Labour Histories from the Global South: International Seminar

The members of the GT Nacional Mundos do Trabalho - Working Group "Worlds of Labour" (ANPUH - Brazilian National History Association) invite scholars and researchers to submit paper proposals for their first International Seminar, to be held in Florianópolis (Brazil), 25th to 28th October 2010, on the theme: “Labour Histories from the Global South”.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers who are interested in a variety of issues involving the historical studies of labour in a global perspective.

Works contemplating the following possible subjects will be welcomed:
- Compulsory workers migrations, including traffic of women and workers in the contemporaneity;
- Work and diasporas in the Southern Hemisphere;
- Slave labour, indigenous labour and coercive labour in the Americas, Africa and Asia;
- Labour and the multiple meanings of ethnic and racial identities;
- Labour History in “post-emancipation” societies;
- Race, gender and nation in labour history;
- Prostitution, infant labour and domestic labour;
- Informal and precarised labour
- Labour market and migrations;
- Immigration and politics in the formation of national identities;
- Labour, colonialism and post-colonialism;
- Political ideologies and social movements;
- Political actions and organizations;
- Anarchism, communism, socialism, syndicalism and internationalism;
- Diversity of workers associative logic;
- Labourig classes and their relations to the State and Political Institutions;
- Labour legislation in comparative perspective;
- Work and militarization;
- Work and the environment;
- Work places, forms and processes;
- Class cultures;
- Workers biographies and trajectories;
- Workers in the arts and in the media;
- Sociability and politics networks;
- Conflicts, solidarities and rivalries amongst workers;
- Diversity and fluidity of countryside/city relationships in the labour world configuration;
- The concept of working class in the light of new discussions about the Global South;

We will accept proposals dealing with specific aspects of the above mentioned areas, both in the locall as well as in the global comparative framework. Proposals about correlated subjects will be equally analyzed. The presentations can be in the official languages of the event: Portuguese, Spanish and English. Partial or full sponsoring for foreign speakers unable to meet their travel and stay expenses in Brazil will be requested to the event sponsoring agencies Proposals selected by the scientific committee might obtain such sponsoring. Therefore the symposium organizers strongly advise the submission of papers coming from universities and research institutions from other Latin American countries as well as India and African countries.
Speakers of scientific Institutions from the Northern Hemisphere will not be sponsored, but are equally welcome to present their proposals. The organization of the event will support the international participants in their requests for sponsoring to their respective sponsoring agencies and institutions.

Participants:
Papers from any proponents that have conducted research on the wide subjects contemplated on the event will be considered.

Due to limitations of space and time, the acceptance of papers will be conditioned to the evaluation by the event’s scientific committee, which will select the papers to be presented. Obs.: The presentation of the complete text will be, to all participants, the final condition for the inclusion of papers previously accepted during the event scheduling.

Important dates:
Proposals forwarding: 01/12/2009 – 20/01/2010
Replies: 31/01/2010
Final deadline for sending papers in: 15/05/2010
Confirmation of the final presentation schedule: 20/05/2010

Proposals formating:
The proposals must be sent by email to the event organizers and must include an abstract of up to 300 words, containing title and name of author, as well as a brief résumé of the proponents’ CV.

Proposals should be sent to:
trabalho.global@gmail.com
Henrique Espada Lima
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
55-48-88224125
Email: trabalho.global@gmail.com