Wed 22 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30
Thu 23 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30
Fri 24 March
8:30
10:45
14:15
16:30
Sat 25 March
8:30
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14:15
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Wednesday 22 March 2006
8:30
W-1
LAB25
Socialist ideals
Committee Room 2
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
David De Vries
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Wayne Thorpe
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Rui Manuel Brás :
Getting to the socialist Promised Land. A study case on the Lisbon tobacco workers (XIX-XX centuries).
Casey Harison :
The Paris Commune: Meanings and Lessons in the Era of the Russian Revolution of 1905
Joan Meyers :
Forging Economic Democracy: A Case Study of Workplace Diversity, Autonomy, and Reward
Wednesday 22 March 2006
14:15
J-3
LAB04
Strikes in an international perspective 1970-2000: Germany, Great Britain and Denmark
Room J
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Brigitte Lestrade
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Organizer:
Heiner Dribbusch
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Discussant:
Sjaak Van der Velden
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Heiner Dribbusch :
Strikes in Germany 1969-2004
Dave Lyddon :
Strikes in the United Kingdom, 1970-2000
V-3
LAB18
Labour and the State
Committee Room 1
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Ursula Langkau-Alex
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Ursula Langkau-Alex
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Shani Bar-On :
Textile workers and State building: A new town in Israel, 1955-1967
Emanuela Grama :
Creating “the Science of the Nation”: Politics of Class, Labor and Gender of the Social Service program, 1930s Romania
Agustin Santella :
Labor mobilization and political violence. Villa Constitución contentions, Argentina 1970-1975.
Wednesday 22 March 2006
16:30
J-4
LAB07
Strikes in International Perspective II: Belgium, the Netherlands and France
Room J
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Dave Lyddon
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Organizer:
Heiner Dribbusch
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Discussant:
Heiner Dribbusch
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Brigitte Lestrade :
Strike activity in France (1970-2000)
Sjaak Van der Velden :
Strike movements in the Netherlands, 1970-2000
Kurt Vandaele :
The withering away of strikes in Belgium. The merits of social dialogue or statistical blindness?
L-4
LAB09
Diamond Workers at War and the relocation of the diamond industry: Belgium, Germany and Palestine
Room L
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Karin Hofmeester
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Organizer:
David De Vries
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Discussant:
Karin Hofmeester
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David De Vries :
Capital, labor and international politics: The Palestine diamond industry, 1937-1947
Eric Laureys :
The German diamond industry under nazi rule
Veerle Vanden Daelen :
The revival of the Antwerp Diamond Trade after the Second World War: A Jewish affair?
T-4
LAB10
Horse racing and gambling I: ethnicity, class and gender
Room T
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Janet Winters
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Organizer:
Mats Greiff
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Discussant:
Susanna Hedenborg
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Åsa Bonn :
The pictures of the gypsies in Finnish horse journals 1924 to 1965
Mats Greiff :
From "Horsemanship" to "Softhanded Nursing". Gender Relations within Swedish Harness Racing 1930-2005
Chris Mcconville :
“An erratic journey?" Gender, race and national identity at the Melbourne Cup Carnival 1960-1979
Wray Vamplew :
Captains Courageous: The Gentleman Rider in British Racing 1866-1914
Thursday 23 March 2006
8:30
A-5
LAB01
Labour Internationalism I
Room A
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Geert Van Goethem
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Organizer:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Discussant:
Dave Lyddon
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Andrew Dawson :
“Bring Hollywood Home!” Studio Labour, Internationalism, and Runaway Production, 1998-2005.
