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Panel: Workers across Africa
Panel Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies, organized at the 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013): African dynamics in a multipolar... [Event]
Panel: New Frontiers, Old Struggles in African Labor Studies
Panel, organized at the African Studies Association, 55th Annual Meeting, 29 November - 1 December 2012 in Philadelphia, PA, USA.The panel is open to all researchers who are interested in labour... [Event]
Migration in Africa and the Middle East
Conference 'Migrations and societies in Africa and the Middle East: a long term perspective', the 4th Global Migration History Conference.Aim of the conferenceThe conference seeks to map and... [Event]
Africa Collection Guide
The Institute's recent acquisitions in this area have significantly added to its African collections. In 2011, the Africa (sub-Sahara) Regional Desk set up its operating base in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia... [Collection guide]
Karel Roskam, Africa Expert
Recently, the institute acquired the archive of publicist, radio commentator, and South Africa expert Karel Roskam.Roskam was born in Amsterdam on March 7, 1931, and passed away on January 17, 2010... [Collection highlight]
Labour in Africa
Under the auspices of the International Institute of Social History and the International Labour Organization (ILO), international researchers and officials gathered in Addis Ababa on 5 November, an... [News]
Africa Desk Opens
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: the African Union resides here, as does the United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa as well as numerous international NGOs. The Africa (Sub Sahara) Regional Desk of the... [News]
Africa Collections
FocusThe Africa Desk of the IISH aims at enhancing the integration of data-gathering with more traditional collection policies in archive management.The collecting profile of IISH Africa focuses on... [General page]
Research on Africa
Current Research ProjectsGeneral Labour History of AfricaUnder the auspices of the International Institute of Social History and the International Labour Organization (ILO), an initiative was... [General page]
Africa (sub-Sahara) Desk
The Sub-Saharan Africa Desk of the International Institute of Social History (IISH Africa) was established in 2011, in recognition of the importance of collecting research data on African labour... [General page]

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