Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Tue 13 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 14 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 15 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 16 April
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 13 April 2010 8.30
D-1 LAB04 Rural class relations and radical politics in 20th century Ireland
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Conor Mccabe Discussant: Lars Olsson
Caitriona Clear : Women's household work and power in Ireland 1921-61
Donnacha Sean Lucey : Class, welfare and politics in Ireland, 1918-32
Conor Mccabe : 'Fair Play' for the Ranchers: Cattle and Class in Ireland, 1922-1975
Emmet O'Connor : Mutiny in the International Brigades: The Irish defection to the Abraham Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War


H-1 LAB10 Working for the film and tv industry part I (double session)
Hortazaal, Pauli
Network: Labour Chairs: -
Organizer: Andrew Dawson Discussants: -
Andrew Dawson : ’Flexible Specialisation’ and New Hollywood: Time for a Paradigm Shift?
Olof Hedling : New Creative Cities in Scandinavia? Or, is the European Creative Class too Underprivileged, Undercompensated and Reluctant to Leave their Urban Backgrounds to Contribute to Regional Regeneration?
Sean Holmes : No Room for Manoeuvre: Star Images and the Regulation of Actors’ Labour in Silent-Era Hollywood
Ikechukwu Obiaya : Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Face of Nollywood
Katrien Pype : Fathers, Patrons and Clients: Social and Economic Aspects in the Production of Television Drama in Post-Mobutu Kinshasa
Alison Smith : A Place Behind the Camera: Women Working as Cinematographers in France
Clare Wilkinson-Weber : Making Faces: Competition and Change in the Production of Bollywood Film Star Looks.


O-1 LAB24 The making of the welfare state. Working conditions and labour regulations in international perspective
Auditorium D3, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Widukind De Ridder
Organizers: - Discussant: Geert Van Goethem
David Lyddon : From Gowers to Robens: health and safety reform in the UK, 1945–74
Ruediger Von Krosigk : Mastering the Labour Market: The Emergence of Employment Exchanges in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945
Seth Wigderson : Labor Movements Respond to Beveridge



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
D-2 LAB06 Between state monopoly and institutional diversity: finding jobs in early 20th century Europe
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Network: Labour Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: Thomas Buchner, Irina Vana Discussants: -
Thomas Buchner : Organising the market? Reflections on the relationship between labour exchanges and labour markets
Nils Edling : Creating a national labour market: Labour exchanges in Sweden 1890–1914
Irina Vana : Negotiating working conditions: The influence of public labour offices on the differentiation of labour and labour markets in Austria (1918-1938)
Noel Whiteside : Reforming labour markets: Germany and Britain compared


H-2 LB10B LAB10B: Working for the film and tv industry part II (double session)
Hortazaal, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Aad Blok
Organizer: Andrew Dawson Discussants: -


Z-2 LAB12 Whither Labour History? New perspective and approaches
M204, Marissal
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: James Jaffe Discussant: David Lyddon
James Jaffe : Honor, Respect, and Reputation: What Labour Historians Can Learn from Economists
Quentin Outram : Labour History and the History of the Emotions



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
D-4 LAB03 Politics and violence: 20th century Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Network: Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Matthew Worley Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Marco Albeltaro : Communism and violence in Italy 1921-1948
Sylvain Boulouque : French communist party and political violence
Nigel Copsey : Transatlantic Perspectives on Anti-Fascism: Communists and the Anti-Fascist Struggle in Inter-War Britain and the United States
Andreas Wirsching : Violence as discourse: For a 'linguistic turn' in communist history



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
A-5 ELI05 Elites from the Communist World
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Tauno Saarela
Organizer: Meri E. Herrala Discussant: Tauno Saarela
Meri E. Herrala : Soviet Elite Composers and the Pressures of the Soviet System
Iina Kohonen : Picturing Khrushchevian elite – photographic representations of Soviet cosmonauts
Axel Salheiser : Social Inequality, Mobility, and the Illegitimate Inheritance of Status: Empirical Findings on the Recruitment and the Career Patterns of GDR Business Elites.
Maciej Tyminski : The Local Nomenklatura System: Party Aparatus and Industry in Poland (1956-1970)


