Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
Q-1 LAB27 Gender and Labour
Amphitheatre 3
Network: Labour Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Christine Collette : 'The Newer Eve': women, feminists and the Labour Party
Carles Enrech : Gender and textile trade unionism in Spain (1840-1923)
Jordi Ibarz : The sexual division of work in the glass industry in Spain (1884-1931)


Y-1 LAB28 Stalinization and Beyond: Problems of International Communist History
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Matthew Worley Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti : Stalinization and the Italian Communist Party
Norman Laporte : Proletarian Tribunes: Thalmann and Pollitt
Tauno Saarela : Comparative Communisms: The Scandinavian Example
Brigitte Studer : Stalinization: Balance Sheet of a Complex Notion



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
Y-2 LAB02 Strikes
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizers: Heiner Dribbusch, Sjaak Van der Velden Discussant: David Lyddon
Peter Birke : Strikes, Social Conflicts and Social Movement in Scandinavia since the 1990’s
Heiner Dribbusch : Strikes and employer militancy: balance of power and industrial conflict in the German public sector since 1990
Sjaak Van der Velden : Strikes and living strategies



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
F-3 LAB05 Violent conflict
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: James Jaffe
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Carl Griffin : Still Swinging, Swing redivivus or something after Swing? On the death throes of a movement, December 1830 - December 1833
Christian Koller : Strikes in the Austrian “Ständestaat” 1934–1938
Paul F. Lipold, Larry Isaac : Striking Deaths: Lethal Industrial Contestation in American Labor History


P-3 LAB33 Local communities and workers
Room 8.1
Network: Labour Chair: William Kenefick
Organizers: - Discussant: Gorkem Akgoz
Paulo Fontes : Amateur soccer clubs and working-class neighbourhood organizations in São Paulo, Brazil (1945-1978)
Robert Lewis : Producing Place: General Electric and Industrial America, 1940-1950
Conor Mccabe : Family life and the workplace: a case study of the Inchicore and Broadstone Irish railway communities, 1847-1925



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
L-4 LAB18 Conceptualising the working class
Room 5.1
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: - Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Gorkem Akgoz : Cultural Representations of Working-Class Formation in Turkey
Juanjo Romero-Marin : Working in 19th century docks: the 'faquines' struggle for survival
Simon Zsolt : Wages in salt mining


V-4 LAB15 Mobilising the unemployed, 1928-35
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: John Mcilroy
Organizer: Alan Campbell Discussant: Richard Croucher
Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy : Mobilising the unemployed in Britain: analysing the activists
Daniel Joseph Leab : The CPUSA and the organization of the American unemployed
Matt Perry : Mobilising the unemployed in France in the 1930s:
Alex Zukas : Class, State, and Struggle: Mobilizing Unemployed Workers in late Weimar Germany



Wednesday 27 February 2008 14.15
O-5 LAB03 Comparative Perspectives on Workplace Culture
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizer: James Jaffe Discussant: David Lyddon
James Jaffe : The Political Culture of Shop Floor Industrial Relations: England, 1780-1830
Steve Meyer : The Muscular Workplace: The Masculine Culture of Industrial Relations in Automobile Plants, 1930-1960
Leda Papastefanaki : Paternalism and gender in the workplaces: Greece, 1830-1940



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
F-6 LAB34 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 1: theoretical approaches
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Erika Kuijpers
Organizers: Robert Knegt, Erika Kuijpers Discussant: Robert Steinfeld
Simon Deakin : Industrialization, legal origin, and economic development in historical perspective
Robert Knegt : Towards a comparative analysis of pre-industrial labour contracts


O-6 LAB06 Farm workers
Room 7.1
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Lars Olsson
Attila Lajos : On the wrong side of the Iron Curtain: Hungarian agricultural workers in Sweden 1947-1949.
Juan Marinez : Transition from Farm Workers to Farm Owners: A Case Study of Hispanic Farmers in Southwestern Michigan.
Stephen Pitti : Cesar Chavez, the Grape Boycott, and Migrant Farm Labor
Dionicio Valdes : Up From Colonialism



