CELSI researcher Adam Šumichrast presented on the transformation of Chirana Stará Turá during the turbulent 1990s.

CELSI researcher Adam Šumichrast participated on Tuesday, December 8, 2025, in the international workshop Industrial Conflicts and Industrial Resilience in Modern and Contemporary History, held at the Academic Conference Centre in Prague.

The event was organised by the Institute of History and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, with support from AV21 Strategy.

The conference convened historians and social scientists examining how industrial conflict, labour mobilisation, and institutional resilience have evolved from the nineteenth century to the post-socialist era, with particular attention to Central and Eastern Europe.

Adam presented a joint paper with Monika Martišková, developed within the Horizon Europe project EGRUiEN, analysing the transformation of Chirana Stará Turá and its implications for social dialogue during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Their contribution traced how trade unions adapted to new economic conditions, responded to the disintegration of established industrial relations structures, and participated in demonstrations and occupation strikes aimed at safeguarding production in the region.

The programme featured a wide range of perspectives on labour conflict and resiliencew, with speakers covering themes from early industrial conflicts and labour movement traditions to strike waves in the Eastern Bloc, enterprise self-management, and the transformation of trade unions after 1989:

Jakub Raška – Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Wojciech Engelking – Department of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw

Peter Giraudo – Boston College

Ivan Lavrentjev – Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu

Ivana Dobrivojević Tomić – Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade

Dino Šakanović – University of Sarajevo

Florian Peters – Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Václav Rameš – Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Adam reported that the workshop offered both substantive historical insight and valuable academic exchange. He received constructive feedback on the paper and described the day as highly inspiring and intellectually stimulating.

Learn more about the EGRUiEN project: https://celsi.sk/en/egruien/

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