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 Wednesday 22 March 8:30  |
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| W-1 - LAB25: Socialist ideals |
| Committee Room 2 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: David De Vries
Discussant: Wayne Thorpe
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Joan Meyers Forging Economic Democracy: A Case Study of Workplace Diversity, Autonomy, and Reward
Rui Manuel Brás Getting to the socialist Promised Land. A study case on the Lisbon tobacco workers (XIX-XX centuries).
Casey Harison The Paris Commune: Meanings and Lessons in the Era of the Russian Revolution of 1905
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| Wednesday 22 March 14:15 |
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| J-3 - LAB04: Strikes in an international perspective 1970-2000: Germany, Great Britain and Denmark |
| Room J |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Heiner Dribbusch
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Chair: Brigitte Lestrade
Discussant: Sjaak van der Velden
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Heiner Dribbusch Strikes in Germany 1969-2004
Dave Lyddon Strikes in the United Kingdom, 1970-2000
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| Wednesday 22 March 14:15 |
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| V-3 - LAB18: Labour and the State |
| Committee Room 1 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Ursula Langkau-Alex
Discussant: Ursula Langkau-Alex
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Shani Bar-On Textile workers and State building: A new town in Israel, 1955-1967
Agustin Santella Labor mobilization and political violence. Villa Constitución contentions, Argentina 1970-1975.
Emanuela Grama Creating “the Science of the Nation”: Politics of Class, Labor and Gender of the Social Service program, 1930s Romania
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| Wednesday 22 March 16:30 |
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| J-4 - LAB07: Strikes in International Perspective II: Belgium, the Netherlands and France |
| Room J |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Heiner Dribbusch
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Chair: Dave Lyddon
Discussant: Heiner Dribbusch
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Kurt Vandaele The withering away of strikes in Belgium. The merits of social dialogue or statistical blindness?
Sjaak van der Velden Strike movements in the Netherlands, 1970-2000
Brigitte Lestrade Strike activity in France (1970-2000)
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| Wednesday 22 March 16:30 |
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| L-4 - LAB09: Diamond Workers at War and the relocation of the diamond industry: Belgium, Germany and Palestine |
| Room L |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: David De Vries
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Chair: Karin Hofmeester
Discussant: Karin Hofmeester
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David De Vries Capital, labor and international politics: The Palestine diamond industry, 1937-1947
Eric Laureys The German diamond industry under nazi rule
Veerle Vanden Daelen The revival of the Antwerp Diamond Trade after the Second World War: A Jewish affair?
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| Wednesday 22 March 16:30 |
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| T-4 - LAB10: Horse racing and gambling I: ethnicity, class and gender |
| Room T |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Mats Greiff
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Chair: Janet Winters
Discussant: Susanna Hedenborg
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Mats Greiff From "Horsemanship" to "Softhanded Nursing". Gender Relations within Swedish Harness Racing 1930-2005
Chris Mcconville “An erratic journey?" Gender, race and national identity at the Melbourne Cup Carnival 1960-1979
Wray Vamplew Captains Courageous: The Gentleman Rider in British Racing 1866-1914
Åsa Bonn The pictures of the gypsies in Finnish horse journals 1924 to 1965
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| Thursday 23 March 8:30 |
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| A-5 - LAB01: Labour Internationalism I |
| Room A |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Magaly Rodríguez García
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Chair: Geert van Goethem
Discussant: Dave Lyddon
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Magaly Rodríguez García Views on Internationalism: Socialists vs Liberals
Victor Silverman "Green Unions in a Grey World"
Robert Waters, Gordon O. Daniels The AFL-CIO, the CIA, and British Guiana
Andrew Dawson “Bring Hollywood Home!” Studio Labour, Internationalism, and Runaway Production, 1998-2005.
