Our four broad themes are: Fair Pay, Generations at Work, Healthy Work, and Work and Workers.

Ideally, suggested items would be accompanied by about 30-75 words of description identifying their significance.

Please email your suggestions to: glosoc@sheffield.ac.uk

Thanks for your help!

The team has already assembled many items (including the images here), but we'd like your help crowdsourcing additional ones that can tell this important story. All contributors will be credited on our exhibition page. Please note that any items suggested need to be open-access or copyright-free.

These will include excerpts of policy documents; excerpts of oral history interviews; songs about work; protest posters; paintings; photographs of child workers, workplace safety devices, agricultural and industrial workers around the world, etc.

We're creating an educational resource that brings original historical materials into public view, telling the complex story of social rights related to work and encouraging reflection on social rights in the world today. It will feature ca 300 items.

Thanks for your interest, and for asking! The CfP is also up on our website: www.glosoc.org/events/

And finally, our postdocs are Dr. Rory Hanna (Sheffield) and Dr. @nielsboender.bsky.social (Edinburgh). Historians of Germany and Kenya, respectively, they will be at the historical coalface conducting much research (and running the social media channels!) over the three years of the project!

Our co-investigators are Professor Stefan Berger (RUB) and Dr Maxmillian Julius Chuhila (Dar es Salaam), who contribute particular insight into social rights and intellectual histories in Germany and Tanzania.

The principal investigators are Dr Julia Moses @sheffielduni.bsky.social
and @emma-edin.bsky.social (Edinburgh), who bring years of experience in the history of social policy and transnational intellectual exchanges across Europe and Africa.

Keep your eyes on this page for updates on the activities of our team members, links to blog posts, and highlights from the virtual exhibition we will be producing!

A collaboration between scholars at the Universities of Sheffield, Edinburgh, Bochum, and Dar es Salaam, we will explore the circulation and embedding of ideas, laws, and concepts around work-related social rights between and within these four countries.