Fifth ELHN Conference • June 11-13, 2024 • Uppsala University • elhn@iisg.nl
Tuesday 11 June 2024
09.00 - 10.30
A138 -
WG FEM
Feminist Labour Working Group Meeting
A144 - WG Lab&Mig Labour Migration History Working group meeting A156 - WG Fam&Ec Working group meeting Family & Economy B115 - WG MAR Working group meeting Maritime Labour B125 - WG Past&Pr Workplaces: Past and Present Working group meeting
Tuesday 11 June 2024
11.00 - 12.30
Hörsall 3 -
KEY1
“Resistance and Resilience: Sámi indenture in central Sweden at the Advent of Modernity.”,
• Leda Papastefanaki, chair of ELHN netcom • Jan Ottosson, dept of Economic History, Uppsala University • Joakim Palme, dean of the faculty of social sciences, of Uppsala university • Joakim Johansson, head of institution, Swedish Labour movements Archives and Library Key Note: Jonas M. Nordin, Resistance and Resilience: Sámi indenture in central Sweden at the Advent of Modernity.
Tuesday 11 June 2024
14.00 - 15.30
A114 -
INDE1
Theories and Historical Concepts
S. Svenberg : “A theory of accumulated decision-making power informed by historical organization for economic democracy in the UK” P. Urban : The Conceptual History of a Program of Economic Democracy A138 - COE1 Historical semantics of coercion
T. Guiffard : Disciplinary order in war factories : Forms, practices and grammar of discipline in Lyon and Turin between 1914 and 1918 N. Kindersley : ‘As awkward as possible’: resistance to forced work in South Sudan, 1898–date J. Spicksley : Abusive authority and the language of slavery: revisiting the sclavus in medieval Europe T. Vidal : Sub-text and subordination: unpacking practices and semantics of agricultural labour in late-medieval Northern Italy A144 - MIG1 A more-than-national perspective of guest worker programs
C. Bernardi : The transcontinental legacy of guest worker programs between Europe and North America D. I. Córdoba Ramírez : Clause 23 of the employment contract: approaches to the labor association during the Bracero Program M. Snodgrass : Bracero Histories: Guestworker Programs in Public Memory A156 - EMP1 French Empire and Its Aftermath
V. Bollenot : Imperialized as a category of domination (France, 1919-1940) G. Genoud : Labour and anti-imperialism in the French periphery: the case of the Corsican nationalist syndicat des travailleurs corses (1983-1991) B125 - FEM1 Expert discourses and struggles around the regulation of women’s labour
N. Jarska : Women’s work and women’s health. Medical expertise and protective legislation in post-war Poland E. Luif : Work or Hobby? Home-Based Work in the System of (Gendered) Labour Regulation in Interwar Austria B159 - FAM1 Labour, gender and social mobility during the industrialization. I: Institutional and organisational changes and social mobility
L. F. Alos : Technical change, changes in labor markets and social mobility in wine-growing and proto-industrial Catalonia (18th-19th centuries) C. Lorandini : Black swans? Female overseers in the silk industry: evidence from Tyrol in the 19th century M. Renom : The liberalization of food markets and the social mobility in the horticultural and poultry sectors (Barcelona, 18th-19th centuries) F416 - MIL1 Visual sources, material artefacts and military labour
C. de Matos : Visualising Domestic and Military Masculinities in the Work of Military Occupation L. McDonnell : Seeing Early Modern Battle Anew: Warwork in the paintings of Pieter Snayers O. Siitonen : Euphemisms and Passive Tense as a Means for De-visualising Narratives of Wartime Violence A. Touloumtzidis : The Image of the Balkan Civilian Labourer at the Service of Armée d’Orient in the Macedonian Front: Photographs and propaganda in the British press during the First World War H317 - CEE1 Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1991
L. Kalb : Housing Distribution, Deservingness & Transforming Class Relations in 1990s Riga
Tuesday 11 June 2024
16.00 - 17.30
A114 -
WG PREC
Precarious labour Working group meeting
