48th Linz Conference: 13 - 16 September 2012
Venue: Bildungshaus
Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, 4020 Linz, Austria
Organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History and
the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, kindly supported by the Friedrich
Ebert-Foundation, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria and the City
of Linz
Preparatory Group
Jürgen Mittag (Co-ordinator, Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University
of Bochum), Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam), Jürgen Hofmann (Berlin), David Mayer (Department of History,
University of Vienna), Bruno Groppo (Centre d'Histoire Sociale, Université
de Paris I), Berthold Unfried (ITH & Institute of Economic and Social
History, University of Vienna), Eva Himmelstoss (ITH)
Background and Approaches
With regard to the overreaching question of the current ITH-cycle considering
the impact of labour movements on societal and social development and progress,
the 2012 ITH-conference aims at examin-ing welfare state as well as cultural
arrangements of communities based on case studies. Both, the development
and the implementation of new ideas and norms through labour movements shall
be analysed on this occasion. Particular attention will be paid to similarities
and differences between the “Global North” and the “Global
South”.
Some Remarks concerning the organization
of the conference.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
31.8.2012
Simultaneous translation: English — German
Thursday, 13 September 2012
9.00 - 22.00
Registration of the participants at Jägermayrhof
15.00 - 17.00
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Scientific Committee
of ITH
17.30: Aperitif
18.00
Conference Opening by the President of ITH, Berthold Unfried, our
host, Mr Erwin Kaiser, from Jägermayrhof, and Walter Schuster from
the Linz City Archive
18.30
Keynote Address by Stefan
Berger (Bochum):
“Whatever did the labour movement do for us?” – The Impact
of Labour Movements on Social and Cultural Developments in
19.00
Welcome reception by the Mayor of Linz at
Jägermayrhof
20.30
Conferring of the René Kuczynski Prize 2012
for outstanding publications on the field of social and economic history
Friday, 14 September 2012
9.00
Introduction into the Conference by Berthold
Unfried (Vienna) and Jürgen
Mittag (Bochum)
9.15
SECTION I: Contributions
of Labour to the Development of the Welfare State
Chair: Jürgen Mittag (Bochum)
Uwe Fuhrmann (Berlin): Sozial
durch Arbeiterbewegung? Zur Entstehung des Modells „Soziale Marktwirtschaft“
Jörg Rösler (Berlin): Das
Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den Geboten proletarischer Arbeitsmoral
und den Ansprüchen sozialistischer Leistungsgesellschaft. Konflikte
und Konfliktlösungen in viereinhalb Jahrzehnten DDR-Existenz
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break
Patricia Toucas (Paris): The Role of Mutual Aid
Societies and Trade-Unions in the Building of the Welfare System in France
(1850-1940)
12.30
Reception by the Provincial Governor of
Upper Austria at Jägermayrhof
14.00
Chair: Berthold Unfried (Vienna)
Touraj Atabaki (Amsterdam): Labour,
Social Democracy and the Refashioning of Civil Society Discourse in the
Interwar Iran
Bruno Groppo (Paris): Notes on the
Latin American Labour Movements and their Contribution to the Construction
of the Social State
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
17.30
Intermediary Inventory
David Mayer (Vienna)
Discussion
18.30
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
20.00
Drama Film „Salt
oft the Earth“ (USA 1954, 92 Min., Englisch)
Introduction by Joachim Schätz
(Vienna): Claims for Equality, Agents of Modernization. Introductory
Notes on Salt of the Earth, Workers’ Movements and Film
Discussion after the film
Saturday, 15 September 2012
9.00
SECTION II: Contributions
of Labour to Cultural Development
Chair: Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam)
H. Shelton Stromquist (Iowa): Municipal
Socialism and its Impact on Everyday Life
Helmut Weihsmann (Wien): Urbanismus
im „Roten Wien“
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
Eszter Varsa (Budapest): Education
for Work in Child Protection in Early State Socialist Hungary
12.30
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
14.00
Chair: Jürgen Hofmann (Berlin)
Stefan Moitra (Bochum): Arbeiter-Erziehung
im Kinosaal? Ein (west)deutsch-britischer Vergleich
Christian Chevandier (Le Havre): An
Emancipatory Tool: French Trade Union Libraries
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
Derek Weber (Vienna): Zwischen moralischem
Appell und politischem Zwang. Dimitrij Schostakowitsch und die sowjetische
Musik der 1920er und 30er Jahre
Andreas Diers (Hannover): Die Rolle
von Wolfgang Abendroth in der Auseinandersetzung um das Betriebsverfassungsgesetz
18.15
Synthesis
Kevin J. Callahan (Connecticut): Beyond the Cultural
Turn?: Revisiting “Old” Labour History through the Example of
the Socialist International
Concluding Discussion
19.30
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Departure of the participants after breakfast