Prospectus for International Colloquium on Tradition and the Working Class

In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Volume 42, p. 1-4

Abstract

Tradition is understood as a subset of a central historical concern: social and cultural discontinuities in time and space. The historical study of social tradition is an important contribution to knowledge; it seeks to understand the ways in which groups (states, classes, communities, families) formalize, symbolize, and interpret the past—and how such visions shape the ways in which people interpret, accept, or resist present conditions and influence behavior in the future.