K-5 LAB07 Trade union policy in the crisis: the transformation of labor unrest, workplace relations, associational power and social movements
Room D13, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Sjaak Van der Velden
Organizer: Peter Birke Discussant: David Lyddon
Peter Birke : The resurgence of the class conflict in Western Europe. Working class struggle since 1995
Heiner Dribbusch : Between militancy and co-management: restructuring and workplace relations in the German car industry between 1990 and 2009
Christian Frings : Labor unrest and the crisis


L-5 LAB13 Biographical approaches to transnational networks
Room D14, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Kevin Morgan
Organizers: Mary Hilson, Mirja Österberg, Johanna Rainio-Niemi Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Mary Hilson : Transnational networks in the early twentieth-century co-operative movement
Mirja Österberg : Transnational contacts in Finnish political labour movement the 1930s and 1940s
Johanna Rainio-Niemi : Trans-national Networks and Policy Intellectuals: The Case of Heikki Waris (1901-1989)



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
D-6 LAB01 The Cult of Communist Leaders
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Kevin Morgan
Organizer: Kevin Morgan Discussant: Kevin Morgan
Aldo Agosti : The cult of leaders in Italian Communism: Gramsci, Togliatti, Di Vittorio
Balazs Apor : Exporting Charisma: Leader Cults in the Stalinist Soviet Bloc
Tauno Saarela : Kuusinen versus Mannerheim - Finnish leader cults in comparison


I-6 LAB05 Vagabonds or migrant workers? Definitions and re-definitions of 'tramping' in late 19th and early 20th century Europe
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Alexander Mejstrik
Organizer: Sigrid Wadauer Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Beate Althammer : Tramps in Germany, 1880-1914
Lars Olsson : International tramping among typographers in Sweden 1890-1930
Jessica Richter : Domestic Servants on the Move: Charity Organisations' Practices and their Images of Femininity (Austria, 1918-1938)
Sigrid Wadauer : Sigrid Wadauer: Skilled and Unskilled Workers on the Tramp (Austria, 1880s – 1930s).


K-6 LAB08 British industrial relations
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Quentin Outram
Organizer: Yann Béliard Discussant: Sjaak Van der Velden
Peter Ackers : Partnership & Productivity? British academic Industrial Relations & public policy, 1945-79: The failure of Workplace Reform & Lessons for Today
Constance Bantman : The Strike as a Transnational and Transpolitical Invention, 1880-1914
Yann Béliard : Rocking the Empire. The Gibraltar Dockers' Strike of 1902.


L-6 LAT02 Transnational Anarchism in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1890s-1920s
Room D14, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Latin America Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Steven Hirsch Discussant: Davide Turcato
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Anarchist Federative Networking in Latin America: The Impact and Legacy of the Argentina Regional Workers’ Federation (F.O.R.A), 1901-1930
Steven Hirsch : Anarchist Trails in the Andes: Transnational Influences and Counter-Hegemonic Practices in Peru's Southern Highlands, 1905-1928
Kirwin Shaffer : Contesting Internationalisms: Transnational Anarchists Confront US Expansionism in the Caribbean, 1890s-1920s


T-6 TEC03 Implementing Ingenuity. Contrasting Institutional Perspectives on the Role of Engineers and Artisans in Technological Advance
M202, Marissal
Networks: Labour , Technology Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: - Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari
Christine Macleod : What did it mean to design an aeroplane? Disputed claims to the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1919-1937
Liliane Perez : Artisans, Operative Skills and Labour Rationalities at the Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Karine Van Der Beek : Investment in Human Capital on the Eve of the British Industrial Revolution: The Market for Engineering-related skills



