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
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Tuesday 26 February 2008
14.15
Q-1
LAB27
Gender and Labour
Amphitheatre 3
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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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
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Chair:
Matthew Worley
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Organizer:
Matthew Worley
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Discussant:
Kevin Morgan
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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
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Chair:
David Lyddon
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Organizers:
Heiner Dribbusch, Sjaak Van der Velden |
Discussant:
David Lyddon
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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
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Chair:
James Jaffe
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Sjaak Van der Velden
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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
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Chair:
William Kenefick
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Gorkem Akgoz
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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
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Chair:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Karin Hofmeester
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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
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Chair:
John Mcilroy
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Organizer:
Alan Campbell
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Discussant:
Richard Croucher
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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
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Chair:
David Lyddon
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Organizer:
James Jaffe
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Discussant:
David Lyddon
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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
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Chair:
Erika Kuijpers
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Organizers:
Robert Knegt, Erika Kuijpers |
Discussant:
Robert Steinfeld
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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
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Chair:
Lars Olsson
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Organizer:
Lars Olsson
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Discussant:
Lars Olsson
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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
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Chair:
Nina Fishman
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Organizer:
Peter Ackers
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Discussant:
Nina Fishman
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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
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Chair:
Robert Knegt
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Jan Lucassen
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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
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Chair:
Steve Meyer
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Steve Meyer
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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
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Chair:
Quentin Outram
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Organizer:
Quentin Outram
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Discussant:
Carolyn Brown
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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
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Chair:
Daniel Roger Maul
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Organizer:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Discussant:
Susan Pennybacker
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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
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Chair:
Karin Hofmeester
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Organizer:
Karin Hofmeester
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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
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
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Chairs:
-
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Organizers:
-
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Discussants:
-
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Friday 29 February 2008
8.30
K-11
LAB07
Child Labour and Globalisation
Room 4
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Lars Olsson
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Organizers:
Lars Olsson, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk |
Discussant:
Emma Alexander-Mudaliar
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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
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Chair:
Mark David Pittaway
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Mark David Pittaway
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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
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Chair:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Kevin Morgan
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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
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
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Chair:
Quentin Outram
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Organizer:
Quentin Outram
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Discussant:
Ben Gales
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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
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Chair:
Gijs Kessler
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Organizer:
Gijs Kessler
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Discussant:
Marcel van der Linden
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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
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
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Chair:
Quentin Outram
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Organizer:
Quentin Outram
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Discussant:
Chris Williams
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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
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Chair:
Magaly Rodríguez García
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Sjaak Van der Velden
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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
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Chair:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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Organizers:
Kirsti Niskanen, Yvonne Svanström |
Discussant:
Lex Heerma van Voss
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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
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Chair:
Eszter Bartha
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Eszter Bartha
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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
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Labour
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Chair:
Christopher Lloyd
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Organizers:
-
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Discussant:
Christopher Lloyd
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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
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Chair:
Franca Iacovetta
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Organizers:
Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger |
Discussant:
Pernilla Jonsson
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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
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Chair:
Marcel van der Linden
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Organizer:
Ratna Saptari
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Discussants:
-
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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
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Chairs:
-
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Organizer:
Brian Kelly
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Discussant:
Seth Wigderson
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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
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Chair:
Cristina Borderias
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Organizers:
Cristina Borderias, Peter Scholliers |
Discussant:
Jane Humphries
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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
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Chairs:
Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen |
Organizers:
Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen |
Discussant:
Beatrice Moring
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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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