Labour and Society Research Group, Newcastle

Description

The Labour and Society Research Group was established in 2009 by academics from Newcastle University and Northumbria University. It is a multidisciplinary forum of scholars who share an interest in the histories, sociologies and geographies of labour. 

Based at Newcastle University, Labour and Society spans inclusive and dynamic research themes. We are concerned both with new and established directions in the history of labour, including, but not restricted to: 

• Oral and written labour history 
• Labour subjectivities (the senses, emotions, cognition, and memory) 
• Place, land, the state, transnationalism, and contested heritage
• Ideas: socialism, nationalism, politics, religion, feminism, environmentalism 
• Labour institutions (trade unions, parties, cooperatives, activist groups) 
• Labour and the everyday (class, gender, work, leisure, death) 
• Labour and social theory 
• The contentious politics of labour (biography, prosopography, activism, cycles of protest). 

We encourage interdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships beyond the university, and we have a track record of organising workshops and supporting funding bids undergoing development.

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Founding year

2009

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Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne