The History Workshop

The History Workshop was founded in 1977 by a group of academics from a number of disciplines in the social sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. Since its inception the History Workshop has had two central objectives. The first has been the promotion of research into those parts of South African history that have only in recent years attracted scholarly attention - the lives and activities of ordinary people within black and white South African communities. The second has been to make this historical research accessible to ordinary South Africans who do not ordinarily read academic monographs. Information about LABOUR CROSSINGS: WORLD, WORK AND HISTORY international conference, Friday 5 September to Monday 8 September 2008, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Registration is closed: please contact Lucien van der Walt with any queries, by clicking here. Organised by the History Workshop, University of Witwatersrand, and the Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg, in association with the International Association of Labour History Institutions,  the International Conference of Labour and Social History, and the International Institute for Social History. South African organising team: Peter Alexander, Phil Bonner, Jon Hyslop, Bridget Kenny, Noor Nieftagodien, Lucien van der Walt.