Mini-Symposium: "The Working World: Work, Occupations and Labour Relations in Eurasia between 1500 and 2000"

Date: November 30, 2012 Friday
Time:  2.00-6.30 p.m.
Place: Santral Campus, Residence Building, Board of Trustees Meeting Room

In recent years the field of labor history has expanded its scope of research from an almost exclusive focus on industrial, blue-collar, unionized, male laborers to include workers’ multiple, overlapping identities as well as concepts like work, occupational categories, and labor relations in a broader and gendered perspective. To this end, this mini symposium has two related objectives. The first aim is to highlight the work of artisans, craftsmen, laborers, and the concomitant labor relations of artisanal and craft production. The second goal is to contribute to the internationalization of Ottoman and Turkish labor history. More generally within the field of Ottoman history there is an urgent need to understand developments in the Empire within the broader context of Eurasia. Global labor history has the potential to open comparative perspectives on the Ottoman Empire that have until now been largely unexplored. This international gathering will include contributions on work and labor in India, the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, Russia, as well as reflections on shifts in global labor relations over the last five hundred years.

The language of the symposium is English.

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For further information please contact:
Tevfik Karatop: tevfik.karatop@bilgi.edu.tr
M. Erdem Kabadayı: mekabadayi@bilgi.edu.tr