Raquel Varela is a social historian and researcher in global labour history. She is an assistant professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Autonomous Section on Education and General Training). She is the President of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions and coordinator of Social Data/Nova Sustainability. Her area of research pertains to social sciences and humanities, with an emphasis on the subjects of history of revolutions and the labour movement, history and global sociology of work, and a global perspective on education and work. She is the author of A People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution and A People’s History of Europe From World War I to Today (Pluto Press).

The talk is organized by Marxist Studies from Asian & International Perspectives (MSGAP), Socialist Project, Socialist Register, and Associação Cultural 25 de Abril (Toronto).

When: Thursday, 24 April 2025, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Room 140 | HNES Building Keele Campus | York University