Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2004 8:30
A-1 LAB24 Working Cooperatives
Room A
Network: Labour Chair: Jaclyn Viskovatoff
Organizers: - Discussant: Juha Siltala
Lars Hansson : Blood and steel
Nicole Mayer-Ahuja : Entrepreneurial Workers? The Brief Golden Age of 'autonomous labour' in German Internet Companies (1997-2001).
Joan Meyers : Comparing Workplace Democracy and Workplace Identity in Worker-Owned Cooperatives


J-1 LAB15 The Determinants of Labour Militancy
Room J
Network: Labour Chair: Juanjo Romero-Marin
Organizers: - Discussant: Rui Manuel Brás
Peter Birke : Beyond classical trade unionism: worker's movement in West Germany and Denmark between 1967 and 1973
Ralph Darlington : The Agitator Theory of Labour Militancy Re-Examined
Efraim Davidi : Generational Shifts in the Argentinian Labour Movement (1966-1976)
Lars Stubbe : Against the corporative fetishization of labour: reflections on the Mexican insurgencia obrera (workers’ insurgency) (1970-200?)


Y-1 ETH30 Migration in the Interbellum
Y
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lars Amenda : Opium Dens in Western Cities. Drugs, 'Race', and Gender in Europe in the 1920s
Zuzana Polackova : Czech and Slovak Social Democrats in Vienna: Conflict and Solidarity in a Multinational Working -Class Community, 1890-1925
Yair Seltenreich : The enslaved capitalists: the struggle between Hebrew farmers and their benefactors, 1901 - 1941
Sigrid Wadauer : Small traders between sedentariness and mobility.



Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45
X-2 LAB05 Horse-Racing, Gambling and the Working Class I
X
Network: Labour Chair: Mats Greiff
Organizer: Mats Greiff Discussant: Tomas Peterson
Sara Berglund : Economisation and professionalisation in harness racing
Joakim Tranquist : Horse Racing as a Popular Movement



Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15
B-3 LAB03 Comparative Perspective on Women's Labor Force Participation in the 20th Century
Room B
Network: Labour Chair: Christine Collette
Organizers: - Discussant: Christine Collette
Patricia Grimshaw, Shurlee Swain : Constructing the working mother: Australian perspectives, 1920 to 1970
Evan Roberts : Married Women's Labor Force Participation in the United States, 1917-1940
Karin Maria Schmidlechner : Women and Work in Austria after World War II: The Re-Construction of Gender Roles
Hannelore Vandebroek : Belgian catholic intellectuals talk about women's work, 1945-1970.


C-3 LAB28 Horse-Racing, Gambling and the Working Class II
Room C
Network: Labour Chair: Sara Berglund
Organizers: - Discussant: Ann-Catrin Östman
Mats Greiff : Social relations and culture within Harness Racing in Sweden
Susanna Hedenborg : Horseracing and gender
Emmanuel Roudaut : 'The notorious Sam Grundy himself': the 'bookie' in words and in pictures


O-3 LAB01 Workers in Economic Crises: Problems and Prospects
Room O
Network: Labour Chair: William Kenefick
Organizer: Peter Archibald Discussant: Carrie Lane Chet
Peter Archibald : Looking for the Silver Lining: Hamilton workers' successes in the 1930s and recent recessions
Meg Luxton : Getting By in Hard Times: The Challenges of Neo-liberalism in Canada, 1980-2000
Stephan Vanfraechem : Dockers' solidarity and inter-port competition: incompatible ?



Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30
C-4 LAB02 Class, Gender and Ethnicity Re-defined. International Experiences from the low-skil service sector.
Room C
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour , Chair: Claudia Gather
Organizer: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja Discussant: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
Eileen Boris : Re-Valuing Care: Recognizing Home Support Providers as Workers
Helma Lutz : Life inter-stices. Illegalised Migrant Domestic Workers in Germany
Ratna Saptari : Domestic Service within the Nation-State: Ethniciy,Class and Gender in Two Indonesian Cities, 1930s - the Present


F-4 LAB06 National Gendered working time regimes in a comparative perspective
Room F
Network: Labour Chair: Heiner Dribbusch
Organizer: Inger Jonsson Discussant: Jacqueline O'Reilly
Joa Bergold : In the interest of home and society: part-time work, the state and public discourse in Sweden 1938-1980
Jeanne Fagnani : Working Time and Family Life: the impact of the 35 hour laws on the balance between work and family life in France
Inger Jonsson : Part-time employment in Swedish Retail Trade: A gender perspective on the development of working time patterns


