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7. The theme of the Forty-Ninth Linz Conference of the International Conference of Labour and Social History in September 2013 is “Towards a Global History of Domestic Workers and Caregivers.”

8. There is an ongoing international research project, “Fighting for a Living,” led by the International Institute of Social History investigating origins, practices, and consequences of different forms of military labor. For more information see https://projects.iisg.nl/web/fighting-for-a-living. Also, ILWCH recently published a special issue on military labor. See Volume 80, “Labor and the Military.”

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