The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

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📖 "Cocoa at Work: Materials and Labor in the Making of Global Chocolate", by Marta Macedo, is among Labor's five most-read articles published in 2024! As a reward, it is freely available until 31 January.

👉 https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10948920

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📖 In the paper "Cocoa at Work: Materials and Labor in the Making of Global Chocolate", Marta Macedo examines two distant workspaces of cocoa: plantations in São Tomé and a British chocolate factory "embracing the challenge of thinking with materials and the ways they produced specific social worlds."

👉 https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article-abstract/21/1/42/385840/Cocoa-at-Work-Materials-and-Labor-in-the-Making-of

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📖 Le livre "Mondialisation et justice sociale" (Éditions de la Sorbonne), édité par Marine Dhermy-Mairal et al., comprend un chapitre de Cristina Rodrigues sur les relations entre le Portugal et l'Organisation internationale du travail.

👉 http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100568560

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Na próxima semana, o IHC vai ser o anfitrião de um encontro inédito dedicado à História do Serviço Doméstico no espaço Ibérico (séculos XVIII-XX).

Investigadores/as oriundos de universidade portuguesas e espanholas irão partilhar experiências em torno das chaves interpretativas da história do serviço doméstico.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/historia-servico-domestico/

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