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Joan Planella Rodríguez, La niña obrera,
Oleo sobre lienzo, 1885

Schedule

June, 16 - 19, 2026 - UniversitaT de Barcelona

Schedule

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 219

17. Labour Migration History

Migration of intimacy: sources and methodological approaches

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 208

10. Military Labour

18. Working Group Arctic and Indigenous Labour

Indigenous Military Labour

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 205

6. Memory and Deindustrialization

(I) DEINDUSTRIALISATION CHANGE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 21TH CENTURY

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 204

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

Toxic Legacies: Labor and Environmental Justice

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 222

7. Labour and Family Economy

(I) Workshops, ‘small industries’, women’s work and diversity of industrialization in Mediterranean Europe, 19th -20th centuries

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 207

9. Maritime Labour History

(I) Free/Unfree and Coerced Maritime Labour in a Global Perspective (1500-1900)

09:00–10:30

Classroom: 209

12. Workers' Education

Gender Perspectives on Workers’ Education

10:30–11:00

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 219

17. Labour Migration History

Comparative perspectives on Yugoslav and post Yugoslav labour migration

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 209

12. Workers' Education

Transnational workers’ education

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 207

9. Maritime Labour History

(II) Free/Unfree and Coerced Maritime Labour in a Global Perspective (1500-1900)

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 205

6. Memory and Deindustrialization

(II) DEINDUSTRIALISATION CHANGE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 21TH CENTURY

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 208

10. Military Labour

Roundtable: What is Military Labour?

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 204

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

Making the Modern Workplace: Geography, Theory, and Transition

11:00–12:30

Classroom: 222

7. Labour and Family Economy

(II) Workshops, ‘small industries’, women’s work and diversity of industrialization in Mediterranean Europe, 19th -20th centuries

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 222

4. Feminist Labour History

WG4. Feminist Labour History meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 207

6. Memory and Deindustrialization

WG6. Memory and Desindustrialization meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 208

10. Military Labour

WG10. Military History

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 209

12. Workers' Education

WG12. Worker’ Education meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 219

17. Labour Migration History

WG17. Labour Migration History meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 204

18. Working Group Arctic and Indigenous Labour

WG18. Working Group Artic and Indigenous Labour meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 203

1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe

WG1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-EAst Europe meeting

12:30–13:30

Classroom: 205

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

WG3. Workplaces: past and present meeting

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 219

17. Labour Migration History

The politics of labour migration: migrants and state actors in regional, European and global perspectives

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 208

18. Working Group Arctic and Indigenous Labour

Reframing Labour Histories from the Arctic and Beyond

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 207

12. Workers' Education

4. Feminist Labour History

Educating women workers. Feminist Perspectives on Workers’ Education

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 209

20. Guild and artisan labor

At the Bottom of the Pyramid: Guild Apprenticeship

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 206

10. Military Labour

Book launch and discussion: Military Labour History from the Early Modern Period to the Twentieth Century – Imagery and Visuality

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 203

12. Workers' Education

Workers’ education: pedagogies, cultures, organizations

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 222

9. Maritime Labour History

(I) Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Maritime Labour History

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 204

4. Feminist Labour History

Gender, class and work in particularly demanding and hostile spaces

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 205

7. Labour and Family Economy

Family Work and the Early Modern Illicit Economy

16:45–17:15

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

17:15–18:45

Classroom: Aula Magna

Key notes, general assembly and special sessions

Key Note 1. Paula Rodríguez Modroño. The feminisation of the Platform Economy: Reestructuring Precarities and Inequalities

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 207

5. Labour and Coercion

Embodied Labour Coercion, Care, and Control in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 208

7. Labour and Family Economy

Women managing family business: industry and commerce (XVIII-XX)

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 222

4. Feminist Labour History

Gender and activism as work(place)

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 220

17. Labour Migration History

Coercion, control and precarity of agricultural migrant work in the 19th and 20th centuries

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 204

2. European Trade Unionism

Trade Unions and European Integration: from the 1950s to nowadays

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 206

15. Labour and Empire

Maritime labor and precarity in colonial India

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 219

10. Military Labour

Organising Soldiers I: Unionisation, Collective Bargaining, and Activism

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 205

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

Arteries of Power: How States and Empires Shape Labor and Nature

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 209

9. Maritime Labour History

(I) Life, Culture and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities

10:00–10:30

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 221

5. Labour and Coercion

Sources and Positionality in Coercion. Representations, Self-Representations and Relations between Social Actors

