ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ 24 ΜΑΪOY / WEDNESDAY 24 MAY
17.00-18.00, Εγγραφή συνέδρων / Registration
18.00 -18.45, Χαιρετισμοί / Welcoming addresses
19.00-20.15, Διάλεξη / Κeynote speech
Marcel van der Linden (Professor, University of Amsterdam & International Institute of Social History), Labour History Goes Global
ΠΕΜΠΤΗ 25 ΜΑΪΟΥ / THURSDAY 25 MAY
9.30-11.30
Α1. Η εργασία στην οικονομική θεωρία / Labour in economic theory
Chair/discussant: Michalis Chletsos
Μιχάλης Ζουμπουλάκης, Από τη θεωρία στην πράξη: η απόρριψη του «Σιδηρού Νόμου των Μισθών» και η αλλαγή των εργασιακών συνθηκών στη Βρετανία μετά το 1867
Αντώνης Κυπαρίσσης & Χριστίνα Χριστοδουλίδου, Η Πολιτική Οικονομία της εργασίας - Μια απόπειρα σκιαγράφησης των έμφυλων διαφοροποιήσεων υπό το πρίσμα ετερόδοξων προσεγγίσεων
Ioannis Katselidis, Institutions and the Labour Market: The Contribution of the First Generation of Institutional Economists
Yiannis Kokkinakis, The role of cheap Asian labor in western monetary controversies: evidence from the USA, Great Britain and France during the classical gold standard period, 1880-1914
B1. Global perspectives on labour relations and industrial peace, 1930s to the present
Organizer: Alina-Sandra Cucu
Chair/discussant: Sakis Gekas
Maria Damilakou, Labor Policy and Diplomacy: Argentina´s Labor Attachés under Peronism
Alina-Sandra Cucu, Go East: Entangled Worlds of Labour in the 1970s Socialist-Capitalist Joint Ventures
Luisa Steur, Increasing inequalities, political radicalization, and the Socialist enterprise system in contemporary Havana (Cuba): Why do blue-collar workers not speak of racism?
C1. Ethnic and religious divisions of labour in the Ottoman Empire and Greece
Chair/discussants: Vassilis Nitsiakos, Dimitris Kontogeorgis
Erdem Kabadayı, Importance of ethnicity and religion to find employment and to earn a living in mid-nineteenth century Ottoman towns
Maria Arvaniti, Greek-Orthodox People and Labour in 1821 Istanbul: the Case of the Inhabitants of Beşiktaş
Minna Rozen, Jewish Workers in Salonika and the Great Depression (1929-1936): A New Appraisal
Orly C. Meron, Age, ethnicity, family status, and self-employment: Greek and Jewish entrepreneurs in Northern Greece between the wars
11.30-12.00, Διάλειμμα / Coffee break
12.00-14.00
A2. Ιστορία της τεχνολογίας και ιστορία της εργασίας / History of technology and labour history
Organizer: Spyros Tzokas
Chair/discussant: Maria Mavroeidi
Christos Karampatsos, Konstantinos Varkas Buys the 'Infamous Machine': Dysfunctional Machinery and 'Technically Competent' Workers in Greece through the Example of Greek Cigarette Rollers, 1880-1920
Σπύρος Τζόκας, «[Β]ιομηχανοποιούσα κατά ¾ υλικά εγχώρια και χρησιμοποιούσα εξ ολοκλήρου εργασίαν εγχώριον». Η Συμπαραγωγή Τεχνολογίας και Εργασίας στην Περίπτωση της Εισαγωγής του Οπλισμένου Σκυροδέματος στην Ελληνική Κοινωνία, 1900-1922.
Αλέξανδρος Παναγόπουλος & Τέλης Τύμπας, Αυτόματη Τεχνολογία, Αόρατη Εργασία: Περιπτώσεις από την Ιστορία της Πληροφορικής και των Τηλεπικοινωνιών στην Ελλάδα.
