Program Workshop The Impact of Family and Demography on Labour Relations Worldwide, 1500-2000, 12-13 December 2014
Part of the project, A Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations,
funded by the Gerda Henkel Stifung
Friday 12 December
8.30-9.00 Welcome with coffee and tea
9.00-9.45 Introduction to the topic of the workshop and the Collaboratory:
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Jan Kok, Karin Hofmeester, Jan Lucassen, Richard Zijdeman
Session 1: Demographic Transition and Changing Labour Relations
Chair: Jan Kok
9.45-10.10 María M. Camou, ‘Shifting Labour Relations in Latin America along the XX century: Women Participation and Demographic Changes’
10.10-10.35 Enriquetta Camps-Cura, ‘Population Explosion and its Impact on the Productive Structure and Labour Relations of Developing Countries during the 20th century’
10.35-10.50 Coffee and tea break
10.50-11.15 Jacob Weisdorf and Felix Meier zu Selhausen ‘A Colonial Legacy of African Gender Inequality? Evidence from Christian Kampala, 1895-2011’
11.15-11.40 Steven Ruggles, ‘Demographic Transition, Marriage Patterns, and Labor Force’
11.40–12.00 Comments by Angélique Janssens
12.00–13.00 General Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
Session 2: Gender, Property Transfers and Labour Relations
Chair: Richard Zijdeman
14.00-14.25 Jan Kok wll present the paper of Mikolaj Szoltysek, ‘Can the Index of Patriarchy be useful for Global Taxonomies of Labour Relations?’
14.25-14.50 Dalenda Largueche, ‘Patriarchy in decline in post-independent Tunisia: Female labour from private to public space and new gender roles’
14.50-15.05 Coffee and tea break
15.05-15.25 Comments by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
15.25-16.25 General Discussion
16.25-17.25 Drinks
18.15 Dinner
Saturday 13 December
Session 3: Labour Relations and Norms about the Family
Chair: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
9.00-9.25 Corinne Boter, ‘Occupations in Marriage records 1812-1932, Enschede, Tilburg and Drenthe’
9.25-9.50 Arne Aelvoet, ‘Female economic empowerment and fertility decisions’
9.50-10.25 Cristina Borderías and Llorenç Ferrer-Alos, ‘The stem family and Catalan industrialization’
10.25-10.40 Coffee and tea break
10.40- 11.00 Comments by Ariadne Schmidt
11.00-12.15 General Discussion
12.15–13.15 Lunch break
Session 4: The Family Firm
Chair: Karin Hofmeester
13.15-13.40 Mary Louise Nagata, ‘Gender, Property Transfers, Labour Relations and the Family Firm’
13.40-14.05 Michiel de Haas, ‘Exploring labour migration and labour relations in native cash-crop farming in colonial Buganda’
14.05-14.20 Coffee and tea break
14.20-14.45 Manuela Martini, ’Immigrant family business, intra-firm relations and the importance of brotherhood between Southern and Western Europe in the 20th Century’
14.45-15.05 Comments by Hilde Greefs
15.05-16.05 Discussion
16.05.17.00 Final discussion started by comments by Karin Hofmeester and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk