Preliminary Programme

Showing: Social Inequality (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
L-1 SOC13 Repression in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula (16th-19th Centuries)
Main Building: Room 355
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Guimarães
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Guimarães
Oscar Fernández- Alvarez : Charity and Social Control through Welfare Agencies in the Province of León, Spain (19th and 20th Centuries)
Alfredo Martín-García : Delinquency and Forced Labour in Northeast Spain in the 18th Century
María José Pérez Alvarez : Prison Living Conditions in Northeast Spain under the Ancien Régime
Laureano Rubio-Pérez : Crime and Council Justice in Rural Northeast Spain (17th and 18th Centuries)


U-1 SOC01 Authority and Resistance in Plebeian Spaces in 19th Century England
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizer: David Green Discussants: David Green, Susannah Ottaway
Paul A. Fideler : "Statistics and Society: Ameliorating a Manchester 'Little Ireland' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
David Green : Plebeian Spaces: Streets, Homes and Institutions in 19th-century London
Jane Hamlett : A Veritable Palace for the Hard-working Labourer? Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in Rowton Houses, Ltd., London, 1892-1914
Samantha Shave : Spaces of Female Sexual Violence and Consolation in New Poor Law Workhouses, 1834-1871



Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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?


I-2 SOC12 Welfare State Concepts in a Historical and Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Noel Whiteside
Organizers: - Discussant: Noel Whiteside
Lovisa Broström : General Old-Age Pensions in Sweden –The Rise of the Poorest Group in the Welfare State 1913-1960
Irène Herrmann : Welfare State vs Democracy in Switzerland
Pauli Kettunen, Nils Edling : The History of the Welfare State in Northern Europe
Klaus Petersen, Jørn Henrik Petersen : Confusion and Diffusion? The Term Welfare State in Germany and Britain


U-2 SOC02 Collections for the Poor. Voluntary giving and the Finance of Poor Relief
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Daniëlle Teeuwen, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
John McCallum : Collections for the Poor in the Post-reformation Church of Scotland
Karen Sonnelitter : Financing Improvement: Philanthropy and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Daniëlle Teeuwen : Collections for the Poor. Charitable giving in the Dutch Republic



Wednesday 11 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
U-3 SOC03 New Perspectives on Poor Relief and Poverty
Maths Building: 326
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Organizers: - Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Christos Desyllas : Microfinancial Structures and Strategies of Social Policy
Kaat Louckx : The Classification of the Poor in Great Britain and Belgium at the End of the 19th Century. A Socio-historical Approach on Changing Classification Patterns
Inge Mønster-Kjær : The Poor Behind Barbed Wire
Klas Nyberg, Mats Hayen & Håkan Jakobsson : Credit, Trust and Financial Networks in 18th and 19th Century Stockholm
Olga Salamatova : On the Way to Nowhere: The Interpretation and Adaptation of Poor Relief Foreign Patterns by the Russian Public Men, 1890s – 1917



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
I-4 SOC05 Inmates of Hospitals and other Care Institutions in the Early Modern Period
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Organizer: Christina Vanja Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Irmtraut Sahmland : Inmates - Their Life Before, In and Beyond the Hospital in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Martin Scheutz : Austrian Hospitals in the early Modern Times. Inmates – Authorities – Organizational System
Christina Vanja : The Kitchen Managers’ View – Inmates of the Haina Hospital on 1803 Food Bills
Alfred Weiss : House Rules and Instructions of Austrian Hospitals in the Early Modern Times


K-4 SOC15 Cancelled!: Roundtable: Social Mobility in Eastern Europe and Russia, Sources and Methods
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizer: Vladimir Vladimirov Discussants: Antonie Knigge, Zoltán Lippényi
Valery Kanishchev : The Sources and Methods of Studies of Social Mobility of Population of Middle and Little Cities of the Central Russian at the end of 18th - beginning of 20th
Marya Markova, Dmitry Sarafanov & Vladimir Vladimirov : Russian Parish Register Books and Research of Social Mobility
Irina G. Silina, Andrei Iluhin : Spatio-social Organization of the Russian Empire in the Second half of XIX - early XX Centuries
Vladimir Vladimirov, Elena Brukhanova & Evgeny Lubanets : Russian Historical Sources and the Study of Social Mobility


