Applicants should propose a research project within the larger framework of the group’s focus project, “Good Work. The Value of Work in the long 20th Century”. “Good work” is a historical project, with a keen interdisciplinary interest, that enquires into the fundamental transformations global working conditions underwent since c. 1870, with a particular emphasis on perceptions and discourses in which these changes were reflected. It asks how large secular trends such as (de)industrialisation, tertiarisation, digitalisation, and globalisation affected working lives in Norway, Europe, and beyond, and how notions of value of, in, and through work changed in the process. The project thus endeavours to shed light on a key dimension of social and economic life in the twentieth century while also analysing the politically and culturally contentious issue of labour’s valuation. Its main aim is to provide critical interpretations of contemporary notions of “quality work” and explore its historically contingent meanings in different industrial and national contexts.
The project is broad and allows for different types of research, including case studies on individual industries, comparative perspectives between countries, analyses of transnational flows of ideas and information, and conceptual histories of key terms.

For qualification requirements and detailed information on the application process see https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215694/doctoral-research-fellowship-sko-1017-at-the-department-of-archaeology-conservation-and-history