Labour & Society History Research Group, Newcastle University

We are concerned with new as well as more established directions into the histories of labour:

• oral and written
• labour subjectivities (the senses, emotions, cognition and memory)
• place, the state and transnationalism
• ideas (socialism, nationalism, politics, religion)
• labour institutions (press, trade union, parties and cooperatives)
• labour and the everyday (class, gender, death, work and leisure)
• labour and social theory
• and the contentious politics of labour (biographical and mobilisation approaches).