Have a look at our latest blog, kicking off a new series highlighting characters from our research. This one by @nielsboender.bsky.social is entitled: Social Rights Thinkers: Donald Chesworth (1923–1991) — Minimum Wages and the High Tide of Labour Rights in Tanzania. medium.com/@glosoc/soci...

Our latest post for the GLOSOC blog, by Laura Caruso & Andres Stagnaro, considers the ILO's work in Latin America. Give it a read! medium.com/@glosoc/beyo...

Beyond Geneva: A History of Latin America and the ILO

Laura Caruso & Andres Stagnaro explore the history of the international organisation in Latin America.

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Some Easter reading - Our latest blog, written by Dr Andrea Azizi Kifyasi of the University of Dar es Salaam on Chinese-Tanzanian Medical Exchanges. He explores both the opportunities and challenges offered by these collaborations - with major present-day resonances. medium.com/p/cf2b4d08f6...

Chinese-Tanzanian Relations, Medical Knowledge, and Development after 1968

Dr Andrea Azizi Kifyasi of the University of Dar es Salaam tells the fascinating story of global knowledge flows around health in…

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Our project member @nielsboender.bsky.social spent the last 2 days with the incredible WOTESAWA charity in Mwanza (Tanzania), learning about their work rescuing and retraining domestic workers subject to exploitation. He also spoke to local government leaders about minimum wages and their history

We had a brilliant time today at the University of Dar es Salaam, talking to scholars about socio-economic rights in East Africa - but the discussions continue. Tomorrow in Bochum, Germany, we will be holding a further hybrid workshop on global histories of socio-economic rights. Link below

Join us online for this event we are hosting in Dar es Salaam tomorrow on Histories of Socio-Economic Rights in East Africa! Tune in especially for the keynote from Salvatory Nyanto at 11 AM EAT, 8 AM GMT on religion and Ujamaa in Tanzania - as well as a range of other scholars!

Sneaky listen of Julia Moses talking with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social and @itsbethperry.bsky.social on #urbanradar About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social

The first research article for our project is out. Postdoc member @nielsboender.bsky.social has published an article in the Journal of Eastern African Studies on old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya with a focus on the global debates which shaped it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya

The last decade of colonial rule in Kenya witnessed a widespread debate about social security for African workers. The government sought to create a stable, permanent workforce, while workers wante...

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In our latest guest blog post, Stefan Berger points out that Germany's Ruhr area has a thriving industrial heritage sector, but one which reveals little about how the region's workers have fought to improve their conditions. A new initiative seeks to change this. Well worth a read! 👩‍🏭⛏️ bit.ly/3Y4NYZC

Commemorating Economic and Social Rights in the Ruhr Area of Germany

Stefan Berger sheds light on a new project to inform tourists about local workers’ struggles in a key region of Europe’s industrial past.

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Our Medium page has a new blog! Bernard Thomann of @ifrae.bsky.social and @inalco.fr in Paris has written for us about accusations of 'social dumping', international pressure, and the transformation of labour conditions in twentieth-century Japan. Subscribe to see more! medium.com/@glosoc/soci...

‘Social dumping’ and the economic transformation of twentieth-century Japan

Guest Blog by Bernard Thomann (Ifrae/Inalco, Paris, France)

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We are still continuing our effort to crowdsource items for our virtual exhibition on the global struggle for labour rights! We are also welcoming blog contributions for our Medium blog medium.com/@glosoc. Any personal stories, academic findings, or reflections on the theme are welcome!

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts – Medium

Read writing from Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts on Medium. An AHRC-funded research project exploring the histories of work-related social rights in Britain, Germany, Tanzania and Kenya,...

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Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts@glosoc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Crowd-sourcing opportunity! At GLOSOC, we are putting together a virtual exhibition on Work and the Global History of Social Rights since the nineteenth century. The exhibition is targeted at school students and adults, and we need your help and suggestions for items to include!

Come listen to our post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social speak about the origins of social security in Kenya and Tanzania! Available online at 2pm UK time online and 4pm East African time in person in Nairobi on the 18th of September.

Niels Boender@nielsboender.bsky.social · 11mo ago

One for the diary! If you're in Nairobi, do come along to the British Institute in East Africa to listen to me present some findings on the history of social security in the region. Alternatively, you can join online. 4 pm EAT on the 18th of September Register here: biea.ac.uk/events/the-o...

Crowd-sourcing opportunity! At GLOSOC, we are putting together a virtual exhibition on Work and the Global History of Social Rights since the nineteenth century. The exhibition is targeted at school students and adults, and we need your help and suggestions for items to include!

Very excited to see so many of you tomorrow! There's still time to register online - just pop us an email at: glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts@glosoc.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very happy to announce our exciting program for our first project workshop, 5-6 June, on "Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights" See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.

Happy Labour Day! To mark the occasion, our project member @roryhanna.bsky.social has authored a blog on the 1955 protests by the labour movement in West Germany demanding a five-day week - with some very pertinent contemporary resonances! medium.com/p/bc26223cafcf

We are very happy to announce our exciting program for our first project workshop, 5-6 June, on "Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights" See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.

We're happy to announce we've posted our next blog - authored by Project Post-doc @nielsboender.bsky.social - a spotlight from our archival research on Trade Unions, Labour Rights and Tanzania: medium.com/@glosoc/docu...

Document Highlight: When Julius Nyerere broke with Western Trade Unionism

[Author: Dr Niels Boender (University of Edinburgh)]

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A reminder of our call for papers for the June 2025 hybrid workshop 'Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights'✍️🌐👷‍♀️🧑‍🏭 We are requesting proposals for 10-minute impulse papers. Simply send us a keyword, an abstract and a bio by 15 February! More details here: www.glosoc.org/events/

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Call for Papers for our first event! Join us at our hybrid workshop - Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights at the University of Sheffield, 5-6 June 2025. Please send us a keyword, abstract, and bio at glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk. The deadline is 15 February. See more details below!

We've published our first two blogs for our GLOSOC project. Find out about the diversity of approaches to social rights across both time and space in Europe and Africa. From Bismarck's Germany to the era of Structural Adjustment, we sketch the broad outlines of our project. medium.com/@glosoc

Very excited to announce the team working on the project! For full info, see our website: t.co/G8mxRx6ymX

We are live! Our AHRC research project Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present, has now fully started! We will be using this page to share some of our exciting work over the coming years. Check out the website here: glosoc.org