Preliminary Programme

Showing: Labour (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
D-1 LAB38 Round Table: Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Working Conditions, Gender Equality
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Network: Labour Chair: Dorothea Hoehtker
Organizer: Susan Zimmermann Discussants: Eileen Boris, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama


E-1 ETH10 Employment, Integration and Probationary Citizenship in Europe
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Cátia Teixeira
Organizers: Albert Kraler, Sieglinde Rosenberger Discussant: Geert Van Goethem
Blanca Garces-Mascarenas, Sébastien Chavin : Becoming Less Illegal: Undocumented Migrants, Civic Performance and Legal Deservingness
Albert Kraler, Alexandra König : Employment and Membership – Exploring Employment Careers of Regularized Migrants in Selected EU Member States
Sieglinde Rosenberger, Carla Küffner : Precarious Membership Rights of Un-deported Migrants


I-1 LAB07 France and International Communism, 1920-1943
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizer: Tim Rees Discussants: -
Tom Beaumont : The View from Paris: The French State and Perceptions of International Communism, 1919-1939.
Kevin Morgan : Victims or Resistance? Paris as Anti-fascist Capital and the Thälmann Committees of the 1930s
Gianni Perona : Italian Communists in the 1920s and 1930s between France and Italy
Tim Rees : The French Connection: the Spanish Communist Party and France, 1923-1931
Giulia Strippoli : Communist Parties in Portugal, Italy and France: a Comparative Analysis of the Political Elites


J-1 LAB32 Working Class Identities
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Touraj Atabaki
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Christian De Vito
Görkem Akgöz : The Discursive Formation of the “Turkish Worker”: Nationalism and Working-Class Politics in Early Republican Turkey
Karin Dupinay-Bedford : A Communist Association in Protests: the ADIRP Isère in the Name of the Political Militancy and a Particular Memories’ Attitude. 1945-1968
Matias Kaihovirta : On ”the Lost Causes and Blind Alleys” of Swedish-speaking Workers in Finland 1900–1930. Micro-history and Identity in the Study of Working-class Political Activism
Dimitra Lampropoulou : From Day Work to Night School: Laboring Youth and Social Change in Post-war Greece.


M-1 LAB28 International Labour Movements and (post-)dictatorship
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Organizer: Raquel Varela Discussant: Jenny Jansson
Victoria Basualdo : The Impact and Role of International Labor Solidarity in Cases of Extreme Repression: an Analysis of the International Labor Movement during the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983)
Larissa Corrêa : Brazilian and American Labour Relations during the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1978)
Vilja Hulden : The AFL-CIO and Portuguese Labor in the Wake of the 1974 Coup
Adrian Zimmermann : The International Labour Movement’s Struggle against Crisis and Fascism



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
I-2 LAB09 Labor Relations in Portugal and in the Lusophone World: 1800-2000: Continuity and Change: 1800-2000
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: David Mayer
Organizer: Paulo Terra Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
Marcelo Mattos, Paulo Terra : Brazilian Labour Relations in XXI Century
António Paço : The Callaghan Government (1976-79), Europe and Portugal’s Application to Join the EEC
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva : Labour Relations in Portuguese Mozambique, 1800-1950
Paulo Teodoro de Matos : Demography and Labour Relations in Portuguese India. The Cross-sections of 1850, 1900 and 1950
Raquel Varela, Joanna Alcântara, Sónia Ferreira, Ana Rajado & Cátia Teixeira : Labor Relations in Portugal: 1900-2011


M-2 LAB21 The Transformation of Labour under State Socialism
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Labour , Theory Chair: Irina Novichenko
Organizers: Gijs Kessler, Marsha Siefert, Susan Zimmermann Discussant: Andrea Komlosy
Chiara Bonfiglioli : Textile Workers during and after Yugoslavia: from Self-management to Post-socialism
Alina-Sandra Cucu : “Fordism Without Assembly Lines” and Labour Control in Early Socialist Romania, 1949- 1953
Nigel Swain : Collectivisation and the Development of ‘Socialist Wage Labour’ in Hungarian Agriculture, 1946-77.
Zsuzsanna Varga : Americanization of a Soviet-type Agriculture: the Case of Hungary in the 1970s



