Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts
@glosoc.bsky.social
This AHRC research project explores ideas and networks concerning work-related social rights from 1880 to the Present in Germany, the UK, Tanzania and Kenya.
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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
About child labour and urban and rural dimensions drawing on her project @glosoc.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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
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...
medium.com/@glosoc/soci...
‘Social dumping’ and the economic transformation of twentieth-century Japan
Guest Blog by Bernard Thomann (Ifrae/Inalco, Paris, France)
medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
medium.com/@glosoc/soci...
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!
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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!
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.
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...
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...
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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.
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!
September 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
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.
See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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
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
medium.com/p/bc26223cafcf
May 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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
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.
See www.glosoc.org/events/ for a text version of the programme and for details to register for online and in-person attendance.
April 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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.
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)]
medium.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
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/
Events
www.glosoc.org
January 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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/
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!
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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
medium.com/@glosoc
December 11, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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
medium.com/@glosoc
Very excited to announce the team working on the project! For full info, see our website: t.co/G8mxRx6ymX
https://www.glosoc.org/people/
t.co
November 12, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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
November 1, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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