A138 - WG MIN Labour in Mining Working group meeting A144 - WG MIL Military Labour History Working group meeting A156 - WG Arc&Ind Arctic and Indigenous Working group meeting B125 - WG Ec&Ind Economic and Industrial Democracy Working group meeting B159 - WG Lab&Emp Labour and Empire Working Group meeting F416 - WG Lab&Coe Labour and Coercion Working Group meeting H317 - WG Mem&Dei Memory and Deindustrialization Working Group meeting
Wednesday 12 June 2024
09.00 - 10.30
A114 -
INDE2
Democracy on the Shopfloor
N. Binder : Democratic Atmospheres and Human Interrelations: On the Social Psychology of Groups in the Factory (1930s–1950s) L. Rosenberg : Negotiation of Issues between Masters and Men. Staff Councils on South Asian Railways in the First Half of the 20th Century B. Settis, A. Brizzi : An Alternative Power? The Struggles for Democratization of Social Policy and Surveillance at Fiat in the Afterwar Period A138 - COE2 Sites of coercion
G. Rydén : Early Modern Wage Labour & Households as Coercive Sites: Householding in Early Modern Swedish Ironmaking H. Taylor : Exiting Apprenticeships in 17th- and 18th-century England A144 - MIG2 Guest-workers’ organisation, resistance and protests
A. Knotter : Migrant strikes in the Netherlands 1961-1974 N. Stanimirovic : International tribunes. Political organising of the Yugoslav guest-workers in France 1970-1973 A156 - EMP2 The Global Left and Anti-imperialism
D. Dyakonova : Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place: Chinese Women Workers, Revolutionary Internationalism, and Anti-imperialist Nationalism, 1923-1927 A. Rodd : Britain's Labour Party and the anti-colonial labour movement in Fiji (1945-1970) B115 - MIN4 Mining–Agriculture Relationships: Influences on labour organisation and labour markets: Panel I: Relations between mining and agriculture
E. Trescastro-López, M. T. a. A. Martinez : Food in the mining areas of southeastern Spain. Analysis of a manuscript of recipes from the 19th century A. Turbanti : Relations between Mining and Agriculture in Italy B125 - FEM2 Women’s gendered forms of action and mobilization
S. Badgi : Beyond Trade Unions: Labour Activism Among Women Workers of the Újpest Jute Factory in the 1900s E. Betti, L. Cerasi : Women Workers and the Cooperative Movement in Golden Age Italy between Production, Reproduction and Consumption: Forms of Mobilization and Representation K. Linderoth : Wildcat strikes among public sector care workers in Sweden 1980-1990 B159 - FAM2 Labour, gender and social mobility during the industrialization. II: Education and social mobility
G. Kitsoleris : Intra-generational social mobility in terms of occupation in Greece. The effect of crisis and overeducation on career mobility in a segmented labour market A. Mayer : Aspirations to social mobility among the working and lower middle classes in German-speaking Central Europe, 1840-1914 F416 - MIL2 Military labour in the early modern era
J. Björklund : Mutiny and Discontent in the Swedish army 1605 – 1617 E. Larsson : Naval Officers as Merchant Skippers and Merchant Skippers as Naval Officers: The officers of the Swedish archipelago fleet 1756-1824 P. Nath : Military Labour and the Nature of the Mughal Empire M. Neuding Skoog : Swedish Recruitment Agents on the German Military Market in 1543 H317 - CEE2 Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1991 II
A. E. Bartha : A Loss of Collective Consciousness? Working-class Images of Socialism and Capitalism in Two Generations in Post-1989 Hungary M. Chmielewska : Making Sense of the 1990s: Global Economy in the Memories the Polish Corsetry Industry Workers T. Valuch : Workers' Life Strategies in the Post-Communist Transition in Hungary Eszterházy Károly University of Eger
Wednesday 12 June 2024
11.00 - 12.30
A114 -
JOU round
Journals for Labour History, Roundtable
A138 - COE3 ROUND Roundtable: Connecting the dots: Sites and fields of labour coercion
A144 - MIG3 Between past and future: memory and workers’ perspective
A. Ibricevic : Returns of retirement: The Gastarbeiter reflect on working abroad to retire at home N. Korkmaz : German-Turkish Guest-worker Agreement and the Reasons for Increasing Mobility from Turkey to Germany M. Maeva : : Bulgarian Medical Staff as Guest Workers during Socialist Period A156 - EMP3 The Caribbean: Bedrock of Anti-imperialism?