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-3 LAB01a A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change across Eurasia, 1840–1940 I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Erik Buyst : Changing Occupational Structure and the Industrial Revolution in Belgium, 1846-1910
Dimitrios Kopanas, Leda Papastefenaki : Occupational and Structural Change in Greece, 1840 – 1940, A Gender Perspective
Alexis Litvine : Assessing Changes in the Occupational Structure of France during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


M-3 LAB17 Selling Sex in the City 1600-2000: Comparisons
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizer: Lex Heerma van Voss Discussants: -
Sue Gronewold : Prostitution in Shanghai, China 17th-21st Centuries
Maja Mechant : Prostitutes Social Profiles
Magaly Rodríguez García : Trafficking for Prostitution
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk : Gender and Prostitution



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
I-4 LAB01b A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Change Across Eurasia, 1840–1940 II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour , Social Inequality , World History Chair: Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discussant: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
M. Erdem Kabadayi, Esin Uyar & Berkay Kucukbaslar : Occupational and Structural Change from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Gijs Kessler, Timur Valetov : Occupational Change and Industrialization: from Russia to the Soviet Union (1897-1959)
Osamu Saito, Yoshifumi Usami : Changing Composition of the Workforce in British India, 1881-1931: with Special Reference to the Relationship between Principal and Subsidiary Occupations
Tokihiko Settsu, Osamu Saito : Changing Occupational Structure and Sectoral Labour Productivity Differentials in Japan’s Economic Growth before World War II


J-4 LAB33 Trade Unions in International Perspective
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Aad Blok
Organizers: - Discussant: Bert Altena
Ralph Darlington : The Scope and Limits of Radical Political Unionism: The Case of the RMT Union in Britain
Jenny Jansson : Trade Union Leaders as Identity Entrepreneurs? Managing Identity Re-formation in the Swedish Trade Union Movement
Gabriela Scodeller : The Cold War in Latin America: its Implications on Workers’ Education
Richard Whiting : Trade Unions Reform and National Experiences in the 20th Century


M-4 LAB19 Strikes and Labour Unrest – Exploring a Multifaceted Territory
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Giulia Strippoli
Organizer: Heiner Dribbusch Discussant: Raquel Varela
Peter Ackers : The Forward March of Collective Bargaining: Hugh Clegg and the Historiography of British Trade Unions
Heiner Dribbusch, Ingrid Artus : Strikes in France and Germany – Different Cultures but Similar Developments?
David Lyddon, Xuebing Cao : Reconstructing and Analysing the 2010 Strike Movement in the Chinese Car Industry
Sjaak van der Velden : The Collection of Strike Data Using Data Digging
Kurt Vandaele : Still Consistent Country Differences in Strike Patterns? Recent Trends in Strike Volume Since the Austerity Regime in Western Europe


X-4 LAB39 New Contours in Industrial Relations: Secondary Analysis of Case Studies Conducted since the 1960s
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Labour Chair: Lutz Rafael
Organizer: Peter Birke Discussant: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
Peter Birke : Sociological Research Institute at the University of Göttingen: Autonomous Workers – Workers Autonomy?
Felix Bluhm : “Good Work” as Everyday Practice: Appropriation of the Work Situation by Industrial Workers
Jon Lawrence : Worker’s Testimony and the Sociological Reification of the Manual/Non-Manual Distinction in 1960ies Britain
Ole Johnny Olsen : Identity Formation for Post-Tayloristic Work Organizations in Norwegian Industry
Wiebke Wiede : "Good Work" Without Work: The Perspective of the Unemployed



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
I-5 LAB03 Anarchists in Space: Spatial Concepts in Anarchist Studies
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Culture , Labour , Theory Chair: Bert Altena
Organizer: Saul Newman Discussants: -
Antonis Drakonakis : Space and Society of Greek Anarchism: a Socio-spatial Anatomy of the Greek Anarchist Movement in the 21th Century
Tom Goyens : The Choreography of Anarchism: Historians and the Mapping of a Movement
Saul Newman : Situating Anarchism: Spaces of Desire and Politics in Nineteenth Century Radical Thought