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 209

11. Precarious Labour

Precarious Labour at the Margins: Black Female Domestic Workers In Western Europe, 1600-1850

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 222

4. Feminist Labour History

Biographical perspectives and spaces of work

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 206

17. Labour Migration History

9. Maritime Labour History

Social mobility and the migration of maritime labour in the 18th-19th centuries

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 219

15. Labour and Empire

Local history, global context: scale in histories of labour and empire

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 220

9. Maritime Labour History

(II) Life, Culture and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 208

10. Military Labour

Organising Soldiers II: Varieties of Resistance

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 205

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

Book Panel Roundtable: Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 203

1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe

(I) Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till today

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 207

7. Labour and Family Economy

(I) Women, work, and family in early modern Italian cities

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 204

2. European Trade Unionism

Emilio Gabaglio: An Italian, European and international trade union leader (1937-2024)

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 222

5. Labour and Coercion

10. Military Labour

Labour, Coercion and the Military, 16th–20th century

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 219

11. Precarious Labour

Precarious Labour and Migration

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 207

7. Labour and Family Economy

(II) Women, work, and family in early modern Italian cities

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 221

17. Labour Migration History

Linking the international and the domestic division of labour in the 20th century in Western Europe and North America: A gender perspective

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 220

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

Workers as Decision-Makers: Syndicalism, Trade Unionism & Guild Socialism

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 206

15. Labour and Empire

Forced labor on the move: mobility and coercion in colonial labor regime transitions

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 208

9. Maritime Labour History

Maritime Culture, Medicine and Emotions

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 204

2. European Trade Unionism

1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe

Emilio Gabaglio: An Italian, European and international trade union leader (1937-2024) Roundtable

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 209

10. Military Labour

Social Constructions and Divisions of Military Labour

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 205

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

Corporate management, regulation and collective worker participation in the workplace. Technological and energetic changes in the firm (1973-2023)

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 203

1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe

(II) Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till today

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 222

5. Labour and Coercion

Imaginaries of Coercion: Legitimations and Workers’ Alternatives

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 220

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

Workplace Democracy and Statehood: Constitutionalism, Corporatism & National Liberation

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 206

15. Labour and Empire

Labour, Empire and the Environment in Colonial Maghreb: Cereal Farming, Forestry and Forced Labour

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 208

9. Maritime Labour History

(II) Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Maritime Labour History

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 209

20. Guild and artisan labor

Clash and Renewal: Work in the Age of Guild Conflicts

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 203

1. Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe

(III) Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till today

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 219

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

Art and activism towards political consciousness: co-operation and social movements

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 205

3. Workplaces: pasts and presents

The Experience of Modern Work: Crises of Space, Transition, and Climate

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 207

7. Labour and Family Economy

(II) Care Work. Historical Perspectives beyond the home

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 204

4. Feminist Labour History

Gender segregation and stereotypes in workplaces

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 221

17. Labour Migration History

Book Presentation

16:45–17:15

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

17:15–18:45

Classroom: Aula Magna

Key notes, general assembly and special sessions

Key Note 2. Evelyn Hu-Dehart. Chinese labor migrants and the abolition of African slavery in the Americas: California and Cuba in the second half of the 19th century

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 222

11. Precarious Labour

Precarious Labour and Organised Labour

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 203

5. Labour and Coercion

Punishment and Labour Coercion from Empire to Neoliberalism

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 206

4. Feminist Labour History

Book launch “Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A New Transnational History”

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 204

8. Labour in Mining

(III) Extractive Industry under Dictatorship in the 20th Century: Social, Political and Environmental Issues

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 209

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

Workplace Democracy in Times of Crisis: War, Reconstruction & Economic Transition

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 208

15. Labour and Empire

Organizing across scales: unions and movements from the local to the transnational

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 219

20. Guild and artisan labor

On the Road of Craft: Journeymen Across Cities and Workshops

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 207

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

(I) Corporeality, emotions, and cultural practices: Interwar avant-garde performance and workers’ movement in central Europe and the Baltic states

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 205

9. Maritime Labour History

(I) Labour Conflicts Aboard and Ashore in a Global Perspective

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 210

Key notes, general assembly and special sessions

Project Presentation. DICOTRAV. A Historical Critical Dictionary of the Worlds of labour

