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7th International Conference on Labour history
MARCH 27-29, 2008 AT new DELHI (INDIA)
Call for Papers
for
The Seventh
International Conference of the Association of
Indian Labour Historians in collaboration with the
V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, March 27-29, 2008, New
Delhi
The
Seventh International Conference of the Association of
Indian Labour Historians is being held on March 27-29,
2008 in collaboration with the V.V. Giri National Labour
Institute, NOIDA. The conference held every two years
show cases the best writings on labour history and
provides a platform for interaction between Indian and
foreign scholars and between academics and social
activists to interact and reflect on common themes of
interest. In keeping with the format of earlier
conferences we propose a set of issues as the main themes
of the conference, though papers outside this rubric will
also be considered for presentation on the basis of their
quality and general importance for the discipline of
labour history.
Social Histories of Work : How have societies viewed
and regulated work in history? Are societies distinguished
by distinct sets of attitudes, norms and institutions
within which work is performed? Why and how have
societies kept labour and work in different social
registers and when have these registers come together so
that labour and work have become indistinguishable? We
hope to hear historical accounts of labour processes
and the interface of technique and skill with social and
institutional norms to have a richer understanding of
human experience of work across societies. In addition we
would welcome reflections on the way in which social norms
of work have fuelled labour protests and driven labour to
organize. We specially welcome international , regional ,sectoral
and temporal comparisons.
Law
,Labour and Labour Market: Historical evolution of
labour relations has been mediated by law and law like
action of the state. Law ‘s constitutive role in the
labour market is now being recognized. We have focused
consistently in our conferences on the legal constitution
of labour regimes and reiterated the importance of
understanding law as crucial ingredient in its
constitution. In this conference we invite the
participants to focus on the processes and mechanisms that
link the sphere of law making with the evolving labour
market institutions on the onehand and the shaping of
labour relations on ground on the other hand. Law , we
expect to discover , worked consistently to shape
expectations , norms and custom governing labour
relations. On the other hand Law itself became a terrain
constituted by the conflicting pressures of different
interests. We expect our paper presenters to be especially
attentive to the mutually constitutive character of legal
regulatory regimes and labour relations. This process we
hope will throw light on the ways in which the temporal
changes in regulatory regimes correlate with changes in
labour markets and labour relations.
Rural Labour in a Changing World
By far
the bulk of the world workforce is still located in the
rural areas. Yet the historiography of labour both in the
developed and underdeveloped societies have paid much less
attention to these workers. They have been viewed as
merely a stage in the transformation into the industrial
and urban working class. The treatment of this important
social group as a residual or an anachronism has skewed
our understanding of the historical experience of the
working people . In this conference we will make special
efforts to correct this historiographic limitation by
inviting papers to focus on the historical and
contemporary conditions of existence of the rural
labourers. While agriculture undoubtedly was the mainstay
of the rural labourers historically non agricultural
occupations have played a crucial role in stabilizing the
economic and social conditions of the rural workers.
Participants are invited to focus strongly on comparative
historical and micro social investigations on rural
working lives.
Deadlines
We
invite historians ,social scientists and labour activists
and other scholars with interest in labour history to
present academic papers and participate in the
proceedings of the conference. Paper presenters are
requested to send an abstract not more than 300 words
to the conference by November 15 2007. We expect the final
papers by selected participants definitely by March 1
2008. Selected paper presenters will be
informed by December 1 ,2007 about their final
participation. Please send the abstracts and the papers
electronically to
ailhindia@gmail.com
or
the following postal address:
VVGNLI_AILH International Conference on Labour History,
C/O
Archives of Indian Labour
V.V.Giri National Labour Institute
Sector 24, NOIDA,Gautam Budha Nagar
U.P 201301
India
The
Association will provide hospitality to all the
participants for the duration of the conference. Travel
costs by second class AC Railway or its equivalent will
be provided for selected participants from within India.
We are unable to support the travel costs of foreign
participants but will strongly support their application
to any funding agency or their own institutions to defray
their travel costs .
We
look forward to your positive response.
Association
of Indian Labour Historians
42
Deshbandhu Society
15
Patparganj, Delhi - 110092
India
Phone:
91-11- 2272 1744, 91-11- 2273 3443
Email:
ailhindia@gmail.com
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