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Programme

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

 

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