Mag. Dr. David Mayer
Teaching
Room: ZG201.81
Telephone: +43 1 4277 41368
Office hours: by appointment
eMail: david.mayer@univie.ac.at
Education and Academic Employment
- 2003 Mag. phil. (Universität Wien)
- 2012 Dr. phil. (Universität Wien)
Research Interests
- Global Labour History
- Global intellectual history
- The Austrian School of Economics and the socialist calculation debates
- History of neoliberalism
- History of left-wing intellectuals and Marxist historiographies
- History of social movements, particularly in Latin America
- History of historiography
- History of Marxism
Networks and Activities
- Vice-President of the ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History.
- Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
- Corresponding editor of the International Review of Social History (Amsterdam).
- Member of the advisory board of Archivos – de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda (Buenos Aires).
- Member oft the advisory board of Arbeiter – Bewegung – Geschichte. Zeitschrift für historische Studien.
- Member of the advisory board of Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores.
Selected publications
- Changing Degrees of ‘Openness’: Some Considerations on the Development of the Notion of ‘Work’ in Argentinean Labour Historiography. In: Moving the Social 69 (2023), 95–112, DOI: 10.46586/mts.69.2023.95-112.
- Die österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie als politische Strömung. Working‐Paper‐Reihe der AK Wien Nr. 220, Vienna 2021, emedien.arbeiterkammer.at/viewer/toc/AC16197783/1/ (gemeinsam mit Berthold Molden).
- Labour Internationalism in Context Small and Large. In: Stefano Bellucci and Holger Weiss (eds.), The Internationalisation of the Labour Question. Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO since 1919, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2020, 411-420 (gemeinsam mit Marcel van der Linden), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28235-6_18.
- Historiografías sobre trabajo – Introducción. In: Rossasna Barragán Romano (ed.), Trabajos y trabajadores en América Latina (siglos XVI–XXI), Vicepresidencia del Estado/Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, La Paz 2019, 117–122 (gemeinsam mit Larissa Rosa Corrêa and Paulo Drinot).
- Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Karin Hofmeester/Linden, Marcel van der (Hg.), Handbook Global History of Work, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2017, 95–121 (gmeinsam mit Rossana Barragán), DOI: 10.1515/9783110424584-005.
- Brazilian Labour History – new perspectives in global context. International Review of Social History, vol. 62, Special Issue 25 (2017) (gemeinsam mit Paulo Fontes and Alexandre Fortes).
- In the search of cohesion – a comment on „The Third World in the Global 1960s“ by S. Christiansen and Z.A. Scarlett. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relation 11 (2017), Themenheft „Circulations révolutionnaires dans les années 1968“, hg. v. Ludivine Bantigny, Boris Gobille, and Eugénia Palieraki, 210–217, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.171.0205.
- À la fois puissante et marginale: l’Internationale communiste et l’Amérique latine. In: Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 10 (2016), Special Theme “Dimension transnationale du communism”, hg. v. Brigitte Studer und Sabine Dullin, 109-128, DOI: 10.3917/mond1.162.0109.
- Mit Marx im Gepäck. Lateinamerikanische Vorläufer im Versuch, (post)koloniale Bedingungen zu denken. In: Felix Wemheuer (Hg.), Marx und der globale Süden, PapyRossa Verlag, Köln 2016, 145–169.
- Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History: Global Perspectives. International Review of Social History, Special Issue 23 (2015) (gemeinsam mit Ad Knotter).
- Coming to terms with the past, getting a grip on the future – Manfred Kossok’s interventions into historiographical debates about Latin America during the radicalized 1960s. In: Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 38-1/2 (2015 [2017]), 15-39, , www.jstor.org/stable/90017834.
- Gute Gründe und doppelte Böden. Zur Geschichte ‚linker‘ Geschichtsschreibung. In: Sozial.Geschichte Online 14 (2014), 62–96, duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-37518/05_Mayer_History.pdf.
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