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
C-7 LAB08 The Post-War reconstruction of European Industrial Relations (1945-68)
Cave C
Network: Labour Chair: Nina Fishman
Organizer: Peter Ackers Discussant: Nina Fishman
Peter Ackers : Professor Hugh Clegg & the Oxford School of British IR Reform
Ruth Dukes : Otto Kahn-Freund and Industrial Democracy: from the UK to Germany and back again
Christer Thörnqvist : Industrial relations in Sweden 1945-2007
Richard Whiting : Affluence and Industrial Relations


F-7 LAB35 Pre-industrial Labour Contracts 2
Sala Leite de Vasconcelos
Network: Labour Chair: Robert Knegt
Organizers: - Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Joern Janssen : Different categories of wage earners according to labour statutes in England, 1349-1563.
Erika Kuijpers : Labour contracts in Holland ca. 1300-1600
Mary Nagata : Another Kind of Service: Labor Contracts and the Machi Yonin in Early Modern Kyoto, Japan



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
S-8 LAB29 US labour
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Steve Meyer
Organizers: - Discussant: Steve Meyer
Norman Caulfield : The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC): A Twelve-Year Assessment
Andrew Dawson : Studio Labour, Civil Rights, and the Collapse of Hollywood's Racial Order, 1963-1974
Seth Wigderson : He Doesn’t Know How To Answer A Gentleman”: Deference and Defiance in the 1937 Lewiston Auburn Shoeworkers’ Strike


U-8 LAB11 The Politics of Mining: Comparative Perspectives
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Carolyn Brown
Nina Fishman : National Coal Board: experiment in social democracy
Ben Gales : ‘Engineering Hard Choices: Accidents in Dutch Mining during the 20th Century
Keith Gildart : Miners' Militancy in Britain in the Second World War: The Role of the Independent Labour Party
Chris Williams : From 'Isolated Masses' to 'Little Moscows': Radicalism and Locality in British Coalfields, 1800-1985



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
A-9 LAB09 Between idea(l)s and reality: Labour as non-state actor in international relations
Cave A
Network: Labour Chair: Daniel Roger Maul
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Susan Pennybacker
Jill Jensen : International Labor Standards in the Building of Two Postwar Orders, 1919-1949
Magaly Rodríguez García : Liberal Workers of the World, Unite!? Defending Liberal Internationalist Principles within the Free-Trade Union Movement (1949 – 1969)
Yvonne Rueckert : International Trade Union Organizations in the system of global governance – The anchoring of trade union demands at Bretton Woods institutions


R-9 LAB00 Roundtable: A Global Development of Free Wage Labour in the 19th and 20th century
Amphitheater 4
Network: Labour Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Simon Deakin, Karin Hofmeester, M. Erdem Kabadayi, Robert Steinfeld


W-9 LAB26 Race and Internationalism: New Research on Black Activists in the Ambit of the Comintern
Room 2.12
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Eve Rosenhaft
Organizer: Eve Rosenhaft Discussant: James Miller
Robbie Aitken : German-Speaking Cameroonians: Exchange and Knowledge Transfer within Networks of Anti-Colonialism
Corinne A. Pernet : Nationalism, Regionalism or Cosmopolitanism? Latin American Intellectuals at UNESCO, 1948 to 1958
Fionnghuala Sweeney : CLR James' The Black Jacobins and radical leadership in the interwar period



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
J-10 NMLAB Network meeting: Labour
Room 3.1
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
K-11 LAB07 Child Labour and Globalisation
Room 4
Network: Labour Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizers: Lars Olsson, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Emma Alexander-Mudaliar
Claudia Dyga, Michael Arretz : Dealing with Child Labour - a corporate perspective
Fredrik Lilja : Child labour in South African agriculture 1940-60
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Comparative perspectives on child labour: The Netherlands and Indonesia



Friday 29 February 2008 10.45
U-12 LAB31 Labour-state relationships
Room10.2
Network: Labour Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Mark David Pittaway
Eszter Bartha : A Failed Dialogue: Workers, the party and the economic reforms in the GDR and Hungary (1963-1968)
M. Erdem Kabadayi : Factory Workers as Petitioners: State-Subject Interaction in the Late Ottoman Empire
William Kenefick : The 'Scotch Club': The Workers' Education Association in Canada from 1919
Andrei Volodin : How can state mediate labour conflicts? (The case of Russian factory inspection in 1880s-1914).