J-5 AFR02 lab Mobility of People, Labour and Goods in and from the Horn of Africa: Past and Present of a Transnational Circulation
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Networks: Africa , Labour Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizer: Stefano Bellucci Discussant: Paulo Teodoro de Matos
Samuel Andreas Admasie : The making and unmaking of a multinational working class: Organisational expressions of class formation in the Highlands of the Horn 1960-78
Stefano Bellucci : Wage Labour without Capital: An Analysis of Italy's failed Attempts at Settling National Workers in Colonial Eritrea
Marina de Regt : Gender and Mobility between Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsula: An Anthropological Perspective
Massimo Zaccaria : Short Distance Migration in the Red Sear Region and the Libyan War, 1912-1935


M-5 LAB16 Round Table: Bringing Eastern Europe into Global Labor History
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Marsha Siefert
Organizers: Gijs Kessler, Marsha Siefert, Susan Zimmermann Discussant: Gopalan Balachandran
Andrea Komlosy : Backwardness, Peripheralization, or Path Difference?
Sabine Rutar : Labor Relations and Social Protests in the Shipyard on the Italo-Yugoslav Border During the Cold War
Alessandro Stanziani : Russian serfdom and its aftermath: beyond Kula and Gershenkron
Andrei Volodin : Factory/labour Inspectorate as a Comparative Model for East European Labour Relations



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
I-6 LAB04a Das Haus/Households in Practice I
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography , Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Dag Lindström
Organizer: Karin Hassan Jansson Discussant: Maria Ågren
Joachim Eibach : Doing House and Neighbourhood
Göran Rydén : Between the Divine and the Individual: Household Practices at Different Levels in Eighteenth-Century Swedish Society
Panu Savolainen : The Spatial Shaping of Early Modern Household in an 18th Century Swedish Provincial Town
Jane Whittle : Gender, Work and the Household in Rural England c.1500-c.1700


M-6 LAB20 The Gendered Normalisation of Work (Late 19th and 20th Centuries)
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Sigrid Wadauer
Organizers: Jessica Richter, Irina Vana Discussant: Deborah Simonton
Jessica Richter : Producing Household Labourers – Domestics and Farm Hands in Austria (1918-1938)
Celine Schoeni : Economic Crises and Gendered Normalisation of Work
Irina Vana : The Making of “Female Labour” by Official Labour Market Policies and the Usage of Public Labour Offices by Men and Women (Austria 1880-1938)


ZD-6 WOM24 lab6 Feminism in International Labour Organizations in the Cold War Era
Prominentenzimmer
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Geert Van Goethem
Organizer: Dorothy Sue Cobble Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Dorothy Sue Cobble : Esther Peterson's Anonymous 1956 ICFTU Pamphlet and Cold War Feminism
Kristen Ghodsee : State Socialist Women and the ILO during the Cold War
Yevette Richards Jordan : The ICFTU and Global Women's Organizing in the 1960s: The Difficulties of Turning an Instrument of Propaganda into a Tool of Transformation



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-7 LAB04b Das Haus/Households in Practice II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Economic History , Family and Demography , Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Göran Rydén
Organizer: Karin Hassan Jansson Discussant: Ariadne Schmidt
Karin Hassan Jansson : Households in Practice: Agency and Authority in Early Modern Sweden
Dag Lindström : House, Households and Spaces in 18th Century Swedish Towns
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen : From Household to Streets: Female Food Sellers in 18th Century Turku (Åbo)


M-7 LAB25 Work in the Knowledge Society
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Labour , Theory Chair: Thomas Welskopp
Organizers: Peter-Paul Baenziger, Brigitta Bernet Discussant: Thomas Welskopp
Peter-Paul Baenziger : A Consumerist Knowledge Society? Work (Ethic), Bodies, and Consumption, c. 1950-1990.
Brigitta Bernet : Human Capital as Resource of the Knowledge Society.
Eloisa Betti : Precarious Work as a Historical Phenomenon: a Gendered Global Approach
Olivier Giraud : Decentralizing Production, Dismantling the Company, Reinventing the Labor Contract?


