Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Wed 11 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 12 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.00 - 18.30

Fri 13 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 14 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 11 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
G-1 LAB07 International Solidarity: Radical and Leftwing Networks during the Interwar Period
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Aldo Agosti
Organizer: Holger Weiss Discussant: Bernhard H. Bayerlein
Gleb J. Albert : The USSR Section of the International Red Aid (MOPR): International Solidarity and Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kasper Braskén : Activating International Solidarity: The Internationale Arbeiterhilfe, Willi Münzenberg and the Comintern in Germany, 1921–1933
Fredrik Petersson : Decolonization & Postcolonial Historiography: League against Imperialism, Anti-imperialist Movements, Networks, & Place, 1927-33
Holger Weiss : Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers


H-1 LAB27 Industrial Relations in Theory and in Practice
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Aad Blok
Organizers: - Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
Ralph Darlington, John Dobson : Objectivity and Partisanship in Industrial Relations Research
Stefan Mueller : German Trade Unions and the New Eastern Policy, 1969-89
Johanna Wolf : Modern Times and Old Concepts. West German Trade Unions in the 1970s
Erik-Jan Zurcher : Towards a Taxonomy of Military Labour



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
G-2 LAB08 Beyond the Grave: The Legacy of International Activists in a Transnational Context. The Case of Flora Tristan, Guido Miglioli, Ellen Wilkinson and Emile Pouget
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Martin Farr
Organizer: Matt Perry Discussant: Martin Farr
Claudia Baldoli : Guido Miglioli (1879–1954): Crossing and Re-crossing the Hostile Terrain between Catholicism and Communism
Constance Bantman : Transnationalising French Anarchism through Biography: The Case of Emile Pouget
Máire Cross : Remembering and Forgetting Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
Matt Perry : Ellen Wilkinson (1891 – 1947) Beyond the Nation State and Beyond the Grave


H-2 LAB14 Social Outcasts and 'Others' in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Magaly Rodríguez García Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Lex Heerma van Voss : Working Girls in World Cities
Magaly Rodríguez García : The League of Nations' moral recruitment of women
Rik Vercammen : Teaching Work Ethics to Beggars and Vagabonds?



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
G-3 LAB01 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Employment
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Alastair J. Reid
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Peter Ackers
Daniel Bennheden : Membership in Mutual Aid Societies in Early 20th Century Sweden
Stephen Caunce : Agricultural Hiring Fairs in Northern England, 1890-1930: A Reconsideration
John Kimberley : Cadbury Labour Management: Paternalism - or Something More?


H-3 LAB25 Women's and Children's Work
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizers: - Discussant: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Jordi Ibarz : The Women and Children’s Labour in the Mechanization of the Glass Industry in Spain, 1900-1936
Malin Nilsson, Tobias Karlsson : In Homes and Factories: Employment Patterns among Women during the Second Industrial Revolution
Johanna Overud : Breaking Way – Making Difference? Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960


I-3 LAB13 Performing as Work
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Georg Schinko Discussant: Tracy C. Davis
Angele David-Guillou : Early Musicians' Unions in France and Britain. New Status of the Professional Musician: Artist and Worker
Georg Schinko : Music-making as (Non-)Work in Austria 1918-1938
Laure Schnapper : Herz, Musician and Business Man
Julia H. Schroeder : Street Music as Sound of a City: The Street Musician “Harfenjule” in Berlin around 1900


M-3 WOR10 Humanitarianism and the Media, 1900-1930
Main Building: Melville
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Thomas Lindenberger
Organizers: Volker Barth, Daniel Roger Maul Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger
Volker Barth : The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906: Humanitarian Intervention, the Local Press, and the World Communication Order
Friederike Kind-Kovács : Picturing the Poor Child: Photography as Social Politics of (Trans)national Child Philanthropy in Interwar Hungary
Daniel Roger Maul : Selling "Red" Relief - American and British Quakers and Famine Relief in the Soviet Union 1921-
Carl Emil Vogt : Fridtjof Nansen's Humanitarianism and the Media



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
G-4 LAB02 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: General Co-operation
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Antony Webster
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Nicole Robertson
Patrick Doyle : The Co-operative Movement in County Kerry, 1889-1910
Marcella Pellegrino Sutcliffe : Mazzini’s Transnational Legacy amongst English Co-operators
Martin Purvis : Revisiting Hard Times: Consumers’ Co-operation in Interwar Britain


