Labour History beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations
45. Linz Conference (September 10–13, 2009)
Venue: Bildungshaus
Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, A-4020 Linz, Austria
Organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History and Chamber
of Labour of Upper Austria, kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of
Research, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz and
the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Preparatory Committee: Marcel van der Linden
(Co-ordinator, IISH Amsterdam), Ravi Ahuja (School of Oriental and African
Studies, London), Bruno Groppo (Centre d'Histoire Sociale, Université
de Paris I), Dirk Hoerder (North American Center for Transborder Studies,
Arizona State University), David Mayer (Institute for Social and Economic
History, Vienna University), Jürgen Mittag (Institute for Social Movements,
Ruhr University of Bochum), Silke Neunsinger (Labour Movement Archives and
Library, Stockholm), Berthold Unfried (ITH & Institute for Social and
Economic History, Vienna University), Eva Himmelstoss (ITH)
Some Remarks concerning the
organization of the conference.
PROGRAM 10
September, 2009
Simultaneous translation: English — German
Thursday, 12 September, 2009
9.00 - 22.00
Registration of the participants at Jägermayrhof
13.00 - 14.30
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board of ITH
14.30: Break
15.00 - 17.00
Annual General Meeting of the Member Institutes
of ITH
17.30: Aperitif
18.00 - 20.00
Conference Opening by the President of ITH, Berthold Unfried, representatives
of the City of Linz (Walter Schuster), the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria
(Reinhold Entholzer) and the AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof (Erwin Kaiser)
Conferring of the René Kuczynski Prize 2009
for outstanding publications on the field of social and economic history
to Marcel van der Linden for his book "Workers
of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History", Leiden 2008
afterwards
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Franz Dobusch,
at Jägermayrhof
Friday, 11 September, 2009
9.00
Introduction: Berthold Unfried (Wien):
ITH's conference cycle 2007-2009 "Labour History beyond Borders"
Introduction to the conference: Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam)
9.30
PANEL I (State of Labour History: Concepts,
Explorations and Perspectives)
Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Dick Geary (Nottingham): The
Benefits and Pitfalls of Comparative Labour History across National Boundaries
Coffee break
Rana P. Behal (New Delhi): Changing
Paradigms of South Asian Labour Historiography
12.30
Reception by the Provincial Governor of
Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer, at the Youth Hostel of Linz, Stanglhofweg
3
14.00
PANEL II (Global Entanglements
of Textile Industries and their Implications for Labour Relations and Struggles)
Chair: Karin Fischer
Andrea Komlosy (Wien): Die Gleichzeitigkeit
des Ungleichzeitigen: Standortkombinationen, Arbeitsverhältnisse und
Protestformen in der Textilindustrie, 1700-2000
Sven Beckert (Harvard): Labor Regimes
after Emancipation: The Case of Cotton
Coffee break
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Amsterdam):
Covering the world: textile workers and globalization, 1650-2000. Experiences
and results of a collective research project
17.30
Intermediary inventory by Jan Lucassen
(Amsterdam): Which tracks of interpretation have been pursued?
afterwards: Discussion
18.30
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
20.00
Public Panel Discussion: "Migration
von Arbeitsplätzen? Auswirkungen globaler Produktionsnetzwerke auf
Arbeitsverhältnisse und die Arbeiterbewegung"
Venue: Wissensturm der VHS Linz, Top Floor,
Room 15/04, Kärntner Str. 26
Organizers: ITH, Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, VHS Linz
Podium: Sven Beckert (Harvard University),
Andrea Komlosy (Vienna University), Karin Lukas (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute
for Human Rights, Vienna) and Erich Schwarz (Chairman of works council,
MAN Enterprise, Steyr)
Moderation: Marcel van der Linden (IISH Amsterdam)
The discussion will be held in GERMAN without simultaneous translation!
Saturday, 12 September, 2009
9.00
PANEL III (Labour,
Migration and the Transformation of Rural Regions)
Chair: David Mayer
Michele Ford (Sydney): Constructing
Legality – Defining Irregular Labour Migration in Thailand and Malaysia
Abdoulaye Kane (Gainesville, Florida):
Senegalese Migrants in Europe and the United States, and Home Connections:
Remittances and Social Change in the Senegal River Valley
Coffee break
Dirk Hoerder (Tempe, Arizona): Capitalization
of Agriculture, 1850s to 1960s: Rural Migrations in a Global Perspective
13.00
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
14.30
PANEL III
Minjie Zhang (Hangzhou, China): Urbanization
and Migrant Workers in Yiwu, China
15.45
PANEL IV (Religion
and Class Formation in Global Perspective)
Chair: Berthold Unfried
Lex Heerma van Voss (Amsterdam): Competing
identities: religion and working class formation
Coffee break
Juliana Ströbele-Gregor (Berlin):
Soziale Krise und Ausbreitung des evangelikalen Fundamentalismus in Lateinamerika
18.00
Closing discussion
Moderation: Jan Lucassen (Amsterdam)
19.00
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, 13 September, 2009
Departure of the participants after breakfast