Fw: H-ASIA: CFP "Work, labour and skill-Historical meanings and changes", BASAS, Leeds, UK, Apr 3-5, 2013 panel

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP "Work, labour and skill-Historical meanings and
changes", BASAS, Leeds, UK, Apr 3-5, 2013 panel


> H-ASIA
> December 5, 2012
>
> Call for papers for proposed panel "Work, labour and skill Historical
> meanings and changes", British Association for South Asian Studies
> (BASAS), University of Leeds, April 3-5, 2013
> DEADLINE DECEMBER 8, 2012
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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> Conference/call for paper for BASAS, 2013.
>
> Location: United Kingdom
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-12-08 (in 3 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-12-03
> Announcement ID: 199239
>
> We invite paper proposals for our panel we are proposing to BASAS
> conference to be held in Leeds in April 2013.
>
> Work, labour and skill Historical meanings and changes
>
> In this panel we investigate the shaping of distinct work-regimes in three
> paradigmatic sites of work that constituted the history of labour and
> capital in the 19th & 20th centuries South Asia: agro-ecological,
> industrial and plantation. We want to ask a specific set of questions: 1.
> How did the differentiation between valued and non-valued work evolve in
> varied work-contexts? 2. What sorts of social tensions, solidarities and
> work regimes emerged historically in diverse workplaces? 3. How have
> traditions and definitions of skill been constituted and passed on in
> different occupational forms? 4. What forms of social life, community
> organization and family structures have been historically interwoven with
> regimes of work and skill?
>
> Different themes that could be investigated within this broad rubric
> are: -Rhythms of work and how they are affected by economic and political
> change and managerial decisions - Spaces of work; organization of work at
> the workplace (how did the specific nature of work-place influence the
> nature of work and social identity?) - Skill-formation; what role did
> race, community, generation, caste and kin networks, and institutions play
> in skill-development? - Work and family divisions of labour: what sorts of
> gendered practices and norms have been associated with different
> occupational communities and regimes?
>
> We invite paper proposals in 200 words by 8 December 2012. Please send the
> proposal to annasailer@piximail.de or nitin.sinha@york.ac.uk.
>
> Anna Sailer Nitin Sinha
>
> Nitin Sinha
> Department of History
> University of York
> UK
> Email: nitin.sinha@york.ac.uk.
>
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