Between 2012 and 2020 the History Department at CEU hosted the research and networking initiative, ‘Labor History for the 21st Century in a Global Perspective’, originated and chaired by Marsha Siefert and Susan Zimmermann.
The initiative pursued a cluster of activities around the theme of labor history from the early modern period to the end of the 20th century, with a special emphasis on Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe, on the Mediterranean and on comparative approaches beyond the region. The aim was threefold: to stimulate research and offer expertise in a field that had been greatly neglected in recent decades; to integrate the study of the history of labor in these regions into the transnational history of labor worldwide; and to contribute to and interact with the ongoing scholarly debate on the conceptual framings of trans-European and global labor history.
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