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NARRATING WORKING LIVES: RUPTURES, TURNING POINTS, TRAJECTORIES
<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>Vth INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY CONFERENCE,
<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>GREEK ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION
<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>RETHYMNON, 29-31 MAY 2020<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Work is a crucial feature of most people\u2019s lives. Labour history based on the living memory of working people has marked the oral history movement since the 1970s, recovering in particular the voices of industrial workers. Since the end of the 1980s, however, the transition to the post-industrial era has thoroughly disrupted – over the lifespan of one generation \u2013 both the experience of work and the horizon of expectations of working people. Closures or relocations of firms, the deregulation of labour relations, de-skilling, mass layoffs and the generalization of precarity has had a profound impact on the working lives of men and women, although not always in similar ways. On the other hand, these developments have also transformed the way in which the notion of \u201cwork\u201d is conceptualized. Professional identities and the connections between work experiences and other aspects of people\u2019s lives are influenced in multiple ways by these processes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In post-war Greece work relations were transformed through urbanization, mass employment of women and \u2013 since the 1990s \u2013 by the replacement of local workers by immigrants, especially in agriculture, fishery and the building sector. The recent economic crisis deepened the consequences of de-industrialization, globalization and the financialization of the economy, changing people\u2019s lives at staggering speed. Those parts of the planet belonging to the so-called \u201cGlobal South\u201d, including Greece, provide a promising field to study these changes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The conference intends to encourage the use of oral history and biographical research in order to explore the ruptures, the \u201cbiographical turns\u201d and the transformations of identities and subjectivities voiced in the life stories of people in and out of work. In this sense, oral history, as a field of interdisciplinary and critical reflections, may bring an important contribution to the renewal of labour history. The conference welcomes proposals which use recorded life stories to document and understand the transformations of working lives over the last fifty years. Suggested topics may include:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n