1st Edition
Embodied Labour Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work's Cultural Heritage in Modern Europe
List of Figures
List of Contributors
0. Introduction - Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Aleksandra Galasińska
1. Landscape, Urban Gardening, and Aesthetics - Mateusz Salwa
2. Landscapes of labour. Laboured landscapes - Anu Printsmann
3. Scars of Labour – Everyday Injuries and Traditions of Healing in Foundries and Ironworks - Kirsi Salmi-Niklander
4. Brutally Forcing Them to Work Safely: A Vignette of Occupational Health and Safety at a Polish Hard Coal Mine in the 1960s - Grace Simpson
5. Mining in the Ironbridge Area of North Shropshire – Preservation of Memory and Language in a Post-Industrial Society - Esther Asprey and Aleksandra Galasińska
6. Wodensbyri Tea Break - Robert M. Francis
7. Women's Work in Mining: Narratives of Labour, Identity and Recognition - Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Jakub Muchowski
8. Lost in Translation: Representations and Misinterpretations of Sensory Sensations at Norwegian Ironworks, 1750–1950 - Frank Meyer
9. Effort, Effect and the Assessment of Labour Bodies – Representations of Labour in State Agricultural Farms in Poland - Katarzyna Maniak
10. Dwelling Through Labour: Contribution to the Embodied History of State Farms in Socialist Poland - Justyna Szklarczyk
11. Behind Representation: Possibilities and Constraints of Displaying Corporeal Experience in Museums - Monica Favara
Index
Biography
Marta Kurkowska-Budzan is a professor at the Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research encompasses memory studies and oral history methodologies, Eastern European work and leisure culture practices, and the history of historiography.
Aleksandra Galasińska is a professor of Discourse and Migration at the University of Wolverhampton. Her scholarship investigates the complex interrelationships between language, discourse, society, and identity formation, with particular emphasis on post-communist transitions and post-EU enlargement migration experiences.
