{"id":480,"date":"2008-01-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/?p=480"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:24:20","slug":"labfem2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/en\/labfem2\/","title":{"rendered":"LABFEM2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in Europe and Beyond. International Conference 28-31 August 2008 in Stockholm, at the Norra Latin conference centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In September 2005 the first \u201cLabouring feminism conference\u201d was held at  the <a title=\"Munk Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca\/\">Munk  Centre, University of Toronto<\/a>. LABFEM2 continued this initiative to  focus on labour and gender from a historical perspective.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Jump to:<\/strong> <a href=\"#program\">Program<\/a> | <a href=\"#committees\">Committees<\/a> | <a href=\"#sponsors\">Sponsors and co-operation<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"program\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<h4>Thursday August 28<\/h4>\n<p><strong>From 13.00<\/strong> Registration at Arbetarr\u00f6relsens arkiv och bibliotek, Upplandsgatan 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>18.00<\/strong> Conference opening (AULAN)<\/p>\n<p><strong>18.15<\/strong> Wanja Lundby-Wedin, president of the Swedish LO (The Swedish Trade Union Confederation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>18.30 &#8211; 19.30<\/strong> Professor Alice Kessler Harris, Columbia University: Gendering labour history<\/p>\n<p><strong>19.30 &#8211; 20.30<\/strong> Reception at Norra Latin, (LJUSG\u00c5RDEN) sponsored by the Labour Movement Archives and Library<\/p>\n<h4>Friday August 29<\/h4>\n<p><strong>8.00 &#8211; 8.25<\/strong> Tai-Chi (outside the conference centre)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.30 &#8211; 10.00<\/strong> Parallel sessions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fri 1 Feminist advocacy, labor activism, and the expansion of the socio-economic rights of the workers: creating new transnational alliances for change (PELARSALEN)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ulla Ros\u00e9n, V\u00e4xj\u00f6 University<br \/>\nComment: Eileen Boris, University of Santa Barbara<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Guevarra, &#8220;Upgrading and (Dis)empowering Filipinas: The Philippines&#8217; Super Maid Program&#8221;, University of Illinois, Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne Franzway &amp; Mary Margaret Fonow, &#8220;Feminism, Queer Labor Organizing and Transnational Labor Activism&#8221;, University of South Australia and Arizona State University<\/li>\n<li>Kathie Muir, &#8220;Families, thugs and fairness: gender and activism in the Australian Rights at Work campaign&#8221;, University of Adelaide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 2 Politics at the point of consumption: women and community organizing (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Birgit Karlsson, University of Gothenburg<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Mercedes Steedman, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ontario<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Guard, &#8220;The Politics of Milk: Canada&#8217;s Housewife-activists in the Great Depression&#8221;, University of Manitoba<\/li>\n<li>Karen Hunt, &#8220;The politics of food as a site for women&#8217;s neighbourhood activism in First World War Britain.&#8221;, Keele University<\/li>\n<li>Judith Smart, &#8220;Consumption, Collectivism and Conservatism: Food in the Mobilisation of Housewives in Interwar South-eastern Australia&#8221;, RMIT University, Melbourne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 3 Exploring the historical regulation and reproduction of working bodies through the lens of gender and commodification (ROOM 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Joan Sangster, Trent University<br \/>\nComment: Leah F. Vosko, York University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julie Dowsett, &#8220;Lighting the Torches of Freedom: Commodity Feminism and a Century of Buying and Selling &#8216;Empowerment&#8217;.&#8221;, York University<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Goldstein, &#8220;Gendering Primitive Accumulation: Workfare and the &#8216;Universalized Male-Breadwinner Norm&#8217;, City University of New York<\/li>\n<li>Sandra Ignagni, &#8220;Eight hours work. Eight hours sleep. Eight hours play.&#8221;: The Gendered Regulation of Leisure in Canada, 1950-1968, York University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 4 Representations of women and work I (ROOM 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ebba Witt-Brattstr\u00f6m, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<br \/>\nComment: Ruth Percy, University of Southern Mississippi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hilde Danielsen, &#8220;Socialism, psychoanalysis and Feminism. Nic Waal on Frigidity in 1932.