1/ Our featured exhibit this week is THE TRANSNATIONAL READY-MADE GARMENT INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH: SHIFTS AND CHANGES, LATE 1970S UNTIL NOW curated by Hasan Ashraf and Christian Strümpell workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

1/ Our featured exhibition this week is Mariana Stoler’s HEAT WAVE: MATERIAL DETERMINATIONS AND WORKER'S IDENTITY, ANALYSIS OF AN ARGENTINIAN STEELWORKS (1958-1981)

2/ Stoler’s analysis of Establecimientos Metalúrgicos Santa Rosa, the 3rd largest steel factory in Argentina between 1958 and 1981, helps us understand heat itself as a key element in the construction of its workers’ identities workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

3/ Stoler argues that physical understanding of work is a key element in the construction of workers’ bodies and subjectivities. The material conditions of the productive process make the body itself a powerful cultural sign workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

1./ Workplaces: Pasts and Presents starts the new year by featuring an exhibit curated by Nice Pizzolato, SUBVERTING FORDISM: TRANSNATIONAL RADICALISM IN DETROIT AND TURIN workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

2./ This is an exhibit about autoworkers, labor militants and intellectuals who between the WWII and the end of the 1970s challenged the power of the most powerful manufacturers in the world: the automakers of Detroit & Turin. workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

3./In this period labor activists across Europe and North-America came up with new ways of articulating the relationship between the workers, the companies, and organised labor. workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

4./concepts of “autonomy” and “self-activity” gained popularity among intellectuals and labor militants who sought ways to improve workers’ conditions and change the structure of industrial society workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

5./ Check out the remarkable multi-media features of this exhibit, which includes the classic documentary on DRUM, "Finally Got the News" as well as other clips workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

1/ This week Workplaces: Pasts and Presents features a virtual exhibit curated by Sandra Lourenço — THE MEMORY OF INDUSTRIAL LEGACIES: THE MILLS-CENTRE FOR HERITAGE, ARTS & TEXTILE IN HONG KONG workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

2/ This exhibit explores the conversion of the former Nan Fung Textiles factories in Hong Kong's Tsuen Wan industrial area into The Centre of Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT).

3/ CHAT’s objective is to reconnect industrial legacy to the local community. Its programme includes exhibitions, talks, and workshops as a way to raise awareness of history and industrial transformation, and to preserve techniques such as spinning, weaving, and embroidery.

4/ The exhibit contains a number of multi-media features, including extraordinary documentary footage of labor unrest in the 1960s workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

1/ Our featured exhibit this week was curated by Rick Halpern: ““The Pictures Are the Thing:” Farm Security Administration Photographers Document the American Factory in the Depression Era” workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

2/The exhibit explores how the celebrated documentary photographers employed by the US government in the 1930s, under the auspices of the FSA, treated labor and the world of work. workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

3/ Photographs by Jack Delano, John Vachon, Arthur Rotstein, Marjory Collins, and others are featured with hyperlinks to other images in the Library of Congress FSA collections workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

In the 60s blck militants from Detroits autoplants visited Italy, touring occupied universities and meeting labor activists.Later they returned to screen Finally Got the News,a film about the struggles in Detroit. It’s featured in Nico Pizzolato’s exhibit workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

1967 was a period of extreme social and labour unrest in Hong Kong. Sandra Lourenço's exhibit on the memory of industrial legacies contains incredible video footage of these conflicts. Check it out! workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…

Coming soon: BANGLES AND CHRISTMAS BALLS: DECORATIVE GLASS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION, an exhibit curated by Arnaud Kaba. Stay tuned! workplaces.omeka.net

We are pleased to announce that Arnaud Kaba’s exhibit is now live! BANGLES AND CHRISTMAS BALLS: DECORATIVE GLASS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION. His colour photos are outstanding! workplaces.omeka.net/exhibits/show/…