Labour History Cluster

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The Labour History Cluster was inaugurated in 2019 as a means for generating collaboration and debate on themes of labour, broadly defined. There are many entry points into this diverse realm of human experience, including histories of capitalism, war, servitude, indenture, slavery, care giving, disabilities, environmental change, emotions, gender and many other dimensions. Our core members are within the History Faculty, but the work of the group aims to engage researchers in other Centres, Faculties and Departments in Cambridge, and those beyond our local context.

We are also keen to ensure that conversations flow across early career and senior members of our academy, and that we foreground the work of those relatively early in their scholarly careers.

To contact the cluster convenors, please email labour@hist.cam.ac.uk

We're delighted to be hosting a workshop on May 4-5 2023 on Coerced Labour in Global Historical Perspective. 

You can follow our work on twitter @LabourHistCam.

Core members of the Labour History Cluster include:

Lucy Delap
Amy Erickson
Massimo Asta
Samita Sen
Malarvizhi Jayanth

Labour History blogs

Historian of South Asia Dr Partha Shil reflects on the state of the field.

Why do labour history? Partha Shil

Working on South Sudan, Dr Nicki Kindersley describes the co-production strategies she uses to investigate contemporary African capitalism.

Precarious labour in marginalised economies

Doctoral researcher Grace Whorrall-Campbell reflects on writing the history of emotions into an account of recruitment and workplace management in mid-twentieth century Britain.

Emotions at work

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche of CRASSH and  Fitzwilliam College.

Economists’ arguments in the comparable worth controversy
A Social and Economic History of Darzis (Muslim Tailors) in Calcutta, 1887-1967

Doctoral researcher Kirstie Stage reflects on labour as a crucial analytic category for historians of disability.

Labour History and Disability.

The Labour History Cluster and CamPo funded a workshop for scholars interested in disability issues.

The labour of disabled people: a workshop
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Coerced Labour in Global Historical Perspective

 

Organised by the Labour History Cluster.

The keynote speech will be by Dr Benedetta Rossi (UCL) at King's College from 5.30 - 6.45 pm on May 4th.

If you wish to attend either direct message on twitter - @LabourHistCam.

Or email labour@hist.cam.ac.uk