Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Wed 22 March
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    10:45
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Thu 23 March
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    10:45
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Fri 24 March
    8:30
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    14:15
    16:30

Sat 25 March
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All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
W-1 LAB25 Socialist ideals
Committee Room 2
Network: Labour Chair: David De Vries
Organizers: - Discussant: Wayne Thorpe
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 Chair: Brigitte Lestrade
Organizer: Heiner Dribbusch Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
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 Chair: Ursula Langkau-Alex
Organizers: - Discussant: Ursula Langkau-Alex
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 Chair: Dave Lyddon
Organizer: Heiner Dribbusch Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
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 Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: David De Vries Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
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 Chair: Janet Winters
Organizer: Mats Greiff Discussant: Susanna Hedenborg
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 Chair: Geert Van Goethem
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Dave Lyddon
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 Chair: Wray Vamplew
Organizer: Mats Greiff Discussant: Mats Greiff
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 Chair: Stefan Berger
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 Chair: Gareth Austin
Organizers: Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Sam Davies
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 Chair: Nina Fishman
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 Chair: Pauli Kettunen
Organizer: Pauli Kettunen Discussant: Klaus Petersen
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 Chair: Jan Kok
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Jan Kok
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 Chair: John McIlroy
Organizer: Alan Campbell Discussant: Michael Hughes
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 Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: - Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
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
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
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 Chair: Brian Kelly
Organizers: - Discussant: Gail Malmgreen
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 Chair: Patricia Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Patricia Thane
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 Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
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 Chair: Nina Fishman
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Ad Knotter
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 Chair: Ad Knotter
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
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 , Chair: Ido de Haan
Organizers: - Discussants: -
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 Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Kevin Murphy Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
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 Chair: Susanna Fellman
Organizer: Pauli Kettunen Discussants: -
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 , Labour Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Margaret Hunt
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 , Labour Chair: Janet Hunter
Organizers: - Discussant: Janet Hunter
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
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Thomas Adams
Organizers: - Discussant: Jussi Vauhkonen
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 , Labour Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organizers: Danielle van den Heuvel, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Ulrich Pfister
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 Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
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
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Laura Frader
Organizers: - Discussant: Laura Frader
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 Chair: Seth Wigderson
Organizers: - Discussant: Seth Wigderson
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
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Julie Guard
Organizer: Nils Edling Discussant: Ignazio Masulli
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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