Panel 1: Premodern labour movements
Thursday 9. February 2023, 12:00-13:00 University of Manchester Student Union (SU) Hive
Dr Ingrid Rembold: ‘Early medieval guilds and horizontal associations: the pre-history of modern labour movements’
Dr Georg Christ: ‘Medieval labour between horizontal and vertical organisation’
Panel 2: Irish labour movement
Thursday 10. February 2023, 14:00-15:00 University of Manchester Student Union (SU) Hive
Dr Chris Loughlin: ‘Automated Labours: The Distributions of Labour under Neoliberalism’
(A Ranciere inspired view of what has occurred and utilising the new Global Labour History as a framework to understand labour under neoliberalism.)
Dr Chris Loughlin: ‘”Secret” Labours: A Case Study in Criminalisation, Labour Organisation and the State, 1921-72’
(This paper will be based on the academic article (and subsequent book https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma992976087189901631) that Chris published on the topic. Currently he is working on a second monograph which looks more closely at archival construction, vision/visibility, and knowledge).
Panel 3: Labour movement in 19th c. Britain
Friday 10. February 2023, 12:00-13:00 University of Manchester Student Union (SU) B1
Prof. Mike Sanders: ‘What is Chartism and why does it matter?’
Prof. Mike Sanders: ‘Education, Education, Education, or Agitate, Educate, Organise? A brief history of independent working-class education’
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