Abstract
Deadline: 12/1/2002
Event:
International Institute
of Social History Conference on the Global History of Textile
Workers, 1650-2000
Event
Date & Location:
November 2004, TBA
Website:
http://www.iisg.nl/research/textile.html
Information:
The aim of this project is to write a global and comparative
history of textile workers 1650-2000. In order to do this,
national overviews as well as thematic papers will be written
by several social scientists across the world, discussed
at a conference in November 2004 and finally published.
This call for papers offers a detailed description of our
intended programme. Please read this carefully, and also
take note of the framework document, according to which
all national overviews will be written.
In the first phase of the project, national studies will
be written on textile production in different countries
over the period 1650-2000. This lengthy period has been
chosen to incorporate the pre-industrial period, proto-industrialisation,
the industrial production of textiles from its beginnings
in Britain in the eighteenth century, and the de-industrialisation
of these early centres of the textile industry. But the
focus will not exclusively be on well-known industrial nations.
All major textile producing countries will be included.
To make them useful tools for international comparisons,
these national overviews will be based on a framework document
which lists a number of topics/questions to be treated in
each overview.
Submission
Guidelines / Information:
This call for papers offers a detailed description of
the intended programme. Please take note of the framework
document, according to which all national overviews
will be written.
Proposals
for a national overview, based on the framework document,
should be written in English and are due before December
1, 2002. Please send a short proposal (500 words max.) by
email: textile@iisg.nl
or by fax: +31 6654181
Contact:
Lex Heerma van Voss
Els Hiemstra
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
Phone: # 31206685866
Fax: +31 6654181
