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Note: Deadline for abstracts 14 December Oral History@Work: recording change in working lives: 5-6 July 2019 at Swansea University, Singleton Campus The Annual Conference of the Oral History Society in association with Llafur and Britain at Work, supported and hosted by Swansea University. Call for Papers Many aspects of working lives and the experience of work have changed within a generation. In the UK, areas and communities defined by work in single industries, mining, textiles and shipbuilding, have been transformed through closures and the export of work overseas. In the workplace, the balance of power has shifted as employers have responded to workers' organisation in different ways. Casualisation, part-time and temporary contracts have spread into new areas of work and employment changing the experience of work over lifetimes. Meanwhile, issues of gender, race and migration continue to divide and determine opportunities and inequalities in work and beyond. Oral history provides a way to record and interpret change in what is a central activity in people's lives. The conference will explore the use of oral history to record and interpret change in working lives and the ways in which what is recorded is shared and disseminated. In particular, the conference welcomes contributions which use oral history to document and understand: * The profound change in working lives over the last sixty years * How gender, race, class, disability and health have affected employment opportunities and experiences * The effects of changing conditions of employment on working lives * The impacts of changing technologies on the nature of work * The interface between history, memory and identity as manifested in working lives * The rewards and dangers of work * Privatisation * How new industries have affected occupational health and workplace solidarity * The role of trade unions and experiences of industrial action * The changing culture of work and workplaces * Communities and work * Worklessness and unemployment * Work and migration * Work and the environment * Unpaid work * The role of community projects, archives, museums and other heritage organisations in representing work and industrial history. There will be a Welsh medium strand to the conference for contributions in the Welsh language. Simultaneous translation will be available for non-Welsh speakers. Keynote speakers: * Arthur McIvor, Professor of Social History and Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. * Tom Hansell, documentary film maker and installation artist, Appallachian State University. * Beth Thomas, former Keeper of History & Archaeology at Amgueddfa Cymru and content lead for the redevelopment of St Fagans National Museum of History. PROPOSALS The deadline for submission of proposals is 14 December 2017. Each proposal should include: a title, an abstract of between 250-300 words, your name (and the names of any co-presenters, panellists, etc), your institution or organisation, your email address, and a note of any particular requirements. Most importantly your abstract should demonstrate the use of oral history or personal testimony and be directly related to the conference theme. Proposals that include audio playback are strongly encouraged. Proposals should be emailed to the Dangerous Oral Histories Conference Administrator, Polly Owen, at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. They will be assessed anonymously by the conference organisers, and presenters will be contacted in January/February 2018. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-RESEARCH&A=1