Unpaid Work in Context(s): Labour Migration, Gender and the Varieties of Home-work
Seminar
Manuela Martini is Professor of Contemporary History at Université Lyon 2, where her current research projects explore remuneration and use of time among women and men during French and European industrialization, Migration and work in the Atlantic (19th-20th centuries), and Crisis, gender and…
On Emancipation and Exploitation through Unpaid Reproductive Labour: Some Evidence from Urban-to Rural Migration in France
Seminar
If historical feminist movements, such as wages for housework, have been fighting for the recognition and remuneration of labour taking place in the personal space of the home, this paper explores a counterintuitive struggle for more agency over one’s time through increased unpaid labour. It…
Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language - Virtual book launch
Book launch
Join ANU Professor Frank Bongiorno in conversation with Australian National Dictionary Centre director Associate Professor Amanda Laugesen about her new book Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language (NewSouth Publishing). Bugger, rooted, bloody oath… What is it about Australians and…
BUMIDOM: The French Dream? Caribbean Migration in Literature and Culture
Seminar
In the post-war era, and following departmentalization in 1947, huge waves of migrants from Guadeloupe and Martinique arrived in metropolitan France to strengthen the work force and rebuild infrastructure which had been damaged during World War Two. From 1962 to 1983, 160,000 people migrated…
Gendering ‘Hospitality’: Volunteer Labour and (Im)Mobile Men
Seminar
‘This is free, it’s for everyone.’ Such is the claim that underpins a whole range of food distribution practices, which are more and more structurally embedded in our cities as levels of poverty soar and forces of demographic transformation such as the so-called ‘migrant crisis’ tear into the…
Déportées, exploitées, déshumanisées: La condition féminine dans les camps de concentration nazis
Seminar
Pour des motifs aussi bien pseudo-scientifiques que politiques, les femmes ont été particulièrement menacées par le régime nazi à partir de l’ouverture du camp de Ravensbrück en 1939. Déportées de force depuis toute l’Europe, elles sont immédiatement condamnées à mort ou mises au travail forcé.…