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| Thursday 23 March 8:30 |
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| H-5 - LAB11: Horseracing and Gambling II: Labour relations |
| Room H |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Mats Greiff
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Chair: Wray Vamplew
Discussant: Mats Greiff
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Janet Winters “We still don't want to frighten the horses”: Lessons from the 1975 stable lads' strike
Susanna Hedenborg Betting, technical development and work in Swedish horseracing
Joakim Tranquist Catch drivers - a new phenomenon in Swedish harness racing
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| Thursday 23 March 8:30 |
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| P-5 - LAB14: Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 I |
| Room P |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Nina Fishman
Organiser: Chris Williams
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Chair: Stefan Berger
Discussant: Ben Gales
Discussant: Quentin Outram
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Nina Fishman Checkweighers, Works Committees and Union Fragmentation: The Role of the State in Facilitating Union Density. A British-German Comparison, 1880-1930
Brian Mccook The Face of Mining: Markets, Labour Regimes, and State Regulation in the Coal Industries of the Ruhr Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1880-1914
Leighton James A stark contrast or underlying continuity? Miners' unions' attitudes to the state in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1933
Keith Gildart Industrial Relations in the Cumberland Coalfield, 1921-1926
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| Thursday 23 March 10:45 |
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| R-6 - LAB12: Covering the world |
| Room R |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Organiser: Els Hiemstra
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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Chair: Gareth Austin
Discussant: Sam Davies
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Lex Heerma Van Voss, Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Els Hiemstra-Kuperus A global history of textile workers, 1650-2000
Janet Hunter Gender and the Global Textile Industry, 1650-2000
Andrea Komlosy Globalized Textiles: Spatial division of labour, global inter-relations, and imbalances in regional development
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| Thursday 23 March 10:45 |
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| U-6 - LAB15: Coalminers, coal owners and the state, 1880-1930 II |
| Room U |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Nina Fishman
Organiser: Chris Williams
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Chair: Nina Fishman
Discussant: Brian Mccook
Discussant: Leighton James
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Chris Williams Striking Images: Cartoons, Coal and Commentary in South Wales, 1898-1921
Quentin Outram Discourses on Work and the Liberal-Labour Alliance, 1870-1910: The view from the Coalfields
Carolyn Brown Creating 'Responsible' Workers by Restructuring African Family Life: Britain's Colonial Office and African Miners at the Nigerian Government Colliery, 1935-1945
Ben Gales Miners in a market without frontiers?
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| Thursday 23 March 14:15 |
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| H-7 - LAB13: State Regulation and Household Agency in Twentieth Century Russia |
| Room H |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Gijs Kessler
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Chair: Jan Kok
Discussant: Jan Kok
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Gijs Kessler The Urban Household and Economic Dictatorship in the Soviet Union, 1920s-30s
Timur Valetov Peasant Migration and Urbanisation in pre-1917 Russia: the role of the state
Victoria Tyazhelnikova Welfare Policy and Cooperation within the Russian Urban Household, 1960s-1980s
Sergey A. Afontsev Affecting Policy without Political Action: Household Agency in Post-Communist Russia
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| Thursday 23 March 14:15 |
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| I-7 - LAB16: International Communism and Espionage |
| Room A-2 |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Alan Campbell
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Chair: John McIlroy
Discussant: Michael Hughes
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Alan Campbell, John Mcilroy British Communists and Russian Spies
Peter Anthony Glees The UK as the target of the East German Secret Intelligence and Security Service
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes The Historiography of Soviet Espionage and American Communism: from Separate to Converging Paths
Reiner Tosstorff Case closed: The assassination of Andreu Nin and what we know now of Soviet espionage
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| Thursday 23 March 14:15 |
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| F-7 - LAB27: Business interest, professionalism and changing borders of public and private. Transformation of employer strategies after World War II |
| Room F |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Pauli Kettunen
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Chair: Pauli Kettunen
Discussant: Klaus Petersen
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Jussi Vauhkonen Finnish employers’ strategies in the development of statutory social insurance 1954–1964
Susanna Fellman Employer Strategies and Upper White-Collar Employees in Finnish Firms in the 1960s and 1970s.
Melissa Kerr Managers, Workers but where were the unions? Labour Management Practices in Non-Union Firms 1945-1970
Gunnel Maria Holmér Immigrant Workers in the Swedish Glass Industry 1940 -1970
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| Friday 24 March 8:30 |
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| O-9 - ETH17: Migration of domestic servants |
| Room O |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
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Marina de Regt "Symbol of Wealth and the Laziness of Housewives?" The Changing Demand for Paid Domestic Labour in Yemen
Sabrina Marchetti Looking at Filipino domestic workers and their employers in Rome and Amsterdam through gender and ethnicity
Sjoukje Botman The informal economy of paid domestic labour in Amsterdam.
Monica Smith Citizenship and Policies on Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Lebanon
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| Friday 24 March 8:30 |
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| W-9 - LAB23: Workers' organisations in the US (1937-1970s) |
| Committee Room 2 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Brian Kelly
Discussant: Gail Malmgreen
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Patrick Saunders Too Many Rail Chiefs and not enough Workers: The decline of the Railroad Unions in the U.S.
