Congratulation to the recipients of the DePOT Trade Union Research and Diffusion Funds. The adjudication committee, chaired by Fred Burrill, with Emiliano Aguilar, Amber Ward, and Tom Fraser, received multiple compelling proposals across multiple countries, all committed to engage with trade unions.
The successful applicants are:
- Kate Wilson, for her community based research project with the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive and local trade unionists entitled “Recording and building labour and tenant union mobilisations in deindustrialized spaces through the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive”
- Manuela Vinai, “Transformations in Labor: Frictions, Collaborations, and Emerging Frontiers. The Intersection of Anthropology and Trade Unions”, a collaborative workshop between Italian trade unionists and anthropologists
- Indranil Chakraborty, for “Voices of the Indian Gig Workers and The Making of Union Resistance” an exciting oral history project engaging with the transition from industrial to gig service economies in India
- Jacques Desmarais and the Centre d’histoire et archives du travail, for a series of pamphlets on industrial closure in Quebec
- Andy Perchard and Keith Gildart for “Learning From the Legacies of Nationalized British Coal,” an ongoing research and popular education project on the legacies of coal in Britain, in collaboration with the National Union of Mineworkers
- Steven High and Dimitry Anastakis for “Worker Adjustment in Unifor-Led Action Centres,” examining the impact of the worker action centre model of adjustment to industrial closure, in close collaboration with Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union
- Stefan Backius for a series of articles in the Swedish trade union press on deindustrialization in Bergslagen.
Congratulations to these wonderful researchers for their great work!