H-4 LAB15 Commercial Agriculture and Labor Relations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Leen Van Molle
Organizer: Lars Olsson Discussant: Piet van Cruyningen
Lars Olsson : Landowning, Tenancy and Labor Relations in the English Northatlantic Economy in the 17th Century
Maria Papathanassiou : Rural Labour, Gender and Social Hierarchies: Peasants’ Wives and Female Rural Servants in Austria during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century
Dionicio Valdés : Primitive Accumulation and the Birth of Commercial Agriculture in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District on the US-Mexico Border, 1840-1930



Thursday 12 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
G-5 LAB03 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in 20th Europe: Culture
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Peter Ackers
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: John Kimberley
Isabelle Cases : Popular Voluntary Association and the Preservation of British Industrial Heritage.
Klaas Keirse : Catholicism and Working Class. The Christian Workers Movement in Belgium after 1945.
Andy Vail : The Early Adult School and Brotherhood Movements in the West Midlands: Adult Education, Evangelism or Social Activism?


H-5 LAB28 Racism and Ethnicity in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Jan Lucassen
Organizers: - Discussant: Gareth Austin
Karin Lurvink : Economics or Racism? The Truck System in Plantation Stores on Cotton and Sugar Plantations in Louisiana, 1865-1900
Marcelo Mattos : Abolitionism and Labour Movement in Brazil from a Global Perspective


W-5 LAT01 Anarchist Imaginaries in the Americas: Subjectives, Countercultures, Territorialities and Resistance Movements
Maths Building: 417
Networks: Labour , Latin America Chair: Raymond Craib
Organizer: Steven Hirsch Discussant: Raymond Craib
Geoffroy de Laforcade : Dissonant Preludes to Latin American Socialism: Territory, Identity, and Authority in the 1929 Latin American Anarchist and Communist Conferences in Buenos Aires
Steven Hirsch : Anarchist Visions of Race and Space in Northern Peru, 1890s-1920s
Kirwin Shaffer : ¿Bolivarianismo anarquista? Transnational Anarchists in Panama and Their Vision of Anarchist Pan-Americanism, 1914-1925
David Struthers : Practicing Internationalism: Anarchist Print Media and the Un-imagining of Radicalism in Los Angeles during the Early Twentieth Century



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
G-6 LAB04 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Organising for Change
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Alastair J. Reid
Calum Aikman : The SDP and the Trade Unions
Ruth Davidson : ‘With a Fiery Fervour’: The Role of Working-class Women in Municipal Welfare, Croydon, 1900-39.
Wessel Visser : The Rise and Transformation of Solidarity, a South African Labour Movement


H-6 LAB17 Global History: Methods, Practices, Problems
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , World History Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Rossana Barragán : Global Entanglements in the debate about the 'Slave-Indian' mita work of Potosi and its end, 1790-1812
Silke Neunsinger, Mary Hilson : Towards a Global History of Consumer Co-operation, 1800-2010
Raquel Varela : In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (1950-2010). A Project on Global Labour History


U-6 MAT05 Rethinking Consumer History: Consumer Power in Comparative Perspective
Maths Building: 326
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture , Technology Chair: Jackie Clarke
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ruth Oldenziel : The Consumer Politics of Bicycle Clubs in Europe and the United States, 1880-1945
Nicole Robertson : The Organised Consumer: Education, Empowerment and Experiments



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
A-7 CUL09 Representing the Other: Colonialism, Gypsies and Workers in the 20th century
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre A
Networks: Culture , Labour Chair: Jens Jaeger
Organizers: Jens Jaeger, Joeri Januarius Discussants: -
Ilsen About : Unwanted and Depicted. Photographic Perceptions of the Gypsies, 1880-1914
Elizabeth Edwards : Absent Images: Museums and the Photographic Legacy of colonialism
Christian Joschke : Worker Photography in France. 1930-1940
Jürg Schneider : African Photographers – Visual Mediators in the Atlantic Visualscape


