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Sixth European Social Science History Conference
22 - 25 March 2006
 
 
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All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
 
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Wednesday 22 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Thursday 23 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Friday 24 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30
Saturday 25 March
   8:30
   10:45
   14:15
   16:30

All days


 Wednesday 22 March 8:30 

A-1  -  SOC01: Care, Discipline and Training in Orphanages and Other Charitable Institutions in the 17th and 18th centuries
Room A

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Thomas Adams
Chair: Thomas Adams
Discussant: Thomas Adams
Valentina Tikoff Exploitation or Education: The Labor of Seville’s Orphanage Wards, 1681-1831
Laurence Marcoult Work for the Idle Poor? Realities of “The Great Confinement” at the Hôpital-Général of Paris in the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Max Safley Controversies over Child Care and Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Alysa Levene The Survival Prospects of European Foundlings: the London Foundling Hospital and the Spedale degli Innocenti of Florence, 1741-77

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

D-2  -  ECO01: Growth & Inequality
Room D

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Paul M Hohenberg
Joerg Baten, Dorothee Crayen Inequality and Growth
Bruno Blondé, G. Verbist Economic growth and social inequality in the early modern Southern Netherlands
Concha Betran, Maria A. Pons & Javier Ferri Wage Inequality and Globalisation: What can we learn from the Past?: A calibration general equilibrium model approach

 Wednesday 22 March 10:45 

U-2  -  SOC06: Poverty and Poor Relief in Europe
Room U

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Thomas Max Safley
Beata Csibor Child poverty in the 21 century
Samantha Shave A User's Perspective of Welfare: Individuals’ Life Experiences during the old Poor Law
Carl Griffin Terror, Violence and Social Policy: Parochial Responses to Popular Protest in Rural England, 1830-31

 Thursday 23 March 8:30 

V-5  -  SOC04: Institutional care in Europe
Committee Room 1

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Sylvia Hahn
Discussant: Sylvia Hahn
Ton Kappelhof, J.P. de Valk Ideas, ideals and practice in social politics: the example of the first Dutch minister for Social Affairs
Aline Steinbrecher Voices from Inside - internal perspectives of the Zurich Hospital in early modern times
Sabine Veits-Falk Social inequality in "hospitals" of the 19th century
Martin Scheutz, Alfred Stefan Weiss Order and disorder. Hospitals (("Bürgerspitäler") in Austrian and South German towns 1500-1800

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

C-9  -  SOC05: Microfinances, Poor Law and Urban Sustainability, 19th-20th centuries
Room C

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Anne Mccants
Montserrat Carbonell Esteller Microfinance and Poor Laws in an urban Mediterranean context. The case of Barcelona in the XIX century
Duncan Ross Poverty and Individualism: Savings Banks as Capitalist Institutions
Sakari Saaritsa Credit, welfare and sustainable proletarianization: Microeconometrics of the urban family economy in early 20th century Helsinki
Paola Avallone, Raffaella Salvemini The middle class against poverty. Legislative interventions and credit institutions in the Kingdom of Naples in the first half of 19th century.

 Friday 24 March 8:30 

M-9  -  SOC10: Social inequalities in health I
Room M

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Bernard Harris Gender, Health and Welfare in England and Wales since 1800
Anne Løkke Patients at the Danish Royal Hospital (Rigshospitalet) 1757 - 2000 .
Astri Andresen Health differences and the policies to reduce them: Norway 1900s-1950s
Peter Razzell The Hazards of Wealth
Martin Gorsky "For the treatment of sick persons of all classes?" Social inequality and the transformation of the British hospital system in the 20th century

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

E-10  -  HEA05: Financing Health
Room E

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Godelieve van Heteren
Bruce Fetter The quest for clean numbers: The intersection of historical demography and classic methods for historical criticism
Stephanie Neuner State insurance and welfare policy for "war-neurotics" of WW I. Politics and Psychiatry in Germany, c. 1920-1939.
Joost van Genabeek, Leo Van Bergen Dutch history of social insurance medicine
Karel-Peter Companje Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

H-10  -  SOC11: Social Inequalities in health II
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Bernard Harris
Teemu Ryymin Social and ethnic considerations in the Northern Norwegian antituberculosis campaign, app. 1900-1940
John Welshman Inequalities in Health in the UK, 1940-76: The Issue of Resource Allocation
Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, Richard Levins Historical impact on social inequalities that lead to health disparities
Signild Vallgårda Social inequality in health – a comparative study of problematisations
Sam Willner Change and continuity in the regional mortality pattern in Sweden from pre-industrial to post-industrial society.