08:30–10:00

Classroom: 220

4. Feminist Labour History

17. Labour Migration History

Women’s migration and shifting boundaries of productive/reproductive work

10:00–10:30

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 207

11. Precarious Labour

Precarious Labour and Gender

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 203

5. Labour and Coercion

Controlling, Criminalising, Managing: Tools of Coercion throughout History

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 219

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

Social Movements and Struggles for Workplace Democracy: Feminism, trade unionism, and civil rights

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 222

9. Maritime Labour History

(II) Labour Conflicts Aboard and Ashore in a Global Perspective

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 209

15. Labour and Empire

Constructing and negotiating precarity across African colonial labor regimes

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 220

2. European Trade Unionism

Spanish Trade Unions and European Integration (1973-2003)

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 206

20. Guild and artisan labor

Outside the Circle: Alternative Trajectories Beyond the Guild World

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 208

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

(II) Corporeality, emotions, and cultural practices: Interwar avant-garde performance and workers’ movement in central Europe and the Baltic states

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 204

7. Labour and Family Economy

(I) Families on the move: Labour migration and family economies in Europe (17th to 20th centuries)

10:30–12:00

Classroom: 205

8. Labour in Mining

(I) Extractive Industry under Dictatorship in the 20th Century: Social, Political and Environmental Issues

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 207

11. Precarious Labour

Precarious Labour in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 204

7. Labour and Family Economy

(II) Families on the move: Labour migration and family economies in Europe (17th to 20th centuries)

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 203

5. Labour and Coercion

The Coercion of Indentured Labor in the Long-Term View

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 219

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

From Self-Management to the Managed Self: Autonomy and Ideology in Late-20th-Century France, Yugoslavia & California

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 222

9. Maritime Labour History

(I) Navigating Risk: Remuneration, Institutions, and Career Trajectories in Maritime Labour History

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 209

15. Labour and Empire

4. Feminist Labour History

Histories of Imperial Domesticity – Experiences of Domestic Workers in the British, Dutch and French Empires

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 220

2. European Trade Unionism

Spanish Trade Unions and European Integration (1973-2003): Roundtable

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 206

20. Guild and artisan labor

The Triangle of Power: Guilds Between State and Society

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 208

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

Labour movement, care work and art

12:00–13:30

Classroom: 205

8. Labour in Mining

(II) Extractive Industry under Dictatorship in the 20th Century: Social, Political and Environmental Issues

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 205

7. Labour and Family Economy

(I) Care work. Counting and understanding care work and domestic work in the societies of the past

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 222

9. Maritime Labour History

(II) Navigating Risk: Remuneration, Institutions, and Career Trajectories in Maritime Labour History

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 203

4. Feminist Labour History

Contested spaces of the home: tensions between reproductive and productive/intellectual work

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 207

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

Cooperativism, work and visual cultures

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 220

2. European Trade Unionism

European and International Trade Unionism: from the 1970s to nowadays

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 208

20. Guild and artisan labor

Rites, Faith and Misery: The Cultural Dimensions of the Guild Experience

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 210

Key notes, general assembly and special sessions

Round Table. Doing labour history in Europe: institutions, archives, projects, problems and future perspectives

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 204

5. Labour and Coercion

15. Labour and Empire

Structural Coercion and Resistance in Colonial Labour Regimes: Comparative Histories of Subjectification

15:00–16:45

Classroom: 209

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

Toward Contemporary Challenges: Neoliberalism, the Climate Crisis & the Future of Democratic Rule

16:45–17:15

Classroom: Hall

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 207

11. Precarious Labour

WG11. Precarious Labour

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 208

13. Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural

WG13. Speak, Llok, Listen. The cultural production of work meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 209

15. Labour and Empire

WG15. Labour and Empire meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 219

19. Economic and Industrial Democracy

WG19. Economic and Industrial Democracy meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 206

2. European Trade Unionism

WG2. European Trade Unionism meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 210

20. Guild and artisan labor

WG20.Guild and artisan labor meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 203

5. Labour and Coercion

WG5. Labour and Coercion meeting

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 204

7. Labour and Family Economy

WG7. Labour and Family Economy

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 205

8. Labour in Mining

WG8. Labour in Mining

16:45–17:45

Classroom: 222

9. Maritime Labour History

WG9. Maritime Labour History

17:45–19:00

Classroom: Aula Magna

Key notes, general assembly and special sessions

General Assembly