G-7 LAB05 Other Worlds of Labour: Non-Socialist Strands of Working Class Self-help & Popular Voluntary Association in C20th Europe: Co-operation and Working Class Self-help in Britain
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Material and Consumer Culture Chair: Nicole Robertson
Organizers: Peter Ackers, Alastair J. Reid Discussant: Martin Purvis
David Stewart : The British Co-operative Movement and the Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance, 1949-1964
Rachael Vorberg-Rugh : The British Co-operative Movement and the Politics of Food in the First World War
Antony Webster : A Dysfunctional Federation: The Co-operative Wholesale Society and the Internal Politics of Distribution in the 19th Century British Co-operative Movement
Angela Whitecross : The Co-operative Party and Food Controls in World War Two


I-7 SOC07 Textile Production, Social Relations and Welfare
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Lex Heerma van Voss
Organizer: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussants: -
Thomas M. Adams : Textiles, Inequality, and Welfare
Santosh Kumar Rai : Community as Capital: The Handloom Industry in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces, India
Peter Stabel : Dress, textiles and social identity in a changing economy: the lower social strata in late medieval Bruges (15th century)
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk : Social Fabrics? Textiles as Provisions of Mutual Aid and Poor Relief in the Pre-industrial Dutch Republic


L-7 ANT02 Urban Labour in Roman Italy
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Antiquity , Labour Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Miriam Groen-Vallinga Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Miko Flohr : Scale, Rationalization and Labour: the Fulling Factories of Ostia and Rome
Miriam Groen-Vallinga : No More Idle Poor: Slave and Free Labour in Roman Italy under the Early Empire
Cameron Hawkins : Labour Markets, Transaction Costs, and Professional Associations in the Roman World
Claire Holleran : Earning a Living: the Free Labour Market in the City of Rome


T-7 POL21 Party Life, Lives of Parties
Maths Building: 325
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Matthew Worley
Organizer: Aldo Agosti Discussant: Aldo Agosti
Marco Albeltaro : The Party Life of the Militants of the Italian Left
Gidon Cohen : Social Life and the Politics of Membership: the Conservative Party in Post-War Britain
Ana Sofia Ferreira : Autonomy and Armed Struggle: The Case PRP/BR?
João Nunes : The Portuguese Communist Party, the Comintern and the Question of Antifascism
Giulia Strippoli : Party Life, Lives of Parties: The Portuguese Communist Party in the Twentieth Century


Z-7 WOM06 Feminist Labour Militancy
Wolfson Medical Building: Seminar room 3
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Verity Burgmann
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Silke Neunsinger
Karin Dupinay-Bedford : Women and Militancy in French Republican Reconstruction: Attitudes and Actions through Specific Examples (1945-1965)
Eva Schmitz : Female Labor Militancy in the Height of Class Struggle in the 1920´s and the Second Wave of Women´s Movement in Sweden
Mercedes Steedman : The Transformation of Women’s Role in Mining Strikes: An Examination of Three Nickel Mining Strikes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1958-2010.
Patricia Tropia : Militant Women in Contemporary Brazil



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
G-9 LAB19 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 I
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthieu Leimgruber
Organizers: - Discussant: Matthieu Leimgruber
Floriane Galeazzi : The OECD Roadmap for Global Finance, 1962-1985
Vincent Gayon : The OECD and the "Crisis" of Keynesianism: the McCracken Report (1975-1980)
Matthias Schmelzer : A 'Temple of Growth' in Crisis? The Production of Economic and Environmental Policy Norms Within the OECD during the 1970s


H-9 LAB24 Women's Participation in Labour Organizations
Main Building: Forehall
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizers: - Discussant: Eileen Boris
Kirsti Niskanen : Generation, Gender and Union Women
Margaret Ritchie : 'Contract Workers and Strategic Players': The Political Will and Actions of Female Crews of the Scottish Herring Industry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Webb : 'Loyalty to their Sex and their Class': Women's Networks and Mobilisation in Sydney's Interwar Labour Movement.