 Friday 24 March 10:45 

F-10  -  SOC12: Social inequality in Europe's oversees empires
Room F

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Frances Gouda
Lynn H. Lees Different styles of Colonial Rule: Town and Plantation in British Malaya, 1880-1930
Jewel Spangler Poisoned Relationships: Slave Rebellion, Evangelical Religion, and Household Mastery on the American Plantation Periphery in the Age of Revolution
Kristy Warren Race and Class in Bermudian Society
Richard Price Missionary Culture, Race and Inequality in early nineteenth century South Africa

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

F-11  -  SOC08: Social Endogamy in Comparative Perspective
Room F

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Paul Lambert
Bart Van De Putte, Andrew Miles Demographic class formation in 19th century England and Belgium
Richard L. Zijdeman Status attainment through marriage in an industrialising agricultural seaprovince, 1800-1920
Ineke Maas, Marco Van Leeuwen Social endogamy in a comparative perspective

 Friday 24 March 14:15 

H-11  -  SOC14: The Welfare State: past, present and future I
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lars Magnusson
Sofia Murhem Privatisations of Swedish elder care- how are industrial relations affected?
Jenny Andersson Discursive strategies of welfare state modernisation. Rethinking the social democratic and the liberal model.
Helene Brodin , Helén Strömberg Making a Market of Care? Visions and Divisions of Responsibilities in Swedish Health and Eldercare during the late 20th century

 Friday 24 March 16:30 

H-12  -  SOC15: The Welfare State: past, present and future II
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lars Magnusson
Urban Lundberg Social Democracy Lost: The Social Democratic Party in Sweden and the Politics of Pension Reform, 1978-1998
Klas Amark Scaninavian Welfare Politics - universalism or wage-earners paradise?
Klaus Petersen Welfare reforms in Denmark 1891-2005

 Saturday 25 March 8:30 

W-13  -  SOC17: Coding into HISCO accross cultures I
Committee Room 2

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Gordon Darroch
Discussant: Gordon Darroch
Discussant: Georg Fertig
Julie Marfany Coding into HISCO in Catalonia: issues and perspectives
Mats Hayen No future. Career opportunities for people of dying branches in Stockholm between 1880 and 1925.

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

I-14  -  LAB21: Labour and Welfare Regimes
Room A-2

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Thomas Adams
Discussant: Jussi Vauhkonen
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).

 Saturday 25 March 10:45 

W-14  -  SOC18: Coding into HISCO accross cultures II
Committee Room 2

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Georg Fertig
Discussant: Tarcisio Rodrigues Botelho
Gopinath Ravindran Construction and Contextualisation of Intergenerational Occupational Series for India
Francis Alvarez Gealogo HISCO Applications to Philippine Parish Records: Some Preliminary Findings in Social Mobility Studies of select Southeast Asian communities
Vladimir Vladimirov Pilot Russian HISCO Version

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

H-15  -  SOC09: Social hierarchy in the past
Room H

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Marco van Leeuwen
Discussant: Marco van Leeuwen
Discussant: Paul Lambert
Discussant: Kenneth Prandy
Discussant: Richard L. Zijdeman
Discussant: Ineke Maas

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

T-15  -  SOC13: Social work and welfare under socialism
Room T

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Klaus Petersen
Ingrid Miethe, Martina Schiebel Social Inequality and Eduaction. The Arbeiter- und Bauern-Fakultäten (ABF) in East Germany Between “Affirmative Action” and “Stalinist Cadre Mills”
Borbala Juhasz Parallel biographies: Religious social work in Hungary through the lives of Katalin Gerő and Ilona Földy
Dorottya Szikra, Eszter Varsa Everyday Social Work in the Hungarian Settlement Movement: A Case Study of the Kozma Street Settlement Project, 1942-1950

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

E-15  -  SOC19: Culture, Consumption, and the Construction of Communities
Room E

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Lynn H. Lees
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld Migration of poor Jews into the Portuguese Community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam: A Case Study in Ethnicity, Exclusion and social Stratification
Paolo Raspadori Inequality and culture. Territorial differences in the access to the means of cultural enrichment in Italy (1863-1991)
Tibor Valuch The Consumption and the Society in the socialist Hungary

 Saturday 25 March 14:15 

J-15  -  SOC20: Theory and Practice of Charity and Welfare: France, Britain, Switzerland and Germany compared, c. 1800-1930 I
Room J

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Abigail Green
Discussant: Klaus Weber
Céline Leglaive British and French Theory and Practice on the Sector of Social Housing: London and Paris, c. 1850-1930
Frank Hatje Charitable Foundations and Trusts in 19th Century Hamburg

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

S-16  -  LAB28: Transnational Unemployment Policies ca. 1890-1920
Room S

    Network: Social Inequality
Organiser: Nils Edling
Chair: Julie Guard
Discussant: Ignazio Masulli
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

 Saturday 25 March 16:30 

J-16  -  SOC16: Theory and Practice of Charity and Welfare: France, Britain, Switzerland and Germany compared, c. 1800-1930 II
Room J

    Network: Social Inequality
Chair: Abigail Green
Discussant: Rainer Liedtke
Thomas David Protestant Ethics and Liberal Conservatism: Swiss Concepts of Philanthropy and Welfare (1800-1914)
Klaus Weber Economists, Philosophers and Revolutionaries? British, German and French Approaches to “Welfare”, “Charity” and “Philanthropy”, 19th/20th Centuries
Ralf Roth Jewish Philanthropy and the Making of Universities. The examples of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Manchester