CfP: Work and Wellbeing in History
8–9 June 2023, Oslo Metropolitan University.
Work is central to human
wellbeing, but job quality has received comparatively little attention in
economic history and historical wellbeing studies. The inclusion of ‘decent
work’ in the Sustainable Development Goals and the recent profusion of
present-day job quality metrics provide an opportunity for historical social
science to contribute to discussions about the development of job-related
wellbeing and the determinants of good work.
The Work and Wellbeing in History
FRESH Meeting will bring together research on labor and quality of life in the
past. The meeting will welcome economic and social historians, work
researchers, and wellbeing scholars to share papers on work in the past,
historical wellbeing, and the relationship between the two. We are delighted to
welcome Professor Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid) and Professor Amy Erickson (University
of Cambridge), who are world-leading experts in the study of historical
wellbeing and labor, to deliver keynote lectures.
Potential paper topics include:
- Systematic analysis of working conditions in the
past
- The interaction between job attributes and
wellbeing metrics
- Social/cultural understanding of what parts of work
matter for wellbeing
- New approaches to track how qualitative aspects of
life changed over time
- Employment discrimination on non-wage dimensions
- Studies of events and factors that impact ‘decent
work’ such as disease outbreaks, wars, regulation, and technological
change
- Politics of work environment regulation
- Research on the relationship between occupational
safety and productivity
- Interactions between welfare state institutions and
‘decent work’
Researchers interested in
presenting should send an abstract of 250–300 words and a brief (1–2 page) CV
to jobsinhistory
[at] gmail.com by 10 March 2023. Early career scholars and
researchers from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the academy are
especially encouraged to apply.
Important Dates
This meeting is supported by
the Centre for Welfare and
Labour Research at OsloMet and organized in association with the Frontier Research in Economic and
Social History (FRESH) series. It is part of the Work and Wellbeing in
History project supported by the Center
for Advanced Study at the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters. There is no registration fee, and lunch and
refreshments will be provided. Attendees will be expected to cover their own
travel, accommodation, and the conference dinner (approximately 300 NOK).
Travel funding of up to €125 will be offered to two graduate student presenters
based on need.
Contact Info:
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/jobsinhistory/