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
D-7 LAB02 Leadership in Western European Communism
Artiestenfoyer, muziekcentrum
Networks: Elites and forerunners , Labour Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Tim Rees Discussant: Matthew Worley
Thomas Beaumont : Pierre Semard and Communist trade union leadership: The Case of the French Railway Workers
John Bulaitis : The notebooks and diaries of Maurice Thorez: a new source for the history of French communism
Tim Rees : 'Where There's a Will There's a Way': Leaders and Leadership in the Spanish Communist Party, 1919-1943
Andrew Thorpe : Failure in Communist Party Leadership: Harry Pollitt and the British Communist Party after 1945


K-7 LAB09 Female labour force participation in the European past, c. 1600-1900
Room D13, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: Carmen Sarasua, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Cristina Borderias, Béatrice Craig & Luisa Muñoz : Women's labour force participation in urban industry in Spain and France (19th century)
Ricardo Hernández García, Jane Humpries, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Ariadne Schmidt : Women's labour force participation in urban and rural manufactures and services in the United Kingdom, Castile and the Dutch Republic (17th and 18th centuries)
Carmen Sarasua, Beatrice Moring & Llorenc Ferrer & Arantza Pareja : Women's labour participation in agriculture in Spain, the United Kingdom and the Nordic Countries (17th-18th-19th centuries
Lotta Vikström, Angels Sola : Women's labour participation in services in Sweden, Barcelona and Bilbao (19th century)



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
I-9 LAB14 Factory regulations de jura and de facto: labour laws and factory inspections in the long 19th century
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Timur Valetov
M. Erdem Kabadayi : Factory inspections and labour control in the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century
M. Erdem Ozgur : The Contributions of a Factory-Visiting Mathematician to Political Economy
Aditya Sarkar : Deciding Childhood: Age, Law and the Factory in Late-Nineteenth Century Bombay
Andrei Volodin : Russian factory inspection (1882-1914): letter and intent



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
I-10 LAB15 Voices from the underworld: stories and networks from and in the prostitution milieu
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Jean Michel Chaumont : Paroles
Nicolas Marquis : Can prostitution underworld be understood as a network? A social science network analysis of the prostitution underworld in the 1920's
Magaly Rodríguez García : The League of Nations, prostitutes and their 'rehabilitation'



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
I-11 LAB16 Rural labour and expanding capitalism
Room D1, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Lars Olsson
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
Sofie De Langhe : Occupational possibilities of rural never married women in the Southern Netherlands in the 18th and 19th century
Fredrik Lilja : Child Labour in South African Wool Farming, c. 1870-1960
Maria Papathanassiou : Rural women, everyday life and agricultural labour in the Austrian Alps
Dionicio Valdes : Intersections of the Farm Worker and Social Movements in the United States, 1965-1985.


Z-11 ETH26 Trans-Atlantic Anarchy: Re-Evaluating European Anarchist Experiences in North America, 1890s-1930s
M204, Marissal
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Kirwin Shaffer
Organizer: Kirwin Shaffer Discussants: Steven Hirsch, Kirwin Shaffer
Andrej Grubacic : Industrial Workers of the World and Inter-Ethnic Self-Activity on Strike
Amparo Sanchez Cobos : Spanish Anarchists and the Dissemination of the Libertarian Ideal in Cuba after Independence
Travis Tomchuk : War Among the Italian Anarchists? Re-Appraising the Consequences of Factional Disputes in Canada and the United States, 1922-1940
Davide Turcato : The Hidden History of the Anarchist Atlantic: Malatesta in America, 1899-1900
Kenyon Zimmer : Yiddish- and Italian-Language Anarchism in America: Divergent Models of Diasporic Radicalism



