Estas Jornadas están destinadas a estudiantes de maestría y doctorado de universidades e instituciones científicas diversas que investiguen sobre estas comunidades iberoamericanas. Durante las mismas se realizará una presentación de apertura en torno al estado actual de los estudios sociales de las comunidades marítimas iberoamericanas y nuevas perspectivas de investigación. Atendiendo al volumen y naturaleza de las presentaciones, las jornadas se desarrollarán en torno a varios ejes temáticos en sesiones virtuales consecutivas. 

Special issue "Technological Change, Mechanisation, and the Reactions of Craftsmen and Workers in Mediterranean Europe, 19th–20th Centuries".
Guest Editor: Leda Papastefanaki

We welcome papers on a wide range of topics related to women’s labour which takes particularly the company and company-level archives as its primary level of analysis. We also welcome papers that explicitly consider the distinct nature of female wage workers and female entrepreneurs, i.e. research on women working for a company or women who own their own company. We welcome scholars working on the following questions:
 1) How has the nature and extend of the gender wage gap changed over time (for instance looking at the difference between piece and time rates);
 2) How do masculinization or feminization of specific occupations, i.e. the extend of occupational segregation, change over time and why?
 3) How and when did women choose entrepreneurship compared to wage work? Can this explain the long-term development of female entrepreneurship?
 These questions are not exclusive. We also welcome methodological papers that consider the structure, pitfalls, and usefulness of company archives for women’s labour history. We strive for a broad geographical coverage, and we are interested in papers that cover the 19th and 20th centuries.

The editors of the Economic History Review invite you to join an online workshop on ‘Living Standards: Measurements and Debates’, which will discuss three recent papers and their implications for further research in the field.
The workshop will take place 15:00 – 16:30 (UK time) on 25 September 2024.
A programme and registration are available on the event website: https://ehs.org.uk/event/echr-workshop-living-standards-measurements-and-debates/

The chair for Economic and Social History at the University of Bayreuth invites applications for one Post-doctoral position (f/m/d) (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, payscale A13)
The Bayreuth group in Economic and Social History combines historical research methods with quantitative economic history in teaching and research. Our research focusses on global trade and the world economy of the 20th century, business history in particular of multinational enterprises and political economy. We offer a stimulating research environment, which strongly promotes ambitious research ideas and internal and external research cooperation. Funding for conference travel, research assistants and seminar invitations is available. Our teaching focus is on the master’s programme “History & Economics”, which offers a unique interdisciplinary education.

Special issue "Technology as a Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-Modern World"  / dossier "Les techniques comme ressources : cultures matérielles et savoir-faire dans le monde à l’époque moderne".

Our conference welcomes a broad range of topics that are historical in perspective, including but not limited to those concerned with: global trade and monetary order; the economics of empire and decolonisation; international economic organisations and international economic relations; the governing of global food and commodities; global labour practices and markets; global banking and finance; multinational business enterprises; and international tax and regulation. Following the conference, we may solicit articles for the publication of a special issue.
 

Call for expressions of interest in PhD scholarship: "The political consequences of financial and trade shocks: historical evidence from individual level panel-data in Catalonia, 1920-1950"
Principal Investigators (PIs): Francesc Amat and Enrique Jorge-Sotelo.
We invite applications for a 4-year full-time pre-doctoral position starting in March 2025 (tentative). Successful applicants would work as part of the project.

The Exploring Gender, Human Capital, and Labour Intersections in Economic History winter school is an interdisciplinary meeting of economists and historians focused on discussing the interplay between gender, human capital, and labour. To understand how these developed over the past centuries, it is necessary to understand how they are linked and interact with each other, as observing them in isolation provides only a partial picture. The winter school will provide a platform for scholars to share research, approaches, and methodologies for studying labour, gender inequalities, and the evolution of human capital. It comprises two days of academic presentations and a one-day methodological workshop. The methodological workshop consists of two parallel sessions: the first will explore the ways in which marginalized groups can be included in linked census datasets, while the second will provide insight into the processes of saving primary source material and establishing a digital archive.

This session explores profit, dividends, and returns over the 19th and 20th centuries. Organizers welcome papers addressing the issue at the country level or from a comparative perspective. Within this framework, potential research avenues are delineated by the examination of economic sectors, large versus small enterprises, domestic versus foreign entities, metropolitan versus colonial establishments, and innovative versus mature businesses. Perspectives that explore technological spillovers, financial cross-country effects, trade, and foreign-direct investments are also encouraged.

Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) is happy to announce the 2024 edition of the Francesca Carnevali Prize, awarded to the best Bachelor and Master of Science thesis in economic history, dedicated to the memory of Francesca Carnevali (1964-2013).

The editors of Contemporary European History have established this prize with the aim of encouraging, recognizing and promoting high-quality research among postgraduate and early career scholars.
The winner’s prize will consist of:
        Publication of the winning submission in Contemporary European History
        £400 worth of CUP books
Other entries of quality may be invited to publish their submissions in the journal.