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Marco Swiniartzki
Marco Swiniartzki is associated lecturer at the professorship for Western European History, Institute for History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He has written the book The German Metalworker’s Union 1891–1933 (Böhlau Verlag, 2017, translation) and many articles exploring the history of work, workers, industry and capitalism in Germany and Europe. Currently he works on his project ‘Glocal Metal: Metal Communities in International Comparison and Transfer (1978–1995)’, supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. In 2021–22 he was junior fellow of the Historisches Kolleg, Institute for Advanced Study in History, in Munich. He was executive secretary of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, worked as an editor and reader, and has organized the thematic year 2018 about social movements for the Free State of Thuringia.
Contact: Historical Department, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Fürstengraben 13, 07743 Jena, Germany.