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9th European Social Science History Conference Glasgow, Scotland, UK Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012
 
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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

All days


 Wednesday 11 April 8.30 - 10.30  

H-1  -  LAB27: Industrial Relations in Theory and in Practice
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Chair: Aad Blok
Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
Ralph Darlington, John Dobson Objectivity and Partisanship in Industrial Relations Research
Johanna Wolf Modern Times and Old Concepts. West German Trade Unions in the 1970s
Erik-Jan Zurcher Towards a Taxonomy of Military Labour
Stefan Mueller German Trade Unions and the New Eastern Policy, 1969-89
 

 Wednesday 11 April 11.00 - 13.00 

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

    Network: Social Inequality
Network: Labour
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 14.00 - 16.00 

H-3  -  LAB25: Women's and Children's Work
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Johanna Overud Breaking Way – Making Difference? Gendering Labour Activating Programs from Social Democracy to Identity Policy, Sweden after 1960
Malin Nilsson, Tobias Karlsson In Homes and Factories: Employment Patterns among Women during the Second Industrial Revolution
Jordi Ibarz The Women and Children’s Labour in the Mechanization of the Glass Industry in Spain, 1900-1936
 

 Wednesday 11 April 16.30 -18.30 

H-4  -  LAB15: Commercial Agriculture and Labor Relations
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Network: Rural
Organiser: Lars Olsson
Chair: Leen Van Molle
Discussant: Piet Van Cruyningen
Lars Olsson Landowning, Tenancy and Labor Relations in the English Northatlantic Economy in the 17th Century
Dionicio Valdés Primitive Accumulation and the Birth of Commercial Agriculture in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District on the US-Mexico Border, 1840-1930
Maria Papathanassiou Rural Labour, Gender and Social Hierarchies: Peasants’ Wives and Female Rural Servants in Austria during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century
 

 Thursday 12 April 8.30 - 10.30 

H-5  -  LAB28: Racism and Ethnicity in Labour History
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Chair: Jan Lucassen
Discussant: Gareth Austin
Marcelo Mattos Abolitionism and Labour Movement in Brazil from a Global Perspective
Karin Lurvink Economics or Racism? The Truck System in Plantation Stores on Cotton and Sugar Plantations in Louisiana, 1865-1900
 

 Thursday 12 April 11.00 - 13.00 

H-6  -  LAB17: Global History: Methods, Practices, Problems
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Network: World History
Organiser: Silke Neunsinger
Chair: Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
Silke Neunsinger, Mary Hilson Towards a Global History of Consumer Co-operation, 1800-2010
Raquel Varela In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the World (1950-2010). A Project on Global Labour History
Rossana Barragan Global Entanglements in the debate about the 'Slave-Indian' mita work of Potosi and its end, 1790-1812
 

 Friday 13 April 8.30 - 10.30 

H-9  -  LAB24: Women's Participation in Labour Organizations
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Network: Women and Gender
Chair: Silke Neunsinger
Discussant: Eileen Boris
Kirsti Niskanen Generation, Gender and Union Women
Margaret Ritchie 'Contract Workers and Strategic Players': The Political Will and Actions of Female Crews of the Scottish Herring Industry in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Rosemary Webb 'Loyalty to their Sex and their Class': Women's Networks and Mobilisation in Sydney's Interwar Labour Movement.
 

 Friday 13 April 11.00 - 13.00 

H-10  -  URB01: Singles in the City in Northwest Europe I. Demography and Occupation
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Ariadne Schmidt
Organiser: Julie De Groot
Organiser: Isabelle Devos
Chair: Ariadne Schmidt
Anna-Helena Wiechel, Ann Ighe Without Title. The Dynamics of Status, Gender and Occupation in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1805-1845
Sofie De Langhe Flemish Exceptionalism? The Absence of Older Rural Born Single Women in early Nineteenth Bruges
Jan Kok, Kees Mandemakers Life Course and Residential Career of Singles in Dutch Cities, 1870-1970
Dag Lindström Singles in Swedish Towns, 1750 – 1870
Tine De Moor Industrious and/or Religious. Motivating the Choice for Living as a Beguine in (Low Countries, early Modern Period)
 

