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8th European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
 
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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

All days


 Tuesday 13 April 8.30 

P-1  -  SOC01: European Almshouses
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Thomas M. Adams
Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Discussant: Frank Hatje
Henk Looijesteijn Founding almshouses in the Netherlands, ca. 1500-1800
Angela Schwarz Jewish foundations in Hamburg against homelessness
Nigel Goose The English almshouse and the mixed economy of welfare c. 1500-1900
Christina Vanja Hospitals and care for the Elderly in Hesse, 1500-1800

 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

U-2  -  SOC02: New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief I: England
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lynn Botelho
Discussant: Lynn Botelho
Paul A. Fideler A ‘Third Way’ in Early Seventeenth-Century English Poor Relief
Steve Hindle Overseers and Collectioners in Late-Seventeenth-Century England: Chilvers Coton (Warwickshire), c.1680-1720
Susannah Ottaway Locating Poverty and Entering Poor Households in the Eighteenth-Century English Parish

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

Z-3  -  SOC14: New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief I GIGA (Giving in the Golden Age)
M204, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Organiser: Marco Van Leeuwen
Chair: Julie Marfany
Discussant: Thomas M. Adams
Discussant: Larry Frohman
Discussant: Steve Hindle
Discussant: Steven King
Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Discussant: Nada Moumtaz
Discussant: Joanna Handlin Smith
Discussant: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

U-4  -  SOC13: New Perspectives on Early Modern Poor Relief II
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Discussant: Isabel Guimarães Sá
Olga Salamatova Ideology of ‘the common weal’ and Implementation of the Poor Law in Early Stuart England
Thomas M. Adams Juan Luis Vives and the Traditions of Welfare Reform
Julie Marfany Responses to poverty in Catalonia: hospitals, charitable funds and outdoor relief (c.1750-1820)

 Tuesday 13 April 16.30 

G-4  -  SOC17: Hands on session on coding historical occupations
Computerroom D4, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Richard Zijdeman
Chair: Richard Zijdeman

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

U-5  -  SOC03: Political History of the Welfare State
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Marie Clark Nelson
Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Jenny Björkman, Johan Ellend Sound Citizens in Healthy Houses: Swedish and Soviet Estonian housing policies in the first post war decade
Carl Marklund Social Engineering and the Politics of Openness - the cases of Singapore and Sweden
Lena Eriksson The Develpoment and Impact of Swedish Housing Policy
Pauli Kettunen The Cold War as a Context for Welfare State Development

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

U-6  -  SOC04: Wealth, Inequality and Investment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain and the British Empire
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: David Green
Discussant: David Green
Alastair Owens, David R. Green Geographies of wealth: regional and temporal change in the accumulation of wealth in Britain c.1800-1930
Jim Mcaloon Stereotypes of Scottishness: money making in nineteenth-century New Zealand
Stephanie Wyse A classless society? A comparative review of wealth and inequality in nineteenth century British colonies

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

I-7  -  SOC05: Paupers and Beggars
Room D1, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Sabine Veits-Falk
Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Alfred Stefan Weiss Masses of beggars in the south of Austria at about 1800. Literary fiction or reality?
Otto Ulbricht Begging soldiers in late eighteenth-century Germany
Gerhard Fritz Robbers – vagrants – beggars in the South West of Germany Qualitative and quantitative aspects of a social problem from the late 17th to the early 19th century
Gerhard Ammerer Survival Strategies of Beggars in the Early Modern Era – an adaptive “family economy?”

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

J-7  -  SPC02: Heritage of the People’s Europe: a European social history resource
Room D11, Pauli

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Geert Van Goethem
Discussant: Donald Weber

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

U-9  -  SOC09: Social Inequality in Brazil and Portugal
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca Migrations, partner selection and occupational change in Portugal (1860-1960)
Monique Franco Affirmative action policy in Brazil

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

U-10  -  SOC07: Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals' Working Lives I
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Wiebke Schulz
Organiser: Lotta Vikström
Chair: Pamela Sharpe
Discussant: Wiebke Schulz
Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Tomas Nilson Challenging Careers
Nevra Biltekin The Professional Bureaucrat and Diplomatic Practice. Value-Systems in the Swedish Diplomatic Corps, 1920-1960
Joyce Burnette, Maria Stanfors & Tobias Karlsson Experiences of Wage Growth: Evidence from the Swedish Tobacco Industry, 1898
Timur Valetov Workers’ wages inequality: A micro-analysis for Russian textile industry, 1880-1910s

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

U-11  -  SOC08: Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals' Working Lives II
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Wiebke Schulz
Organiser: Lotta Vikström
Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Discussant: Joyce Burnette
Discussant: Ineke Maas
Wiebke Schulz Institutional change and careers: Labour market contractions and expansion and careers
Tom Ericsson, Lotta Vikström Women’s Lives and Lines of Businesses: Developmental Perspectives of Female Entrepreneurs in Sundsvall, Sweden, 1860–1890
Robin Mackie, Gerrylynn Roberts Describing Careers in Chemistry
Laura Van Aert Challenging Careers: Societal Change, Occupational Opportunities and Individuals’ Working Lives: Career length of Antwerp retailers around 1700

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

U-12  -  SOC06: Was Ireland a Welfare Periphery? Irish Poor Relief in European Context, c. 1800-1914
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Peter Gray
Organiser: Inga Brandes
Discussant: Laurence Geary
Peter Gray The Irish welfare debate in European context, 1815-46
Olwen Purdue Belfast: poverty on the fringes?

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

B-12  -  SOC16: Meet the author: Larry Frohman, Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lynn Lees
Discussant: Lynn Lees
Discussant: Katherine A. Lynch
Discussant: Andrew Lees
Discussant: Larry Frohman

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

U-13  -  SOC10: Social Inequality in the Russian Empire
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Discussant: Gijs Kessler
Vladimir Vladimirov Occupational structure of the Russian Empire in the late 19th c.
Dmitry Sarafanov Occupational composition of Barnaul parish population (on the basis of Pokrovskaya church parish book registers of the second half XIX century)
Marya Markova Social structure of population of St.Petersburg in XVIII century
Irina Germaovna Silina The occupational composition of the repressed population in Western Siberia in 1919-1930

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

B-14  -  SOC15: Meet the author: Joanna Handlin Smith, The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Alice B. Kasakoff
Discussant: Mary Louise Nagata
Discussant: Thomas Max Safley
Discussant: Harriet Zurndorfer
Discussant: Joanna Handlin Smith

 Friday 16 April 14.15 

U-15  -  SOC11: Beyond Male Social Mobility
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Ineke Maas
Discussant: Ineke Maas
Rense Corten, Richard Zijdeman Changing patterns of witness selection
Richard Zijdeman, Marco van Leeuwen, Jean-Pierre Pelissier & Danielle Rebaudo Social inequality and mobiity of women
Paul Lambert, Richard Zijdeman Trends in registration of women’s occupations on marriage records.
Sabine Veits-Falk Careers, mobility and networks of women doctors in Austria about 1900

 Friday 16 April 16.30 

U-16  -  SOC12: Social Mobility
M207, Marissal

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Jan Kok
Ineke Maas, Marco H.D. Van Leeuwen, Jean-Pierre Perllissier & Danielle Rebaudo Changing patterns of class endogamy: a study of France over the past three centuries
Wouter Ryckbosch Inequality, Poverty and Economic Change in the Pre-Industrial Era. A Small Town in the southern Low Countries, 16th-19th centuries.
Antti Häkkinen The Finnish pre-industrial family and the occupational inheritance
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Danielle Rebaudo & Jean Pierrre Pelissier Social mobility in France 1680-2000