research project "The Production of Work. Welfare, Labour-market and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour. (1880-1938)"
Friday, 28.11.2008
Morning
Chair: Josef Ehmer (Vienna)
9.15 – 9.30: Introduction
9.30 – 10.30: Sigrid Wadauer (Vienna): Work as Makeshift – Makeshift as Work?
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00: Laurence Fontaine (Paris): Poverty, Women and Capability in Early Modern Europe
12.00 – 14.00: Lunch break
Afternoon
Chair: Alexander Mejstrik (Vienna)
14.00 – 15:00: Steve King (Oxford): Locating a Dividing Line: Work, Welfare and Labour Market Architecture in Provincial England 1820-1895
15.00 – 15:30: Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30: Virginia Crossman (Oxford): Towards an Understanding of Work and Makeshifts in Ireland 1880-1920
Evening
19:00: Dinner
Saturday, 29.11.2008
Morning
Chair: Thomas Buchner (Linz)
9.30 – 10.30: Beate Althammer (Trier): Begging for Alms: A Legitimate or Illegitimate Way to Make Ends Meet? Changing Practices and Perceptions in the Nineteenth Century
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00: Jürgen Schmidt (Berlin): Work and Makeshifts in German Workers' Autobiographies about 1900
12.00 – 14:00: Lunch break
Afternoon
Chair: Sigrid Wadauer (Wien)
14.00 – 15.00: Tamara Stazic-Wendt (Trier): Unemployment, Poverty, and Makeshifts: The Experiences and Narratives of the Unemployed in Trier and Surroundings, 1918- 1933
15.00 – 15.30: Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30: Alexander Mejstrik (Vienna) Makeshifts Without Work? Young Workers, National-Socialist Education and Specialised Fun in Vienna, 1941-1944
16.30 – 16.45: Conclusion
If you are interested in attending the workshop, please fill in the registration form http://pow.univie.ac.at/newsletter-and-registration/ or send an e-mail to pow.wiso@univie.ac.at
This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project “The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938).”
With the support of BMWF/FWF START-Projekt Y367 - G14
ERC Starting Grant No 200918
University of Vienna