Preliminary Programme

Showing: room S (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
S-2 LAB02 Factory History: Contesting Identity and Constructing Politics on the Shop Floor
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizers: Görkem Akgöz, Lars Christensen Discussants: -
Görkem Akgöz : Writing from the Shop Floor: Workers’ Perceptions and Representation of the Factory as a Workplace in Turkish Trade Union Press
Lars Christensen : Fordism Versus Unionism. Industrial Relations at Ford Motor Company A/S in Denmark, 1919-1966
Anna Koumandaraki : Enterprise Union Movement in Grece (Tentative)
Nicola Pizzolato : Dodge Main: the Factory as Plantation (Detroit, 1967-1973)



Wednesday 30 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
S-3 LAB03 Household Budgets and Living Standards during the Nineteenth- and Early-twentieth Centuries
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organizer: Corinne Boter Discussant: Jane Humphries
Corinne Boter : Dutch Household Incomes and Expenditures during the Transition to a Male Breadwinner Society 1880-1920
Luisa Muñoz Abeledo, Cristina Borderías : Engendering Family Budgets in Spain (1850-1936): Wages and Income of Men, Women and Children
Sakari Saaritsa : Children First: Intrahousehold Responses to Health Care Inequality in Pre-welfare State Finland
Giovanni Vecchi : Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty around the World, 1815-2015. A New Household Budget Approach



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
S-4 LAB04 Roundtable: From the Local to the Global: Relocating Women’s Labor History (Special labour session 2)
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Networks: Labour , Women and Gender Chair: Cristina Borderias
Organizer: Eileen Boris Discussants: -
Eileen Boris : (On Home Labors)
Mónica Burguera : (Rethinking Women’s Work. A perspective from Spain.)
Silke Neunsinger : (Women, Unions, and Labor Federations)
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk : (De-industrialization or Overlooking the Local?)



Thursday 31 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
S-5 LAB05 New Perspectives on Labor History I
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Corinne Boter
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussants: -
Bruno Blondé, Bert de Munck : Transforming Tablewares in Early Modern Europe
Andrea Caracausi : Ribbon-makers in Early Modern Europe
Thomas Max Safley : Mercury Mining and Miners: the Transformation from Boutique Metal to Strategic Commodity



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
S-6 LAB06 New Perspectives on Labor History II
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Organizer: Thomas Max Safley Discussants: -
Jane Humphries : Women and Children in British Textile Manufacturing
Corine Maitte : New Perspectives on the History of Work: Glass-making and Glass-makers during the 16-18th Centuries
Philippe Minard : Micro-economics of Quality and Social Construction of the Market
Leonard Rosenband : Wages and Customs in Common? The Hand Papermaking Industries of France and Austria in the Eighteenth Century



Thursday 31 March 2016 14.00 - 16.00
S-7 LAB27 Categorizing Work and Livelihood
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Theresa Wobbe
Organizers: Sigrid Wadauer, Theresa Wobbe Discussant: Caroline Arni
Léa Renard : The Statistical Production of Work: Categorizing “Family Workers” in Western Germany (1882-2010)
Sabine Rudischhauser : Metal, Textile, Leather: Inventing Branches, Organizing Labour
Sigrid Wadauer : Categories, Terms, and Possibilities of Self-Employment



Thursday 31 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
S-8 ETH01 Asian Migrations: Diversity, Change and Continuity across the Globe
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Networks: Asia , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Suzanne Sinke
Organizers: Vibha Bhalla, Yukari Takai Discussant: Suzanne Sinke
Vibha Bhalla : Gender, National Origins, and Professional Work: Asian Indian Migrants in the US
Yukari Takai : Many Ties of Intimacy: Japanese Women and Men in Hawai‘i, 1880-1910
Anne van der Veer : Chinese Indonesians and the (Un)making of Boundaries during the Indonesian Revolution



Friday 1 April 2016 8.30 - 10.30
S-9 LAB09a Labour and Port Infrastructure in the Global South in Historical Perspective (1760s - 2000s) I
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Brendan von Briesen
Organizers: Marco Caligari, Jordi Ibarz Discussants: Marco Caligari, Brendan von Briesen
Peter Cole : Containing The Box: How Longshore Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Durban Responded to the Challenges of Containerization
Jordi Ibarz : The recent trends in dockers history
Maria Cecilia Velasco e Cruz : A Successful Closed Shop: Stevedores, Porters and Labor Process in the Port of Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1993



