XIV Nordic Labour History Conference
XIV Nordic Labour History Conference
Reykjavik, Iceland 28–30 November 2016
The topic of this three-day history conference will be Nordic Labour, broadly defined, including the history of work, history of workers and the history of labour movements. The aim is to bring together scholars and students who specialize in different areas of Nordic labour history to discuss findings from a Nordic comparative perspective, as well as to add a global perspective.
Panels will cover the following themes:
- Social strikes and conflicts
- Riots, uprising, revolts
- Medieval labour, typical/untypical labour such as the military, sex workers, domestic workers
- Flexibility, precarious employment
- Migration
- Literature and labour
- The welfare state and the history of the Nordic model
- Historiography, and working class culture, consumption and leisure time
Conference fee is 23.000 ISK. MA students can apply for a fee waiver.
For more information, registration and fee payment, visit the XIV Nordic Labour History Conference website.
The conference is organized by the Institute of History, University of Iceland and the EDDA Research Center, University of Iceland in collaboration with the Swedish Labour Movement Archives and Library; the Danish Worker‘s Museum & Labour Library and Archives; the Danish Society for Labour History; the Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library; the Center for Labour History, Landskrona; the Finnish Labour Archives; the People’s Archives, Helsinki; and the Finnish Society of Labour History Research.
The conference is supported by the Swedish Bank Tercentenary Foundation, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
