Föstudaginn 25. nóvember, kl. 12-13, flytur Silke Neunsinger dósent í hagsögu og rannsóknarstjóri hjá Verkalýðssögusafninu í Stokkhólmi (Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek) fyrirlestur sem hún nefnir:
“Towards a Global History of Domestic and Care Giving Work”
Fyrirlesturinn er á vegum Sagnfræðistofnunar Háskóla Íslands og fer fram í Lögbergi, stofu 101. Allir eru velkomnir, meðan húsrúm leyfir.
Silke lýsir fyrirlestrinum svo:
“Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societies and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities. Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire. Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection. I will present the outline for this collaborative project, discuss why we need to include domestic and care-giving work into labour history to write a new labour history and talk about the need to bring these results to those active as domestic workers today.”
Silke Neunsinger (fædd 1970) er dósent í hagsögu og rannsóknarstjóri Arbetarrrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek í Stokkhólmi. Um þessar mundir stýrir hún rannsóknarverkefni um sögu launajafnréttis: “Mind the gap! An entangled history of economic history and the demand for equal pay”. Hún er ritstjóri sænska verkalýðssögu tímaritsins, Arbetarhistoria. Silke hefur birt fjöldamörg verk um feminíska og hnattræna verkalýðssögu og aðferðafræði og lagt sérstaka áherslu á samanburðarsögu og fléttusögu, histoire croisée. Ásamt þeim Dirk Hoerder og Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk ritstýrði hún bókinni Towards a Global History of Domestic and Care work, sem var gefin út hjá Brill árið 2015.