J. Nevill : Writing Their Wrongs: I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson and the Global Intellectual History of Colonial Radical Utopianism T. V. Gaalen : Breaking Borders. Solidarity as Radical Strategy in the Interwar Caribbean B115 - MIN5 Environmental and social effects derived from the Mining and Agriculture relations
S. Dimitriadis : Land Ownership, Mining and Labour Market Fragmentation in Northern Euboea, 1850-1920 A. Fleta, G. B. A. Cohen : Minería y conflictos por el agua. Miradas cruzadas desde España y Canadá J. D. Perez-Cebada, P. G. Silva : Mining, Agriculture and Pollution P. G. Silva, O. Sacramento : Between mining and farming: social and ecological transforma3ons of wolfram extrac3on in a Portuguese agrarian context (1930s-1970s) B125 - FEM3 Struggles around women’s un/paid work and social reproduction
E. Boris : Work Visas for Live-In Maids: Race, Gender, Citizenship, and the Crisis of Social Reproduction, the United States, 1965-1970 C. Boss, G. Beck : Struggle over paid and unpaid domestic work within the Women’s liberation movement (WLM) in Geneva, Switzerland. Internal debates and strategies between subgroups (1971-1980) S. Karatepe : Breadwinner Family Model, Social Reproduction and the Semi-Proleterinization in the Late Ottoman Empire O. Opassi : Gender Roles in the Yugoslav Fish Canning Industry: The Case of Delamaris B159 - FAM3 Labour and Old Age / Labouring Elderly
M. Papathanassiou : Poverty, labour and family economy in old age: Street-workers in mid-19th century London / Rural servants in the early 20th century Austrian Alps L. Pelzl : Social Mobility between Middle and Old Age in 17th and 18th-century Germany C. Uppenberg : Challenging the domestic: Care work, generation change and the gendered social reproduction of a semi-landless class in 19th century Sweden. B. Zucca : Elderly people at work in preindustrial urban Piedmont: an overview from families and charity institutions F416 - MIL3 Nations, states and empires: Military labour, gender, race and identity I
P. Johansson, F. S. a. S. Strand : Military Conscription, Settler-Colonialism and Discrimination of the Sami People in 1900s Sweden J. Lande : ‘To Go See My Relations’: Deserting Black soldiers and the negotiation of military labour, emancipation, and masculinity during the US Civil War P. Pevetmi Amza : Participation in Military Service in the Premodern African armies: Case study of the royal Bamoun army between 1517 and 1813 S. Strand, P. J. e. F. Sundevall : Military Conscription, Settler-Colonialism and Discrimination of the Sami People in 1900s Sweden F. Sundevall, P. J. e. S. Strand : Military Conscription, Settler-Colonialism and Discrimination of the Sami People in 1900s Sweden P. Wawrzeniuk : The Final Destination: The Royal Institution for Disabled Veterans in Ulriksdal, 1821–1849
Wednesday 12 June 2024
14.00 - 15.30
A114 -
INDE3
Industrial Democracy in National Economies
J. Burek : Who are the masters of the factory? The Polish Communists’ Debate over the Idea and Practice of Self-Management, 1945–1947 M. Sharma : Democratizing Labour Relations: Experiments in Post-Independence India R. Šustrová : Rights and Democratic Vibes: Workplace Justice in Czechoslovakia and Austria, 1930s–1980s A138 - COE4 Book Launch
A144 - MIG4 Politicised labour migration: Between policies and practices
F. Hoxha : A quiet mediator: Kosovar Diaspora as a catalyst of labour migration to Germany amid recent German labour migration policies. N. Latif : Precarious Circulation: Palestinian refugee labour from Lebanon to the Gulf and back during the 1960s-1970s L. Venturas : Greek workers in the Federal Republic of Germany during the Cold War: Economic priorities and political vigilance A156 - EMP4 Anti-imperialist Solidarity: Multiple Realities
