Conference
Women, work and the breadwinner ideology
(15th -20th century)
10-11 December 1999
University of Salzburg - Department of History
Friday 10 December
9.00 - 9.15 Opening Ceremony
9.15 - 11.00 The Ideology of the breadwinner system
Chair: Hahn Sylvia, University of Salzburg, A
Janssen Angelique, University of Nijmegen, NL
The male breadwinner family system - A short overview
Humphries Jane, University of Cambridge, UK
The origins, expansion and limitations of the breadwinner family system.
Frader Laura, Northeastern University / Havard University, USA
Engendering the right to work in France. Nineteenth and twentieth century
perspectives.
Commentator: Janssen Angelique, University of Nijmegen, NL
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 13.00 Feminist Movement and the breadwinner ideology
Chair: Goedl Doris, SOLUTION, Salzburg, A
Eichner Carolyn J., University of South Florida, USA,
Without discrimination of sex. The union des femmes and women's labour in
Paris Commune of 1871.
Wikander Ulla, University of Stockholm, S
The breadwinner ideology versus the public sphere; woman's place or woman's
duties.
Riberink Anneke, University of Amsterdam, NL
How male breadwinner ideology was attacked. The origins of the second feminist
movement in the Netherlands (1968-1973).
Commentator: Bauer Ingrid , University of Salzburg & Ludwig Boltzmann
Institut für Gesellschafts- und Kulturwissenschaft, A
13.00 - 15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 16.45 Family strategies and discourses
Chair: Scholliers Peter, Free University of Brussels, B
Strachan Glenda, University of Newcastle, AUS
"Fortunately for society the greater number of breadwinners still are men.."
Women's work in rural Austrialia, 1850-1900.
Burton Valerie, Memorial University of Newfoundland, CAN
The limits of male breadwinning: Work, wages and managing in the seafaring
ports of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.
Burke Catherine, University of Leeds, UK
Pitmen's wives and Buffer Girls: a study of the ideology of the family wage
in two contrasting South Yorkshire communities 1880s-1918.
Commentator: King Steve, Brookes University Oxford, GB
16.45 - 17.00 Coffee
17.00 - 18.15 Images of Women - Images of Men and the world of labour
Chair: Embacher Helga, University of Salzburg, A
Benninghaus Christina, University of Bielefeld, GER
Only birds of passage in their trade? Working girls and the breadwinner ideology
in Weimar Germany.
Whitworth Lesley, University of Brighton, UK,
Spending the dough: Breadwinning, prosperity and resource allocation in a
1930s boomtown.
Commentator: Hellmuth Thomas, University of Salzburg, A
18.15 Buffet
Saturday 11 December
9.00- 10.45 Worlds of Labour I
Chair: Ehmer Josef, University of Salzburg, A
Vanhaute Eric, University of Ghent, B
The breadwinner model as a historical accident. Labour markets in Belgium
(18th - 20th century).
Crowston Clare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA,
Women as "breadwinner": The seamstresses of eighteenth-century Paris
Sarti Raffaella, University of Bologna, I
Work and toil. Breadwinner ideology and women's work in 19th and 20th century
Italy.
Commentator: Scholliers Peter, Free University of Brussels, B
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.30 Worlds of Labour II
Chair: King Steve, Brookes University Oxford, GB
Cowman Krista, University of Leeds, UK
"Most of them talk all day": Attitudes to women workers in 19th century
Liverpool.
Humlesjoe Inger, University of Uppsala, S
"The ideology of male breadwinning in the formation of trade unions: The
union of typographers in Stockholm 1846-1909."
Commentator: Reith Reinhold, University of Salzburg, A
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.15 Labour Market, Gender Segregration and Discrimination
Chair: Bauer Ingrid , University of Salzburg & Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Gesellschafts- und Kulturwissenschaft, A
Schrover Marlou, University of Utrecht, NL
Technological change as the vehicle through which gender segregation on the
labour market is legitimised.
Hieden-Sommer Helga, Sociologist, Former Member of the Austrian Parliament,
Klagenfurt, A
Hidden mechanism of power: Concept of economy / the capitalist evaluation
of work and the difficulties of women to make a living on their own
Kreimer Margarete, Univiversity of Graz, A
The Impact of the breadwinner model on labour market segregation
Commentator: Buchinger Birgit & Gschwandtner Ulli, SOLUTION - Salzburg A
16.15 - 16.45 Coffee
16.45 - 18.00 Welfare state and the breadwinner ideology: International Perspectives
Chair: Janssen Angelique, University of Nijmegen, NL
Klein van der Marian, International Institute for Social History Amsterdam,
NL,
How to identify a male-breadwinner-ideology? The origins of the Dutch welfare
state, 1903.
Kulawik Therese, University of Berlin, GER
A strong and a weak breadwinner model? The German and Swedish welfare state
reconsidered.
Commentator: Strath Bo, European Institute, Florenz, I
18.00 Buffet
Conference Commitee: Josef Ehmer, Sylvia Hahn, Angelique Janssen
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