Preliminary Programme

Showing: room H (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
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
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
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



Wednesday 11 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
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
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



Thursday 12 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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



Friday 13 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
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
H-10 URB01 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe I. Demography and Occupation
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Sofie De Langhe : Flemish Exceptionalism? The Absence of Older Rural Born Single Women in early Nineteenth Bruges
Tine De Moor : Industrious and/or Religious. Motivating the Choice for Living as a Beguine in (Low Countries, early Modern Period)
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers : Life Course and Residential Career of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1870-1970
Dag Lindström : Singles in Swedish Towns, 1750 – 1870
Anna-Helena Wiechel, Ann Ighe : Without Title. The Dynamics of Status, Gender and Occupation in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1805-1845



Friday 13 April 2012 14.00 - 16.00
H-11 URB02 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe II. Survival Strategies and Social Networks
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Isabelle Devos
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Christa Matthys : Servants’ Solidarity Networks: Assistance by Close and Distant Kin in Job Placement and Critical Life Situations
Maja Mechant : ‘One of the Few Ways a Woman Could Make it on her Own.’Prostitution as a Survival Strategy for Singles in Eighteenth Century Bruges
Kim Overlaet : Singles and their Family: Urban Networks in Sixteenth Century Mechelen and Aalst
Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van der Heijden : Singles and their Public Roles in early Modern Towns
Judith Spicksley : Capital Benefits: The Social Networks of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster and Roneylending in Seventeenth Century Hereford



Friday 13 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
H-12 URB03 Singles in the City in Northwest Europe III. Identity, Culture and Social Perception
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Julie De Groot
Organizers: Julie De Groot, Isabelle Devos, Ariadne Schmidt Discussants: -
Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot & Isis Sturtewagen : The Material Culture of Singles in the Cities of the County of Flanders under Burgundian-Habsburg Rule (16th Century)
Wendy Gordon : Singles Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861
Amy Harris, Amy Harris : Poor Single Men in Eighteenth-Century England
Raffaella Sarti : Unmarried Women and Men in Pre-industrial South- and North-European Cities



Saturday 14 April 2012 8.30 - 10.30
H-13 URB04 Gender in the European Town, 1650-1900
Main Building: Forehall
Network: Urban Chair: Elaine Chalus
Organizer: Deborah Simonton Discussant: Elaine Chalus
Katie Barclay : Urban and Rural Manliness in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court
Nina Koefoed : To Act as a Citizen. Local Philanthropy as a Way to Conform to Male, Political Citizenship
Anne Montenach : Legal Trade and Black Markets: Women and the Sale of Food in Late Seventeenth- and early Eighteenth-century Lyon
Deborah Simonton : Negotiating the Eighteenth-century Urban Economy: Gender and Space in Northern Europe



Saturday 14 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
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
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.



Saturday 14 April 2012 16.30 - 18.30
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


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