Preliminary Programme

Showing: room I (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
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



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



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



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



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



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



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)



Thursday 24 April 2014 16.30 - 17.30
I-8 FAM00 Network meeting Family and Demography
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Network: Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



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



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



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



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



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)



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’



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



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
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


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