&#8221;, Rokkan Senter<\/li>\n<li>Ylva Mannerheim, &#8220;Swedish working-class women going abroad &#8211; a study tour to Moscow in April and May 1934&#8221;, Stockholm<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Thornton, &#8220;&#8216;You can&#8217;t do without the girls&#8217;: Popular Culture and Political Activism. London&#8217;s Factory Girls and the Spectacle of Protest, 1908-1911.&#8221; University of Melbourne.<\/li>\n<li>Ren\u00e9e Frangeur, &#8220;Kerstin Hesselgren a bordercrossing pioneer&#8221;, Link\u00f6ping University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>10.00 &#8211; 10.30 Coffee<\/h4>\n<h4>10.30 &#8211; 12.00 Parallel sessions<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Fri 5 Representations of women and work II (ROOM 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ruth Percy, University of Southern Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Ebba Witt-Brattstr\u00f6m, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karin Carlsson, &#8220;A heroine of Domestic Service? The Swedish Social Home Help Programme during the 1950s&#8221;, Stockholm University.<\/li>\n<li>Denyse Baillargeon, &#8220;The housewife and the Miraculous Pill: Advertisement for Medicine and the representation of women&#8217;s work and body in Montr\u00e9al newspapers, between the wars&#8221;, University of Montr\u00e9al<\/li>\n<li>Andr\u00e9e L\u00e9vesque, &#8220;Montreal Ladies Garment Workers in the late 1930s: labour, ethnic and gender culture&#8221;, McGill University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Fri 6 The communist woman and twentieth-century female activism (Pelarsalen)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Chair: Lars Bj\u00f6rlin, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<\/p>\n<p>Comment: June Hannam, University of the West of England<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elina Katainen, &#8220;Negotiating gender in the Nordic communist movement in the 1920s and 1930s&#8221;, University of Helsinki Rhonda L Hinther, &#8220;Generation Gap: Negotiating Space in the Postwar Canadian Ukrainian Left&#8221;, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau<\/li>\n<li>Eva Schmitz, &#8220;Organizing an international communist women&#8217;s movement in the 1920s in the context of the Bolsjevik Revolution 1917&#8221;, Halmstad University College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Fri 7 Politics of Food and Cultures of Citizenship: Bodies, Boundaries, and Identities (ROOM 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Irene Andersson, Malm\u00f6 university college<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Kirsti Niskanen, Nordic Centre for gender research, Oslo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marlene Epp, &#8220;Mennonite Cookbooks in Twentieth Century North America: Women&#8217;s Labour as Community Identity&#8221;, University of Waterloo<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Helps, &#8220;&#8216;Alleged to be Hungry&#8217;: Work, Family, and Food in 1930s North America&#8221;, University of Toronto<\/li>\n<li>Franca Iacovetta, &#8220;Community, Boundary, and identity: Banquets, Beauties, and Christmas Parties&#8230;.&#8221; University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Fri 8 Positioning women in the eighteenth-century European town (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Anu Lahtinen, University of Turku<br \/>\nComment: Elaine Chalus, Bath Spa University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deborah Simonton, &#8220;Negotiating the economy of the eighteenth-century town: gender and space in Northern Europe&#8221;, University of Southern Denmark<\/li>\n<li>Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen, &#8220;Women workers in relation to the market in eighteenth century Turku (\u00c5bo)&#8221; University of Turku<\/li>\n<li>Lauri Suurmaa, &#8220;Women in the craftsman&#8217;s household in Tallinn in the 18th century&#8221;, Tallinn University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>12.00 &#8211; 13.00 Lunch at Norra Latin<\/h4>\n<p><strong>13.00 &#8211; 14.00 Professor Miriam Glucksmann, Essex University: Feminist Labouring &#8211; 30year reflections on women on the line(PELARSALEN)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>14.00 &#8211; 15.30 Parallel sessions<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Fri 9 The Labour of Politics: women as paid political workers and union organisers in early twentieth century Britain (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Linda Lane Gothenburg University<br \/>\nComment: Pat Thane, University of London<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June Hannam, &#8220;&#8216;Dedicated work and the joy of comradeship&#8217;: women as paid organizers and propagandists for the British Labour Party between the wars&#8221;, University of the West of England<\/li>\n<li>Cathy Hunt, &#8220;&#8216;Women will not organise on a sex basis\u00b4 sex versus class in the two British trade unions in the early twentieth century&#8221;, Coventry University<\/li>\n<li>Krista Cowman, &#8220;For labour or for women? From socialism to suffrage with Mary Gawthorpe&#8221;, University of Lincoln<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 10 Tensions over working women&#8217;s activism in the women&#8217;s co-operative guild, England and Scotland (ROOM 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Yvonne Hirdman, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Pernilla Jonsson, Uppsala University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eileen Yeo, &#8220;Is Hairdressing Feminist? Tensions over Activism in the Scottish Women&#8217;s Co-operative Guild, 1892-1920&#8221;, University of Strathclyde<\/li>\n<li>Gill Scott, &#8220;Votes for Which Women? The English Women&#8217;s Co-operative Guild and the Suffrage, 1904-1914&#8221;, University of Brighton.