B2. Transforming labour in the context of global capitalism
Chair/discussants: Michalis Chletsos, Yiannis Kokkinakis
Veronica Ronchi, Generations in an Italian multinational engineering industry: an ethnographical analysis
Elena Dinubila, Fragmented work. Dependency and autonomy in a district of Southern Italy
Ju Li, From “out-of-plan worker” to the “floating mass”: Informality under various forms of capital accumulation in the history of the PRC
Vincent Gouzi, Employment’s structures and their anthropological foundations in industrial enterprises
C2. Artisans and skilled workers
Chair/discussant: Thomas W. Gallant
Vassilis Nedos, “Commercial revolution” in the county of Flanders during 13th century. Developments in economic and professional activity in towns of the county. Political and economic interrelations between merchants and artisans. Historiographical notes
Michalis Bardanis, Brickworkers from the island of Kythnos in 19th and first half of the 20th centuries Athens: a local network of labour
Petroula Hadjittofi, “… with much elegance, honesty and sincerity, at incomparable prices”: Gold- and silversmiths in Cyprus (1878-1940)
Athena Zizopoulou, The Aristocrats: Athens Press Workers, 1950-1967
14.00-15.30, Γεύμα / Lunch break
15.30-17.30
A3. Industrial labour and technological change
Chair/discussants: Christina Agriantoni, Spyros Tzokas
Juan Carmona Zabala, Technological and regulatory change in tobacco production and industrial processing in Interwar Greece
Thanassis Betas, Modernization of machines, technological and organizational changes on labour and management of workforce in the European and Greek cigarette industry, 1950-1970
Andrea Papp, Effect of the restart of mining activity on the turning of 19th and 20th century – Focus on an iron ore miners in Rudabánya
B3. Labour policy and productivity
Chair/discussants: Michalis Zouboulakis, Dimitris Kontogeorgis
Sakis Gekas, Yiorgos Kazamias & Maria Panayiotou, Self-sufficient colonies? State employees, public finances and colonialism in the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) and Cyprus (1878-1927)
Fenia Lekka, Western Thessaly, 19th-20th century: production and labour in the large estates and factories of Christakis Zografos
Miltiadis Kipas, The evolution of production and of productivity of labour in the Balkans and in Eastern Europe, 1989-until today
C3. Free and unfree labour
Chair/discussant: M. Erdem Kabadayi
Hülya Canbakal & Alpay Filiztekin, Slavery and its Demise in Ottoman Central Lands: Bursa, 1460-1880
Julia Harnoncourt, Racism and Racialisation as Structural Elements in Unfree Labour Formation in Brazilian Agriculture
Arivalagan Murugeshapandian, Re-engineering forests and labour in 20th century South India
17.30-18.00, Διάλειμμα / Coffee break
18.00-20.00
A4. Labour relations in Central-European industries
Organiser: Tibor Valuch
Chair/discussant: Maria Papathanasiou
Tibor Valuch, The altering role of the work. The labour relations and the everyday life of Hungarian industrial workers before, under and after the state socialism
Milan Balaban, Everyday life and work in Bata company town in Borovo
Péter Alabán, Socialism and transitions in the social history. Labour market with industrial workers in the north-east of Hungary
B4. Migration and labour markets
Chair/discussant: Anna Mandilara
Dimitrios K. Apostolopoulos, The Gastarbeiter policy in post-war Germany
Entela Kaleshi, From migrants and seasonal workers to job creators – The case of Albanian return migrants
Pedro Almeida Ferreira, Professional and geographical mobility: the axis of a modernizing labour market policy in Portugal (1953-1979)
Aliki Vaxevanoglou, On the Margins of the Current Labor Market: Undocumented Migrants
C4. Labour conflicts: demanding, protesting, striking
Chair/discussants: Minna Rozen, Katerina Galani
Melina Grammatikopoulou, The Strikes of the Employees of the «Smyrna-Aidin Ottoman Railway Company» in September 1908 and the Contribution of the Greek Workers
Domna Iordanidou, Miners, local communities, Company and State in the Inter-War period: 1929, a strike in Kassandra Mines (Halkidiki, Northern Greece)
Dimitris Angelis-Dimakis, Labour relations and the dynamism of the mobilization in the Greek rural space during the first third of the 20th century
ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 26 ΜΑΪΟΥ / FRIDAY 26 MAY 2017
9.00-11.00
A5. Labour and culture
Chair/discussant: Nikos Potamianos
Andreas Lyberatos, Ideas on Time and Labour in Greece and the Balkans (18th-19th c.)
