Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (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
P-1 SOC01 European Almshouses
Auditorium D5, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Thomas M. Adams Discussant: Frank Hatje
Nigel Goose : The English almshouse and the mixed economy of welfare c. 1500-1900
Henk Looijesteijn : Founding almshouses in the Netherlands, ca. 1500-1800
Angela Schwarz : Jewish foundations in Hamburg against homelessness
Christina Vanja : Hospitals and care for the Elderly in Hesse, 1500-1800



Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45
U-2 SOC02 New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief I: England
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Botelho
Organizers: - Discussant: Lynn Botelho
Paul A. Fideler : A ‘Third Way’ in Early Seventeenth-Century English Poor Relief
Steve Hindle : Overseers and Collectioners in Late-Seventeenth-Century England: Chilvers Coton (Warwickshire), c.1680-1720
Susannah Ottaway : Locating Poverty and Entering Poor Households in the Eighteenth-Century English Parish



Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15
Z-3 SOC14 New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief I GIGA (Giving in the Golden Age)
M204, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Julie Marfany
Organizers: Lex Heerma van Voss, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussants: Thomas M. Adams, Larry Frohman, Steve Hindle, Steven King, Henk Looijesteijn, Nada Moumtaz, Joanna Handlin Smith, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk



Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30
G-4 SOC17 Hands on session on coding historical occupations
Computerroom D4, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizer: Richard Zijdeman Discussants: -


U-4 SOC13 New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief II
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Organizers: - Discussant: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Thomas M. Adams : Juan Luis Vives and the Traditions of Welfare Reform
Julie Marfany : Responses to poverty in Catalonia: hospitals, charitable funds and outdoor relief (c.1750-1820)
Olga Salamatova : Ideology of ‘the common weal’ and Implementation of the Poor Law in Early Stuart England



Wednesday 14 April 2010 8.30
U-5 SOC03 Political History of the Welfare State
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marie Clark Nelson
Organizers: - Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Jenny Björkman, Johan Ellend : Sound Citizens in Healthy Houses: Swedish and Soviet Estonian housing policies in the first post war decade
Lena Eriksson : The Develpoment and Impact of Swedish Housing Policy
Pauli Kettunen : The Cold War as a Context for Welfare State Development
Carl Marklund : Social Engineering and the Politics of Openness - the cases of Singapore and Sweden



Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45
U-6 SOC04 Wealth, Inequality and Investment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain and the British Empire
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: David Green
Organizers: - Discussant: David Green
Jim Mcaloon : Stereotypes of Scottishness: money making in nineteenth-century New Zealand
Alastair Owens, David R. Green : Geographies of wealth: regional and temporal change in the accumulation of wealth in Britain c.1800-1930
Stephanie Wyse : A classless society? A comparative review of wealth and inequality in nineteenth century British colonies



Wednesday 14 April 2010 14.15
I-7 SOC05 Paupers and Beggars
Room D1, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sabine Veits-Falk
Organizers: - Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Gerhard Ammerer : Survival Strategies of Beggars in the Early Modern Era – an adaptive “family economy?”
Gerhard Fritz : Robbers – vagrants – beggars in the South West of Germany Qualitative and quantitative aspects of a social problem from the late 17th to the early 19th century
Otto Ulbricht : Begging soldiers in late eighteenth-century Germany
Alfred Weiss : Masses of beggars in the south of Austria at about 1800. Literary fiction or reality?


J-7 SPC02 Heritage of the People’s Europe: a European social history resource
Room D11, Pauli
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Geert Van Goethem
Organizers: - Discussant: Donald Weber



Thursday 15 April 2010 8.30
U-9 SOC09 Social Inequality in Brazil and Portugal
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Monique Franco : Affirmative action policy in Brazil
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca : Migrations, partner selection and occupational change in Portugal (1860-1960)



Thursday 15 April 2010 10.45
U-10 SOC07 Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals' Working Lives I
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Pamela Sharpe
Organizers: Wiebke Schulz, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Wiebke Schulz, Richard Zijdeman
Nevra Biltekin : The Professional Bureaucrat and Diplomatic Practice. Value-Systems in the Swedish Diplomatic Corps, 1920-1960
Joyce Burnette, Maria Stanfors & Tobias Karlsson : Experiences of Wage Growth: Evidence from the Swedish Tobacco Industry, 1898
Tomas Nilson : Challenging Careers
Timur Valetov : Workers’ wages inequality: A micro-analysis for Russian textile industry, 1880-1910s



Thursday 15 April 2010 14.15
U-11 SOC08 Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals' Working Lives II
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Wiebke Schulz, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Joyce Burnette, Ineke Maas
Tom Ericsson, Lotta Vikström : Women’s Lives and Lines of Businesses: Developmental Perspectives of Female Entrepreneurs in Sundsvall, Sweden, 1860–1890
Robin Mackie, Gerrylynn Roberts : Describing Careers in Chemistry
Wiebke Schulz : Institutional change and careers: Labour market contractions and expansion and careers
Laura Van Aert : Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals’ Working Lives: Career length of Antwerp retailers around 1700



Thursday 15 April 2010 16.30
B-12 SOC16 Meet the author: Larry Frohman, Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Lynn Lees
Organizers: - Discussants: Larry Frohman, Andrew Lees, Lynn Lees, Katherine A. Lynch


U-12 SOC06 Was Ireland a Welfare Periphery? Irish Poor Relief in European Context, c. 1800-1914
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizers: Inga Brandes, Peter Gray Discussant: Laurence Geary
Peter Gray : The Irish welfare debate in European context, 1815-46
Olwen Purdue : Belfast: poverty on the fringes?



Friday 16 April 2010 8.30
U-13 SOC10 Social Inequality in the Russian Empire
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussant: Gijs Kessler
Marya Markova : Social structure of population of St.Petersburg in XVIII century
Dmitrii Sarafanov : Occupational composition of Barnaul parish population (on the basis of Pokrovskaya church parish book registers of the second half XIX century)
Irina Germaovna Silina : The occupational composition of the repressed population in Western Siberia in 1919-1930
Vladimir Vladimirov : Occupational structure of the Russian Empire in the late 19th c.



Friday 16 April 2010 10.45
B-14 SOC15 Meet the author: Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Organizers: - Discussants: Mary Nagata, Thomas Max Safley, Joanna Handlin Smith, Harriet Zurndorfer



Friday 16 April 2010 14.15
U-15 SOC11 Beyond Male Social Mobility
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Ineke Maas
Organizers: - Discussant: Ineke Maas
Rense Corten, Richard Zijdeman : Changing patterns of witness selection
Paul Lambert, Richard Zijdeman : Trends in registration of women’s occupations on marriage records.
Sabine Veits-Falk : Careers, mobility and networks of women doctors in Austria about 1900
Richard Zijdeman, Marco van Leeuwen, Jean-Pierre Pelissier & Danielle Rebaudo : Social inequality and mobiity of women



Friday 16 April 2010 16.30
U-16 SOC12 Social Mobility
M207, Marissal
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Jan Kok
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Antti Häkkinen : The Finnish pre-industrial family and the occupational inheritance
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. Van Leeuwen, Jean-Pierre Perllissier & Danielle Rebaudo : Changing patterns of class endogamy: a study of France over the past three centuries
Wouter Ryckbosch : Inequality, Poverty and Economic Change in the Pre-Industrial Era. A Small Town in the southern Low Countries, 16th-19th centuries.
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Danielle Rebaudo & Jean Pierrre Pelissier : Social mobility in France 1680-2000


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