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Wednesday 11 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 -18.30
Thursday 12 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.00 - 18.30
Friday 13 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30
Saturday 14 April
   8.30 - 10.30
   11.00 - 13.00
   14.00 - 16.00
   16.30 - 18.30

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 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

U-1  -  SOC01: Authority and Resistance in Plebeian Spaces in 19th Century England
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: David Green
Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: David Green
David Green Plebeian Spaces: Streets, Homes and Institutions in 19th-century London
Jane Hamlett A Veritable Palace for the Hard-working Labourer? Space, Material Culture and Inmate Experience in Rowton Houses, Ltd., London, 1892-1914
Samantha Shave Spaces of Female Sexual Violence and Consolation in New Poor Law Workhouses, 1834-1871
Paul A. Fideler "Statistics and Society: Ameliorating a Manchester 'Little Ireland' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"

 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

L-1  -  SOC13: Repression in the Northeast Iberian Peninsula (16th-19th Centuries)
Main Building: Room 355

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Paulo Guimarães
Discussant: Paulo Guimarães
Laureano Rubio-Pérez Crime and Council Justice in Rural Northeast Spain (17th and 18th Centuries)
Alfredo Martín-García Delinquency and Forced Labour in Northeast Spain in the 18th Century
María José Pérez Alvarez Prison Living Conditions in Northeast Spain under the Ancien Régime
Oscar Fernández- Alvarez Charity and Social Control through Welfare Agencies in the Province of León, Spain (19th and 20th Centuries)

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

H-2  -  LAB14: Social Outcasts and 'Others' in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Magaly Rodríguez García
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Magaly Rodríguez García The League of Nations' moral recruitment of women
Lex Heerma Van Voss Working Girls in World Cities
Rik Vercammen Teaching Work Ethics to Beggars and Vagabonds?

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

U-2  -  SOC02: Collections for the Poor. Voluntary giving and the Finance of Poor Relief
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organiser: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Daniëlle Teeuwen Collections for the Poor. Charitable giving in the Dutch Republic
John McCallum Collections for the Poor in the Post-reformation Church of Scotland
Karen Sonnelitter Financing Improvement: Philanthropy and Charity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

I-2  -  SOC12: Welfare State Concepts in a Historical and Comparative Perspective
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Noel Whiteside
Discussant: Noel Whiteside
Klaus Petersen, Jørn Henrik Petersen Confusion and Diffusion? The Term Welfare State in Germany and Britain
Lovisa Broström General Old-Age Pensions in Sweden –The Rise of the Poorest Group in the Welfare State 1913-1960
Pauli Kettunen, Nils Edling The History of the Welfare State in Northern Europe
Irène Herrmann Welfare State vs Democracy in Switzerland

 Wednesday 11 April 14.00 - 16.00 

U-3  -  SOC03: New Perspectives on Poor Relief and Poverty
Maths Building: 326

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Susannah Ottaway
Discussant: Henk Looijesteijn
Christos Desyllas Microfinancial Structures and Strategies of Social Policy
Klas Nyberg, Mats Hayen & Håkan Jakobsson Credit, Trust and Financial Networks in 18th and 19th Century Stockholm
Inge Mønster-Kjær The Poor Behind Barbed Wire
Olga Salamatova On the Way to Nowhere: The Interpretation and Adaptation of Poor Relief Foreign Patterns by the Russian Public Men, 1890s – 1917
Kaat Louckx The Classification of the Poor in Great Britain and Belgium at the End of the 19th Century. A Socio-historical Approach on Changing Classification Patterns

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

I-4  -  SOC05: Inmates of Hospitals and other Care Institutions in the Early Modern Period
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Christina Vanja
Chair: Thomas M. Adams
Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Christina Vanja The Kitchen Managers’ View – Inmates of the Haina Hospital on 1803 Food Bills
Martin Scheutz Austrian Hospitals in the early Modern Times. Inmates – Authorities – Organizational System
Alfred Stefan Weiss House Rules and Instructions of Austrian Hospitals in the Early Modern Times
Irmtraut Sahmland Inmates - Their Life Before, In and Beyond the Hospital in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