V-4 LAB04 Labour Internationalism
Room Cie2
Network: Labour Chair: James Miller
Organizers: - Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Bent Boel : Western European Socialists and Dissidents in Eastern Europe
John Boughton : Michael Ross: Labour Internationalist
Piet Hoekman, Jannes Houkes : Internationalism in the Early Dutch Labour Movement
Aoife Ní Lochlainn : Organisational Interests - British-based unions in Ireland 1922-1960



Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30
A-5 LAB09 Generation, Gender and Class in Oral History: Narratives of Women's Work and Activism
Room A
Networks: Labour , Oral History Chair: Marsha Siefert
Organizer: Jaclyn Viskovatoff Discussant: Linda Lane
Maurine Greenwald : Using Oral History to Assess Women's Careers, Gender Identity, and Gender Politics in the U.S. Advertising Industry, 1950-2000
Rebekah Lee : Beloved Unions?: A Gendered and Generational History of Associational Life in a South African City
Jaclyn Viskovatoff : Gender and Narrative Indentity in Oral History Testimony: The Miners' Strikes of 1926 and 1984-85
Kayoko Yoshida : The Beauty in the Coal Mines-Women Who Lit the Darkness: The Power of Oral History for Documenting Working-Class Women's Lives in Japan


R-5 LAB29 Colonialism and Labour: Asia and America
Room S
Network: Labour Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch
Organizers: Gareth Austin, David Clayton Discussant: Gareth Austin
David Clayton : The regulation of labour standards in colonial Hong Kong, c.1920-60
Frank Tough : Native labour and paternalism: the mercantile fur trade and frontier capitalism in Canada
Nicholas White : Labour and the End of Empire in Malaya c. 1930s-1960s.



Thursday 25 March 2004 10:45
E-6 LAB33 The ILO in its political context
Room E
Network: Labour Chair: Jeanne Fagnani
Organizers: - Discussant: Joa Bergold
Daniel Roger Maul : Universalism, Emancipation and Development - The International Labour Organization and Decolonization 1941-1965
Jesse Scott : Peace with Labour? The Creation of the International Labour
Jasmien van Daele : Social dynamics in international organizations and the role of small nations: the case of Belgium in the ILO


O-6 LAB30 Colonialism and Labour: Africa
Room O
Network: Labour Chair: David Clayton
Organizer: Gareth Austin Discussant: Frank Tough
Gareth Austin : Freedom and Labor Markets: Some Effects of Export Agriculture in Colonial West Africa
Jan-Georg Deutsch : What made colonialism work? Labouring under colonial rule in East Africa, c. 1880-1920
Thaddeus Sunseri : Scientific Forestry and Labor Constraints in Colonial Tanzania, 1900-1961



Thursday 25 March 2004 14:15
O-7 LAB18 Early Modern Working Women: the Dutch case in international perspective
Room O
Network: Labour Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizer: Ariadne Schmidt Discussant: Maria Ågren
Ariadne Schmidt : Women and work in the early modern Netherlands: an introduction to the project.
Marjolein van Dekken : Women and work in the early modern Netherlands: The production of and trade in beverages.
Danielle van den Heuvel : Women and work in the early modern Netherlands: women's work in trade
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Women and work in the early modern Netherlands: spinners and the organization of production


V-7 LAB10 When Farm Workers meet the Industrial World
Room Cie2
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizers: - Discussant: Marion Leffler
John Abbott : Farm Labor, 'Landflucht' and Generational Conflict in Weimar Germany
Simon Constantine : Migrant labour Protest in Mecklenburg c1880 - 1924
Ignazio Masulli : Social conflict and change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Italy
Lars Olsson : Polish labour migration to Sweden before WW1



Friday 26 March 2004 8:30
L-9 LAB07 Post World War II Strikes: Cultures, States and Unions
Room L
Network: Labour Chair: Klaus Weinhauer
Organizers: David De Vries, Klaus Weinhauer Discussants: Stefan Berger, Klaus Weinhauer
Carolyn Brown : The Iva Valley Shooting - November 1949
Judith Byfield : The Great Upheaval - Taxation and Women's Protest in Post WWII Nigeria
David De Vries : Strikes in Post World War II Palestine


Q-9 TEC04 Industrial Revolutions: Technology, Internationalisation, and Labor
Room R
Networks: Labour , Technology Chair: Thomas Misa
Organizers: - Discussant: Thomas Misa
Richard Follett : Race, Labor, and Technology in the Cane Fields: Documenting the Louisiana Sugar Harvest, 1844-1917
Jonas Sjölander : Ericsson, Andersson and the International Solidarity



