an important figure in BC labour history whose life and death continue to cause debate today. Ginger Goodwin’s early activism started in the coal mines of Vancouver Island and conti...
www.labourheritagecentre.ca
July 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
psyphigrad.bsky.social
And a short book: www.aupress.ca/app/uploads/...

#LabourHistory #HistoryLessons
www.aupress.ca
July 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
psyphigrad.bsky.social
More history that I wished I had learned in school.

And here's a nice ditty to go along with it:
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#LabourHistory #HistoryLessons
The Ballad Of Ginger Goodwin
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July 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
valerawlings.bsky.social
Thanks to Burton No. 1 Branch of @rmtunion.bsky.social who have joined us a sponsor for 2025/2026. Sponsorship helps us meet essential costs of getting out the Vale Rawlings book and raise more for two charities: YMCA Burton and SARAC. #labourhistory #staffordshire #tradeunions #skystorians #WW1
A beige template representing a newspaper front page is headed 'Breaking News'. Below that is today's date and the website address forgottenburtonstories.co.uk. The headline reads 'Thank you to the RMT for their 2025/2026 sponsorship. Below that is the RMT union logo, white text on a green background.
July 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM