Some Easter reading - Our latest blog, written by Dr Andrea Azizi Kifyasi of the University of Dar es Salaam on Chinese-Tanzanian Medical Exchanges. He explores both the opportunities and challenges offered by these collaborations - with major present-day resonances.
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This was an amazing experience - speaking to survivors, local leaders, and touring their new safe house facility. We discussed networked issues of migration, poverty, child labour and sexual abuse - all of which are faced by domestic servants. We look forward to working with WOTESAWA more!
Our project member @nielsboender.bsky.social spent the last 2 days with the incredible WOTESAWA charity in Mwanza (Tanzania), learning about their work rescuing and retraining domestic workers subject to exploitation. He also spoke to local government leaders about minimum wages and their history
Ulrike Lindner's keynote lecture, entitled Epistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour Organisation and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919 will take place 10:30 am Central European Time.
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We had a brilliant time today at the University of Dar es Salaam, talking to scholars about socio-economic rights in East Africa - but the discussions continue. Tomorrow in Bochum, Germany, we will be holding a further hybrid workshop on global histories of socio-economic rights. Link below
Join us online for this event we are hosting in Dar es Salaam tomorrow on Histories of Socio-Economic Rights in East Africa!
Tune in especially for the keynote from Salvatory Nyanto at 11 AM EAT, 8 AM GMT on religion and Ujamaa in Tanzania - as well as a range of other scholars!
Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar
About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social
The first research article for our project is out. Postdoc member @nielsboender.bsky.social has published an article in the Journal of Eastern African Studies on old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya with a focus on the global debates which shaped it.
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In our latest guest blog post, Stefan Berger points out that Germany's Ruhr area has a thriving industrial heritage sector, but one which reveals little about how the region's workers have fought to improve their conditions. A new initiative seeks to change this. Well worth a read! 👩🏭⛏️ bit.ly/3Y4NYZC
Our Medium page has a new blog! Bernard Thomann of @ifrae.bsky.social and @inalco.fr in Paris has written for us about accusations of 'social dumping', international pressure, and the transformation of labour conditions in twentieth-century Japan. Subscribe to see more!
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We are still continuing our effort to crowdsource items for our virtual exhibition on the global struggle for labour rights! We are also welcoming blog contributions for our Medium blog medium.com/@glosoc. Any personal stories, academic findings, or reflections on the theme are welcome!
Come listen to our post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social speak about the origins of social security in Kenya and Tanzania! Available online at 2pm UK time online and 4pm East African time in person in Nairobi on the 18th of September.
Our four broad themes are: Fair Pay, Generations at Work, Healthy Work, and Work and Workers.
Ideally, suggested items would be accompanied by about 30-75 words of description identifying their significance.
Please email your suggestions to: glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk
Thanks for your help!
The team has already assembled many items (including the images here), but we'd like your help crowdsourcing additional ones that can tell this important story. All contributors will be credited on our exhibition page. Please note that any items suggested need to be open-access or copyright-free.
These will include excerpts of policy documents; excerpts of oral history interviews; songs about work; protest posters; paintings; photographs of child workers, workplace safety devices, agricultural and industrial workers around the world, etc.
We're creating an educational resource that brings original historical materials into public view, telling the complex story of social rights related to work and encouraging reflection on social rights in the world today. It will feature ca 300 items.
Crowd-sourcing opportunity! At GLOSOC, we are putting together a virtual exhibition on Work and the Global History of Social Rights since the nineteenth century. The exhibition is targeted at school students and adults, and we need your help and suggestions for items to include!
Very excited to see so many of you tomorrow! There's still time to register online - just pop us an email at: glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk
Happy Labour Day! To mark the occasion, our project member @roryhanna.bsky.social has authored a blog on the 1955 protests by the labour movement in West Germany demanding a five-day week - with some very pertinent contemporary resonances!
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We are very happy to announce our exciting program for our first project workshop, 5-6 June, on "Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights"
See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.
We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...
A reminder of our call for papers for the June 2025 hybrid workshop 'Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights'✍️🌐👷♀️🧑🏭 We are requesting proposals for 10-minute impulse papers. Simply send us a keyword, an abstract and a bio by 15 February! More details here: www.glosoc.org/events/
Call for Papers for our first event! Join us at our hybrid workshop - Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights at the University of Sheffield, 5-6 June 2025. Please send us a keyword, abstract, and bio at glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk. The deadline is 15 February. See more details below!
We've published our first two blogs for our GLOSOC project. Find out about the diversity of approaches to social rights across both time and space in Europe and Africa. From Bismarck's Germany to the era of Structural Adjustment, we sketch the broad outlines of our project.
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And finally, our postdocs are Dr. Rory Hanna (Sheffield) and Dr. @nielsboender.bsky.social (Edinburgh). Historians of Germany and Kenya, respectively, they will be at the historical coalface conducting much research (and running the social media channels!) over the three years of the project!
Our co-investigators are Professor Stefan Berger (RUB) and Dr Maxmillian Julius Chuhila (Dar es Salaam), who contribute particular insight into social rights and intellectual histories in Germany and Tanzania.
The principal investigators are Dr Julia Moses @sheffielduni.bsky.social
and @emma-edin.bsky.social (Edinburgh), who bring years of experience in the history of social policy and transnational intellectual exchanges across Europe and Africa.
Very excited to announce the team working on the project! For full info, see our website: t.co/G8mxRx6ymX
Keep your eyes on this page for updates on the activities of our team members, links to blog posts, and highlights from the virtual exhibition we will be producing!
