The conference investigates the history of informal work in all parts of Europe throughout the period from about 1870 to 1970.
Programm
Thursday, 31 August 2023
13:00
Introduction: Sibylle Marti (Bern), Christof Dejung (Bern), Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)
13:30
Panel 1: Informal Work in Rural Areas
Chair Juri Auderset (Bern)
Corinne Geering (Leipzig): When the State Arrived in the Rural Workshop: Home Industries in Austria-Hungary during the Age of Reforms
Jessica Richter (St. Pölten): Distinguishing Workers, Establishing Hierarchies: Categorizing Farm and other Workers in Disputes over Social Rights (Austria, 1920–1938)
Eloisa Betti (Padua): Rethinking informal work in Southern Europe though a gender lens: Italian rural women between modernization and exploitation (1950–1970)
15:45
Coffee Break
16:15
Panel 2: Women’s Home-Based Informal Work
Chair Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)
Leda Papastefanaki (Ioannina): “Industrious Women…” Women’s Informal Labour at Home in Athens and Piraeus (ca. 1890–1940)
Elisabeth Luif (Vienna/Budapest): Women’s “Return” to the Household? Home-Based Work in 1930s Austria
17:45
Reception
18:15
Keynote
Eileen Boris (Santa Barbara): The Gender of Informality: Intimate Labors in Transnational Perspective
Friday, 1 September 2023
09:00
Panel 3: Work Between Formal and Informal Relations
Chair Agnes Gehbald (Bern)
Sigrid Wadauer (Vienna): Ambivalences of (In)formality
David Cowan (Cambridge): Labour Informality and Waiters in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
10:30
Coffee Break
Aliki Vaxevanoglou (Athens): Social Relations, Family, and Informal Work in 20th Century Greece
12:00
Lunch
14:00
Panel 4: Informal Work in Dictatorships
Chair Christof Dejung (Bern)
Elisa Lopes da Silva (Lisbon): Out-of-work Life Experiences in Portugal’s Estado Novo (1933–1974)
Diego Latorre (Madrid): Informal Work and Labour Struggle: Domestic Workers’ Conflictivity during the Franco-era in Spain (1960–1975)
15:30
Coffee Break
16:00
Panel 5: Informal Work during the Boom
Chair Sibylle Marti (Bern)
Anna Elisabeth Keim (Halle-Wittenberg): Child of the Sixties: Exploring Temporary Work in the Federal Republic during the Boom
Saturday, 2 September 2023
09:00
Panel 6: Informal Work in Socialist Countries
Chair Susan Carin Zimmermann (Vienna)
Adrian Grama (Regensburg): Original Dualisms: Labour Law and Casual Work in Portugal and Romania (1920s–1960s)
Kateryna Burkush (Berlin): Informality and Work in Narrated Biographies of Women from Soviet Transcarpathia (1950s–1980s)
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Concluding Discussion