Wed 12 April
08.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30
Thu 13 April
08.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30
Fri 14 April
08.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
16.30 - 18.30
Sat 15 April
08.30 - 10.30
11.00 - 13.00
14.00 - 16.00
All days
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Wednesday 12 April 2023
08.30 - 10.30
G-1
LAB09
Labour, Capital, and Class: Comparative Perspectives from the Atlantic Fringe, 19th and 20th Centuries
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Stephan Curtis
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Organizer:
Stewart Lawrence
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Discussant:
Stephan Curtis
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Michael Kirkpatrick :
The Abolition of Forced Labour in Nineteenth Century Guatemala
Kurt Korneski :
Class, Place, and Diplomacy in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Fisheries, 1815-54.
Stewart Lawrence :
“It Was Their El Dorado”: the Stratification of Stockholm’s Working Class and Drinking as a Form of Resistance at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Lachlan MacKinnon :
Industrial Policy in Transnational Perspective: the Development Ethos in Deindustrializing Nova Scotia, 1956-1963
Wednesday 12 April 2023
11.00 - 13.00
G-2
LAB02
Disputed Endings: How Labour Relations were Terminated in Pre-Industrial Europe
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Jane Whittle
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Organizers:
Taylor Aucoin, James Fisher |
Discussant:
Jane Whittle
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Taylor Aucoin :
Unfinished Business: Mediating Servant Wage Disputes and Broken Contracts through the English Labour Laws, 1563-1700
James Fisher :
Premature Exits? The Termination of Compulsory Apprenticeships before the Statutory Age of Expiry in England 1600-1750
Teresa Petrik :
Taking the Disobedient to Court: Uncovering Mechanisms of Coercion and Autonomy in 17th and 18th Century Austrian Servant Legislation
Vilhelm Vilhelmsson :
Strategies of Exit: Absconding from Service in Nineteenth-century Iceland
Wednesday 12 April 2023
14.00 - 16.00
G-3
LAB08
Labour, Capital and European Integration
B24
Susanne Berghofer :
The Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry – Crises and Opportunities as European Markets Opened, and International Trade Barriers Diminished
Marvin Schnippering :
The German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) and the Balancing Act between German Interests and a European Spirit
Brian Shaev :
Transnational Socialism, Welfare, and Social Policy in the early European Communities
Johan Svanberg :
Trade-Union Internationalism in the Textile and Garment Sector and European Integration
Wednesday 12 April 2023
16.30 - 18.30
G-4
LAB04
Histories of Minimum Wage Struggles
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Jenny Jansson
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Organizer:
Silke Neunsinger
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Discussants:
-
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Samuel Andreas Admasie :
Lineages of Minimum Wages in Ethiopia
Silke Neunsinger :
Minimum Wages in the Indian Bidi Industry - a Journey from Ahmedabad to Geneva
Shobhana Warrier :
MInimum Wages in India during the 1st Half of the 20th Century
Thursday 13 April 2023
08.30 - 10.30
G-5
LAB19
The Great War and its Impact: Labour and Product History in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Svatopluk Herc
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Organizer:
Ondrej Sevecek
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Discussants:
-
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Martin Jemelka :
The Great War and the Cisleithania Footwear Industry from the Perspective of Labour History
Jan Vondracek :
Local Administration and the Supply of Labor in the First and Second World Wars in Bohemia
Michaela Závodná :
Smile and Keep Quiet - the Transformation of the Concept of Woman and Work in the First Half of the 20th Century in Selected Industries – a Case Study
Thursday 13 April 2023
11.00 - 13.00
G-6
LAB20
The Representations of Labor as Bodily Experience: Senses, Spaces, Objects and Industrial Heritage in the Making
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chairs:
-
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Organizer:
Marta Kurkowska-Budzan
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Discussant:
Agata Zysiak
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Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Jakub Muchowski :
The Coal Mining Heritage in the Making: Narratives of Bodily Experiences of Work
Frank Meyer :
The Ironworks as a Sensory Experience
Anu Printsmann :
Inner Workings of the Landscapes of Brown Gold
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Pete Pesonen :
“Duck Lamps” and “Homers”. Changes and Continuities in the Oral Histories Related with Norms, Hierarchies and Tacit Knowledge in Högfors Ironworks during the 20th Century
Thursday 13 April 2023
16.30 - 18.30
G-8
LAB24
Women in Industrial Action
B24
Ralph Darlington :
Working Class Women’s Active Participation in the 1910-14 British Labour Revolt
Hazel Perry :
‘A Little Judgement and Ordinary Human Kindness.’ The Interwar Period, Women Workers, and the Peterborough (UK) Celta Mill Strike, 1928
Jason Russell :
The Causes and Consequences of 1960s Public Sector Unionization in the United States and Canada
Büsra Sati, Görkem Akgöz :
Caught in between Patriarchy and the Cold War: the Institutionalisation of Gender Politics in Turkish Trade Unions, 1975-1981
Friday 14 April 2023
08.30 - 10.30
G-9
LAB14a
Punitive Labour (Im)Mobilizations: towards a Comparative Global Agenda (I)
B24
Networks:
Criminal Justice
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Labour
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Chair:
Lisa Hellman
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Organizer:
Mònica Ginés Blasi
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Discussant:
Lisa Hellman
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John Chuchiak :
Paying the Price of God: Ecclesiastical Forced Labor Practices and the Punitive Concept of Penas Saludables for the Crime of Idolatry in the Bishopric of Yucatan, 1563-1821
Bonnie Clementsson :
Navigating around Forced Labour in the Early 1800s with Examples from Sweden
Nabhojeet Sen :
Punishment, Coercion and (Im)mobility: Western India, c. 1730s-1818.
