Thursday, 31 August 2023

13:00
Introduction: Sibylle Marti (Bern), Christof Dejung (Bern), Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)

13:30
Panel 1: Informal Work in Rural Areas
Chair Juri Auderset (Bern)

Corinne Geering (Leipzig): When the State Arrived in the Rural Workshop: Home Industries in Austria-Hungary during the Age of Reforms

Jessica Richter (St. Pölten): Distinguishing Workers, Establishing Hierarchies: Categorizing Farm and other Workers in Disputes over Social Rights (Austria, 1920–1938)

Eloisa Betti (Padua): Rethinking informal work in Southern Europe though a gender lens: Italian rural women between modernization and exploitation (1950–1970)

15:45
Coffee Break

16:15
Panel 2: Women’s Home-Based Informal Work
Chair Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)

Leda Papastefanaki (Ioannina): “Industrious Women…” Women’s Informal Labour at Home in Athens and Piraeus (ca. 1890–1940)

Elisabeth Luif (Vienna/Budapest): Women’s “Return” to the Household? Home-Based Work in 1930s Austria

17:45
Reception

18:15
Keynote

Eileen Boris (Santa Barbara): The Gender of Informality: Intimate Labors in Transnational Perspective

Friday, 1 September 2023

09:00
Panel 3: Work Between Formal and Informal Relations
Chair Agnes Gehbald (Bern)

Sigrid Wadauer (Vienna): Ambivalences of (In)formality

David Cowan (Cambridge): Labour Informality and Waiters in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain

10:30
Coffee Break

Aliki Vaxevanoglou (Athens): Social Relations, Family, and Informal Work in 20th Century Greece

12:00
Lunch

14:00
Panel 4: Informal Work in Dictatorships
Chair Christof Dejung (Bern)

Elisa Lopes da Silva (Lisbon): Out-of-work Life Experiences in Portugal’s Estado Novo (1933–1974)

Diego Latorre (Madrid): Informal Work and Labour Struggle: Domestic Workers’ Conflictivity during the Franco-era in Spain (1960–1975)

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Panel 5: Informal Work during the Boom
Chair Sibylle Marti (Bern)

Anna Elisabeth Keim (Halle-Wittenberg): Child of the Sixties: Exploring Temporary Work in the Federal Republic during the Boom

Saturday, 2 September 2023

09:00
Panel 6: Informal Work in Socialist Countries
Chair Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)

Adrian Grama (Regensburg): Original Dualisms: Labour Law and Casual Work in Portugal and Romania (1920s–1960s)

Kateryna Burkush (Berlin): Informality and Work in Narrated Biographies of Women from Soviet Transcarpathia (1950s–1980s)

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Concluding Discussion