To coincide with International Workers’ Day, historian Professor Glenda Sluga kindly participated in a chat about internationalism with attention to how international workers associations and the International Labour Organization fits in the history of the early phase of twentieth century internationalism.
Professor Glenda Sluga is Joint Chair in International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute for the Department of History and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Professor Sluga is on secondment from the University of Sydney.
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This conversation was first broadcast on the radio by 2SER 107.3FM.
Here are links to some of Professor Sluga’s book publications:
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon
Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History (editor with Patricia Clavin)
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 (editor with Carolyn James)
And this is the novel recommended by Professor Sluga:
Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
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