K-4  -  SOC15: Cancelled!: Roundtable: Social Mobility in Eastern Europe and Russia, Sources and Methods
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Vladimir Vladimirov
Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Discussant: Antonie Knigge
Discussant: Zoltan Lippenyi
Vladimir Vladimirov, Elena Brukhanova & Evgeny Lubanets Russian Historical Sources and the Study of Social Mobility
Marya Markova, Dmitry Sarafanov & Vladimir Vladimirov Russian Parish Register Books and Research of Social Mobility
Valery Kanishchev The Sources and Methods of Studies of Social Mobility of Population of Middle and Little Cities of the Central Russian at the end of 18th - beginning of 20th
Irina G. Silina, Andrei Iluhin Spatio-social Organization of the Russian Empire in the Second half of XIX - early XX Centuries

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

R-4  -  SOC16: Old Age and Medicine in Early Modern England
Maths Building: 203

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Lynn Botelho
Lynn Botelho ‘The Voylence of this my Fall’: Falling and the Elderly in Early Modern England
Anne Kugler ‘The Keepers of the House Shall Tremble’: Old Age, Physical Mobility, and Space in Early Modern England
Susannah Ottaway Old Age and Health: By the Numbers?

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

I-6  -  SOC06: Social Mobility in Europe's Boundary Regions
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Paulo Guimarães
Chair: Zoltan Lippenyi
Discussant: Richard Zijdeman
Paulo Guimarães, Helder Adegar Fonseca & Marco H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas Intergenerational Transfer of Occupational Status in Portugal, 1850-1960: Unravelling Modernization Processes
Antti Häkkinen, Marco van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas Family Structure, Marriage Patterns and the Slow Industrialization of Finland
Olga Yu. Solodyankina Occupation of a Tutor / Governess in the Russian Empire as the Resource of Vertical Social Mobility

 Thursday 12 April 14.00 - 16.00 

I-7  -  SOC07: Textile Production, Social Relations and Welfare
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Chair: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk Social Fabrics? Textiles as Provisions of Mutual Aid and Poor Relief in the Pre-industrial Dutch Republic
Santosh Kumar Rai Community as Capital: The Handloom Industry in Early Twentieth Century United Provinces, India
Thomas M. Adams Textiles, Inequality, and Welfare
Peter Stabel Dress, textiles and social identity in a changing economy: the lower social strata in late medieval Bruges (15th century)

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

Q-9  -  HEA14: Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present I
JWS Room J375 (J15)

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Lotta Vikström
Organiser: Marie Clark Nelson
Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Discussant: Lotta Vikström
Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Sofie De Veirman Breaking the Silence. On Marriage and Family Life of the Hearing Impaired. A Case Study of East-Flanders, 1750-1900
Iain Hutchison A Help or a Hindrance? – The Old and New Statistical Accounts and Decennial Censuses as Sources on the Experience of Disability in Nineteenth-century Scotland
Helena Haage, Lotta Vikström Life Courses among People with Disabilities in Nineteenth-century Sweden
Mercedes Del Cura, Jose Martinez-Perez Bolstering the Greatness of the Homeland: The Shaping of Specialist Medical Fields in Francoist Spain and their Impact on the Social Identity of the People with Disabilities
Michel Oris, Julia Henke & Virginie Barrusse De Luca Ageing, Disability and Pain: A Story about Ageing Perceptions and Realities in French-speaking Switzerland, 1960-2011

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

Q-10  -  HEA15: Disability in Life and Society, Past and Present II
JWS Room J375 (J15)