Y-12 LAB10 Communist strategies
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Andrée Lévesque : The Weakest Link: French-Canadian Communists before 1940
Ester Reiter : A Shenerer un beserer velt: Building a beautiful future, Gender and Class in the Pro Communist Jewish Left in Canada, 1920-1950
Raquel Varela : Avante and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) in the Portuguese revolution of 25 April 1974 to 25 November 1975



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
M-13 POL12 Methods and analysis: renewing the histories of anarchism, state-building and citizenship
Room 5.2
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizers: Bert Altena, Lucien van der Walt Discussant: Lucien van der Walt
Bert Altena : How about the history of anarchism as a national social movement?
Tom Goyens : Social Space and the Practice of Anarchist History
Carl Levy : Social Histories of Anarchism
Eduardo Romanos : Analysing anarchist mobilisation in a highly repressive political context: the Spanish case


T-13 LAB13 Occupational health and safety
Room 9
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Ben Gales
David Lyddon : Historical continuities in occupational health and safety in the United Kingdom, 1833–2007
Jose Martínez Pérez : Measuring disability: evaluating the corporal damage in occupational accident victims and the development of Orthopaedics in Spain. (1900-1936)
Arthur McIvor, Ronnie Johnston : Dust Disease in British and US Coal Mining in the Twentieth Century
Julia Moses : The Politics of International Convergence in Industrial Accident Compensation Policy, 1880-1925


W-13 LAB14 The Formal - Informal Dichotomy: Social and Economic Agency and the Cultural Heritage of the Soviet Past
Room 2.12
Network: Labour Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Gijs Kessler Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Sergey Afontsev : Looking Back or Looking Forward? Soviet Heritage and the Evolution of Informal Labor in Post-Soviet Russia
Leonid Borodkin : Transformation of Soviet Workers' Social Practices in Post-Soviet Russia: From Informal Practices to Formal Ones?
Irina Novichenko : Soviet 'Public Organizations': Official Structure and Informal Activity
Timur Valetov : Self-organised seasonal labour collectives in the USSR of the 1960-1980s: economic and social aspects



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
A-14 LAB17 The performativity of objects IV: The Social History of Food
Cave A
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Peter Scholliers
Organizer: Julie Guard Discussant: Linda Lane
Oskar Broberg : Alternative Visions and Organic Branding. The Construction of a Market for Organic Milk in Sweden 1970-2000
Christine Garcia : The Cultural Revolution of Animal Rights Veganism
Julie Guard : The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s
Franca Iacovetta : Food Wars and Culinary Pluralism in a Cold War City: Toronto, 1940s-1960s


L-14 LAB12 Coalfield Societies
Room 5.1
Network: Labour Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Quentin Outram Discussant: Chris Williams
Peter Alexander : Culture and Identity: South African Miners and Some Comparators, 1920-1950
Carolyn Brown : Urban Masculinity in a ‘Coal City’ - Enugu, Nigeria during World War II
Brian Mccook : Becoming ‘Mining Men’: Gender, Ethnicity and Working Class Militancy in the Ruhr and Pennsylvania, 1880-1918
Leen Roels, Serge Langeweg : Foreign labour in the coalmines of Dutch Limburg and Liège: a comparison


S-14 LAB30 Union mobilisation
Instituto de Arte
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Isabel Da Costa, Udo Rehfeldt : Labour Unionism: From National Diversity to International Solidarity
Ralph Darlington : The relationship between leadership, mobilization and trade union militancy: the case of the RMT
David Hyde : Undercurrents to Independence: Plantation Struggles in Kenya’s Central Province 1959-60
Viviana Patroni : The Peronist Union Movement and Labour Dissent in Argentina: An Historical Perspective



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
V-15 LAB19 Household Economy in a Market Economy? New Conceptions of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Work
Room 2.10
Network: Labour Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizers: Kirsti Niskanen, Yvonne Svanström Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Margo Anderson : Using Old Data on Gender and Household
Kirsti Niskanen : Bringing Household Economy into Market Economy – The Approach of the Finnish Economist Laura Harmaja
Vera Sollova : Family, labor market and demographic dynamics in Mexico, 1970-2000
Yvonne Svanström : A changing concept within Swedish political economy – from prostitution to sex work during the 20th century