D. Hyde : The ‘Labour Question’, Trade Unionism and the Problem of Labour Bureaucracy during Kenya’ Decolonisation I. Tomren : Mobilising Solidarity in 1920s Egypt: A Mass Musical Manifesto S. V. Jan : South Asian Working-class Anti-imperialism in Hamburg B115 - MIL-MAR Military and Maritime Recruitment
M. Antypas : Tracing the relationship between conscription during the Greek Revolution and the formation of maritime labour market on the island of Hydra, 1821-1860 T. Peláez : "The recruitment of rowers in the Galleys of Spain during the 16th century" D. Salvatore : “Building an Empire: mobilisation and conscription in the Italian fascist empire (1935-1940)” B125 - FEM4 International platforms of women’s labour activism: Tensions and collaborations
J. Tesija : Social democrats and communists in the International Co-operative Women’s Guild, 1921-1939: Tensions and collaborations J. Wolf : The founding of the Women’s Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation B159 - PRE1 Conceptual debates on precarity
T. Holmlund : The Role of Trade Unions in Precarisation: Negotiations on Employment Security 1990-2020 in Sweden L. Mathlouthi : “Our Poor Little White Slaves”: Victorian child labour between precariousness and marginalisation from the 1830’s to the 1880’s P. Ray : Care Work and Precarity of Life: The Kinship of Gender, Caste and Stigma F416 - MIL4 Recruitment and refusal in military labour: Gender, race and identity II
K. Bootsma : Voluntary Women and Involuntary Men: Gender, military labour and discussions on voluntary conscription for women in contemporary Dutch history J. Kim : ‘Holidays on Duty’: Pan Am female flight Attendants’ service labour for R&R Soldiers during the Vietnam War L. Robinson : The Masculinity of Refusal: World War I US conscientious objectors and the spectre of maligned manhood M. Tsirtsikou : Civil workers and gendering military labour through the case study of the Military Clothing-Footwear Factory (MF 700) at Piraeus (1909-1951) H317 - DEI-CEE1 Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory 1
O. Klípa : The defeat of memory. Anger and politics in a Polish lignite-fired power plant
Wednesday 12 June 2024
16.00 - 17.30
A114 -
INDE4
Lessons from the Past and Challenges of the Future
T. Jessen Adams : Social Compulsion, Workplace Democracy, and Political Economy in the U.S.: Notes for Critical-Historical Synthesis M. Kabat : Argentine taken factories movement: A retrospective balance in the Latin American context A138 - MIN1 Mining Mobilities across the Globe: Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st Century)
C. Mamaloukaki : Heut and Geyler’s Agency in the Global Mining and Metallurgical Industry in the late 19th century L. Ugbudian : Mining Mobilities and Circulation of Knowledge in Nigeria A144 - MIG5 Labour migration, national development and international narratives
D. Iordanidou : Year 1922 Refugees in Greece and Trade Unions: Stories the Judicial Archives can tell us S. Zeric : "Workers abroad can also help the development of their local region": Yugoslavs' remittances factories A156 - WPL1 Making and Remaking the Workplace: Gender, Technology and Power
B. Curtis : “Mining is Not Like Working in the Factory”: A Spatial History of Work in the Collieries of South Wales in the Twentieth Century S. Ioannidis : The Spatial Aspect of Work in The Postwar White Goods Industry in Greece, 1950-1977 A. Odman : Waste Ships of the World as the Workspace: Shipbreaking Yards in Aliaga/Izmir, Turkey B115 - FEM-WPL Women negotiating change in industrial workplaces across the 20th century
E. Robertson : On the Buses: Women Conductors and Drivers in the Australian Motorbus Industry K. Wood : “Simply as cock and hen”: Australian women workers in the automobile industry B125 - PUB-Round Anything new under the sun? Highlights from and reflections on ELHN-related publications. A Roundtable across Working Groups.
