Workplaces: Pasts and Presents Takes the Digital Turn

MARIANA STOLER is a social historian who specializes in the study of labor and unions in the second half of the twentieth century. She holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research focuses on Argentinian unions, factories, and workers’ identities in an attempt to understand the processes where subjectivities are built. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, beneficiary of a grant modality Margarita Salas with funds from the Ministerio de Universidades (Spain), the Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, doing a research stay at the Departamento de Historia Social y del Pensamiento Político at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain).

RICK HALPERN is a social historian whose work has focused on race and labor in a number of national and international contexts. His most recent book, coauthored with Alex Lichtenstein, is Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid. He has also written about meat and meatpacking, sugar and plantations, and regionalism. Currently he is researching the long interplay between photography, race, and class over the course of the twentieth century. He is the Bissell-Heyd Chair of American Studies at the University of Toronto.