Y-15 LAB21 Labour Internationalism; studies from Vaxjo
Room 2.14
Network: Labour Chair: Eszter Bartha
Organizers: - Discussant: Eszter Bartha
Fredrik Håkansson : Globalization and Industrial Relations. A Case Study of the Western Flat Glass Industry in 1969
Lars Hansson : Migration within the pulp and paper industry in Finland and Sweden
Jesper Johansson : Union Solidarity in Exchange for adaptation. Immigration Policy within the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) during the 1970s
Johan Svanberg : "After 36 hours stay we started directly at the shopfloor": Case study of recruitment of Yugoslavian workers to a company in Sweden, 1969-70



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
O-16 ECO12 Cooperation between employers and labour
Room 7.1
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Christopher Lloyd
Organizers: - Discussant: Christopher Lloyd
K.P. Companje : Social health insurance between market and the state: the Dutch model 1900-1941
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : The importance of worker solidarity: Employers, unions, and the development of old age pensions, 1946-1975.
Hugh Pemberton : Forces of reaction? The trade unions and earnings-related pensions in Britain in the 1950s
Jeroen Touwen : Policy Learning and Labour Relations in the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s


T-16 LAB20 Transnational Perspectives on Social Movements: Cross-National Transfer and International Organisation
Room 9
Network: Labour Chair: Franca Iacovetta
Organizers: Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Pernilla Jonsson
Mary Hilson : The Consumers' Co-operative Movement in International Perspective: Britain and Scandinavia during the inter-war period
Daniel Roger Maul : „A First Attempt of Truly World Wide Planning“ – The International Labour Organization´s Road to the World Employment Program (WEP) 1960-1970.
Silke Neunsinger : Women in the Labour and Socialist International 1923-1939
Jonas Sjölander : Corporations, Unions and Human Rights. Swedish-South African Relations during and after the Apartheid Regime 1948-2008.


W-16 LAB22 Global Commodities
Room 2.12
Networks: Asia , Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Ratna Saptari Discussants: -
Ulbe Bosma, Marga Alferink : Transition from local to world market production: early 19th century sugar production in East Java.
Ratna Saptari : Cultures of Tobacco: The shaping of Peasant Worker Communities in 19th century Java
Emile Schwidder : Forced Labour in the Coffee Cultivation of West Java: Report of Otto van Rees on the 'Preanger Stelsel' (1867)



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
N-17 LAB23 Emancipation: Navigating 'Free Labor' in the Post-Civil War US South
Room 6.1
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizer: Brian Kelly Discussant: Seth Wigderson
Bruce Baker : From the Mountain City to the Textile Capital of the World: Workers and the Transformation of Greenville County, South Carolina, 1860-1900
Brian Kelly : Holding Off Counterrevolution: Black Workers & White Paramilitarism in Reconstruction South Carolina
Susan O'Donovan : Mapping Freedom’s Terrain: The Political and Productive Landscapes of New Bern and Wilmington, North Carolina



Saturday 1 March 2008 16.30
E-18 LAB04 Gender Wage Gaps Revisited: Social, Institutional and Market Processes
Cave E
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Cristina Borderias
Organizers: Cristina Borderias, Peter Scholliers Discussant: Jane Humphries
Joyce Burnette : Testing for Wage Discrimination in US Manufacturing in 1832
Michael Huberman : The gender wage gap during the first great wave of globalizaton, 1870-1900
Montserrat Llonch : Gender wage gaps during the Second Industrial Revolution. A Catalan case.
Carmen Sarasua : Gender gap in agricultural wages, Spain 1750-1900
Lars Svensson : Institutions, market forces – or both? Determinants of gender wage equalisation in Sweden


M-18 LAB25 Women as servants in Northern Europe
Room 5.2
Network: Labour Chairs: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
Organizers: Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen Discussant: Beatrice Moring
Anu Lahtinen : Servants in medieval and early modern urban and rural households
Linda Lane : Women in domestic service in Sweden 1920–1940
Elina Waris : The work of children and female servants in 19th-century rural Estonia


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