Gila Hadar, The Labour Movement (Féderation socialiste) and Linguistic Realities in Thessaloniki: In search of a linguistic and cultural capital
Marios Dimitriadis, Drama as a field for the promotion of the ideal of labour solidarity in Late Medieval English towns
Stella Chatzopoulou, The coal mining profession through English broadside ballads; Gender stereotypes and social implications
B5. Labour and gender in early modern Europe
Organiser: Alexandra Shepard
Chair/discussant: Alexandra Shepard
Maria Ågren, Households, intermediaries, individuals: who and where were the economic actors in early modern societies?
Anna Bellavitis, Urban labour markets and family and gender roles in early modern European cities
Amy Erickson & Ariadne Schmidt, Early modern migration in comparative gendered perspective
C5. Maritime labour I
Οrganizer: Gelina Harlaftis
Chair/discussant: Jordi Ibarz
Alexandra Papadopoulou, Maritime Labour on the sailing ship fleet of the island of Spetses, 1850-1870
Gelina Harlaftis, Transforming the island seafaring culture to corporate business culture. Crews on the ships of the Onassis shipping group.
Laskaro Tzioti, On board. Greek Seamen on the eve of World War II
11.00-11.30, Διάλειμμα / Coffee break
11.30-12.45, Διάλεξη / Κeynote speech
Touraj Atabaki (Professor, Leiden University & International Institute of Social History), Workers, Class and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Iran
12.45-14.00, Γεύμα / Lunch break
14.00-15.30
A6. Ρυθμίσεις και συντεχνίες, 16ος-19ος αι. / Regulations and guild labour, 16th-19th centuries
Chair/discussant: Sophia Laiou
Χρήστος Ζαμπακόλας, Arte dei Greci Capotteri. Οι έλληνες καποτάδες της Βενετίας και η επαγγελματική τους συντεχνία.
Φωτεινή Καρλάφτη-Μουρατίδη, Δικαιοπραξίες εργασιακών σχέσεων στην Κέρκυρα (16ος-17ος αι.)
Svetla Ianeva, Guild and non-guild labour in the Central Balkans during the nineteenth century
B6. Households, domestic and child labour
Chair/discussant: Anna Bellavitis
Maria Papathanasiou, Aspects of industrial child labour in Central Europe/Austria (from the 1880s up into the 1930s)
Silvia Milanesi, The Société de Protection des Apprentis et des Enfants Employés dans les Manufactures (1866-1914)
Maria Adamopoulou, Refugee child labor in 1920s Salonica: forms, strategies and the formation of subjectivities
C6. Maritime work in the context of crises
Οrganizers: Jordi Ibarz, Enric Garcia Domingo
Chair/discussant: Enric Garcia Domingo
Jordi Ibarz, Workers Attitudes to the Mechanisation of Unloading Coal in the Port of Barcelona, 1896-1922
Shai Srougo, Jews and Thessalonikian-Greeks in a Common Struggle in the Docks Against the Influx of Greek Refugees (1922-1925)
Christos Mais & Kostas Paloukis, The evolution of labour at the Port of Thessaloniki: From the 1920s Free Zone of Thessaloniki to the 1970s Thessaloniki Port Authority
15.30-16.00, Διάλειμμα / Coffee break
16.00-18.00
A7. Regulations and institutions
Chair/discussant: Christos Hadziiossif
Anna Pina Paladini, The policies for craftsmen in Italy during the 1950s: the transition from corporatism to welfare state
Anna Pellegrino, Labour Conflicts: The Case of labour Arbitration in Italy during the early twentieth century
Ersida Telite & Antonio Vito Boccia, The main institutes of labor law in Albania, during the United Kingdom Italian-Albanian 1939 -1944
Dorina Ndreka, The Implementation in the Albanian national legal system of the International Law Standards on Labour Law
