Workshop

WORK AND MAKESHIFTS

Friday, November 28 – Saturday, November 29, 2008

Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna

Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna

Friday, November 28, 2008

Morning

Chair: Josef Ehmer (Vienna)

9.15 – 9.30 Introduction

9.30 – 10.30 Sigrid Wadauer (Vienna): Work as Makeshift – Makeshift as Work?

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00 Laurence Fontaine (Paris): Poverty, Women and Capability in Early Modern Europe

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch break

Afternoon

Chair: Alexander Mejstrik (Vienna)

14.00 – 15:00 Steve King (Oxford): Locating a Dividing Line: Work, Welfare and Labour Market Architecture in Provincial England 1820-1895

15.00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30 Virginia Crossman (Oxford): Towards an Understanding of Work and Makeshifts in Ireland 1880-1920

Evening

19:00 Dinner

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Morning

Chair: Thomas Buchner (Linz)

9.30 – 10.30 Beate Althammer (Trier): Begging for Alms: A Legitimate or Illegitimate Way to Make Ends Meet? Changing Practices and Perceptions in the Nineteenth Century

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Jürgen Schmidt (Berlin): Work and Makeshifts in German Workers' Autobiographies about 1900

12.00 – 14:00 Lunch break

Afternoon

Chair: Sigrid Wadauer (Wien)

14.00 – 15.00 Tamara Stazic-Wendt (Trier): Unemployment, Poverty, and Makeshifts: The Experiences and Narratives of the Unemployed in Trier and Surroundings, 1918- 1933

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 – 16.30 Alexander Mejstrik (Vienna) Makeshifts Without Work? Young Workers, National-Socialist Education and Specialised Fun in Vienna, 1941-1944

16.30 – 16.45 Conclusion

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please fill in the registration form or send an e-mail to pow.wiso@univie.ac.at