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Marie Clark Nelson
Organiser: Lotta Vikström
Chair: Sören Edvinsson
Discussant: Andrew Blaikie
Discussant: Ólöf Garðarsdóttir
Staffan Förhammar, Marie Clark Nelson Outside In and Inside Out: The Creation of Identity among Sanatoria Patients in the Early 20th Century
Dee Hoole Disabling Images? Children in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum c.1901
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez, Rosa Ballester & Maria Isabel Porra & Maria Jose Baguena The Cripple Girl. Gender in the History of Polio Studies in Spain
Sonali Shah Becoming Disabled – Temporality of Disability in England between WWII and 21st Century
Helene Brodin, Katarina Piuva Blamed and Forgotten - but not Silenced. Mothers Caring for Adult Children with Mental Ill-health and the Practices of Social Welfare and Mental Care in Sweden

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

I-12  -  LAT04: Latin American Politics, Economy and Society in Transnational Perspective
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Paulo Drinot
Discussant: Paulo Drinot
Jose-Maria Aguilera-Manzano The Novel Sab and the Construction of the Cuban Identity during the Nineteenth Century
Jeffrey M. Shumway Argentine Nation Building and French Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Carolina Vicario Rural Labor Force in Rio de la Plata between 1760 and 1860. An Approximation to the Social Mobility

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

I-13  -  SOC04: International Institutions and the Production of International Knowledge on Social Security
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Jill Jensen
Chair: Sandrine Kott
Discussant: Sonya Michel
Jill Jensen: no abstract
Sonja Matter Enforcing International Standards in Social Work: The Exchange Programmes of the United Nations in the Field of Social Work in the Post-War Period
Eileen Boris When Equal Rights May Not Be Enough: The ILO and the Woman Worker

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

I-14  -  SOC10: New Approaches in the Study of Social Mobility and Stratification
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Wiebke Schulz
Discussant: Dave Griffiths
Paul Lambert, David Griffiths & Richard Zijdeman & Ineke Maas & Marco van Leeuwen Comparing Network and Association Models in the Analysis of Historical Patterns of Occupational Interactions and Stratification
Richard Zijdeman Does it add up? Combining Register Data and Survey Data to Study Social Mobility in the 20th Century
Zoltan Lippenyi, M.H.D. van Leeuwen & Ineke Maas Long-term Historical Trends of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Hungary (1850-2000)
Marco Van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas & Soren Edvinsson Social Mobility in Sweden: A Multilevel Analysis

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

G-15  -  LAB11: Work, Correction and Punishment in Workhouses and Correctional Houses
Main Building: East Quad Lecture Theatre

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Sonja Hinsch
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Dominique Grisard
Sonja Hinsch Forced Labour and the Right to Work in Austria, 1918-1938. Meanings of Work in Correctional Houses, Voluntary Labour Service, and Productive Unemployment Relief
Virginia Crossman The Irish Workhouse as a Site for Moral and Practical Training
Megan Doolittle The workhouse in the slum – London 1880-1910.

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

I-15  -  SOC11: Social Structure and Mobility in Industrial Societies
Main Building: Humanities

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Richard Zijdeman
Discussant: Paul Lambert
Discussant: Paul Puschmann
Colin Pooley Balancing Social Justice and Environmental Justice: Mobility Inequalities in Britain since circa 1900
Wiebke Schulz Employer’s Choice – Meriocratization of Selection Criteria during Industrialization in the Netherlands
Antonie Knigge The Total Influence of Family Background on Status Attainment in the Netherlands from 1842-1922
Susan Bandias, Don Fuller & Tanjil Whitnell & Darius Pfitzner Gender Pay Equity - A Myth or a Reality

 Saturday 14 April 16.30 - 18.30 

K-16  -  SOC14: Account-books and Budget Surveys as a Source for Individual Charitableness
Main Building: Gilbert Scott Conference Rooms 250

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Marco Van Leeuwen
Organiser: Henk Looijesteijn
Chair: Marco Van Leeuwen
Discussant: Daniëlle Teeuwen
Henk Looijesteijn Keeping Account of Charity: Dutch Account-books as a Source for Individual Charitableness, 1600-1800
Dragica Cec Personal Charitableness in Ljubljana at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Tom De Roo Public and Private Charities of the Moretus Family (Antwerp, 17th-18th Century)
Aurelie Chatenet-Calyste A Charitable Princess at the End of the 18th Century