Current Activities

Recently published:

Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik (Hg.): The History of Labor Intermediation. Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (= International Studies in Social History 26). New York/Oxford 2015.

Description and table of contents

More information can be found here

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Call for papers: Street Vending in Comparison

Session at die European Social Science History Conference 2016 held in Valencia.

Please send a short abstract to sigrid.wadauer@univie.ac.at until the 25.4.2015

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Sonja Hinsch has been awarded the ÖGB publication price 2015 (Theodor Körner Förderpreises)

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Sonja Hinsch has been awarded a Research fellowship for international PhD-students at the Leibniz Institute of European History

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Several members of Production of Work will be organising panels at the European Social Science History Conference 2014 (Vienna):

The Gendered Normalisation of Work (Late 19th and 20th Centuries)

April 24th 2014 11.00-13.00, lecture hall 32 of the University of Vienna

Organisers: Jessica Richter and Irina Vana

Jessica Richter: Producing Household Labourers - Domestics and Farm Hands in Austria (1918-1938)

Celine Schoeni: Economic Crises and Gendered Normalisation of Work

Irina Vana: The Making of "Female Labour" by Official Labour Market Policies and the Usage of Public Labour Offices by Men and Women (Austria 1880-1938)

Performing and Avoiding Work

April 26th 2014 8.30-10.30, lecture hall 28 of the University of Vienna

Organisers: Sigrid Wadauer and Therese Garstenauer

Therese Garstenauer: Under Suspicion of Underperforming? Austrian Civil Servants in the First Half of the 20th Century

Stephan Hochleitner: To Work or Not To Work - Organisation of Activities in Non-European Contexts

Alexandra Oberländer: Contemplating Work, Exhausting Leisure: Soviet Working Attitudes Reconsidered (1953-1980)

The complete program of the ESSHC 2014 can be found here.

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Excerpt from the final activity report (26.02.2014)

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Georg Schinko has been awarded a dissertation completion fellowship from the university of Vienna

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series of lectures "Staat und Arbeit" of the "Forschungsschwerpunkt Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft": "Staat und Arbeit"

Sigrid Wadauer: Der Staat und die Erzeugung von Arbeit (Österreich 1880-1938)

Vienna, November 6th, 2013, 18:00-19:30

Übungsraum Alte Geschichte, University of Vienna, main building, Tiefparterre, Stiege 2

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Review for the volume: Alexander Mejstrik, Thomas Hübel, Sigrid Wadauer (eds.): Die Krise des Sozialstaats und die Intellektuellen. Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Frankreich by the Portal für Politikwissenschaft

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Workshop "Science at Work. How Academics and Other Specialists  Contributed to the Normalization of Work (Late 19^th and first half of the 20^th century)"

Vienna, September 10th to 11th, 2013

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Review for the volume: Thomas Buchner, Philip R. Hoffman-Rehnitz (eds.): Shadow economies and irregular work in urban Europe. 16^th to early 20^th centuries by the Economic History Review

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An anthology including two new articles from members of Production of Work has been published:

Nicole Colin, Franziska Schößler (Hg.): Das nennen Sie Arbeit? Der Produktivitätsdiskurs und seine Ausschlüsse. Heidelberg: Synchron 2013.

Announcement by the publisher

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new publication:

Alexander Mejstrik, Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner (eds): Die Erzeugung des Berufs / Production of 'Beruf'. Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (ÖZG) 1/2013.

Announcement by the publisher

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Panel at the European Social Science History Conference 2014:

"Performing and Avoiding Work"

Call for Papers

Vienna, April 23rd to 26th, 2014

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The online newspaper of the University of Vienna published a short overview of the research of Production of Work.

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Sigrid Wadauer was elected to the university council of the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria) on the 7^th of November 2012.

Newsletter of the university

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Workshop:

Science at Work. How Academics and Other Specialists Contributed to the Normalization of Work (late 19th and first half of the 20th century)

Vienna, September 9th to 11th, 2013

Call for Papers

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new publications:

Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Buchner, Alexander Mejstrik: The Making of Public Labour Intermediation. Job Search, Job Placement, and the State in Europe, 1880-1940, International Review of Social History 57 (2012), pp. 161-189.

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Alexander Mejstrik, Thomas Hübel, Sigrid Wadauer (ed.): Die Krise des Sozialstaats und die Intellektuellen: Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Frankreich. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus Verlag 2012.

Announcement by the publisher

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Irina Vana receives the Theodor Körner Award 2012

About the Theodor Körner Award

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Jessica Richter has been awarded this year's Johanna-Dohnal-stipend.

About the Johanna-Dohnal-prize

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Award of the studentship for young researchers by the University of Vienna, 2012 to Jessica Richter and Irina Vana

Announcement by the university

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Workshop: Work - Employment - Vocation. The Production of Differences and Hierarchies of Livelihood in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Vienna, February 10th to 11th, 2012

Conference report

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Synopsis of Previous Results (26.5.2011)