Tom Baker
Historian with a particular interest in labour, history of work, social movements, transitions and deindustrialisation .
PhD candidate at the University of Bristol.
@uobrishistory.bsky.social
Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
@modernitaly.bsky.social
ISSN: 1353-2944 (Print), 1469-9877 (Online) Editors: Gianluca Fantoni Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Milena Sabato Università del Salento, Italy Founded by the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) in 1995.
@amycking.bsky.social
Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
@footymac.bsky.social
Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025.
@ifow.org
An independent research and development institute exploring how new technologies are transforming work and working lives. http://www.ifow.org
@buiraonline.bsky.social
Association for academics, research students and practitioners interested in industrial and labour relations, and the politics of work. RTs not endorsements. www.buira.net
@fhpitts.bsky.social
Political Economist and Director of Business Engagement & Innovation for Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Exeter in 〓〓. Part of the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures & the UKRI Critical Minerals Accelerating the Green Economy Centre.
@shannanclark.bsky.social
Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
@alevan.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, PhD in Sociology | Author of The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia (ManchesterUP, 2024) https://t.ly/2VHg1 | Social theory, ethnography, class, inequality, urban space, deindustrialization, everyday environmentalism
@dgbailey.bsky.social
#industrialstrategy Birmingham Business School, UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellow, Contemporary Social Science Editor in Chief, Editor Regional Studies, ‘activist academic’ (Gove’s 🪓man Max Caller), Birmingham Post Columnist, Likes EVs. Baggies fan.
@rosiehampton.bsky.social
oil & gas campaigns manager @ FoES // PhD on left-wing spaces in 1980s Scotland ❤️🔥 interested in histories of solidarity & care. chair of living rent partick & unite member (she/her)
@amyloulongmuir.bsky.social
PhD @ Uni of Reading researching Socialist-Feminism and Work in post-1968 Britain. Feminist, Flautist and 80s Music fan.
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope. 🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
@labourstart.bsky.social
The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
@wolgjournal.bsky.social
An international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal founded in 2006 by Ursula Huws who still edits it. It is now published open access by Pluto Journals. Articles are available on Science Open and on Jstor. See https://wolg.wordpress.com
@natashaanson.bsky.social
PhD student (Durham Uni & Beamish Museum) researching nostalgia and working class heritage 🪩 she/her, views own, still figuring it out
@liamjdevitt.bsky.social
writer, historian, assistant to the way life is shaking out. (they/them)
@annabettini.bsky.social
Energy & Environmental Anthropologist | Researching place, energy transition & human-environment relationships in Canada, NZ & Italy | 🇮🇹 in 🇨🇦
@gabrielajm.bsky.social
Researcher at the University of Padua, Sociology, labour studies. 🇨🇱🇮🇹🍉
@kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
@ideocity.bsky.social
AICP planner and PhD candidate in urban planning @mcgill.ca in Montreal.
@xvigna.bsky.social
Historien du travail et des mondes ouvriers. Université Paris-Nanterre La grande majorité de mes articles est disponible sur cette page : https://u-paris10.academia.edu/XavierVigna Je bloque à la moindre insulte.
@danigiudici.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Marie Curie Global Fellow @Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
@vintagelittlefairy.bsky.social
- PhD Researcher at Northumbria University, collaborating with National Railway Museum and Locomotion - Lover of: Locomotives, Museums, Railway Towns, Deindustrialised Heritage, Dogs - Hater of: Not coordinating your outfit to your conference paper topic
@fburrill.bsky.social
Settler historian (@UNB) of working-class formation and disintegration, focusing on deindustrialization, settler colonialism, and white supremacy in Quebec and the Maritimes. Organizer involved in tenant and migrant justice struggles. Huge baseball fan.
@eidlin.bsky.social
Former organizer, current Associate Professor of Sociology at McGill University. Author, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
@cappuccinoandroses.bsky.social
academic worker based in Montréal, Québec | labour history, political sociology, socialism from below | solidarity forever
@mnovoae.bsky.social
Ass.Profesor in Urban Planning at UIUC. Feminist engaged scholar working on deindustrialization, memory politics, insurgent heritage, arts-based methods and human rights in the Americas. Parte de #MonumentosIncomodos, fundadora #ohstgo en Chile.
@mattwinf91.bsky.social
Librarian, Currently interested in the History of the Gas Industry, PhD on 18th Century Derby
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
🏭 Transnational partnership project examining the politics, historical roots and lived experiences of deindustrialization. Based at COHDS: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/ Website: https://deindustrialization.org/
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