B7. Gender discriminations of labour
Chair/discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
Silvana Maubrigades, Gender wage gap to understand the overall inequality in Latin America at the end of the Twentieth Century
Eduardo Martín Cuesta, Wages, Skill Premia and Gender Gap in Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1903-1960
V. Shobhana Warrier, State, Policy and Gender: A Comparison Over Time
Γεωργία Μπακάλη, Εργατική πολιτική και εργασιακές ανισότητες: το καπνεργατικό ζήτημα στον Μεσοπόλεμο και η γυναικεία εργασία
C7. Maritime labour II
Οrganizers: Gelina Harlaftis, Jordi Ibarz, Enric Garcia Domingo
Chair/discussant: Gelina Harlaftis
Apostolos Delis & Katerina Galani, Seafaring lives in transition. Mediterranean maritime labour and shipping and the challenge of globalization, 1850s-1920s
Enric Garcia Domingo, The Long Road to Recognition: the Profession of Ship Engineer in the Spanish Merchant Marine (1877-1980)
Aurora Iannello, Workers of the sea. A history of labour in Palermo shipyard from 1945 to 1970
ΣΑΒΒΑΤΟ 27 ΜΑΪΟΥ / SATURDAY 27 MAY
9.00-11.00
A8. Labour in retailing and street vending
Organizer: Nikos Potamianos
Chair/discussant: Maria Christina Chatziioannou
Daniel Alves, “Half freedom”: labour relations in Lisbon’s retail trade in the end of the nineteenth century
Nikos Potamianos, Self-employed labourers in the informal sector: the street vendors of Athens between the working class and the business community, 1890-1930
Sigrid Wadauer, Sales from door to door, on streets and at marketplaces (Austria 1918-1938)
B8. Gender, working class grievances and power relations in the Yugoslav factory
Organisers: Chiara Bonfiglioli, Goran Musić, Rory Archer
Chair/discussant: Anna Mahera
Chiara Bonfiglioli, Gender at work: Garment workers’ double burden during socialism
Goran Musić, LCY's Central Committee 13th Session: Echoes on the Shop Floor
Rory Archer, Gendered and classed attitudes towards the institutions of self-management in the Yugoslav factory
C8. Labour in ottoman Çiftliks during the 18th and 19th centuries
Organiser: Fatma Öncel
Chair/discussant: Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
Anıl Aşkın, Accounting Books of Ottoman Imperial Estates: Tracing Various Forms Labor Through Activity-Specific Entries in the Nineteenth Century Mihalic
Eirini Kalogeropoulou, Division of labour inside and outside chiftliks: the cases of Alakilise (Pella) and Zagliver in the countryside of the kaza of Selanik (middle 19th century)
Fatma Öncel, Nomads and çiftliks: The Vlachs of Thessaly during the late 18th and 19th centuries
Zeynep Küçükceran, Labor and Agrarian Organization in Waqf Çiftliks: Balıklı, Tepecik, Akhisar, Vasil Çiftliks in Mihaliç
11.00-11.30, Διάλειμμα / Coffee break
11.30-13.30
A9. Revisiting land and labour regime in the 19th century Balkans: Labour relations in the large estates (Çiftliks)
Organisers: Alp Yücel Kaya, Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, Dilek Akyalçın Kaya
Chair/discussant: Elias Kolovos
Alp Yücel Kaya, Were Peasants Bound to the Soil in the Large Estates (Çiftliks) of the XIXth Century Balkans? Reappraisal of the Question of New/Second Serfdom in the Ottoman Historiography
Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, Land and Cultivators in Ottoman Niş: Estate (çiftlik) Tenants or Peasants in Communal Households?
