The First World War led, temporarily at least, to shifts in the lives and expectations of women on the Home Front. Whilst there has been much attention given to women who worked during the conflict, the majority of women who remained in the domestic sphere, have received less attention, although...
Saturday 12 November, 2016
EVENT TYPE
conference
Saturday 26 November, 2016
ORGANISER
EVENT TYPE
conference
A one-day conference on migrant workers, trade unions and the new economy.
Forty years ago Asian women at Grunwick led a strike for basic human dignity at work and for the right to join to a trade union. Today...
Sunday 27 November, 2016
ORGANISER
EVENT TYPE
book launch
Join Graham Taylor, co-author of Grunwick: The Workers’ Story, at Idea Store Canary Wharf for a special one-off talk, in which we will attempt to disentangle the racism and sexism...
Sunday 4 December, 2016
ORGANISER
EVENT TYPE
exhibition
Forty years ago in August 1976 six workers walked out of Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden, thereby igniting an historic two-year dispute. They were soon joined by most of the workforce.
As the first workers left the factory, one – Jayaben Desai – offered a parting...
Monday 12 December, 2016
ORGANISER
EVENT TYPE
seminar
This seminar will be the latest occasional instalment in the ‘Culture, Power and Politics‘ series, bringing...
Thursday 15 December, 2016
VENUE
City University, College Building, Room A130, 272-278 St John St, London EC1V 4PB
ORGANISER
EVENT TYPE
conference
In 2016, almost a decade after the worst financial crisis for eighty years, it seems there are signs that neoliberalism is finally in retreat. The ruling common sense of policy makers, economists, business people, and mainstream journalists on a global basis since the 1980s, neoliberalism had...
Thursday 8 June, 2017, Saturday 10 June, 2017
EVENT TYPE
call for papers
Twentieth Century Communism Journal and the People’s History Museum are looking for papers for this international conference on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
- History, civil society and the ‘idea of Communism’ debate (Badiou, Žižek, Dean et al)
- Civil...