Workshop: Self-Employment in Historical Perspective

Thursday, December 15, 2016
12:00 Lunch & welcome
13:00 Karin Hofmeester (International Institute of Social History) 'The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000'
13:45 Dieter Bögenhold (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) 'Self-Employment and Industrial Relations: Historical and Theoretical Considerations on the Socioeconomic Heterogeneity of a Statistical Category'
14:30 Break
15:00 W. David Allen (University of Alabama in Huntsville) 'Self-Employment and Its Orientations: Socio-Economic Patterns of Labour Demand and Labour Relations'
15:45 Jan Lucassen (International Institute of Social History) 'Between Self-Employment and Wage Labour: Cooperative Subcontracting in Manual Brickmacking, Lippe-Detmold 1650-1900'
16:30 Break
17:00 Sigrid Wadauer (Universität Wien), 'Terms and Possibilities of Self-Employment: Austria, 1880-1938'

17:45 Dinks + Dinner

Friday, December 16, 2016
09:15 Gijs Kessler (International Institute of Social History) 'Self-Employment in the Soviet Union: the Antithesis to State Employment'
10:00 Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 'Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Russia'
10:45 Break
11:15 Rombert Stapel (International Institute of Social History) and Richard Zijdeman (International Institute of Social History/Stirling University) "The Influence of Educational Attainment on Self-Employment across Occupational Sectors: United States, 1850-2010'
12:00 Discussion
12:45 Lunch & good bye