Magaly Rodríguez García :
Views on Internationalism: Socialists vs Liberals
Victor Silverman :
"Green Unions in a Grey World"
Robert Waters, Gordon O. Daniels :
The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana
H-5
LAB11
Horseracing and Gambling II: Labour relations
Room H
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Wray Vamplew
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Organizer:
Mats Greiff
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Discussant:
Mats Greiff
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Susanna Hedenborg :
Betting, technical development and work in Swedish horseracing
Joakim Tranquist :
Catch drivers - a new phenomenon in Swedish harness racing
Janet Winters :
“We still don't want to frighten the horses”: Lessons from the 1975 stable lads' strike
P-5
LAB14
Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 I
Room P
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Stefan Berger
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Organizers:
Nina Fishman, Chris Williams |
Discussants:
Ben Gales, Quentin Outram |
Nina Fishman :
Checkweighers, Works Committees and Union Fragmentation: The Role of the State in Facilitating Union Density. A British-German Comparison, 1880-1930
Keith Gildart :
Industrial Relations in the Cumberland Coalfield, 1921-1926
Leighton James :
A stark contrast or underlying continuity? Miners' unions' attitudes to the state in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1933
Brian Mccook :
The Face of Mining: Markets, Labour Regimes, and State Regulation in the Coal Industries of the Ruhr Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914
Thursday 23 March 2006
10:45
R-6
LAB12
Covering the world
Room R
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Gareth Austin
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Organizers:
Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk |
Discussant:
Sam Davies
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Lex Heerma van Voss, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Els Hiemstra-Kuperus :
A global history of textile workers, 1650-2000
Janet Hunter :
Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1650-2000
Andrea Komlosy :
Globalized Textiles: Spatial division of labour, global inter-relations, and imbalances in regional development
U-6
LAB15
Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 II
Room U
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Nina Fishman
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Organizers:
Nina Fishman, Chris Williams |
Discussants:
Leighton James, Brian Mccook |
Carolyn Brown :
Creating 'Responsible' Workers by Restructuring African Family Life: Britain's Colonial Office and African Miners at the Nigerian Government Colliery, 1935-1945
Ben Gales :
Miners in a market without frontiers?
Quentin Outram :
Discourses on Work and the Liberal-Labour Alliance, 1870-1910: The view from the Coalfields
Chris Williams :
Striking Images: Cartoons, Coal and Commentary in South Wales, 1898-1921
Thursday 23 March 2006
14:15
F-7
LAB27
Business interest, professionalism and changing borders of public and private. Transformation of employer strategies after World War II
Room F
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Pauli Kettunen
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Organizer:
Pauli Kettunen
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Discussant:
Klaus Petersen
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Susanna Fellman :
Employer Strategies and Upper White-Collar Employees in Finnish Firms in the 1960s and 1970s.
Gunnel Maria Holmér :
Immigrant Workers in the Swedish Glass Industry 1940 -1970
Melissa Kerr :
Managers, Workers but where were the unions? Labour Management Practices in Non-Union Firms 1945-1970
Jussi Vauhkonen :
Finnish employers’ strategies in the development of statutory social insurance 1954–1964
H-7
LAB13
State Regulation and Household Agency in Twentieth Century Russia
Room H
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Jan Kok
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Organizer:
Gijs Kessler
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Discussant:
Jan Kok
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Sergey A. Afontsev :
Affecting Policy without Political Action: Household Agency in Post-Communist Russia
Gijs Kessler :
The Urban Household and Economic Dictatorship in the Soviet Union, 1920s-30s
Viktoria Tiazhelnikova :
Welfare Policy and Cooperation within the Russian Urban Household, 1960s-1980s
Timur Valetov :
Peasant Migration and Urbanisation in pre-1917 Russia: the role of the state
I-7
LAB16
International Communism and Espionage
Room A-2
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
John McIlroy
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Organizer:
Alan Campbell
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Discussant:
Michael Hughes
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Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy :
British Communists and Russian Spies
Peter Anthony Glees :
The UK as the target of the East German Secret Intelligence and Security Service
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes :
The Historiography of Soviet Espionage and American Communism: from Separate to Converging Paths
Reiner Tosstorff :
Case closed: The assassination of Andreu Nin and what we know now of Soviet espionage
Friday 24 March 2006
8:30
G-9
LAB30
Responses to Recent Changes in Global Capitalism
Room G
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Lars Olsson
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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Anikó Eszter Bartha :
Ideas in transition: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
Julie Guard :
Canada’s Steel Union Responds to the New Economy: Organizing Call Centres
Paula Mulinari :
Racializing and genderizing labour processes in the restaurant and hotel branch.
Jonas Sjölander :
The Detours of Solidarity: Labour Internationalism in the Third Industrial Revolution. The Swedish Metal Workers’ Federation in Colombia 1976-1986.
