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The 1791 Gesellenstreik gets called Germany's first #generalstrike, but it was more messy than that. From party atmosphere to blood in the streets in one day.

https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/04/15/journeymens-strike-feeding-the-revolution-xviii/

#earlymodern #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #labourhistory #eattherich

The 1791 Gesellenstreik gets called Germany's first #generalstrike, but it was more messy than that. From party atmosphere to blood in the streets in one day.

https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/04/15/journeymens-strike-feeding-the-revolution-xviii/

#earlymodern #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #labourhistory #eattherich

The 1791 Gesellenstreik gets called Germany's first #generalstrike, but it was more messy than that. From party atmosphere to blood in the streets in one day.

https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/04/15/journeymens-strike-feeding-the-revolution-xviii/

#earlymodern #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #labourhistory #eattherich

O programa do encontro "Nós Estamos Contigo na Casa: Trabalho doméstico e acção coletiva — Arquivos, memórias, testemunhos" já se encontra disponível no nosso site.

Vai decorrer na FCSH e no Centro Cultural Cabo Verde.

As inscrições estão abertas e são gratuitas!

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/estamos-contigo-casa/

#Histodons #History #Sociology #DomesticLabour #LabourHistory #Archives #TrabalhoDoméstico #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Arquivos

Check out the programme for our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna: this year, the subject is "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".

It will take place in Bologna on 27 November.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/

#Histodons #Capitalism #TechnoCapitalism #Technology #GlobalInfraestructures #Infraestructures #Extractivism #GlobalEconomy #TransnationalCorporations #BigTech #LabourHistory #RentierCapitalism #TechnoFeudalism #RentExtraction #Bologna

‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’
Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness
of what he wanted and did not want
that raises eyebrows: when does the quixotic
begin to gel, begin to impress, at what point
of naked surprise?

—Edwin Morgan, “On John Maclean”
from COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1997)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781847779656/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean

John Maclean: All that life can give us
19 Nov, University of Stirling – free

Author & poet Henry Bell will discuss his creative & historical work around Scottish socialist John Maclean, followed by an open archive and poetry reading

#Scottish #literature #poetry #history #Labourhistory #socialism #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean

📰 Tijl Vanneste was interviewed by The Times of India about his research into diamond mining, processing and trade. Among other things, the IHC historian highlighted the harsh working conditions that existed and still exist in this sector.

👉 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/drowning-to-x-rays-diamond-workers-lived-similarly-in-17th-century-india-and-20th-century-south-africa/articleshow/125196173.cms

#Histodons #ModernHistory #Diamonds #DiamondMining #DiamondTrading #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #SocialHistory #HistoryOnTheMedia #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Diamantes #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Mineração

#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. 9/9

'We are with you at home'
This meeting seeks to encourage the participation and sharing of ideas among activists, artists, researchers, workers and trade unions — calling on the voice of workers and the power of archives as a living tool for knowledge, learning and transformation.

Send your proposal by 10 November.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/with-you-at-home/

#Histodons #DomesticLabour #LabourHistory #DomesticWork #LaborHistory #CFP

🗣 Está aberta a chamada para trabalhos do encontro "Nós Estamos Contigo na Casa. Trabalho doméstico e acção coletiva — Arquivos, memórias, testemunhos", que procura estimular a partilha, convocando a voz das trabalhadoras e a força do arquivo como uma ferramenta viva de conhecimento, aprendizagem e transformação.

A organização é do IHC e do CICS.NOVA e terá lugar em Lisboa a 6 e 7 de Fevereiro de 2026.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/estamos-contigo-casa/

#Histodons #History #Sociology #DomesticLabour #LabourHistory

📖 Do colóquio "Sindicalismo, Trabalho e Cidadania: 90 anos depois do 18 de Janeiro de 1934" resultou um livro que inclui um capítulo de Fátima Mariano, João Freire e Cristina Rodrigues sobre os "contextos envolventes do poder político-militar da #Ditadura, a situação do emprego e dos #sindicatos livres, e o processo de institucionalização dos Sindicatos Nacionais."