<\/li>\n<li>Valerie Wright, &#8220;The Use of a Gendered Citizenship. The Scottish Co-operative Women&#8217;s Guild, c. 1918-1939&#8221;, University of Glasgow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 11 Transnational perspectives on feminist labour history (Pelarsalen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Silke Neunsinger, Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm<br \/>\nComment: Camilla Elmhorn, Stockholm University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ann Ighe &amp; Birgit Karlsson, &#8220;International migration, paid domestic work and the modernisation of the labour market in Sweden 1945-1970 &#8211; a project outline&#8221;, Gothenburg University<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy Sue Cobble, &#8220;Transatlantic Labour Feminism in the Post-World War II Era&#8221;, Rutgers University<\/li>\n<li>Lars Olsson, &#8220;Gendered labor migration. Polish women and men at work in southern Sweden, 1904-1914&#8221;, V\u00e4xj\u00f6 University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Fri 12 Women in parliaments (ROOM 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Josefin R\u00f6nnb\u00e4ck, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<br \/>\nComment: Christina Florin, Stockholm University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gisela Notz, &#8220;Labour feminism and female activism in Germany after World War II&#8221;, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Bonn<\/li>\n<li>Christl Wickert, &#8220;Labour feminism and female activism in Weimar Germany&#8221;, Berlin<\/li>\n<li>Camilla Norrbin, &#8220;In Their Own Words. Women in the Swedish Parliament 1922-1970.&#8221;, Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research Gothenburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>15.30 &#8211; 16.00 Coffee<\/h4>\n<p><strong>16.00 &#8211; 18.00 Roundtable Alice Kessler Harris work revisited (PELARSALEN)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Discussants: Daniel E. Bender, University of Toronto, Gro Hagemann, University of Oslo; Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University; Kimberley Philipps College of William and Mary; Cirila Quintero-Ramirez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Leah Vosko, York University; Ulla Wikander, Stockholm University<\/p>\n<h4>19.00 Conference Dinner at Norra Latin<\/h4>\n<h3>Saturday August 30<\/h3>\n<h4>8.00 &#8211; 8.25 Tai-Chi (outside the conference centre)<\/h4>\n<h4>8.30 &#8211; 10.00 Parallel sessions<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sat 1 Organizing across divides: women workers and working class politics in India (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ragnhei\u00f0ur Kristj\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir, University of Iceland<\/p>\n<p>Comment: Amrita Chhachhi, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Piya Chatterjee, &#8220;Hungry for Justice: Alliance Work and the Politics of NGO-ization in Indian Plantation Women&#8217;s Labor Activism.&#8221;, University of California Riverside<\/li>\n<li>Jayati Lal, &#8220;Citizenship, Labor, and the Limits of Rights Based Claims for Women Garment Factory Workers in India&#8221;, University of Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Svati Shah, &#8220;Sex Workers&#8217; Organizing in India: Historical and Political Perspectives.&#8221;, Wellesley College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 2 Work in and outside home (PELARSALEN)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Sandra Ignagni, York University<br \/>\nComment: Anna Thoursie, The Swedish Municpial Workers&#8217; Union<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nathalie Le Bouteillec, &#8220;Maternal leave: For the Protection of Women or for the Well Being of the Nation?