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
E-10 LAB26 Class conflict and class identities
Boyd Orr: Lecture Theatre E
Network: Labour Chair: Holger Weiss
Organizers: - Discussant: David Lyddon
Anikó Eszter Bartha : Transforming Working-class Identities: Class and Ethnicity in Postsocialist Hungary
Elizabeth Faue : Disappointment in the Law: Fighting Legal and Judicial Barriers to Working-Class Organization, 1914-1932
Björn Horgby : The Conscientiousness Project in the Labour Movement in Sweden
Jim Phillips : Collieries and Communities: the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike in Scotland
Adrian Zimmermann : Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Netherlands and Switzerland (1914-1940)


G-10 LAB20 An Elusive Warden of Capitalism: the OECD between Prosperity and Crisis, 1961-1989 II
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Economics , Labour Chair: Matthias Schmelzer
Organizers: - Discussant: Richard Woodward
Thomas Hajduk : First Come, First Served? The Struggle for a Code of Conduct for Multinational Enterprises and the OECD Guidelines during the 1970s
Matthieu Leimgruber : The Embattled Standard-bearer of Social Insurance and its Challenger : The ILO, the OECD, and the «Crisis of the Welfare State» (1975-1985)
Jochen Mayer : The OECD as Centre of Calculation and Evaluation. The Example of the Working Party on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 1976-1985



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
G-11 LAB31 Strikes in Europe: Recent Development
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Kurt Vandaele Discussant: Raquel Varela
Heiner Dribbusch : Organising by Conflict: Exploring the Relationship between Strikes and Trade Union Membership in Germany
David Lyddon : A Historical Perspective on Recent Legal Restrictions on the Right to Strike in the UK
Sjaak Van der Velden : The 2010 Dutch Cleaners Strike, New Ways in Unionism
Kurt Vandaele : Sustaining or Abandoning ‘Social Peace’? Strike Development and Trends in Europe since the 1990s


J-11 LAB16 Working Hours in Catholic World: A Long Term Perspective, 16th-19th Centuries
Main Building: G466
Networks: Labour , Religion Chair: Manuela Martini
Organizer: Corine Maitte Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Corine Maitte : Working Times in the Italian Glassblowing Industry, XVe-XVIIth Centuries
Didier Terrier : Working Times in Textile and Mine Industries, Liège (Belgium), Mid-XIXe Century
Beatrice Zucca Micheletto : What's Children Labour? Some Educational and Professional Patterns in 18th Century Turin



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
G-12 LAB32 Labour Militancy since the Late 19th Century in a Global Perspective
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Sjaak Van der Velden
Organizers: - Discussant: Kurt Vandaele
Linda Clarke, Charles McGuire, Christine Wall : ‘Lump it or like it?’: the significance of the ‘lump’ to the development of building industry in Britain '
Jesper Hamark : Dockers’ Non-militancy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Swedish Port Strikes in an International Perspective
Paulo Terra : The strikes of streetcar workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1870-1906)


J-12 LAB29 Within the 'Worlds of Labour': Why and How to Write Factory History
Main Building: G466
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizer: Görkem Akgöz Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Görkem Akgöz : Many Voices of a Republican Factory: Alternative Visions and Discourses on Trade Unionism in Early Republican Turkey
Hakan Mahmut Kocak : To Looking the Formation of the Turkish Working Class through the “National” Factory
Kevin Murphy : Factory History during the Russian Revolutionary Era
Asli Odman : The Ford Factory at Istanbul in the Interwar Period: Assembling Cars, Connecting Ports and Nationalizing Production



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
G-13 LAB09 Working with Kin: Unpaid Work, Apprenticeship and Kin's Labour in Family Business
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Amy Erickson
Organizers: Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini Discussants: Raffaella Sarti, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Maria Ågren : Managing the State in a Local Context: Lower Civil Servants in Early Modern Sweden
Anna Bellavitis : Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe and the Case of 16th Century Venice
Céline Bessiere : Gender in Wine-Growing Family Businesses (Cognac, France) : The Problematic Place of the Conjugal Partner
Claire Lemercier : Apprenticeship, Wages and Contracts during the Industrial Revolution. Lessons from the Parisian Case
Manuela Martini : When Unpaid Workers Need a Legal Status. Trade Associations, Family Workers and the Changing of Labour Rights in 20th Century France


J-13 LAB30 Transitions in Labour Relations Worldwide 1500-2000: Preliminary Results of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations
Main Building: G466
Network: Labour Chair: Erik-Jan Zurcher
Organizers: - Discussant: Erik-Jan Zurcher
Gareth Austin : Quantifying Transitions in Labour Relations in Ghana, 1800-2000
Karin Hofmeester : A Short Introduction to the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Hulya Canbakal : Labour Relations in the Ottoman Empire
Gijs Kessler, Dmitry Khitrov : Transitions in Labour Relations in Eastern Europe: Russia, 1500 - 2000
Jan Lucassen : Shifts in global labour relations: Western Europe, Russia, East Asia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa 1500-2000 compared