R-4 SOC16 Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203
Networks: Family and Demography , Social Inequality Chairs: -
Organizer: Lynn Botelho Discussants: -
Lynn Botelho : ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler : ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway : Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
I-6 SOC06 Social Mobility in Europe's Boundary Regions
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Zoltán Lippényi
Organizer: Paulo Guimarães Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Intergenerational Transfer of Occupational Status in Portugal, 1850-1960: Unravelling Modernization Processes
Antti Häkkinen, Marco van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Family Structure, Marriage Patterns and the Slow Industrialization of Finland
Olga Solodyankina : Occupation of a Tutor / Governess in the Russian Empire as the Resource of Vertical Social Mobility



Thursday 12 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
Q-9 HEA14 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present I
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström
Sofie De Veirman : Breaking the Silence. On Marriage and Family Life of the Hearing Impaired. A Case Study of East-Flanders, 1750-1900
Mercedes Del Cura González, Jose Martinez-Perez : Bolstering the Greatness of the Homeland: The Shaping of Specialist Medical Fields in Francoist Spain and their Impact on the Social Identity of the People with Disabilities
Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström : Life Courses among People with Disabilities in Nineteenth-century Sweden
Iain Hutchison : A Help or a Hindrance? – The Old and New Statistical Accounts and Decennial Censuses as Sources on the Experience of Disability in Nineteenth-century Scotland
Michel Oris, Julia Henke & Virginie Barrusse De Luca : Ageing, Disability and Pain: A Story about Ageing Perceptions and Realities in French-speaking Switzerland, 1960-2011



Friday 13 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
Q-10 HEA15 Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present II
JWS Room J375 (J15)
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Organizers: Marie Clark Nelson, Lotta Vikström Discussants: Andrew Blaikie, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Helene Brodin, Katarina Piuva : Blamed and Forgotten - but not Silenced. Mothers Caring for Adult Children with Mental Ill-health and the Practices of Social Welfare and Mental Care in Sweden
Staffan Förhammar, Marie Clark Nelson : Outside In and Inside Out: The Creation of Identity among Sanatoria Patients in the Early 20th Century
Dee Hoole : Disabling Images? Children in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum c.1901
Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Rosa Ballester & Maria Isabel Porra & Maria Jose Baguena : The Cripple Girl. Gender in the History of Polio Studies in Spain
Sonali Shah : Becoming Disabled – Temporality of Disability in England between WWII and 21st Century



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
I-12 LAT04 Latin American Politics, Economy and Society in Transnational Perspective
Main Building: Humanities
Networks: Latin America , Social Inequality Chair: Paulo Drinot
Organizers: - Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Jose-Maria Aguilera-Manzano : The Novel Sab and the Construction of the Cuban Identity during the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey M. Shumway : Argentine Nation Building and French Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Carolina Vicario : Rural Labor Force in Rio de la Plata between 1760 and 1860. An Approximation to the Social Mobility



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
I-13 SOC04 International Institutions and the Production of International Knowledge on Social Security
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Sandrine Kott
Organizer: Jill Jensen Discussant: Sonya Michel
Eileen Boris : When Equal Rights May Not Be Enough: The ILO and the Woman Worker
Sonja Matter : Enforcing International Standards in Social Work: The Exchange Programmes of the United Nations in the Field of Social Work in the Post-War Period



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
I-14 SOC10 New Approaches in the Study of Social Mobility and Stratification
Main Building: Humanities
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Organizers: - Discussant: Dave Griffiths
Paul Lambert, David Griffiths & Richard Zijdeman & Ineke Maas & Marco van Leeuwen : Comparing Network and Association Models in the Analysis of Historical Patterns of Occupational Interactions and Stratification
Zoltán Lippényi, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas : Long-term Historical Trends of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Hungary (1850-2000)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas & Soren Edvinsson : Social Mobility in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis
Richard Zijdeman : Does it add up? Combining Register Data and Survey Data to Study Social Mobility in the 20th Century



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


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
K-16 SOC14 Account-books and Budget Surveys as a Source for Individual Charitableness
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250
Network: Social Inequality Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn, Marco Van Leeuwen Discussant: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Dragica Cec : Personal Charitableness in Ljubljana at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Aurelie Chatenet-Calyste : A Charitable Princess at the End of the 18th Century
Tom De Roo : Public and Private Charities of the Moretus Family (Antwerp, 17th-18th Century)
Henk Looijesteijn : Keeping Account of Charity: Dutch Account-books as a Source for Individual Charitableness, 1600-1800


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