Nitin Varma :
The Making of a Labour Regime: 1860s and Indentured Coolies on cColonial Plantations in India
Friday 14 April 2023
11.00 - 13.00
G-10
LAB14b
Punitive Labour (Im)Mobilizations: towards a Comparative Global Agenda (II)
B24
Networks:
Criminal Justice
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Labour
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Chair:
Christian De Vito
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Organizer:
Mònica Ginés Blasi
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Discussant:
Christian De Vito
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Anas Ansar :
Navigating Il/legality, Im/mobility and Labour Coercion: the Rohingya Refugees in Malaysia
Robert Baum :
Cattle Raiding, Raiding Rice Paddies, and the Development of Slavery in Stateless Societies: the Diola of Southern Senegal
Mònica Ginés Blasi :
Punitive Indentured Im/mobilization: Yucateco and Chinese Prisoners of War in Cuban Plantations (1847-1860s)
Ludolf Pelizaeus :
Coercion Labour for Prisoners of War and Minorities as a Means of Enforcing “Utility” in the Holy Roman Empire 1670-1790
Friday 14 April 2023
14.00 - 16.00
G-11
LAB16
Roundtable: Durable Inequality and Work in Amsterdam and the Dutch Colonial Empire 18th-20th Centuries
B24
Networks:
Labour
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Social Inequality
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Chair:
Matthias van Rossum
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Organizer:
Karin Hofmeester
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Discussants:
Alexander Geelen, Joris Kok, Samantha Sint Nicolaas, Hanna te Velde, Eva van der Heijden |
Friday 14 April 2023
16.30 - 18.30
G-12
LAB18
Socialism and Internationalism: Old and New Perspectives on the History of the Second International
B24
Natalie Behrends :
The Riddle: the Second International and Jewish (Inter?)Nationalism
Kevin J. Callahan :
The Practice of International Socialism: the Example of Austrian Socialist Victor Adler during the Second International, 1889-1914
Nicolas Delalande :
The Age of Workers' Solidarity
Jean-Numa Ducange :
A Transnational Approach to French Socialism: the Case of Jean Jaurès (1859-1914)
Saturday 15 April 2023
08.30 - 10.30
G-13
LAB25
Workplace Matters!
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Aad Blok
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Organizers:
-
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Discussants:
-
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Jule Ehms :
Revolutionary Syndicalism on the Shop Floor – The Strike Pattern of the Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (Free Workers’ Union of Germany)
Sophia Friedel :
The German Co-determination Model in a Transnational Perspective - between Demarcation and Rapprochement
Pete Hodson :
Gallaher’s Tobacco: Work, Industry and Gender in Northern Ireland
Bridget Kenny :
Lift Labour and City Space: Race, Gender and Skill in the Labour of Elevator Maintenance, Repair and Operation in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1950s-1970s
Tomas Widing :
Social Reform or Revolution? The Communist Party of Sweden and Trade Union Practice (1943–1953)
Saturday 15 April 2023
11.00 - 13.00
G-14
LAB17
Roundtable: Work, Inequality and Conflicts Opportunity and Challenges for an Open Global and Long-term Perspective on Labour Conflicts
B24
Networks:
Labour
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Social Inequality
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Chair:
Karin Hofmeester
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Organizers:
-
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Discussants:
Jens Aurich, Stefano Bellucci, Rosa Kösters, Silke Neunsinger, Matthias van Rossum |
Saturday 15 April 2023
14.00 - 16.00
G-15
LAB26
Space and Scale in Labour Organisation
B24
Network:
Labour
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Chair:
Marta Kurkowska-Budzan
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Organizers:
-
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Discussants:
-
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Linda Clarke :
Municipal Socialism: its Distinct Development in Britain
Anna Conrad :
Workplace Democracy between 1975 and 2000 – Gaps between Talk and Action
Arvand Mirsafian :
Scientific Management, Industrial Peace, and Worker Resistance in Sweden
Canan Ozcan Eliacik :
The Development of the Lebanese Trade Union Movement and its Relationship with International Organizations (1920-75)
Kyle Zarif :
A New Trade Unionism for a New World Order: the Politics of Labour in the Defence Economy between Britain and Saudi Arabia, 1979-1990
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