O-9
ETH17
Migration of domestic servants
Room O
Sjoukje Botman :
The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Marina de Regt :
"Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti :
Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Monica Smith :
Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon
W-9
LAB23
Workers' organisations in the US (1937-1970s)
Committee Room 2
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Brian Kelly
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Gail Malmgreen
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K. Kevyne Baar :
The Motion Picture and Television Industry: Their Major Trade Unions and the McCarthy Era Blacklist
Patrick Saunders :
Too Many Rail Chiefs and not enough Workers: The decline of the Railroad Unions in the U.S.
Seth Wigderson :
Les Demoiselles Grévistes:” Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Shoe Strike
Friday 24 March 2006
10:45
S-10
LAB17
Labour relations at the end of the 20th century
Room S
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Patricia Thane
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Patricia Thane
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Lars Hansson :
Against the neoliberal wind. The Swedish Paper Workers Unions defensive strategies from the 1990s .
Troy Sarina :
The Call for Reform: Explanations for the Introduction of Non-Union Collective Agreement Making
Carol Stephenson, Jean Spence :
Women, community and the British Miners' Strike 1984-5:
Friday 24 March 2006
14:15
A-11
LAB02
Labour Internationalism II
Room A
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Organizer:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Discussant:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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Constance Bantman :
Anarchist internationalism: theory and practices
Ralph Darlington :
Revolutionary Syndicalist Opposition to the First World War: A Comparative Assessment
Wayne Thorpe :
Seeking New Paths: Anti-Authoritarian Labour and the Defense of Revolutionary Internationalism, 1914-1918
Geert Van Goethem :
Class versus Gender
T-11
LAB22
Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour I
Room T
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Nina Fishman
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Organizer:
Patricia Van den Eeckhout
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Discussant:
Ad Knotter
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Philippe Lefebvre :
A persistant enigma for business history and organization theories : the emergence and rise of factory hierarchy in big business (end of XVIIIth century-beginning of XXth century)
Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jérôme Bourdieu :
Wage forms and hierarchy in late 19th-century industry
Philip Slaby :
Gender, Family, and Managerial Control: Immigrants and the French Coal Industry between the World Wars
Friday 24 March 2006
16:30
D-12
LAB03
Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour II
Room D
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Ad Knotter
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Organizer:
Patricia Van den Eeckhout
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Discussant:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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Cristina Borderías :
Skill, work organization and gender in Catalan self-acting spinning
James Jaffe :
Managing the Effort Problem: The Ambiguities of Workplace Supervision during British Industrialization
Peter Scholliers :
"Meestergasten": work, wages and authority in the Ghent cotton mills
Patricia Van den Eeckhout :
Customs and contracts: firing foremen in 19th century Ghent
E-12
POL13
Totalitarianism
Room E
Networks:
Labour
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Chair:
Ido de Haan
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Organizers:
-
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Discussants:
-
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Federigo Argentieri :
Hungary 1956: historiography and interpretative debate
Uwe Backes :
What does totalitarianism mean? Reformulating the Concept in the Framework of a Universal Typology of Political Systems
Maryse Ramambason :
From USSR to the Federation of Russia : a democratisation process and emergence of a competitive political area
James Ryan :
Tinkering with Totalitarianism: The American Communist Party's Attempts at Liberalization, 1934-1949
Mike Schmeitzner :
Criticism of Totalitarian Regimes from the Left. The Council-Communist Totalitarianism Theory of Otto Rühle
Q-12
LAB31
The Origins of Stalinism
Room N1-O1
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Gijs Kessler
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Organizer:
Kevin Murphy
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Discussant:
Marcel van der Linden
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Alexei Gusev :
Totalitarian phenomenon in interpretations of Russian Dissident Marxists
Mike Haynes :
Rethinking Class Power in the Russian Factory 1929-1991
Kevin Murphy :
Soviet Workers and the Formation of the Stalinist System
Saturday 25 March 2006
8:30
H-13
LAB29
Female Employment, Services and Welfare State
Room H
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Susanna Fellman
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Organizer:
Pauli Kettunen
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Discussants:
-
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Kirsten Bregn :
Changes in the public sector pay systems
Heidi Haggrén :
The Collective Interest Articulation of Nurses in the post-WW-II Finland: Tensions between Social Loyalties and Labour-Market Logic
Matti Hannikainen :
Fairness and Social Norms in the Labour Market. Lower White-Collar Employees in Finland during the Golden Age
L-13
LAB05
Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part I: Married couples working together in commerce, 1500-1800
Room L
Networks:
Economics
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Labour
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Chair:
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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Organizers:
Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk |
Discussant:
Margaret Hunt
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Lili-Annè Aldman :
Who’s the boss? Merchants and shopkeepers in Stockholm during early modern times
Christina Dalhede :
Merchant Families in Gothenburg and Lübeck in Early Modern Time
Matthias Steinbrink :
Representative or merchant woman? Verena Meltinger from Basel
Danielle van den Heuvel :
The cooperation of spouses in commerce in the Dutch Republic
S-13
LAB26
Class, Community, Culture: Analysis and Construction of Historical Identities
Room S
Networks:
Asia
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Labour
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Chair:
Janet Hunter
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Janet Hunter
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Angelo Goode :
A Socially Contructed Working Class Culture: The Study of the Filipino Woodworking Industry
Marion Leffler :
What good are research circles?