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
S-10 LAB09b Labour and Port Infrastructures in the Global South in Historical Perspective (1760s-2000s) II
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Jordi Ibarz
Organizer: Marco Caligari Discussant: Peter Cole
Tapio Berghol : Forced Adaptation - Industrial Relations and Technological Change on Finnish Waterfront”
Marco Caligari : The Dock Workers between Italian waterfronts and the Asian harbors: The links and exchanges (1945-2000)
Brendan von Briesen : The Maritime Cargo-handling Guilds of Barcelona (c. 1760 - 1840): a Look at Pre-industrial Labor Organization in the Tertiary Sector



Friday 1 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
S-11 LAB10 Religion and Manufactures: Charitable Institutions as Working Places during the Pre-Industrial Period
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Corine Maitte
Organizers: Andrea Caracausi, Corine Maitte Discussants: -
Jesús Agua de la Roza, Victoria López Barahona : Manufactures and Poor Confinement in Eighteenth-century Madrid
Lili-Annè Aldman : A Comparative Study of Organisational and Product Development at Stockholm Orphanages circa 1690-1800
Lena Dahrén : Charitable Institutions as Working Places in Stockholm during the Pre-Industrial Period
Francesca Ferrando : Between Arbaggi and Vareghi: Two Different Kind of Textile Manufacturing in the Albergo dei Poveri of Genoa during the First Half of Eighteenth Century
Roberto Rossi : Work Organization in the Real Albergo dei Poveri of Palermo: a Bio-politic Experiment in Bourbon Sicily (XVIII-XIX Century)



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
S-12 LAB12 Labor History as a Field: Where do we Stand?' 'The Darker Half of the Continent? Writing the History of Labour in Eastern Europe, 1945-2015 (Special Labour Session 3)
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizer: Susan Zimmermann Discussant: Matthias Middell
Ulf Brunnbauer : Fragmented Pasts: the Institutionalization and Decentralization of Labour History in Socialist Yugoslavia
Alexandra Ghit : ‘Years of Struggle’: a Reading of Romanian State Socialist Historiography on Women and Gender as Gendered ‘New Labor History’
Natalia Jarska : Polish Historiography of the ‘Working Class’: Topics, Concepts, Arguments
Thomas Lindenberger : True to Socialism, Stuck in Fordism: Reading East German Labor and Global Economic Relations, 1945-1989
Susan Zimmermann : The Social History of Workers beyond the Working Class in Industrial-agrarian Hungary



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
S-14 LAB14 Why and How do Shifts in Labour Relations take Place? (Special Labour Session 4)
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Angus Dalrymple-Smith
Organizer: Jesús Agua de la Roza Discussants: -
Henrique Espada Lima : The End before the End: Slave Abolition and the Slaves’ Expectations of Rights in Nineteenth-century Brazil
Enrique Martino Martín : Nigerian Migrants and Prison Labour in Republican and Francoist Fernando Póo.
Juliane Schiel : Decentring Venice. Venetian Slaving Practices from the Perspectives of 15th Century Dalmatia and Crete
Judith Spicksley : A Comparative Analysis of Enslavement for Debt in West and West Central Africa in the Period of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Paulo Terra, Marcelo Matos : Free and unfree labour in Brazil (late XIX and early XX centuries)



Saturday 2 April 2016 14.00 - 16.00
S-15 LAB13 The Social Construction of the Pre-industrial Transport Economy
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Networks: Economic History , Labour Chair: Ellan Spero
Organizer: Anne Conchon Discussant: Ellan Spero
Anne Conchon : The French Transport Enterprises (c. 1770-1811): an Inquiry into their European Range
Nanny Kim : Wages, Remunerations and Religious Feasts: an Exploration of Incomes, Work Conditions and Family Strategies of Boatmen on the Upper Yangzi, ca. 1750-1850
Raphael Morera : The Transport of Muds and Trashes in Paris 16th–18th Centuries
Peter Rauscher : Toll Registers and Fluvial Transport: Ports, Actors and Commodities in the Upper Danube System (c. 1700-1750)



Saturday 2 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
S-16 LAB24 Strikes and Industrial Disputes: New Explorations in a Multi-facetted Territory
Aula 16, Nivel 1
Network: Labour Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer
Organizer: Heiner Dribbusch Discussants: -
Peter Birke : New Forms of Labour Unrest – an Analysis of the 2015 Strike in German Kindergartens
Ralph Darlington : The Limits and Potential of Strike Ballot Participation
Heiner Dribbusch, Kurt Vandaele : Who is Afraid of Strikes? The Shifting Fortunes of Strike Recording in Belgium and Germany
David Lyddon : The UK’s Biggest ever Public Service Strike: Background, Tactics, and Consequences
Sjaak Van der Velden : International Strike Waves, 1900-2010


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