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
I-12 LAB17 Global labour relations and work ethics 1500-2000
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Tarcisio Botelho
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Tarcisio Botelho, Sara Farris
Andrea Caracausi : Work and Wages in Early Modern Italy
Karin Hofmeester : Women's work in the late Medieval Islamic World: Maimonides vs Reality
Christine Moll-Murata : Labour relations and work ethics in China, 1500 to 1800



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
B-13 LAB18 Marxist approaches to Soviet History
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Labour Chair: Mark David Pittaway
Organizer: Wendy Goldman Discussants: -
Donald Filtzer : "The Role of 'Class' in Understanding the Nature of Soviet Society."
Wendy Goldman : Primitive Accumulation and the Formation of the Stalinist System
Marcel van der Linden : Marxist Critiques of the Soviet Union, 1917-2010



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
I-14 LAB20 Gender and Labour Practices
Room D1, Pauli
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Fay Lundh Nilsson : Female vocational education and training - rural Sweden 1870-1940 (preliminary title)
Leda Papastefanaki : Division of labour and gender in Greece: the case of mining industry, 1870-1950.
Conchi Villar, Carles Enrech : Women's contribution to the working class families economy (Spain, 1930-1950)


J-14 Labsp Roundtable: Labour and Working Class History Journals
Room D11, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Aad Blok
Organizers: - Discussants: Aad Blok, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Juan Grigera, Silke Neunsinger, Paule Verbruggen


N-14 LAB23 Mobility and the labour market: migration, ethnicity and labour relations 1750-2000
Auditorium D2, Pauli
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Irina Schmitt
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Jordi Ibarz : Skillness and geographical origin of the dockers of Barcelona during the early francoism
David Struthers : The World in a City: Mobility and Affinity in Los Angeles, 1900-1930


Z-14 LAB25 Diverging interests in the labour movement: unions, factions and Marxist ideology
M204, Marissal
Network: Labour Chair: David Lyddon
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lyddon
Ralph Darlington : 'The Continuing Relevance of the Rank-and-file/Bureaucracy Model of Intra-Union Relations
Björn Horgby : Changes in the Social Democratic Hegemony in some Swedish Trade Unions
Roger Johansson : United States and the International May Day; Birth, Repression, Renaming and the Return of May Day
Ad Knotter : ‘Little Moscows’ in Western Europe: the ecology of small-place communism



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
I-15 LAB21 New approaches to (international) labour history
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: - Discussant: James Jaffe
Leonid Borodkin, Irina M. Pushkareva & Irina V.Shilnikova : Before the 1st Russian Revolution: Analysis of Data Base on Strikes in Russian Empire.
Widukind De Ridder : Wage systems and labour organization/relations: Towards a cultural history of the wage (19th and 20th century)
Fredrik Håkansson : Worker Internationalism in the Western Window Glass Industry in 1969
Sjaak Van der Velden : Collecting and sharing micro data on labour conflicts



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
A-16 LAB26 Early modern labour market dynamics. Guilds, wage work, gender and migration
Auditorium, muziekcentrum
Networks: Labour , Urban , Women and Gender Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Eleonora Canepari : Temporary works. Professional and geographical mobility in XVIIth century Rome
Joern Janssen : Gender Equality in Wage Labour Relations: the example of statutory regulation in late medieval and early Tudor England
Ekaterina Kirillova : Renunciation of the Craft: Reasons & Consequences (Reims, 15th-18th Centuries)
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : Families under pressure : women work and male work in the household economy in Turin, 18th century


I-16 LAB22 Labour militancy, working-class formation and the state in Europe and Asia
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Labour Chair: Constance Bantman
Organizers: - Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Görkem Akgöz : Tracing the Subjective Levels of Transformation in the Bakırköy Labor Force:
Reza Jafari, Morteza Ghanoun : Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran
Mark David Pittaway, Anikó Eszter Bartha : Rethinking labour history in Eastern Europe: Legitimacy, consumption and socialism
Raquel Varela : Nationalizations: workers control or salvation of capitalism?


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