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The 2014 CHORD conference on:'Retail Work: Historical Perspectives'will take place at the University of Wolverhamptonon 11 September 2014The programme and abstracts can be found here:http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/work.htmThe PROGRAMME includes:*Fan Carter, Kingston University, ‘Shop Girls: Fashionable Femininities and Retail Work in 1960s Britain’*Pamela Cox, University of Essex, ‘Shopgirls, Disgust And Desire’*Sabine Chaouche, University of Oxford, ‘Attracting “Freshers”: Business Practices and Strategies in Nineteenth-century Oxford’*Serena Dyer, University of Warwick, ‘Mr Calico and Mrs Pincushion: Man-Milliners and Gendered Retail Work in England, 1770-1830’*Heidi Egginton, University of Cambridge ‘“The Old and the Beautiful”: The Role of the Provincial Antique Dealer in the Marketing of Second-Hand Collectables, c. 1900-1939’*Oliver Heal, independent researcher, ‘Heal’s – Distinguished Retailing 1900-1940’*Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, ‘Exporting New York: Abraham &#38; Straus, Commercial Patrons for an “Empire Aesthetic” ‘*Angela Loxham, Lancaster University, ‘Cleric or Conman, Curate or Crook? Understanding the Victorian Draper’*Katrina Maitland-Brown, University of Wolverhampton, ‘Synthesised Roles: Women’s Identity in Business’*Traci L. Parker, University of Chicago, ‘Race, Class, and American Department Stores’*Robin Price, Queensland University of Technology, ‘Racing slowly to the bottom: Wage fixation in Australia’s Retail Industry’*Martin Purvis, University of Leeds, ‘Learning to Manage: Working Practices in Interwar Multiple Retailing’*Rachael Richardson, Sheffield Hallam University, ‘Consumption and Communication: The Marketing Ingenuity of Mail Order Entrepreneur, J. G. Graves’*Hannah Scally, University of Cambridge: ' “Imagination in the Service of Business”: Commercial Education and Expertise, 1880-1910’*David Shaw, University for the Creative Arts, ‘Retail Information Technology Turns from Friend to Foe’*Belle Stennett, Birkbeck, University of London, ‘The Staging of a Business Conversation. The Trade Cards of William Hogarth in the Eighteenth Century’*Deborah Wynne, University of Chester, ‘Representing the Draper: From Kipps, to the Flying Draper, to The Paradise’The conference will take place in the MILLENNIUM CITY BUILDING, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton City Campus.The FEE is £26.For FURTHER INFORMATION please see the conference web-pages, at:http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/work.htmTo REGISTER, please see the on-line registration and payment form, at:http://www.estore.wlv.ac.uk/browse/product.asp? compid=1&#38;modid=1&#38;catid=337Please note that the registration system will close one week before the conference. If you would like to register after that date, please contact:Karin Dannehl at k.dannehl@wlv.ac.uk or Laura Ugolini, at: L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.ukNEWS about CHORD events can also be found here: http:// retailhistory.wordpress.com/about/CHORD web-pages: http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html