Kevyne Baar The Motion Picture and Television Industry: Their Major Trade Unions and the McCarthy Era Blacklist
Seth Wigderson Les Demoiselles Grévistes:” Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the 1937 Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Shoe Strike
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| Friday 24 March 8:30 |
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| G-9 - LAB30: Responses to Recent Changes in Global Capitalism |
| Room G |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Lars Olsson
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
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Eszter Bartha Ideas in transition: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
Julie Guard Canada’s Steel Union Responds to the New Economy: Organizing Call Centres
Paula Mulinari Racializing and genderizing labour processes in the restaurant and hotel branch.
Jonas Sjölander The Detours of Solidarity: Labour Internationalism in the Third Industrial Revolution. The Swedish Metal Workers’ Federation in Colombia 1976-1986.
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| Friday 24 March 10:45 |
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| S-10 - LAB17: Labour relations at the end of the 20th century |
| Room S |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Patricia Thane
Discussant: Patricia Thane
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Lars Hansson Against the neoliberal wind. The Swedish Paper Workers Unions defensive strategies from the 1990s .
Troy Sarina The Call for Reform: Explanations for the Introduction of Non-Union Collective Agreement Making
Carol Stephenson, Jean Spence Women, community and the British Miners' Strike 1984-5:
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| Friday 24 March 14:15 |
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| A-11 - LAB02: Labour Internationalism II |
| Room A |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Magaly Rodríguez García
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Chair: Magaly Rodríguez García
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
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Ralph Darlington Revolutionary Syndicalist Opposition to the First World War: A Comparative Assessment
Geert van Goethem Class versus Gender
Wayne Thorpe Seeking New Paths: Anti-Authoritarian Labour and the Defense of Revolutionary Internationalism, 1914-1918
Constance Bantman Anarchist internationalism: theory and practices
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| Friday 24 March 14:15 |
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| T-11 - LAB22: Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour I |
| Room T |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Patricia Van Den Eeckhout
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Chair: Nina Fishman
Discussant: Ad Knotter
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Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jérôme Bourdieu Wage forms and hierarchy in late 19th-century industry
Philip Slaby Gender, Family, and Managerial Control: Immigrants and the French Coal Industry between the World Wars
Philippe Lefebvre A persistant enigma for business history and organization theories : the emergence and rise of factory hierarchy in big business (end of XVIIIth century-beginning of XXth century)
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| Friday 24 March 16:30 |
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| D-12 - LAB03: Supervision and authority: intermediaries between capital and labour II |
| Room D |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Patricia Van Den Eeckhout
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Chair: Ad Knotter
Discussant: Lex Heerma Van Voss
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Patricia Van Den Eeckhout Customs and contracts: firing foremen in 19th century Ghent
Cristina Borderías Skill, work organization and gender in Catalan self-acting spinning
James Jaffe Managing the Effort Problem: The Ambiguities of Workplace Supervision during British Industrialization
Peter Scholliers "Meestergasten": work, wages and authority in the Ghent cotton mills
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| Friday 24 March 16:30 |
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| Q-12 - LAB31: The Origins of Stalinism |
| Room N1-O1 |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Kevin Murphy
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Chair: Gijs Kessler
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
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Kevin Murphy Soviet Workers and the Formation of the Stalinist System
Alexei Gusev Totalitarian phenomenon in interpretations of Russian Dissident Marxists
Mike Haynes Rethinking Class Power in the Russian Factory 1929-1991
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| Friday 24 March 16:30 |
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| E-12 - POL13: Totalitarianism |
| Room E |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Ido de Haan
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James Ryan Tinkering with Totalitarianism: The American Communist Party's Attempts at Liberalization, 1934-1949
Maryse Ramambason From USSR to the Federation of Russia : a democratisation process and emergence of a competitive political area
Uwe Backes What does totalitarianism mean? Reformulating the Concept in the Framework of a Universal Typology of Political Systems
Mike Schmeitzner Criticism of Totalitarian Regimes from the Left. The Council-Communist Totalitarianism Theory of Otto Rühle
Federigo Argentieri Hungary 1956: historiography and interpretative debate
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| Saturday 25 March 8:30 |
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| L-13 - LAB05: Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part I: Married couples working together in commerce, 1500-1800 |
| Room L |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Organiser: Danielle van den Heuvel
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Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Margaret Hunt
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Danielle van den Heuvel The cooperation of spouses in commerce in the Dutch Republic
Matthias Steinbrink Representative or merchant woman? Verena Meltinger from Basel
Christina Dalhede Merchant Families in Gothenburg and Lübeck in Early Modern Time
Lili-Annè Aldman Who’s the boss? Merchants and shopkeepers in Stockholm during early modern times
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| Saturday 25 March 8:30 |
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| S-13 - LAB26: Class, Community, Culture: Analysis and Construction of Historical Identities |
| Room S |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Janet Hunter
Discussant: Janet Hunter
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Angelo Goode A Socially Contructed Working Class Culture: The Study of the Filipino Woodworking Industry
Marion Leffler What good are research circles?