ZD-7 LAB34 Round Table: Political Change as a Determinant of Shifting Labour Relations
Prominentenzimmer
Networks: Labour , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Organizer: Karin Hofmeester Discussants: Christine Moll Murata, Alessandro Stanziani, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
I-9 LAB08 Imperial Connections and Household Labour Relations
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Asia , Family and Demography , Labour Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Louella de Graaf Discussant: Susan Zimmermann
Corinne Boter : The Dynamics of the Household. Labour Division in Dutch Households 1830-1940.
Louella de Graaf : Between Forced Labor and Market Work. Javanese Households, the Allocation of Labor and Time, and Consumption under Colonial Rule, 1830-1970
Michiel de Haas : Measuring African Rural Welfare: A Reconstruction of Ugandan Rural Living Standards in the 1920s-30s
Steffen Rimner : When Opium Enters the Household: the Division of Labor, Paternal Drug Consumption and Familial Impoverishment in India and China, c. 1880-1900


M-9 LAB26 mig Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History (worldwide)
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Ethnicity and Migration , Labour Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizers: Stefan Berger, Ad Knotter, Chris Williams Discussant: Ad Knotter
Diethelm Blecking : Between Disintegration, Community Formation (Spoleczenstwo) and Integration – the Role of Sport for Polish Migrants to Germany in the Rhineland/Westphalen Industrial Area 1899-1939
Marion Fontaine : Football, Immigration and Identity in the French Mining Communities: the Case of the “Nord” and the “Lorraine” Coalfields (1930’-1960’)
Philip Slaby : “Dissimilarity Breeds Contempt: Mines, Foreigners, and the State in Interwar France”
Clarice Gontarski Speranza : Struggles and Assimilation: the Role of European Workers in Brazilian Coal Mining (São Jerônimo, RS, 1850-1950)


S-9 RUR18 lb13 Mobilization and Stabilization of Rural Labor Force
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Stéphanie Barral
Organizer: Stéphanie Barral Discussant: Benoit Daviron
Mustafa Aslan : Between the Sheet and the Hangar: The Housing Issue of Kurdish Seasonal Workers in Turkey
Guillaume Vadot : Living and Struggling in a Plantation: Housing, Wage Labor and Labor Struggles in a Post Structural Adjustment Plan Agro-industrial Plantation in Cameroon
Wessel Visser : "Marikana has come to the Farms!!!" The Socio-economic Impact of the November 2012-January 2013 Agricultural Strike in the Western Cape, South Africa



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
I-10 LAB10 Labour and Survival on the Soviet Home Front During World War II
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Dan Healey
Organizer: Donald Filtzer Discussant: Dan Healey
Jean-Paul Depretto : "Forced Labour in the Urals During World War II (1940-1945)
Donald Filtzer : "The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union’s Home Front Urban Population"
Wendy Goldman : “The Evacuation of Soviet Industry: Dismantling and Rebuilding the Industrial Base”
Johannes-Dieter Steinert : Polish and Soviet Child Forced Labourers in Nazi Germany and German Occupied Eastern Europe


M-10 LAB22a Translocal- and Micro-Histories of Global Labour I: Global lives
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Andrea Caracausi
Eleonora Canepari : Transnational “Ordinary” Lives. Migrant Workers between Birthplace and Arrival City (Rome, 16th-17th Centuries)
Giuseppe Marcocci : Mission as Global Labour: Pedro Fernandes Sardinha from Goa to Bahia, 1545-1556
Antonio Negro : Visualizing the Anonymous Other: Labouring People in Visual Sources across Borders
Lara Putnam : Microhistory and the Transnational Routes of Racialized Labor



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-11 LAB11 Learning and Training Patterns of Skilled Labour Force in Preindustrial Europe (14th-18th Centuries)
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Organizer: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Discussant: Anna Bellavitis
Annelies De Bie : Human Capital from a Household Perspective: Knowledge Investments in Early Modern Antwerp
Raoul De Kerf, Bert De Munck : Wandering about the Learning Market
Ruben Schalk : From Orphan to Artisan: the Training of Orphaned Boys in Leiden during the 18th and 19th Century
Matthieu Scherman : Apprenticeship of Florentine Merchants-bankers: the Example of the 15th Century London Salviati Bank
Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu : Seduced by the Work/Seduced by the Men. Romanian Childhood and Their Apprentice Experiences the XVIIIth century