Friday 26 March 2004 10:45
C-10 LAB08 Out on Strike: Women's Use of Strikes as a Weapon in their Struggle for Equality in the Labour Market
Room C
Network: Labour Chair: Linda Lane
Organizer: Linda Lane Discussant: Judith Byfield
Ileen A. Devault : 'Too hard on the women, especially': Striking together for women workers' issues
Susanne Fransson, Christer Thörnqvist : Industrial Conflict and Bargaining Strategies in Female-dominated Occupations in Post-war Sweden
Julie Guard : 'She was a Little Bit of a Shit-Disturber': Respectability, Female Militancy, and Identity in a mid-1960s Ontario Strike
Marjaliisa Hentilä : Strikes of women in shops. An example of a low paid working women´s struggle in Finland



Friday 26 March 2004 14.15
F-11 LAB19 Structuring Time, Allocating Labour: Urban Household Strategies in 20th Century Russia and the Soviet Union
Room F
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Richard Wall
Sergei Afontsev : Post-Soviet Households: how many income sources are enough?
Gijs Kessler : Earning an Income in the Workers' Paradise: work-efforts of the Soviet Urban Household, 1917-41
Andrei Markevich : Household Strategies in the Shortage Economy, 1940-1965
Viktoria Tiazhelnikova : The Value of Domestic Labour, 1965-1986
Timur Valetov : Pre-revolutionary households: work and life in a migrant society


O-11 LAB12 Strategies in class conflict: lock-outs, strike breaking and mediation
Room O
Network: Labour Chair: Ileen A. Devault
Organizers: - Discussant: Dave Lyddon
Hans Dahlqvist : Free to compete, obliged to produce
Richard Maguire : The British State, Fascists and Strike-Breaking, 1925 to 1926
Sjaak Van der Velden : The disappearance of the lock-out as a weapon in the clash between the classes
Andrei Volodin : Russian Factory Inspection: Mediation in Labour Conflict & its Social Impact


Q-11 LAB11 Russian Connections
Room R
Network: Labour Chair: John McIlroy
Organizer: Alan Campbell Discussant: Reiner Tosstorff
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy : British Communists in Moscow during the interwar years.
Barry Mcloughlin : Austria, the Comintern and Soviet Espionage
Emmet O'Connor : Between Bolshevism and republicanism: the Comintern and communism in Ireland
Bryan Palmer : A year of living dangerously: James P. Cannon, the birth of American Trotskyism, and the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, 1928



Friday 26 March 2004 16.30
C-12 LAB31 Race and Transatlantic Political Culture: 1930-60 (Theme session)
Room C
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Pascal Grosse
Organizer: Susan Pennybacker Discussant: Pascal Grosse
Delia Jarrett-Macauley : Black Women in 1930s London
James Miller : The Politics of Exile: African American Writers in Paris during the 1950s
Susan Pennybacker : Refugees and Racial Politics in the 1930s
Timothy Schroer : Black music in a white land: German reactions to jazz and spirituals in the American occupation zone


F-12 LAB23 Determinants of female labour force participation in the first half of the 20th century
Room F
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Yuval Yonay
Andrée Lévesque : Women's work in Quebec in the interwar period: prescriptions and necessities
Hege Roll-Hansen : On female labour and statistical categories
Irina Shil'nikova : Workers' Wages and Bonuses at the Russian Manufacture in the Beginning of 20th Century: The Gender Gap
Selina Todd : Young Women's Employment in Interwar England


K-12 LAB16 Conceptualisations of Labour
Room K
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Carrie Lane Chet : The Value of Work: White-Collar Unemployment in the New Economy
Julia Peralta : Active labour market policy and the Other: Women, Disabled, Immigrants in the face of labour market restructuring in the 1990s
Juha Siltala : The rise and fall of the job as a personal possession
Brigitte Studer : Social policy as gender technology. The category of the unemployed in Switzerland in the 1930s



Saturday 27 March 2004 8:30
F-13 WOM14 Construction of the Gendered Worker
Room F
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Nathalie Ostroot
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Vera Sollova : Industrialization Process, Demographic Change and Women's Labor Force Participation in Central Mexico, 1970-2000
Ulla Wikander : International perspective on women's work participation, around 1900
Yuval Yonay, Vered Kraus : Modernization under Constraints: Demographic and Labor Force Participation of Palestinian and Jewish Women in Israel, 1972-1995


J-13 LAB25 German Workers and Trade Unions in the second half of the 20th Century
Room J
Network: Labour Chair: Peter Birke
Organizers: - Discussant: Inger Jonsson
Heiner Dribbusch : When high hopes collapsed. The rapid decline of trade union density in eastern Germany since 1990: the case of retail
Steve French : Between wages and employment: the dilemma of IG Metall's employment oriented collective bargaining from an historical perspective
Brigitte Lestrade : Temporary Work and Trade Unions : a history of conflicts (1967-2002)