B159 - PRE2 State and business actors creating precarity
T. Bergholm : Giving access to winter employment A. Panagopoulos : Precarious Labour in the construction of Digital Society: the case of Digitalization Projects’ workers in Greece, 2004-2020 R. Thyagarajan : Sanitation at Whose Cost? Environmental Public Interest Litigation in 1990s India and the Judicial Construction of Precarity in Public Employment H317 - FEM5 Tensions around women’s labour leadership: A biographical approach to the history of women’s labour activism
R. Percy : ‘The good woman leader is the most womanly person. She doesn’t imitate men’: Female labour leadership in the early twentieth century M. Tamboukou : The agonistics of love: eros in the labour movement E. Varsa : “No one has raised their voice for the Gypsy, who works honestly and has always been outsider the law”: Mária László’s labour activism in 1930s-1950s Hungary
Wednesday 12 June 2024
18.30 - 20.30
Salagatan 18 B -
IAHLHI
Annual Reports – the key to history we all need. Trade unions, archives and scholars in discussion
Thursday 13 June 2024
09.00 - 10.30
Hörsall 3 -
KEY2
Keynote film by Helle Stenum
Director Helle Stenum, PhD. Director of ‘We Carry It within Us’ (2017) on the narrative of the Danish-Caribbean colonial past. Screened on Danish national Broadcast 2017-2018, international film festivals and public events internationally. After the film there will be a Q&A with Görkem Akgöz, global labour historian and post doc researcher at Humboldt University.
Thursday 13 June 2024
11.00 - 12.30
A114 -
EDU1
Workers’ education in Europe from the 1800s until today, I. Book workshop
V. Kezic : Workers’ Education in Croatia in the late 19th century P. Kumbhat : Democratising Workers’ Adult Education in Britain (c.1870-1939) A narrative of ladders, highways, and byways. A. R. Pejic : Getting to know Lenin – role of education in Yugoslavian working class during the interwar period A. Zimmermann : Training Trade Union Officials: experiences from Switzerland A138 - MIN2 Mining Mobilities across the Globe: Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st Century) II: Recruiting, Negotiating, and Exchanging Labour
A. Campagne : Subcontracting, recruitment, miners’ mobility and knowledge circulation in colonial Vietnam A. Mak : Coal Miners’ Attitude towards Poles in the British Coal Industry N. Olma : Knowing Uranium: Examining the Exchange of Mining and Radiation Knowledge In a Soviet Uranium Mining Town A144 - DEI-CEE2 Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory 2
T. Juhászová : Deindustrialization in a linguistically mixed periphery of Czechoslovakia during the second half of the 20th century J. K. Schemmer : Ethnic coding of industrial heritage. Exploring interrelated dynamics of shipyard work, its musealisation, and (industrial memory) politics A156 - WPL2 Writing the Spatio-temporal Dynamics into Labour History: Politics, Control and Mobility
P. Boulland, P. S. : Building the Union Headquarter: A Spatial Study of Union Professionalization in France, 1970s-1980s D. Kelliher : The Spatial Politics of the Picket Line: Britain c. 1970 – 1998 D. Yüce : Dynamics of Compulsory Labor in Late Ottoman Empire Road Maintenance B125 - FEM-EMP Women confronting gender, racial and religious segregation in the field of labour and labour activism in (post)colonial contexts
C. Fauroux : French women’s and colonized forced laborers’ work in the war plants in France in 1939-1940 P. Ghosh : Constructing Subaltern Counterpublics through “Women’s Work”: Understanding Naga Women’s unique methods of Resistance M. Sen : Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal; an Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947) B159 - PRE3 Regulations and organizing strategies against precarity
N. Potamianos : : The creation of "regulated professions" in Greece, 1900-1940 I. Valassopoulos : From Artisans to Activists: Greek Shoemakers’ Political Mobilization and Radicalization (1880s-1921) F416 - MAR1 LIBERALIZATION AND MARITIME LABOUR
D. Dominguez Cabrera : Slavery, dock labour and racialisation in Cuba (18th-19th c.) P. M. Antón : Pilots of Navigation in Barcelona: A database of Names and Voyages of the second half of the XIX Century. S. Srougo : Port Labor and Wartime Struggles: Jewish Workers of Thessaloniki During the Greek-Italian Campaign (1940-1941) H317 - ARC1 State regulations and interventions
I. Jonsson, S. Neunsinger : ILO Convention 169: A comparison of the implementation and the importance for Indigenous and tribal peoples in the Arctic S. Neunsinger, I. Jonsson : ILO Convention 169: A comparison of the implementation and the importance for Indigenous and tribal peoples in the Arctic : Studying Sámi labour history as lived industrialisation against a backdrop of non-structuralist settler colonial theory J. Overud : The AMU/AMO re-training of northern rural labour: Gender segregation during industrialization and colonization in Sweden and Norway 1961-2023 H. Stenum : Opposing ethnographic race science; public responses. Johan Turi and his 1911 book Muittalius Samid Birra
Thursday 13 June 2024
14.00 - 15.30
A114 -
EDU2
Workers’ education in Europe from the 1800s until today, II Book workshop.
