Our Medium page has a new blog! Bernard Thomann of @ifrae.bsky.social and @inalco.fr in Paris has written for us about accusations of 'social dumping', international pressure, and the transformation of labour conditions in twentieth-century Japan. Subscribe to see more! medium.com/@glosoc/soci...

We are still continuing our effort to crowdsource items for our virtual exhibition on the global struggle for labour rights! We are also welcoming blog contributions for our Medium blog medium.com/@glosoc. Any personal stories, academic findings, or reflections on the theme are welcome!

Come listen to our post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social speak about the origins of social security in Kenya and Tanzania! Available online at 2pm UK time online and 4pm East African time in person in Nairobi on the 18th of September.

Crowd-sourcing opportunity! At GLOSOC, we are putting together a virtual exhibition on Work and the Global History of Social Rights since the nineteenth century. The exhibition is targeted at school students and adults, and we need your help and suggestions for items to include!

Very excited to see so many of you tomorrow! There's still time to register online - just pop us an email at: [email protected]

Happy Labour Day! To mark the occasion, our project member @roryhanna.bsky.social has authored a blog on the 1955 protests by the labour movement in West Germany demanding a five-day week - with some very pertinent contemporary resonances! medium.com/p/bc26223cafcf

We are very happy to announce our exciting program for our first project workshop, 5-6 June, on "Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights" See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.

We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...

A reminder of our call for papers for the June 2025 hybrid workshop 'Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights'✍️🌐👷‍♀️🧑‍🏭 We are requesting proposals for 10-minute impulse papers. Simply send us a keyword, an abstract and a bio by 15 February! More details here: www.glosoc.org/events/

Call for Papers for our first event! Join us at our hybrid workshop - Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights at the University of Sheffield, 5-6 June 2025. Please send us a keyword, abstract, and bio at [email protected]. The deadline is 15 February. See more details below!

We've published our first two blogs for our GLOSOC project. Find out about the diversity of approaches to social rights across both time and space in Europe and Africa. From Bismarck's Germany to the era of Structural Adjustment, we sketch the broad outlines of our project. medium.com/@glosoc

Very excited to announce the team working on the project! For full info, see our website: t.co/G8mxRx6ymX

We are live! Our AHRC research project Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present, has now fully started! We will be using this page to share some of our exciting work over the coming years. Check out the website here: glosoc.org