Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (all days)
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
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
A-1 SOC01 Care, Discipline and Training in Orphanages and Other Charitable Institutions in the 17th and 18th centuries
Room A
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas Adams
Organizer: Thomas Adams Discussant: Thomas Adams
Alysa Levene : The Survival Prospects of European Foundlings: the London Foundling Hospital and the Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence, 1741-77
Laurence Marcoult : Work for the Idle Poor? Realities of “The Great Confinement” at the Hôpital-Général of Paris in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Max Safley : Controversies over Child Care and Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Valentina Tikoff : Exploitation or Education: The Labor of Seville’s Orphanage Wards, 1681-1831



Wednesday 22 March 2006 10:45
D-2 ECO01 Growth & Inequality
Room D
Networks: Economics , Social Inequality Chair: Paul M Hohenberg
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Joerg Baten, Dorothee Crayen : Inequality and Growth
Concha Betran, Maria A. Pons & Javier Ferri : Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What can we learn from the Past?: A calibration general equilibrium model approach
Bruno Blondé, G. Verbist : Economic growth and social inequality in the early modern Southern Netherlands


U-2 SOC06 Poverty and Poor Relief in Europe
Room U
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Beata Csibor : Child poverty in the 21 century
Carl Griffin : Terror, Violence and Social Policy: Parochial Responses to Popular Protest in Rural England, 1830-31
Samantha Shave : A User's Perspective of Welfare: Individuals’ Life Experiences during the old Poor Law



Thursday 23 March 2006 8:30
V-5 SOC04 Institutional care in Europe
Committee Room 1
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Organizers: - Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Ton Kappelhof, J.P. de Valk : Ideas, ideals and practice in social politics: the example of the first Dutch minister for Social Affairs
Martin Scheutz, Alfred Stefan Weiss : Order and disorder. Hospitals (("Bürgerspitäler") in Austrian and South German towns 1500-1800
Aline Steinbrecher : Voices from Inside - internal perspectives of the Zurich Hospital in early modern times
Sabine Veits-Falk : Social inequality in "hospitals" of the 19th century



Friday 24 March 2006 8:30
C-9 SOC05 Microfinances, Poor Law and Urban Sustainability, 19th-20th centuries
Room C
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini : The middle class against poverty. Legislative interventions and credit institutions in the Kingdom of Naples in the first half of 19th century.
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller : Microfinance and Poor Laws in an urban Mediterranean context. The case of Barcelona in the XIX century
Duncan Ross : Poverty and Individualism: Savings Banks as Capitalist Institutions
Sakari Saaritsa : Credit, welfare and sustainable proletarianization: Microeconometrics of the urban family economy in early 20th century Helsinki


M-9 SOC10 Social inequalities in health I
Room M
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Astri Andresen : Health differences and the policies to reduce them: Norway 1900s-1950s
Martin Gorsky : "For the treatment of sick persons of all classes?" Social inequality and the transformation of the British hospital system in the 20th century
Bernard Harris : Gender, Health and Welfare in England and Wales since 1800
Anne Løkke : Patients at the Danish Royal Hospital (Rigshospitalet) 1757 - 2000 .
Peter Razzell : The Hazards of Wealth



Friday 24 March 2006 10:45
E-10 HEA05 Financing Health
Room E
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Godelieve van Heteren
Organizers: - Discussants: -
K.P. Companje : Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply
Bruce Fetter : The quest for clean numbers: The intersection of historical demography and classic methods for historical criticism
Stephanie Neuner : State insurance and welfare policy for "war-neurotics" of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c. 1920-1939.
Joost van Genabeek, Leo Van Bergen : Dutch history of social insurance medicine


F-10 SOC12 Social inequality in Europe's oversees empires
Room F
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Frances Gouda
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lynn Lees : Different styles of Colonial Rule: Town and Plantation in British Malaya, 1880-1930
Richard Price : Missionary Culture, Race and Inequality in early nineteenth century South Africa
Jewel Spangler : Poisoned Relationships: Slave Rebellion, Evangelical Religion, and Household Mastery on the American Plantation Periphery in the Age of Revolution
Kristy Warren : Race and Class in Bermudian Society


H-10 SOC11 Social Inequalities in health II
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Bernard Harris
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, Richard Levins : Historical impact on social inequalities that lead to health disparities
Teemu Sakari Ryymin : Social and ethnic considerations in the Northern Norwegian antituberculosis campaign, app. 1900-1940
Signild Vallgårda : Social inequality in health – a comparative study of problematisations
John Welshman : Inequalities in Health in the UK, 1940-76: The Issue of Resource Allocation
Sam Willner : Change and continuity in the regional mortality pattern in Sweden from pre-industrial to post-industrial society.