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
G-14 LAB10 Climate Change: An Issue for Labour Historians
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Network: Labour Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Organizer: Silke Neunsinger Discussant: Holger Weiss
Lars Berggren : Linking Labour History and Environmental History
Verity Burgmann : From ‘Jobs Versus Environment’ to ‘Green-collar Jobs’: Australian Trade Unions and the Climate Change Debate


H-14 LAB18 Labour and Labour Relations in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Organizer: Patricia Van den Eeckhout Discussant: Lex Heerma van Voss
Mary-France Desmedt : Alien Labour in Times of Crisis: The Discourse of the Belgian Unions in the Service Industries
Peter Scholliers : German restaurant staff and the French culinary hegemony (Brussels, 1850 - 1914)
Patricia Van den Eeckhout : Down and out in Ghent? (Foreign) Cooks and Waiters at the Universal Exhibition Ghent 1913



Saturday 14 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
G-15 LAB11 Work, Correction and Punishment in Workhouses and Correctional Houses
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Sonja Hinsch Discussant: Dominique Grisard
Virginia Crossman : The Irish Workhouse as a Site for Moral and Practical Training
Megan Doolittle : The workhouse in the slum – London 1880-1910.
Sonja Hinsch : Forced Labour and the Right to Work in Austria, 1918-1938. Meanings of Work in Correctional Houses, Voluntary Labour Service, and Productive Unemployment Relief


H-15 LAB21 Social Movements in an International Perspective
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: - Discussant: Magaly Rodríguez García
Victoria Basualdo : International Labor Organizations and their Impact on National Labor Movements: The Case of the ORIT and the ICFTU and Argentina, from the Late 1940s to the Mid 1980s
Fredrik Egefur : Anti-militarism in Europe Before World War I: Perspectives on the Liberal and Socialist Peace Movements
Idesbald Goddeeris : Western European Solidarity with Solidarnosc in the 1980s
Jonas Sjölander : Movements on different tracks. The Anti Apartheid and Trade Union Movements in Sweden and South Africa, 1975-1994.


I-15 SOC11 Social Structure and Mobility in Industrial Societies
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Labour , Social Inequality Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Organizers: - Discussants: Paul Lambert, Paul Puschmann
Susan Bandias, Don Fuller & Tanjil Whitnell & Darius Pfitzner : Gender Pay Equity - A Myth or a Reality
Antonie Knigge : The Total Influence of Family Background on Status Attainment in the Netherlands from 1842-1922
Colin Pooley : Balancing Social Justice and Environmental Justice: Mobility Inequalities in Britain since circa 1900
Wiebke Schulz : Employer’s Choice – Meriocratization of Selection Criteria during Industrialization in the Netherlands



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
G-16 LAB12 Cancelled! Labor Rights, Migrant and Foreign Workers and International Law in 20th Century Europe
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Paul-André Rosental
Organizers: - Discussant: Paul-André Rosental
Thomas Cayet : From the International Labour Organization to the European Coal and Steel Community: Defining Regional Cooperation on Manpower in the 1950s
Eric Golson : European Neutral Labour Transfers to Germany during the Second World War
Christiane Reinecke : Illegal Labour: Work Permits and Undocumented Workers in the British and German Migration Regime of the 1920s


H-16 LAB23 Alternative Forms of Worker's Resistance
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Labour Chair: Ad Knotter
Organizers: - Discussant: Ad Knotter
Leonid Borodkin : Workers’ Informal Practices in the Late Soviet Industry and Their Transformations in the Post-Soviet Russia
Terry Dunne : 'Threatening Letters' and Collective Identity in Pre-famine Ireland
Alex Zukas : Inscribing Class Struggle in Space: The Geography of Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr during the late Weimar Republic


M-16 LAB33 Social Histories of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry
Main Building: Melville
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Touraj Atabaki : Changing Pattern of Labour Recruitment in the Early Iranian Oil Industry
Peyman Jafari : The political economy of oil and democratization in Iran: Revisiting the rentier state theory
Maral Jefroudi : After Nationalization: the Social Setting of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry


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