Georg Stöger Unskilled factory work in Vienna before 1918. Reflections on juvenile socialisation
Monica Sharma Culture of the Neighbourhood and Formation of Community Identity among the Factory Workers in Colonial India
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| Saturday 25 March 8:30 |
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| H-13 - LAB29: Female Employment, Services and Welfare State |
| Room H |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Pauli Kettunen
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Chair: Susanna Fellman
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Heidi Haggrén The Collective Interest Articulation of Nurses in the post-WW-II Finland: Tensions between Social Loyalties and Labour-Market Logic
Kirsten Bregn Changes in the public sector pay systems
Matti Hannikainen Fairness and Social Norms in the Labour Market. Lower White-Collar Employees in Finland during the Golden Age
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| Saturday 25 March 10:45 |
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| L-14 - LAB06: Partners in Business. Husbands and wives working together. Part II: The division of labour between spouses in industry, 1500-1800 |
| Room L |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Danielle van den Heuvel
Organiser: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
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Chair: Danielle van den Heuvel
Discussant: Ulrich Pfister
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Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Couples co-operating? Dutch textile workers and the family economy, c. 1600-1800
Leigh Shaw-Taylor The roles of husbands, wives and widows in manufacturing businesses in mid-nineteenth century England
Marjolein van Dekken Husbands and wives working together: The production and selling of beverages in the early modern Northern Netherlands.
Christof Jeggle Households, Workshops, and the Division of Labour between Spouses in the Linen Trades in Munster/Westphalia in the 17. Century
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| Saturday 25 March 10:45 |
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| I-14 - LAB21: Labour and Welfare Regimes |
| Room A-2 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Thomas Adams
Discussant: Jussi Vauhkonen
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Ignazio Masulli Welfare State and Social Citizenship in 20th Century Europe
Duco Bannink Social policy from Olson to Ostrom
Alexander Elu The origin of public old age insurance in Spain. An economic study of the Retiro Obrero (1909-1936).
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| Saturday 25 March 14:15 |
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| V-15 - LAB24: Global Views on Labour |
| Committee Room 1 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Discussant: Marcel van der Linden
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Daniel Roger Maul "Make them move the ILO way" - The International Labour Organization and the problem of development 1948-1970
Thaddeus Sunseri Forest Labor and Nationalism in Tanganyika, 1945-1961
Lars Olsson How the British spread agrarian capitalism over the world (1600-1914)
Gareth Austin Coercion and Markets: Extra-Familial Labour Recruitment in Precolonial Africa, 1500-1900
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| Saturday 25 March 16:30 |
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| I-16 - LAB19: Class and other identities, 1870-1932 |
| Room A-2 |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Seth Wigderson
Discussant: Seth Wigderson
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Kylie Smith Larrikins, Labour and the Creation of the New Human Subject, Sydney 1870-1900
Malini Cadambi, Evan Daniel (Re)Examining Class: Transnational Workers and Nationalist Struggles in the late 19th Century United States
Brian Kelly Black Workers and the Overthrow of Reconstruction in South Carolina: 1874-1876
Joel Perlmann Dissent and discipline in Ben Gurion's Workers' Party: younger critics on the left, 1932
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| Saturday 25 March 16:30 |
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| S-16 - LAB28: Transnational Unemployment Policies ca. 1890-1920 |
| Room S |
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Network: Labour
Organiser: Nils Edling
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Chair: Julie Guard
Discussant: Ignazio Masulli
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Nils Edling Importing Unemployment Insurance: Foreign Models and National Insurance Programmes in Scandinavia 1890–1914
Bernhard Adamek The origins of the public unemployment insurance in Berne from 1893
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| Saturday 25 March 16:30 |
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| F-16 - WOM21: Labour contracts and marriage contracts |
| Room F |
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Network: Labour
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Chair: Laura Frader
Discussant: Laura Frader
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Lina Galvez Muñoz Exploring the Gender Wage Differentials in Spain, 1900-1930
Linda Lane “Bringing Home the Bacon – Female contributions to family income 1920-1940.”
Zara Bersbo The hidden emancipation. Were changes in 1915: s law of marriage and divirce mainly supporting male emancipation? A study of attitudes to paid and unpaid work in Sweden 1915-1974
Kirsti Niskanen Contracts of Labour and Marriage - A Generations Approach
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