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• 01 jui 2016

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - America

  The Emancipation of Bound Laborers in the Americas before the Abolition of Slavery

  What were the modalities of the emancipation of unfree workers? Which factors motivated the adoption of legislation regulating emancipations? Is it possible to establish a typology of the emancipators and of the emancipated servants and slaves? To what extent did slaves and indentured servants take part in their own liberation? Did the introduction of slavery provide any negotiating power to white servants, for instance by reducing their length of service? Did the practice of emancipation evolve in reaction to the advent of abolitionism, especially after the movement gained momentum and radicalized itself?

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• 19 sep 2014

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Labourers in France during the First World War

  Regulations, territories and recompositions

  Le Comité d'histoire des administrations chargées du travail, de l'emploi et de la formation professionnelle (CHTEFP) lance, avec l'appui de la Mission du centenaire de la première guerre mondiale, un appel à propositions de communications en vue d'organiser un colloque international à Paris, les 18 et 19 mai 2015. Cette manifestation scientifique portera  sur les mains-d'oeuvre en France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, ayant directement (dans les établissements publics ou privés travaillant pour la Défense nationale ) ou indirectement (économie civile, agriculture, travail à domicile) participé à l'effort de guerre.

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