Q-13 LAB13 Labour and the State
Room R
Network: Labour Chair: Richard Maguire
Organizers: - Discussant: Peter Ackers
Shani Bar-On, David De Vries : 'In the Procrustean Bed of Professionalism': Lawyers and the Histadrut in 1920-1930 Palestine
Norman Caulfield : Labor in Mexico and the US: Ten Years of NAFTA
John Chircop : Combined modes of Labour regimes in the British-controlled Mediterranean Islands, 1800-1880s
Seth Wigderson : The Fight To 'Privatize' American Labor Relations: 1933-1965


U-13 LAT04 Anarcho-Syndicalism in Latin America
Room Cie1
Networks: Labour , Latin America Chair: Lucien Van Der Walt
Organizer: Steven Hirsch Discussant: Lucien Van Der Walt
Paul Henderson : The Rise and Fall of Anarcho-Syndicalism in South America, 1880-1930
Steven Hirsch : The Multiple-Meanings and Praxis of Revolutionary Syndicalism in 1920s Lima-Callao, Peru



Saturday 27 March 2004 10:45
O-14 LAB20 Dockers in Wartime
Room O
Network: Labour Chair: William Kenefick
Organizer: Sam Davies Discussant: Klaus Weinhauer
Krista Cowman : Offending the Docker's Sense of Moral Decency: Women Dock Labourers in Liverpool during WW1
Sam Davies : Life and work on the Liverpool docks during WW2
Eric Taplin : Dock Workers in Britain during WW1



Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15
B-15 LAB32 Insecure Professionals
Room B
Network: Labour Chair: John Stewart
Organizer: Chris Nottingham Discussants: -
Rona Dougall : Socialising the medical profession: Jane Paterson and the General Practice Teaching Unit, Edinburgh
Chris Nottingham : Changing Jurisdictions. Reflections on the politics of an insecure professional
Marsha Wilson : Experiences of change: the impact of public health policy on health visitors


H-15 LAB35 Determinants of Female Labour Force Participation: 19th century case studies
Room H
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Ulla Wikander
Organizers: - Discussant: Ulla Wikander
Cristina Borderías : Wage Gender Gap in Barcelona Labour Market 1856-1930
Luisa Muñoz : Labor markets in maritime industries
Nathalie Ostroot, Eliane Richard : Contextual Effects: Women's Employment in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence in the Late 19th Century


K-15 LAB26 Left-wing organisational life in Europe and Africa 1895-1940
Room K
Network: Labour Chair: Julie Guard
Organizers: - Discussants: Piet Hoekman, Jannes Houkes
Ulla Aatsinki : The Creation of a Secret Organisation - The Communist Network in Finland, 1918-1939
Allison Drew : Cultures of Communism: A Comparative Analysis of South Africa and Algeria in the 1930s
William Kenefick : The Scots and the South African Labour Movement c. 1895 to 1914.
Lucien Van Der Walt : Bakunin's Heirs in South Africa: Race and Revolutionary Syndicalism from the IWW to the International Socialist League, 1910-1921


O-15 TEC06 Technology in the Postwar Order
Room O
Networks: Labour , Technology Chair: Margaret Power
Organizers: - Discussant: Dick Van Lente
Jens Lachmund : Shaping Urban Nature: Urban Wasteland Conservation in Berlin
Staffan Stranne : Local Labour Conditions during the Third Industrial Revolution. Report from a Workplace Discussion Group.


W-15 LAB22 Trade Unions, Workers and the State in Britain, 1951-79
Room A2
Network: Labour Chair: Chris Williams
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Williams
Peter Ackers, Adrian Wilkinson : The British Industrial Relations paradigm: A critical
Nina Fishman : Banquo's ghost-relations between Conservative governments and the Trade Union Congress, 1951-64
Dave Lyddon : The British state and strikes, 1951-79
Richard Whiting : Justice and work in modern Britain



Saturday 27 March 2004 16:30
J-16 LAB21 New Developments in the History of Unemployment
Room J
Network: Labour Chair: Andrée Lévesque
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jean Faniel : Belgian Unions and the Unemployed
Matti Hannikainen : The Extent, Timing and Duration of Unemployment Among Construction Workers in Helsinki from 1920 until 1939


K-16 LAB27 Iberian Occupations and Worker Identities
Room K
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Stubbe
Organizers: - Discussant: Cristina Borderías
Rui Manuel Brás : Dependence and deference in the Lisbon tobacco workers community
Antonio Miguez : Formation of the Class Identity and Collective Action: Artisans in Northwest -Spain as a Case-Study
Juanjo Romero-Marin : The Artisan World of Labour during Industrialisation. Barcelona, 1814-1860
Miguel Suárez Bosa : Trade Union Corporativismo and Monopolistic Job Offers in Spanish Ports


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