 Friday 13 April 14.00 - 16.00 

H-11  -  URB02: Singles in the City in Northwest Europe II. Survival Strategies and Social Networks
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Isabelle Devos
Organiser: Ariadne Schmidt
Organiser: Julie De Groot
Chair: Isabelle Devos
Ariadne Schmidt, Manon van der Heijden Singles and their Public Roles in early Modern Towns
Kim Overlaet Singles and their Family: Urban Networks in Sixteenth Century Mechelen and Aalst
Judith Spicksley Capital Benefits: The Social Networks of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster and Roneylending in Seventeenth Century Hereford
Christa Matthys Servants’ Solidarity Networks: Assistance by Close and Distant Kin in Job Placement and Critical Life Situations
Maja Mechant ‘One of the Few Ways a Woman Could Make it on her Own.’Prostitution as a Survival Strategy for Singles in Eighteenth Century Bruges
 

 Friday 13 April 16.30 - 18.30 

H-12  -  URB03: Singles in the City in Northwest Europe III. Identity, Culture and Social Perception
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Julie De Groot
Organiser: Isabelle Devos
Organiser: Ariadne Schmidt
Chair: Julie De Groot
Inneke Baatsen, Julie De Groot & Isis Sturtewagen The Material Culture of Singles in the Cities of the County of Flanders under Burgundian-Habsburg Rule (16th Century)
Wendy Gordon Singles Navigating Poverty in Paisley, 1861
Amy Harris, Amy Harris Poor Single Men in Eighteenth-Century England
Raffaella Sarti Unmarried Women and Men in Pre-industrial South- and North-European Cities
 

 Saturday 14 April 8.30 - 10.30 

H-13  -  URB04: Gender in the European Town, 1650-1900
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Urban
Organiser: Deborah Simonton
Chair: Elaine Chalus
Discussant: Elaine Chalus
Deborah Simonton Negotiating the Eighteenth-century Urban Economy: Gender and Space in Northern Europe
Katie Barclay Urban and Rural Manliness in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Court
Nina Koefoed To Act as a Citizen. Local Philanthropy as a Way to Conform to Male, Political Citizenship
Anne Montenach Legal Trade and Black Markets: Women and the Sale of Food in Late Seventeenth- and early Eighteenth-century Lyon
 

 Saturday 14 April 11.00 - 13.00 

H-14  -  LAB18: Labour and Labour Relations in Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Organiser: Patricia Van den Eeckhout
Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Patricia Van den Eeckhout Down and out in Ghent? (Foreign) Cooks and Waiters at the Universal Exhibition Ghent 1913
Peter Scholliers German restaurant staff and the French culinary hegemony (Brussels, 1850 - 1914)
Mary-France Desmedt Alien Labour in Times of Crisis: The Discourse of the Belgian Unions in the Service Industries
 

 Saturday 14 April 14.00 - 16.00 

H-15  -  LAB21: Social Movements in an International Perspective
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Discussant: Magaly Rodríguez García
Jonas Sjölander Movements on different tracks. The Anti Apartheid and Trade Union Movements in Sweden and South Africa, 1975-1994.
Idesbald Goddeeris Western European Solidarity with Solidarnosc in the 1980s
Victoria Basualdo International Labor Organizations and their Impact on National Labor Movements: The Case of the ORIT and the ICFTU and Argentina, from the Late 1940s to the Mid 1980s
Fredrik Egefur Anti-militarism in Europe Before World War I: Perspectives on the Liberal and Socialist Peace Movements
 

 Saturday 14 April 16.30 - 18.30 

H-16  -  LAB23: Alternative Forms of Worker's Resistance
Main Building: Forehall

    Network: Labour
Chair: Ad Knotter
Discussant: Ad Knotter
Leonid Borodkin Workers’ Informal Practices in the Late Soviet Industry and Their Transformations in the Post-Soviet Russia
Terry Dunne 'Threatening Letters' and Collective Identity in Pre-famine Ireland
Alex Zukas Inscribing Class Struggle in Space: The Geography of Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr during the late Weimar Republic