Dilek Akyalçın Kaya, Labour Organisation and Relations in the Large Estates Found in the Hinterland of Salonica in the XIXth Century
Sakis Dimitriadis, Salaried Work and Wage Labour in the Large Landed Estates of the Greek Island of Euboea (1830-1910)
B9. Patterns of industrial relations I
Chair/discussants: Lydia Sapounaki-Drakaki, Francesca Sanna
Dimitris Kopanas, Paternalistic policies philanthropy and substitution of the state in the industry of Corfu (1920-1929)
Paolo Raspadori, The Facilities of Corporate Welfare in Italy in Historical Perspective: a Quantitative Approach
Niccolò Serri, A Tale of Two Factories: redundancy benefits and workers organisation at Fiat Mirafiori and Alfa Romeo Arese, Italy, 1979-1987
Andrea Umberto Gritti, Enlightened rulers and faithful subjects. Human relations and corporate identity at the Falck steelworks, 1948-1962
C9. Η εργασία στην κατεχόμενη Ελλάδα / Working in occupied Greece
Προεδρείο/σχολιασμός: Λάμπρος Φλιτούρης
Γιώργος Μαργαρίτης, Πόλεμος και εργασία. Ζητήματα εργατικού δυναμικού στην εμπόλεμη Ελλάδα του 1940-1950
Μαρία Καβάλα, Η ναζιστική «εργασιακή» πολιτική στη Θεσσαλονίκη (1941-1944). Δουλική εργασία και φυλετικά ζητήματα
Βασίλης Μανουσάκης, Δουλεύοντας στις ελληνικές βιομηχανικές επιχειρήσεις κατά την Κατοχή (1941-1944)
Γιάννης Σκαλιδάκης, «Αγγαρεία»: η καταναγκαστική εργασία στην κατοχική Κρήτη
13.30-15.00, Γεύμα / Lunch break
15.00-17.00
A10. Η εργασία στον δημόσιο τομέα / Labour in the public sector
Προεδρείο/σχολιασμός: Χάρης Αθανασιάδης
Δημήτριος Πυρίνος, Επαγγελματικός μετασχηματισμός στην ελληνική κοινότητα Βέροιας 1890-1930
Γεώργιος Χαλκιάς, Διαδικασίες πρόσληψης και απόλυσης των δασκάλων Πρωτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, στη Μακεδονία, πριν και μετά την ενσωμάτωσή της στο ελεύθερο ελληνικό κράτος.
Λυδία Σαπουνάκη-Δρακάκη & Μαριάνθη Κοτέα, Ο Δήμος Πειραιώς ως εργοδότης τον 19ο αιώνα
B10. Patterns of industrial relations II
Chair/discussant: Georgia Petraki
Στέφανος Βαμιεδάκης, Νέοι θεσμοί εργατικής συμμετοχής: Η Κοινωνικοποίηση των δημοσίων επιχειρήσεων στην Ελλάδα τη δεκαετία του 1980
Stefanos Ioannidis, The Road to the Factory. On the Question of the “Rural Background” of Factory Workers in Greece in the 1970s.
Akis Palaiologos, Enterprises in difficulty 1981-1985. The case of "Peiraiki - Patraiki" and the labour relations
Ilaria Suffia, Labour relations vs Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
C10. Labour in the agricultural sector
Chair/discussants: Alp Yücel Kaya, Socrates Petmezas
Thomas W. Gallant, Quantifying Rural Labor in Pre-Modern Agriculture: Theoretical and Methological Challenges
Milena Petkova-Encheva, Conquer the Space? (The Yuruks of the kaza of Stara Zagora and the establishing of new settlement network 15th-16th c.)
Stavroula Verrarou, The “unseen” labour. Daily workers in the raisin vineyards of the Western Peloponnese during the 19th century
Llorenç Ferrer-Alos, Organization of space and organization of work in Catalan vineyard in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Μαρία Ανεμοδουρά, Επίμορτοι καλλιεργητές και αμειβόμενοι εργάτες στα τσιφλίκια του Αλή πασά Τεπελενλή
18.00-20.00
Στρογγυλό τραπέζι / Round table “Transformations of labour and social sciences”
Christos Hadziiossif, M. Erdem Kabadayi, Georgia Petraki
Nicholas Theocarakis, Sigrid Wadauer
Coordinator: Leda Papastefanaki