🔓 Disponível em #AcessoAberto: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/34129

#Histodons #Unionism #Unions #LabourHistory #Sindicalismo #Trabalho

In den #USA & #Kanada wird heute der #LaborDay begangen, der #Gedenktag der #Arbeiterbewegung. Wir verlosen aus diesem Anlass unter allen, die diesen Post heute boosten, 1 Exemplar von #WerkstattGeschichte 79/2019 »arbeit/freizeit« mit Beiträgen zum Verhältnis von #Arbeit & #Freizeit im 19./20. Jh. im Thementeil, hg. v. Reinhild Kreis & Josef Ehmer:
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/arbeit-freizeit

@histodons @historikerinnen

#LaborHistory #LabourHistory #Work #Leisur #ArbeiterGeschichte #histodons #Sozialgeschichte

Clann Ghill-Eain
Somhairle MacGill-Eain

Chan e iadsan a bhàsaich
an àrdan Inbhir-chéitean
dhaindeoin gaisge is uabhair
ceann uachdrach ar sgeula;
ach esan bha ’n Glaschu,
ursann-chatha nam feumach,
Iain mór MacGill-Eain,
ceann is fèitheam ar sgeula.

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#Scottish #literature #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #poem #poetry #socialism #Scotland #workingclass #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside #JohnMaclean

Hey Mac did ye see him as he cam in by Gorgie,
Awa ower the Lammerlaw and north o’ the Tay?
Yon man is comin’ and the hale toon is turnin’ oot,
We’re aa’ sair he’ll win back tae Glasga the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The John Maclean March”

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #socialism #Scotland #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside #HamishHenderson #JohnMaclean

John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August

Listen to Hamish Henderson’s “The John Maclean March”, sung by Dick Gaughan (1972)
✊

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs5cyy5EM

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #folksong #socialism #Scotland #workingclass #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside #HamishHenderson #JohnMaclean

🗣 We've opened the call for papers for this year's edition of our Joint International Workshop with the University of Bologna, under the subject "Infrastructures of Rent Extraction".

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2025/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #Capitalism #TechnoCapitalism #Technology #GlobalInfraestructures #Infraestructures #Extractivism #GlobalEconomy #TransnationalCorporations #BigTech #LabourHistory #RentierCapitalism #TechnoFeudalism #RentExtraction

📖 No artigo "Representações e orientações do movimento sindical face ao trabalho e ativismo feminino em Portugal, 1850-1926", Joana Dias Pereira analisa a "acção coletiva feminina durante a industrialização portuguesa e as consequentes representações e orientações sindicais sobre a mulher trabalhadora".

🔓 Para ler em #AcessoAberto: https://doi.org/10.4000/12uut

#Histodons #GenderStudies #SocialHistory #LabourHistory #HistoryOfWomen #TradeUnions #EstudosDeGénero #HistóriaSocial #Sindicalismo

🆕 Congratulations to Pamela Peres Cabreira, whose thesis on the demands and resistance of female workers in the factories during PREC was awarded the Francisco Canais Rocha Prize for studies on the labour movement.

👉 Read the news on our website: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/pamela-cabreira-wins-prize/

@histodons

#Histodons #LabourMovement #LabourHistory #PREC #PortugueseHistory #WomenInHistory #MovimentoOperário #MulheresNaHistória #HistóriaDePortugal #25deAbril #25April1974 #AcademicLife #PhDLife #VidaAcadémica

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/

#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons

The Orgreave Stations
6 Feb, Glasgow – free (booking required)

To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984/5 Miner’s Strike, poet William Hershaw & artist Les McConnell have used the Christian framework of “the Stations of the Cross” as an imaginative foundation to describe events leading up to the Battle of Orgreave.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-orgreave-stations-tickets-1203046437279

