16 February 2007
From 12:30 Registration
13:00-14:00 Welcome and Keynote Speech
Andreas Gestrich (Director, GHIL)
Matt Perry (Univ. of Newcastle) / Matthias Reiss (GHIL)
Keynote Speech: Bert Klandermans (Free University Amsterdam)
14:00-14:45 Historical Introduction
Richard Croucher (Middlesex University): Historical Reflections on the Protest of the Unemployed.
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Unemployed Protest in 19th Century Britain
Chair: Andrew Thorpe (University of Wales Bangor)
Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf): The March of the Blanketeers.
Jörg Neuheiser (Univ. of Cologne): Unemployment and Protest in the 1830s: The Factory Movement, the Anti-Poor Law Agitation and Popular Politics in the North of England.
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 The Golden Age of Unemployed Protest: The Interwar Years
Chair: David De Vries (Tel Aviv University)
Jeannette Gabriel (City University of New York): “Natural Love for a Good Thing”: The Unemployed Workers Movements’ Struggle for a Government Jobs Program, 1931-1942.
Alex Zukas (National University, San Diego, CA): The Social Production and Construction of Contested Space: Explaining Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr at the End of the Weimar Republic.
Philip H. Slaby (Guilford College, Greensboro, NC): Violating the ‘Rules of Hospitality’: The Protests of Jobless Immigrants in Interwar France”.
19:15 Dinner in GHIL Library
17 February 2007
09:30-11:00 The Media
Chair: Karl Christian Führer (Carl v. Ossietzky-Univ., Oldenburg)
Antoine Capet, FRHistS (Univ. of Rouen): Protests of the Unemployed in Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club, 1937-1945.
Ingrid Hayes (l'Université Paris 1 - La Sorbonne): Lorraine Coeur d’Acier, 1979-1980: A Radio Station in Longwy against the Dismantling of the Steel Industry.
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30- 13:30 Beyond Collective Protest
Chair: Cybele Locke (New London, Connecticut)
Michael Seidman (University of North Carolina-Wilmington), Protesting Individuals: The French Unemployed in the 1930s.
Stephanie Ward (Univ. of Aberystwyth): New Perspectives on British Interwar Unemployed Protests: The Case of the Means Test.
Malcolm Chase (Univ. of Leeds): Unemployment without Protest: the Ironstone Mining Communities of East Cleveland in inter-war Britain.
13:30-14:30 Sandwich Lunch
14:30-16:00 Recent Protest Activities
Chair: Matt Perry (Univ. of Newcastle)
Deborah Vietor-Englander (Technical University of Darmstadt): The latest International Research into the Protests of the Workless.
Didier Chabanet (Institute of Political Studies, Lyon) and Jean Faniel (CRISP, Brussels): Explaining the Mobilization of the Unemployed: About some Theoretical Issues.
16:00-16:30 Final Comment
Dick Geary (Univ. of Nottingham)