Monica Sharma :
Culture of the Neighbourhood and Formation of Community Identity among the Factory Workers in Colonial India
Georg Stöger :
Unskilled factory work in Vienna before 1918. Reflections on juvenile socialisation
Saturday 25 March 2006
10:45
I-14
LAB21
Labour and Welfare Regimes
Room A-2
Duco Bannink :
Social policy from Olson to Ostrom
Alexander Elu :
The origin of public old age insurance in Spain. An economic study of the Retiro Obrero (1909-1936).
Ignazio Masulli :
Welfare State and Social Citizenship in 20th Century Europe
L-14
LAB06
Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part II: The division of labour between spouses in industry, 1500-1800
Room L
Networks:
Economics
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Labour
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Chair:
Danielle van den Heuvel
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Organizers:
Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk |
Discussant:
Ulrich Pfister
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Christof Jeggle :
Households, Workshops, and the Division of Labour between Spouses in the Linen Trades in Munster/Westphalia in the 17. Century
Leigh Shaw-Taylor :
The roles of husbands, wives and widows in manufacturing businesses in mid-nineteenth century England
Marjolein van Dekken :
Husbands and wives working together: The production and selling of beverages in the early modern Northern Netherlands.
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk :
Couples co-operating? Dutch textile workers and the family economy, c. 1600-1800
Saturday 25 March 2006
14:15
V-15
LAB24
Global Views on Labour
Committee Room 1
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Marcel van der Linden
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Gareth Austin :
Coercion and Markets: Extra-Familial Labour Recruitment in Precolonial Africa, 1500-1900
Daniel Roger Maul :
"Make them move the ILO way" - The International Labour Organization and the problem of development 1948-1970
Lars Olsson :
How the British spread agrarian capitalism over the world (1600-1914)
Thaddeus Sunseri :
Forest Labor and Nationalism in Tanganyika, 1945-1961
Saturday 25 March 2006
16:30
F-16
WOM21
Labour contracts and marriage contracts
Room F
Zara Bersbo :
The hidden emancipation. Were changes in 1915: s law of marriage and divirce mainly supporting male emancipation? A study of attitudes to paid and unpaid work in Sweden 1915-1974
Lina Galvez Muñoz :
Exploring the Gender Wage Differentials in Spain, 1900-1930
Linda Lane :
“Bringing Home the Bacon – Female contributions to family income 1920-1940.”
Kirsti Niskanen :
Contracts of Labour and Marriage - A Generations Approach
I-16
LAB19
Class and other identities, 1870-1932
Room A-2
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Seth Wigderson
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Seth Wigderson
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Malini Cadambi, Evan Daniel :
(Re)Examining Class: Transnational Workers and Nationalist Struggles in the late 19th Century United States
Brian Kelly :
Black Workers and the Overthrow of Reconstruction in South Carolina: 1874-1876
Joel Perlmann :
Dissent and discipline in Ben Gurion's Workers' Party: younger critics on the left, 1932
Kylie Smith :
Larrikins, Labour and the Creation of the New Human Subject, Sydney 1870-1900
S-16
LAB28
Transnational Unemployment Policies ca. 1890-1920
Room S
Bernhard Adamek :
The origins of the public unemployment insurance in Berne from 1893
Nils Edling :
Importing Unemployment Insurance: Foreign Models and National Insurance Programmes in Scandinavia 1890–1914
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