#Scottish #literature #poetry #mining #coalmining #minersstrike #labourhistory #workingclasshistory

#Labor historian #JeffSchuhrke talks with the #NewBooksNetwork about his book "#BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade "

https://youtu.be/pFRhxwSklxs
#USlabour #AFLCIO #AFL #CIO #labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USLaborHistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #AIFLD #USimperialism #LaborMovement #LabourMovement #USLaborMovement #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

Kevin Gosztola interviews #JeffSchuhrke, #labor historian, journalist, union activist, and author of #BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

https://youtu.be/7IYKQyLRH78
#labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #USLaborHistory #AFLCIO #UShistory #USpol #USimperialism #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #TradeUnions #USTradeUnions #anticommunism #books

"Every #documentary about the #LaborMovement ever made and how to watch"

🧵 by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1698771143442698612.html
#cinéma #DocumentaryCinema #LabourMovement #LabourStruggles #TradeUnions #TradeUnionMovement #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #MouvementSyndical #Syndicats #MouvementOuvrier #LuttesOuvrières #documentaire #HistoireDuTravail

In den #USA & #Kanada wird heute der #LaborDay begangen, der #Gedenktag der #Arbeiterbewegung. Wir feiern mit und erinnern aus diesem Anlass an #WerkstattGeschichte 70/2016 "arbeit begrenzen entgrenzen"; im Thementeil, hg. v. Sebastian Jobs & Elissa Mailänder, immerhin auch 2 Beiträge mit US-Bezug:
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/arbeit-begrenzen-entgrenzen

@histodons @historikerinnen

#LaborHistory #LabourHistory #ArbeiterGeschichte #histodons

Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

https://youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
#USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

Ventured across the Irwell to visit Salford. Our walk included a visit to Bexley Square. Here in 1931 citizens of Salford who were protesting against cuts in unemployment benefit were attacked by mounted police wielding batons. This event features in the novel 'Love on the Dole' and the film of the same name.

#salford #labourhistory #urbanwalk #walking

Hey Mac did ye see him as he cam in by Gorgie,
Awa ower the Lammerlaw and north o’ the Tay?
Yon man is comin’ and the hale toon is turnin’ oot,
We’re aa’ sair he’ll win back tae Glasga the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The John Maclean March”

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #socialism #Scotland #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside

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Hear it sung by Dick Gaughan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAs5cyy5EM

They’ve rieved the live rose frae the leaf
An bluidit aa hir snawy bosom;
Bit rose-buds wheesh the rose-tree’s grief
An fresh hir rue til reasoun…

—Thurso Berwick, “Til the Citie o John Maclean”

John Maclean (1879–1923), socialist & Red Clydesider, was born #OTD, 24 August

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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #socialism #Scotland #history #labourhistory #RedClydeside

Tem início amanhã, no Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, o colóquio "Sindicalismo, Trabalho e Cidadania: 90 Anos Depois do 18 de Janeiro de 1934", que tem como objectivo debater as mudanças no sindicalismo, no trabalho e na cidadania depois da Greve Geral de 18 de Janeiro de 1934.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sindicalismo-trabalho-cidadania/

#Histodons #TradeUnions #LabourHistory #GeneralStrike #ContemporaryHistory #GreveGeral #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Sindicalismo #Associativismo #Cidadania

👩‍🎓 Desejamos muito boa sorte à Pamela Peres Cabreira, que vai defender a sua Tese de Doutoramento sobre as reivindicações e resistência das operárias nas fábricas durante o #PREC amanhã, 19 de Junho.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/pamela-peres-phd/

#Histodons #AcademicLife #PhDLife #WomensHistory #LabourHistory #HistóriaDoTrabalho #HistóriaDasMulheres

No sábado, vamos até Vila Viçosa, onde o João Gabriel Caia var apresentar a conferência "Trabalhadores Rurais Alentejanos na República: história do movimento sindicalista em Évora (1910-1914)" — uma iniciativa conjunta com o CECHAP.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/trabalhadores-rurais-alentejanos/

