International Review of Social History

IRSH | @iisg_amsterdam | @CambridgeUP | social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective

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First online Virtual Special Issue 'Labour History and the Case against Colonialism', 12 articles from @irsh_iisg 1995-2016 now in open access @IISG_Amsterdam @cambUP_History #Twitterstorians

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Met trots presenteert de redactie van TSEG het nieuwe nummer, waar we weer met veel plezier aan gewerkt hebben. Online te lezen op https://t.co/tUnoSZ1Gac en op papier te bestellen @LeuvenUP , met ook deze keer weer boeiende artikelen en prikkelende recensies.

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Met dit boek biedt voormalig landbouwsocioloog Henk de Zeeuw de lezer een fascinerend en goed leesbaar inzicht in de ontwikkeling van een plattelands-gemeenschap in de Kop van Overijssel door de eeuwen heen, zo recenseert Rudolf Bosch @SNwVeluwe in TSEG https://t.co/WpmAJrcJEE

[de Volkskrant @volkskrant]

Opinie: Niet de integratie van migranten is zorgelijk, maar juist die van witte Nederlanders https://t.co/SRAmZxhiGm

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Over de zoektocht naar de waarheid en politieke belangen. Indrukwekkende recensie van Stef Scagliola over dit intelligente vernieuwende boek van @esthercaptain en @onnosinke https://t.co/xGQO2N8zMi

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

New Issue of International Review of Social History now available
📚 https://t.co/03rYHA4n9d

#twitterstorians @IISG_Amsterdam

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The analysis of individual case studies present an intriguing viewpoint on how the expansion of ‘knowledge networks’ contributed to the gradual closing of the gap between science- and practice-based agricultural knowledge, says Luciano Maffi in TSEG https://t.co/iqBDNvKDUY

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Interesting discussion in TSEG on this book, Pioneers of Capitalism by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Maarten Prak @ESH_UU . Praise, next to questions, suggestions and more, initiated by @UrbanhistoryUA
https://t.co/oGtSCExv7W Debate articles

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In the afterword of this book, Thomas Nail invites us to read the essays as a critical guide when thinking about labour mobility in all sorts of contexts, from both historical as temporary lenses. Here, Malika Ouacha @eshcc_eur takes up Nail’s invitation https://t.co/OCILfBPajn

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“Get married women out of the factories!” Using a strike among male chocolate factory workers in 1890 as a case study, Xavier Jou-Badal seeks insights into gender complexities and women's challenges when joining the workforce. Read here: https://t.co/YFqLcPXavW #labourhistory

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New article (OA)! Examining the pearl fisheries of the 16th-century Caribbean, Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez opens new perspectives on the #colonialism exercised by the Iberian empires in their early stages and the labour transformations that followed. https://t.co/OMgZmRZEos

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Now in FirstView: Chitra Joshi's review essay on Power at Work (eds Marcel van der Linden and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja), a volume that “encapsulate[s] some of the ways in which labour history is being reconceptualized today”. https://t.co/PRm686MgcZ
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"Be a miner!" Keith Gildart et al. discuss the complex interactions between the material realities of masculinity, class, and culture within Britain's coalfields in the period 1975–1983. Online @CambridgeCore (OA): https://t.co/zcHbpmhYx6 #labourhistory #socialhistory

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With ever-advancing automation, what does the future hold for human labour? Bridget Kenny, Nico Pizzolato, Görkem Akgöz, and Greg Downey discuss Moritz Altenried's book The Digital Factory from a labour history perspective. Review dossier online here (OA): https://t.co/vWJApjlb2g

[Huygens Instituut - KNAW @huygens_knaw]

Gefeliciteerd Jelle van Lottum! 🥳 Onze collega heeft financiering ontvangen uit de SGW Open Competitie L van @NWONieuws! Daarmee kan hij onderzoek gaan doen naar de kansen van arbeidsmigranten op de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt in de achttiende eeuw 👉https://t.co/svwqDN88Qf

[IISG @IISG_Amsterdam]

Call for Global Slavery History Fellowships (GSHF) in Amsterdam. A coalition of Amsterdam based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes offers three two-month long fellowships in the field of slavery history. Deadline: Aug 1, 2024. More info: https://t.co/dEg5FdaahV

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The 12th century is considered as a period of economic growth in Europe. Elisa Bonduel @History_UGent examines the role of the then fast developing region of Flanders in this narrative, by deploying sources on toll collection, toll exemptions and tariffs https://t.co/RCxMPlDME4

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗖. 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 passed away on July 19. He was a political scientist and specialist in Southeast Asia. He was a dissident within Political Science. Yet his books opened up lines of research on central issues, such as the exercise of power and resistance to power.👇

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What does the rise and decline of the cloth-industry in medieval Ypres tell us about the forces that shaped manufacturing in the region? Peter Stabel @UrbanhistoryUA provides a detailed and nuanced account, according the review @alkaraman677 in TSEG https://t.co/CYe1Le8Zce.

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In the special issue The Yangtze and the Rhine: two major river systems, read this interesting article by Yao Chen (Xiamen University) on wooden boats and shipping organizations around the Yangtze (1700-1850) https://t.co/mGCDt3v3ph

[Leo Lucassen @Leolucassen]

Good to hear!