[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Wits conference on labour, 28-31 July

[Patrick Bond]

**Apologies for cross-posting**
 
An international conference, running from the evening of Friday 28th to 
Monday 31st July 2006, at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.

Rethinking Worlds of Labour:
Southern African labour history in international context

The aims of the conference are to:
* Promote a transnational and regional view of labour history, with 
reference to southern Africa, and to comparisons of the less developed 
and  semi-peripheral regions of the global "South."
* To reflect on the implications of the "first" globalisation of the 
1870s to the 1930s for the "second" globalisation that started in the 1970s.
* To foster collaborative work between scholars, particularly those 
based in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

 
Public debate and opening

IS LABOUR HISTORY?

Working Class Movements into the 21st Century

 
Friday 28th July, 7 pm, John Moffat Building, East Campus, Wits University:
ALL WELCOME!

    *
      GWEDE MANTASHE, outgoing General-Secretary, National Union of 
Mineworkers (South Africa)
    *
      KIM SCIPES, American labour activist and writer, author of KMU:  
building genuine trade unionism in the Philippines, 1980-1994
    *
      NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN, History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand

Labour history tour
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/conferences.htm#tour

Funded by African Studies, the University of the Witwatersrand, the 
Indian Consulate and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (South Africa)

CONTACT:
Tel: 011-717-4290
Cel: 073-1460-871
history-workshop at social.wits.ac.za
 

DETAILS
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/conferences.htm

PROGRAMME
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/programmeJuly18.htm

REGISTER TO ATTEND SESSIONS
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/prereg.htm
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/call2006.htm

MAP
http://www.wits.ac.za/historyworkshop/images/map.jpg



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