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Programm

 

February 10th, 2012


09:00 – 09:30 Sigrid Wadauer, Alexander Mejstrik (Vienna): Welcome and Introduction


Chair: Jessica Richter

09:30 – 10:30 Thomas Sokoll (Hagen): Labour, Vocational Commitment and Modern Capitalism: Max Weber and Beyond

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:50 Tuhina Ganguly (New Delhi): Conceptualizing Work-Employment in India: A Study of Chakri in Colonial Bengal (19th-20th Centuries)

11:50 – 12:50 Irina Vana (Vienna): Vocation as a Distinctive Feature in the Use of Labour Offices (Austria, 1918-1938)

12:50-14:15 Lunch break


Chair: Sigrid Wadauer

14:15 – 15:15 Wiebke Wiede (Trier): Vocational Training and the Unemployed Self in West Germany and Great Britain 1964-1990

15:15 – 16:15 David Meskill (New York): Punctuated Equilibria: Three „Leaps“ in the Evolution of the German Vocational Training System

16:15– 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30 Therese Garstenauer (Vienna): Service to the State: Work, Vocation, Livelihood - or Something Else Entirely?

 

February 11th, 2012


Chair: Thomas Buchner

10:00 – 11:00 Georg Schinko (Vienna): Beruf in Music-Making (Austria, ca. 1900-1938)

11:00 – 12:00 Tanja Paulitz (Graz): Engineer and Machine: On the Interplay between Professionalization, Scientific Knowledge and Gender in the German-Speaking Area, 1850-1930

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break


Chair: Alexander Mejstrik

13:30 – 14:30 Mareike Witkowski (Oldenburg): From Housemaids to Cleaning Ladies. Domestic Workers During the 20th Century

14:30 – 15:30 Sarah Speck (Berlin): Professionalizing Motherhood. Love and Care Work in SOS Children's Villages between Naturalization, Vocation and Employment

15:30 – 16:00 Conclusion

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