M-11 LAB22b Translocal- and Micro-Histories of Global Labour II
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Victoria Basualdo
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Henrique Espada Lima
Touraj Atabaki : Far from Home, but at Home: Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry
Allyson Hobbs : The 1949 Negro Motorist Green Book Revisited: a Microhistory of the Great Migration
Nicoletta Rolla : Skilled Migrant Workers vis-à-vis State and City Institutions (Turin, 18th Century)
Achim von Oppen : Translocality over Time: Lake Tanganyika as a Crossroad of East and Central African Labour Histories.



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
I-12 LAB12 Meet the Authors: Robert Waters & Geert Van Goethem: American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Organizers: Geert Van Goethem, Robert Waters Discussants: Magaly Rodríguez García, Marcel van der Linden


M-12 LAB22c Translocal- and Micro-Histories of Global Labour III: Theory and Methodology
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Christian De Vito : Micro spatial-history of labour
Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson : The Concept of the Singularization of History within the Global Space and Scale – An Approach in Microhistory
Ekaterini Mitsiou, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller : Moving Hands: Types and Scales of Labour Mobility in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (1200-1500 CE)



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
I-13 LAB13 Performing and Avoiding Work
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Josef Ehmer
Organizers: Therese Garstenauer, Sigrid Wadauer Discussant: Sigrid Wadauer
Therese Garstenauer : Under Suspicion of Underperforming? Austrian Civil Servants in the First Half of the 20th Century
Stephan Hochleithner : To Work or Not to Work – Organisation of Activities in Non-European Contexts
Alexandra Oberländer : Contemplating Work, Exhausting Leisure: Soviet Working Attitudes Reconsidered (1953-1980)


M-13 LAB30 Dock Workers Histories Worldwide
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Paulo Terra
Organizers: - Discussants: -
George Ackers : Craft & Career: Shipwrights in the Royal Dockyards, Chatham, Kent
Marco Caligari : Globalization and the Dock Workers of Genoa: Container, Work Process and New Geography (1969-’89)­
Miguel Suárez Bosa : Contenairization of New Techniques and Changes in Work Organization at the Port of Las Palmas
Brendan von Briesen : Sharing the Load: Professional Differentiation and the Social Organization of Maritime Cargo Labour in Early 19th Century Barcelona



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
I-14 LAB14 mid Quality Control in Pre-Modern Eurasian Economies
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Labour , Middle Ages Chair: Markus Cerman
Organizers: Jessica Dijkman, Christine Moll Murata Discussant: Bert De Munck
Andrea Caracausi : Has Quality Control been a Matter for Guilds? Evidence from the Guild Courts in Early Modern Italy
Jessica Dijkman, Maarten Prak : How to Become a Master Craftsman? Guild Regulation of Professional Training and Qualification in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the Near East’
Christine Moll Murata : Quality Control in Chinese Textile Guilds’


M-14 LAB37 Rural Labour Strategies in Industrialising Eastern Europe: Migration and Alternatives
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Labour , Rural Chair: Marsha Siefert
Organizers: Gijs Kessler, Marsha Siefert, Susan Zimmermann Discussant: Lewis Siegelbaum
Irina Novichenko : The Study of European Co-operation and Practice of Co-operation in Russia (1890s-1920s)
Yukimura Sakon : Russian and Asian Immigrants in the Russian Far East: 1860-1914



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-15 LAB18 Slavery and 'Free' Labour: Entangled Transitions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Africa , Labour Chair: Marcelo Mattos
Organizer: Gareth Austin Discussant: Andreas Eckert
Gareth Austin : “Coercion and the Market: Transitions to and from Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa, ca.1807-ca.1936”
Marcela Echeverri : Slavery and Politics in New Granada, 1809-1824
Henrique Espada Lima : The Invention of Free Labor in Brazil : Slavery, Contract and Law
Benedetta Rossi : Trajectories of Emancipation in West Africa’s Labour History: Slave Descendants as Working Classes in the Making?
Alessandro Stanziani : Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants on Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century


M-15 LAB27 Between Craft and Wage Labour
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Jan Lucassen
Linda Clarke : The End of Craft Labour: New Occupations and Mechanization of the Post-war Construction Labour Process in Britain
Ekaterina Kirillova : Value and Price of the Right to be a Master (Reims, 17th Century)
Maria Papathanassiou : “Middle Class” Manual Workers? Looking into the Working Lives of Journeymen-confectioners in 19th- Century Europe.
Mercè Renom, Àngels Solà : The Autonomous Silk Artisan Women of Barcelona: “filempueres” and “tafetaneres” in the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries
Patricia Van den Eeckhout : Waiters before the Second World War: Workers or Small Entrepreneurs?