#Histodons #RuralLabour #Unions #LabourHistory #Alentejo #Évora #PrimeiraRepública #Sindicatos #HistóriaDoTrabalho #TrabalhadoresRurais #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #HistoryInThePublicSphere

Wir begehen den #TagDerArbeit mit einem Blick in #WerkstattGeschichte 79/2019: Im Thementeil "arbeit/freizeit", hg. v. Reinhild Kreis & Josef Ehmer, Beiträge zum Verhältnis von #Arbeit & #Freizeit bei Offizieren um 1900, bei einem isländisch-sozialistischen Intellektuellenpaar & in japanischen Diskursen im 19./20. Jh.
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/arbeit-freizeit

Unter allen, die heute boosten, verlosen wir ein Heft!

@histodons

#1Mai #Maifeiertag #InternationalWorkersDay #LabourHistory #histodons

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...SCUTCHER:

"minds a scutching machine, which cleans cotton and delivers it in form of laps, i.e. smooth rolls resembling wadding...takes off lap roller when full and starts fresh one; clears away obstructions in machine."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Cotton Scutcher, 1945 #history #LabourHistory

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…EMBOSSER TO THE BLIND or BRAILLE WRITER:

A Braille-producing operative who either fed an embossing machine with sheets to produce Braille relief dots, or used hand tools to produce a woven Braille pad.

📷 Tools for making a woven Braille pad, c/o Wellcome Collection #history #LabourHistory #AccessibilityMatters

100 years today since the death of the Red Clydeside socialist John Maclean. Here's Hamish Henderson singing his rousing tribute, The John Maclean March, recorded by Alan Lomax in 1951.

https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/scotland-1951-1958/hamish-henderson-351/john-maclean-march-i

'The red will be worn, my lads, and Scotland will rise again,
Now great John Maclean has come hame tae the Clyde.' 🌹

#FolkMusic #TradMusic #RedClydeside #Socialism #JohnMaclean #WorkingClass #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #Socialist #Scotland #ScottishHistory

🗣 Está aberta a chamada para comunicações do colóquio "Sindicalismo, Trabalho e Cidadania: 90 Anos Depois do 18 de Janeiro de 1934", que vai decorrer no ICS — Universidade de Lisboa e Iscte-IUL, em Lisboa, nos dias 20 e 21 de Junho de 2024.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/sindicalismo-trabalho-cidadania/

#Histodons #CFP #Unionism #LabourUnions #LabourMarket #TradeUnions #20thCetury #LabourHistory #SocialHistory #Trabalho #Sindicalismo #Sindicatos #Associativismo #MercadoLaboral #SéculoXX #Cidadania #Citizenship

Congratulations to Gabriele Marcon for his chapter: 'Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany' #OpenAccess #OA

https://degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111137155/html#contents

#mobilities #migration #mining #labourhistory #medici

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…FLAX-JOBBER:

A man "who undertakes to cultivate, gather, and sell the flax-crop of a farmer."

English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) c/o @uniinnsbruck
#history #FamilyHistory #histodons #geneadons #LabourHistory #AncestryHour
📷 Flax workers at harvest time, 1909 c/o @librarycongress

#LabourHistory #Histodons #HistoryLecture
It’s a date…
Booking now open for SSLH members (check your email).
Booking opens Friday 8 September for all.
More info: https://sslh.org.uk/2023/07/27/the-rising-sun-of-socialism-john-halstead-memorial-lecture-2023/

Note: In the #DudleyMoore and the Musical #Dalek episode of #TheMuppetShow, #Gonzo does a bit wherein he attempts to defuse a bomb while reciting the works of #PercyByssheShelley.
Yes, THAT Shelley, friend of #LordByron (defender of the #Luddites) and husband of #MaryShelley (author of the novel #Frankenstein).

Never let it be said that an advanced degree in literature is pointless.
#LabourHistory #PopCulture

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