S. Moitra : Great Expectations: German Coal Mining, the Labour Movement and the Question of Vocational Schools L. Rahm : Educating Workers for Automation: Imaginaries and Problematisations of Reformist Education in Swedish Trade Union Films in the 1950s and 1980s J. Söderqvist : Workers’ Education and Social Mobility in Sweden A138 - MIN3 Mining Mobilities across the Globe: Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st Century) III Moving Knowledge, Moving Workers: Capitalism, Gender, and the Environment
O. Coughlan : Cantines, cantiniers, and the contestation of colonial oppression in the Gard coalfield, c.1920-1940 B. Fabrucci : We Want You! Selection Procedures for German Mines in the foreign refugee camps in Italy D. Valinsena : Coal Lives. Migration, Toxicity, and the Heritage of Industrialization in Belgium A144 - DEI-CEE3 Ethnic Identities and Industrial Memory 3
L. MacKinnon : Don’t Forget Where You’re From:” Ethnic Identity and Industrial Memory in Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia. G. Moulton : Steeple and Smokestack: Industry and Ethnic Identity in Polish and Hungarian American Church Murals A156 - WPL3 Roundtable: Spatialising the Workplace in Global Perspective: Multiscalar Approaches to Work and Space in Bulgaria, India and Turkey
B125 - FAM-MAR Gender in Fishing and Maritime Communities: Women, Labour Markets, and Family Living Standards in Coastal Europe
M. Carballal : Women's work in fish-canning industry in the port of Vigo during Franco's regime: wages and family income S. Chatzopoulou : Representations of women and their labour in fishing and other occupations in Early Modern and Modern English Broadside Ballads A. Dominguez Garcia, D. J. A. : Selling fish at the wholesale market: the role of patronas in the socioeconomic organization of the fishing communities of Mallorca (1944-2003) L. M. Abeledo, V. Canal : Business women in Spanish port cities (1880-1913) F416 - MAR2 MARITIME LABOUR AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
J. Ibarz, E. G. : “Patronos” of coastal trade and social mobility in the port of Barcelona, 1850-1872. D. Muntané Pueyo, B. J. v. : The maritime “patronos” of Tarragona, Spain, during the nineteenth century: a look at the of the elites of the merchant marine, fishing, and port labor. E. Page : From artisans to industrialists: the socio-economic mobility of ropemakers and sailmakers in Barcelona B. von Briesen, D. M. : The maritime “patronos” of Tarragona, Spain, during the nineteenth century: a look at the of the elites of the merchant marine, fishing, and port labor.
Thursday 13 June 2024
16.00 - 17.30
Hörsall 3 -
GEN
General Assembly
Thursday 13 June 2024
18.00 - 20.00
Williams Pub, Åsgränd 5c -
DRINKS
drinks
Friday 14 June 2024
09.00 - 17.00
Excursion -
EXCU
Excursion
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