"Mercy or Right"
Development of Social Security Systems
40th Linz Conference (September 16th–19th,
2004)
organized by ITH and AK-OÖ (Chamber of
Labour of Upper Austria)
Provisional Schedule
Thursday, September 16, 2004
9:00 am to 10:00 pm:
Registration
of the participants at AK-Bildungshaus (cultural and educational centre
of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour)
Jägermayrhof, Römerstr. 98a, A-4020 Linz
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm to 6:30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes of ITH
Decision on the future of ITH
(Translation German/English/French provided)
Cf. Opinions about ITH's future
7:00 pm:
Conference Opening
Prof. Gabriella Hauch (President of ITH), Christian
Forsterleitner (City of Linz) Josef Ackerl
(Upper Austrian provincial government), Prof. Rudolf Ardelt
(Rector of the Johannes-Kepler-University at Linz), and Erwin Kaiser
(Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour).
Presentation of the René
Kuczynski Prize
Awarding of the Herbert
Steiner Prize
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Franz
Dobusch, in Jägermayrhof
Lectures and Sessions
Abstracts of the submitted papers
Friday, September 17, 2004
from 9:00 am:
Welcoming of the participants by the organizers of the conference: Reinhold
Entholzer (vice president of the Upper Austrian
Chamber of Labour) and Gabriella Hauch (president
of ITH).
From Mercy to Right
Chair: Brigitte Pellar
- Brigitte Pellar (Vienna):
Introduction
Alexander Prenninger (Salzburg): Problems of
social health insurance in the"take off" period – the example
of Salzburg (1888-1919)
Sabine Veits-Falk (Salzburg): Public welfare
in Austria in the 19th century (in comparison with Central, West and North
European public welfare systems)
Robert Grandl (Vienna): The history of self
governing social insurance in Austria/Central Europe from the beginnings
until 1918
Reception by the Provincial
Governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer,
in the Youth Hostel of Linz
from 2:00 pm:
Ways to Modernity
Chair: Alexander Prenninger
Wessel Visser (Stellenbosch):
Getting Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) into Gear. The ANC
Governements Dilemmato Provide a System of Social Security for the "New"
South Africa
Rajagopal Dhar Chakraborty (Calcutta): Population
Ageing and Old Age Security in China and India
Zhang Minjie (Hangzhou): From Family Security
and Unity Security to Social Security. An outline on China’s Social
Security System since 1950
Wang Xueyu (Shandong): China’s
Minimal Living Security System
8 pm: Public Panel Discussion - hall of
the Chamber of Labour in the city of Linz
"Future Social Welfare State - Back to the 19th Century?" (a dialogue
on financing models and alternatives like common unearned basic income for
all citizens)
On the panel:
Josef Wöss (Vienna, Austrian Trade Unions/Viennese
Chamber of Labour) • Sascha Liebermann
(Univ. of Dortmund) •and representatives of unions
and employer's associations
Moderator: Peter Huemer (jounalist and historian)
For more details cf. the German
version of our WebSite
The discussion will be held in GERMAN without translation! Bus transfer
provided (departing 7:30pm from Jägermayrhof and 10:15pm from the Arbeiterkammer
building in the city).
Saturday, September 18, 2004
from 9:00 am:
Models of social security – commonalities and
differences
Chair: Marjaliisa Hentilä
Nils Edling (Stockholm): Universalism
for the working class: Northern European unemployment
insurance in the 20th century
Tapio Bergholm (Helsinki): Child Benefit System
as Solution and a Problem of Finnish Industrial Relations – Employers,
Trade Unions and State constructing the Finnish Welfare State (1947–48)
Seppo Hentilä (Helsinki): Why the Scandinavian
Social Security Systems became a Model (commentary)
Seth Wigderson (Augusta/Maine, Winnipeg/Manitoba):
The Beveridge Report, Old Age Security, Equality and Workers Power in Britain,
Canada and the United States
Patricia Flier (La Plata): Patricia Flier
(La Plata): La sécurité sociale en Argentine. De la généralisation
du système au commencement de la grande crise. 1943–1976
from 2:00 pm:
Tradition and Transformation
Chair: Jürgen Hofmann
Merita Vaso Xhumari (Tirana):
A comparative analysis on old-age pension schemes in Albania,
Kosovo, and Macedonia.
Elaine Fultz (ILO Subregional Office Budapest):
Commentary
Martina Rupp (Marburg): FRG and GDR Old Age
Pension Schemes in the 1950s and 1960s.
Stefan Bollinger (Berlin): Social GDR: Only
Memory – or Challenge?
Sunday, September 19, 2003
Departure of the participants after breakfast
Simultaneous translation into English,
French and German
The respective chairperson will agree with the panelists
on the length of each paper and will decide on the breaks. A minimum of
60 minutes is provided for questions and answers and free discussion in
each session.