S-15 LAB36a Work and Property in Europe: Households and Communities (1500-1900)
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Fabrice Boudjaaba
Organizer: Fabrice Boudjaaba Discussant: Luca Mocarelli
Lorena Álvarez Delgado : Friendship and Charity as Ingredients to Enlarge Family Links. Patronage and Artificial Kinship in 16th-Century Northern Spain.
Maria Luisa Ferrari, Gloria Vivenza : Property, Labour and Society: Patterns of Organization and Hierarchy in Italy and Great Britain
Dimitris Kalantzopoulos : Domestic Work in Cyprus, 1900-1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and Colonial Institutional Framework
Claudio Lorenzini : Who Practises in the Wood? Community Ties and Work in the Alpine Area of the Republic of Venice in Modern Age



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
H-16 LAB31 wom Gender and Work in the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk Discussant: Angelique Janssens
Cristina Borderias : Women’ s Work, Household Labour Strategies and Family Income in Modern Catalonia
Sarah Christie : Behind the Banners: Equal Pay and Social Change in New Zealand 1945-1972
Stéphanie Lachat : The Good Mother Works in a Factory - Class, Sex and Nationality on the Watch-making Labor Market (1870-1970)
Lars Olsson : Class, Gender, and Ethnicity at War. Labor Relations at the Northwestern Knitting Company/the Munsingwear Inc. and Politics in Minneapolis during WW1.
Conchi Villar : Women’s Labour Trajectories in Barcelona: from the Twenties to Nowadays


I-16 LAB35 Labor Relations, Recruitment and Risk in Eastern Europe
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Labour Chair: Alessandro Stanziani
Organizers: Gijs Kessler, Marsha Siefert, Susan Zimmermann Discussant: Marsha Siefert
Ulf Brunnbauer, Visar Nonaj : Finding Workers to Build Socialism: Recruiting for the Steel Factories in Kremikovci (Bulgaria) and Elbasan (Albania) during Communism
Adrian Grama : Labor’s Risks: Solidarity, Work Accidents and the Insurantial Imaginary in Socialist Romania,1947-1989
Thomas Lindenberger : Havarien: Large Industrial Accidents and Labor Relations in Communist East Germany
Ulrike Schult : Labor Relations in Self Managed Socialism: the Yugoslav Motor Vehicle Industry during the 1960s-1980s


M-16 LAB29 Culture, Community, and the Working Class
Hörsaal 32 first floor
Networks: Culture , Labour , Urban Chair: Görkem Akgöz
Organizer: Christian De Vito Discussant: Paulo Terra
Bhaswati Bhattacharya : Simple People, High Principles: Indian Coffee Workers' Co-operative Society, 1958-2010
Paulo Fontes : The “Red Pugilism”: Communists, Boxing and Working Class Culture in São Paulo, Brazil
Monica Graciela Gatica : The Experience of the Chilean Workers in Chubut's NE.
Janine Lanza : Laughing the Master Down: Emotions and Eighteenth Century Guilds


S-16 LAB36b Work and Property in Europe: Appropriations and Commodification (1500-1900)
Hörsaal 45 second floor
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Michela Barbot
Organizer: Michela Barbot Discussant: Andrea Caracausi
Daniele Andreozzi, Loredana Paraniti : The Fluid Divergencies. Property and Work in Trieste (1850 - 1900)
Joern Janssen : Dynamics of Historical Transformation of Labour-Property Relations in Europe.
Niccolò Mignemi : Claiming for Land and Labour: Tenant Farming Co-operatives in Italy at the Beginning of 20th Century


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