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ArgumentaireAlors qu&#8217;historiens de l&#8217;Empire et sp&#233;cialistes d&#8217;histoire ouvri&#232;re se sont longtemps ignor&#233;s, le moment semble venu (si l&#8217;on en croit Bernard Porter ou Catherine Hall) d&#8217;une &#171;&#160;histoire sociale de l&#8217;Empire&#160;&#187; et donc, pourquoi pas, d&#8217;une &#171;&#160;histoire sociale de la d&#233;colonisation&#160;&#187; &#8211; dont Frederick Cooper, les &#171;&#160;subalternistes&#160;&#187;, Stuart Ward ou encore Andrew Thompson ont d&#233;j&#224; trac&#233; la voie. Dans l&#8217;historiographie de la d&#233;colonisation britannique, le monde du travail n&#8217;appara&#238;t en effet souvent qu&#8217;&#224; l&#8217;arri&#232;re-plan, les premiers r&#244;les &#233;tant r&#233;serv&#233;s aux &#171;&#160;grands hommes&#160;&#187; &#8211; hommes d&#8217;Etat m&#233;tropolitains et &#233;lites indig&#232;nes en particulier. C&#8217;est ce relatif oubli des masses laborieuses (de leur v&#233;cu, de leurs initiatives, de leurs organisations) et du r&#244;le des &#171;&#160;sans voix&#160;&#187; dans la dissolution de l&#8217;Empire britannique que notre journ&#233;e d&#8217;&#233;tudes voudrait contribuer &#224; r&#233;parer.La conf&#233;rence se d&#233;roulera le&#160;vendredi 8 novembre 2013.Axes th&#233;matiquesM&#233;riteraient par exemple d&#8217;&#234;tre explor&#233;es plus avant les th&#233;matiques ci-dessous&#160;:en m&#233;tropole&#176; sentiments de l&#8217;opinion publique, en particulier des classes populaires, &#224; l&#8217;&#233;gard de la d&#233;colonisation&#160;;&#176; politique imp&#233;riale et post-imp&#233;riale des diff&#233;rents gouvernements travaillistes, mais aussi du Parti travailliste dans l&#8217;opposition&#160;;&#176; attitude du TUC vis-&#224;-vis des questions coloniales et collaboration des syndicats avec le Foreign Office, notamment dans la p&#233;riode de &#171;&#160;recolonisation&#160;&#187;&#160;;&#176; activisme anticolonial &#224; g&#233;om&#233;trie variable du Communist Party of Great Britain, de l&#8217;Independent Labour Party, du Movement for Colonial Freedom.dans les dominions&#176; positionnement des travaillistes et trade-unionistes canadiens, sud-africains, australiens et n&#233;o-z&#233;landais par rapport &#224; la M&#232;re Patrie&#160;;&#176; positionnement des m&#234;mes par rapport aux populations indig&#232;nes et &#224; la &#171;&#160;d&#233;colonisation int&#233;rieure&#160;&#187;.dans les colonies&#176; impact des r&#233;voltes ouvri&#232;res (en Asie, en Afrique mais aussi aux Antilles ou au Proche-Orient) sur la politique des gouverneurs et du Colonial Office&#160;;&#176; relations entre leaders nationalistes bourgeois et r&#233;bellions populaires&#160;;au croisement des diff&#233;rentes aires&#176; contacts, rencontres, &#233;changes entre militants ouvriers ou nationalistes des territoires sous domination britannique et militants progressistes de m&#233;tropole&#160;;&#176; r&#244;le des organisations internationales telles que l&#8217;Internationale socialiste, l&#8217;Internationale communiste, ou encore la League Against Imperialism.De m&#234;me que &#171;&#160;l&#8217;histoire de la classe ouvri&#232;re britannique ne peut &#234;tre &#233;crite que comme une histoire transcontinentale&#160;&#187; (Marcel van der Linden), parions avec John MacKenzie que l&#8217;histoire de l&#8217;Empire britannique, d&#233;colonisation incluse, a tout &#224; gagner &#224; redonner leur place aux &#171;&#160;gens du commun&#160;&#187;.Modalit&#233;s de soumissionLes abstracts, accompagn&#233;s d&#8217;une courte bio-bibliographie, sont &#224; envoyer&#160;aux organisateurs&#160;:Yann B&#233;liard (yann.beliard@univ-paris3.fr)Neville Kirk, Manchester Metropolitan University &#38; University of Huddersfield (n.kirk@mmu.ac.uk)avant le 10 septembre 2013.La langue de la journ&#233;e d&#8217;&#233;tudes sera l&#8217;anglais.La journ&#233;e aura lieu le 8 novembre 2013.Une s&#233;lection des communications sera publi&#233;e par Liverpool University Press dans la collection &#8216;Studies in Labour History&#8217;.ArgumentSpecialists of the British Empireand researchers in British labour history can no longer afford to ignore each other. According to Bernard Porter and Catherine Hall, the time has come for &#8216;a social history of the Empire&#8217;, and one might add &#8211; following the stimulating examples recently provided by Stuart Ward and Andrew Thompson &#8211; for &#8216;a social history of decolonisation&#8217;. In most studies attempting to explain the demise of theBritish Empire, the world of labour does not stand in the limelight, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen on the one hand and native elites on the other. Our one-day conference will seek to counter-balance that neglect (as Frederick Cooper and the &#8216;subalternists&#8217; have already done), by focusing on the role played by &#8216;the voiceless&#8217; and their experience, initiatives and organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire.&#160;We invite researchers to submit papers on the following topics:In the metropolehow public opinion, and the labouring classes in particular, related to the process of decolonisation;how the Labour Party envisioned its imperial and post-imperial policy, be it in office or in the opposition;how the TUC expressed itself on colonial questions and how it conceived its collaboration with the Foreign Office, especially in the era of &#8216;recolonisation&#8217;;how the CPGB, the ILP, the Movement for Colonial Freedom (and others) led &#8211; or did not lead &#8211; the fight against colonialism.In the dominionshow Canadian, South-African, Australian and New Zealand trade-unionists and Labour Party activists considered their relation to the Mother Country;how they considered their relation to the indigenous population and whether they supported &#8216;decolonisation at home&#8217;.In the colonieswhat impact the labour revolts (inAsiaandAfrica, but also in theWest Indiesor in theMiddle East) exerted on the policy led by governors and byLondon;how the nationalist leaders, generally from privileged backgrounds, reacted to the rebellions of the underprivileged.At the crossroadshow nationalist and working-class activists from the colonies came into contact with metropolitan militants;how international organisations such as the Socialist International, the Communist International or the League Against Imperialism tried &#8211; or did not try &#8211; to build a transnational anti-imperialist network.Marcel van der Linden once declared that &#8216;the history of the British working-class can only be written as a transcontinental one&#8217; and John MacKenzie has never ceased to strive for a &#8216;socialisation&#8217; of imperial studies. Hopefully the conference will confirm that the history of the British Empire, including that of its liquidation, can only move forward by putting common people back on the map.Submission guidelinesAbstracts and short bio-bibliographies should be sent to the convenors :Yann B&#233;liard (yann.beliard@univ-paris3.fr)Neville Kirk, Manchester Metropolitan University &#38; University of Huddersfield (n.kirk@mmu.ac.uk)before 10 September&#160;2013.The papers will be given in English.&#160;A selection will be published by Liverpool University Press in its &#8216;Studies in Labour History&#8217; series.The conference will take place on Friday, 8th November,2013.