Friday 24 March 2006 14:15
F-11 SOC08 Social Endogamy in Comparative Perspective
Room F
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paul Lambert
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen : Social endogamy in a comparative perspective
Bart Van De Putte, Andrew Miles : Demographic class formation in 19th century England and Belgium
Richard L. Zijdeman : Status attainment through marriage in an industrialising agricultural seaprovince, 1800-1920


H-11 SOC14 The Welfare State: past, present and future I
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lars Magnusson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jenny Andersson : Discursive strategies of welfare state modernisation. Rethinking the social democratic and the liberal model.
Helene Brodin, Helén Strömberg : Making a Market of Care? Visions and Divisions of Responsibilities in Swedish Health and Eldercare during the late 20th century
Sofia Murhem : Privatisations of Swedish elder care- how are industrial relations affected?



Friday 24 March 2006 16:30
H-12 SOC15 The Welfare State: past, present and future II
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lars Magnusson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Klas Amark : Scaninavian Welfare Politics - universalism or wage-earners paradise?
Urban Lundberg : Social Democracy Lost: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform, 1978-1998
Klaus Petersen : Welfare reforms in Denmark 1891-2005



Saturday 25 March 2006 8:30
W-13 SOC17 Coding into HISCO accross cultures I
Committee Room 2
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Gordon Darroch
Organizers: - Discussants: Gordon Darroch, Georg Fertig
Mats Hayen : No future. Career opportunities for people of dying branches in Stockholm between 1880 and 1925.
Julie Marfany : Coding into HISCO in Catalonia: issues and perspectives



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


W-14 SOC18 Coding into HISCO accross cultures II
Committee Room 2
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Georg Fertig
Organizers: - Discussant: Tarcisio Botelho
Francis Alvarez Gealogo : HISCO Applications to Philippine Parish Records: Some Preliminary Findings in Social Mobility Studies of select Southeast Asian communities
Gopinath Ravindran : Construction and Contextualisation of Intergenerational Occupational Series for India
Vladimir Vladimirov : Pilot Russian HISCO Version



Saturday 25 March 2006 14:15
E-15 SOC19 Culture, Consumption, and the Construction of Communities
Room E
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld : Migration of poor Jews into the Portuguese Community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: A Case Study in Ethnicity, Exclusion and social Stratification
Paolo Raspadori : Inequality and culture. Territorial differences in the access to the means of cultural enrichment in Italy (1863-1991)
Tibor Valuch : The Consumption and the Society in the socialist Hungary


H-15 SOC09 Social hierarchy in the past
Room H
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: - Discussants: Paul Lambert, Ineke Maas, Kenneth Prandy, Marco Van Leeuwen, Richard L. Zijdeman


J-15 SOC20 Theory and Practice of Charity and Welfare: France, Britain, Switzerland and Germany compared, c. 1800-1930 I
Room J
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Abigail Green
Organizers: - Discussant: Klaus Weber
Frank Hatje : Charitable Foundations and Trusts in 19th Century Hamburg
Céline Leglaive : British and French Theory and Practice on the Sector of Social Housing: London and Paris, c. 1850-1930


T-15 SOC13 Social work and welfare under socialism
Room T
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Klaus Petersen
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Borbala Juhasz : Parallel biographies: Religious social work in Hungary through the lives of Katalin Gerő and Ilona Földy
Ingrid Miethe, Martina Schiebel : Social Inequality and Eduaction. The Arbeiter- und Bauern-Fakultäten (ABF) in East Germany Between “Affirmative Action” and “Stalinist Cadre Mills”
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa : Everyday Social Work in the Hungarian Settlement Movement: A Case Study of the Kozma Street Settlement Project, 1942-1950



Saturday 25 March 2006 16:30
J-16 SOC16 Theory and Practice of Charity and Welfare: France, Britain, Switzerland and Germany compared, c. 1800-1930 II
Room J
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Abigail Green
Organizers: - Discussant: Rainer Liedtke
Thomas David : Protestant Ethics and Liberal Conservatism: Swiss Concepts of Philanthropy and Welfare (1800-1914)
Ralf Roth : Jewish Philanthropy and the Making of Universities. The examples of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Manchester
Klaus Weber : Economists, Philosophers and Revolutionaries? British, German and French Approaches to “Welfare”, “Charity” and “Philanthropy”, 19th/20th Centuries


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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