&#8221;, University of Picardie-Jules Verne, CURAPP and INED<\/li>\n<li>Tobias Karlsson &amp; Maria Stanfors,&#8221;Gender and the role of unions: earnings differentials among Swedish tobacco workers in 1898&#8243;, University of Lund (paper will be presented by Maria Stanfors only)<\/li>\n<li>Majda Hrzenjak, &#8220;The Status of Domestic Work and Women&#8217;s Position in the Labour Market: A Pilot Experiment of Paid Domestic Work in Households with Small Children (the Case of Slovenia)&#8221;, Peace Institute Ljubljana<\/li>\n<li>Inger Jonsson, &#8220;Restructuring gendered working time regimes? Experiences from the Swedish elderly care&#8221;, Uppsala university<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 3 Gendered divisions of labour I (ROOM 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair :Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Lena Martinsson, G\u00f6teborg University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cynthia Loch-Drake, &#8220;Unpacking &#8216;Alberta beef&#8217;: Women and work in Edmonton packinghouses, 1947-1979&#8221;, York University<\/li>\n<li>Maria Vallstr\u00f6m, &#8220;Fathers little helper &#8211; the construction and contradiction of gender in a lumberjack village&#8221;, Uppsala university<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Meyer, &#8220;&#8216;She-town&#8217;: Mechanization, Unemployment, and Male Fears of Women on the American Automotive Shop Floor from the 1920s to the 1940s&#8221;, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 4 Feminist organizing I (ROOM 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ulla Wikander, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christine Collette, &#8220;Feminism, the British Labour Party and, the Women&#8217;s National Joint Committee, 1960s &#8211; 1980s&#8221;, independent scholar, France<\/li>\n<li>Jana G\u00fcnther, &#8220;German Socialist Women &#8211; A Difficult Task in German Women&#8217;s History&#8221;, Humboldt university<\/li>\n<li>Cathy Brigden, &#8220;Organising by women for women: the impact of separate organising by Australian women trade unionists in the inter-war years&#8221;, RMIT University, Melbourne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>10.00 &#8211; 10.30 Coffee<\/h4>\n<h4>10.30 &#8211; 12.00 Parallel sessions<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sat 5 Social reproduction and intersectionality in memory of Christiane Harzig (Pelarsalen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Elisabeth Elg\u00e1n, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<br \/>\nComment: Lars Olsson, V\u00e4xj\u00f6 University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paula Mulinari, &#8220;It is so much more than cleaning tables and smiling &#8211; you have to be exotic to&#8221; Examining the ways in which service work is gendered and racialized. University of Link\u00f6ping<\/li>\n<li>Eileen Boris, &#8220;The Intimate as Public: The Bonds of Home Care&#8221;, University of Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<li>Franca Iacovetta, &#8220;A Labour Feminist&#8217;s Transnational Journey: Christiane Harzig&#8217;s Domestic Workers Around the Globe Project&#8221;, University of Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 6 Citizenship or survival: the gendered possibilities of working class citizenship in interwar Canada (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Joan Sangster, Trent University<br \/>\nComment: Magda Fahrni, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shirley Tillotson, &#8220;Paying the Price of Citizenship: Taxpaying, Working Class Family Finances, and the Municipal Franchise, 1894 to 1936&#8221;, Dalhousie University, Halifax<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne Morton, &#8220;The Montreal Women&#8217;s Directory: Charity, Redemptive Citizenship, and Unmarried Mothers in Interwar Quebec&#8221;, McGill University, Montr\u00e9al<\/li>\n<li>LiLynn Wan, &#8220;&#8216;Keep Canada Canadian&#8217;: Race, and the Rights and Restrictions of Citizenship in Vancouver, 1919-1939&#8221;, Dalhousie University, Halifax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 7 Gendered Division of labour II (Room 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eva Schandevyl, &#8220;Women&#8217;s access to Law courts in Europe: The (Late) Case of Belgium&#8221; Vrije Universiteit Brussel<\/li>\n<li>Cristina Border\u00edas, &#8220;The politics of women&#8217;s work: (Spain, 1836-1936)&#8221;, Barcelona University<\/li>\n<li>Jean Franklin Hancher, &#8220;Please, Teacher! Help me do up my buttons!: Labour Market Segmentation in the Public Elementary Schools of Ontario&#8221;, York university<\/li>\n<li>Rosemarie Fiebranz, &#8220;I never liked doing housework&#8221; A discussion on intersections of norms, made visible by a woman doing men&#8217;s work in forestry in mid-20th century Sweden, Uppsala University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 8 Feminist Organizing II (Room 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Ulla Wikander, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Cirila Quintero Ramirez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dominique Cl\u00e9ment, &#8220;&#8216;Matrimony is the Most Important Career of All for a Woman.&#8217; Sexual Discrimination in the Workplace in Canada, 1953 -1984&#8221;, University of Victoria<\/li>\n<li>Kristina Lindholm, &#8220;The Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) constructing feminism 1970 &#8211; 2001&#8221; Link\u00f6ping University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>12.00 &#8211; 13.00 Lunch at Norra Latin<\/h4>\n<h4>13.00 &#8211; 14.00 Dorothy Driver, University of Adelaide:<br \/>\nWomen writing Africa (PELARSALEN)<\/h4>\n<h4>14.00 &#8211; 15.30 The world in the basement. Sources on<br \/>\ngender and women&#8217;s history in labour movement<br \/>\narchives (PELARSALEN)<\/h4>\n<p>Chair: Anette Eklund-Hansen, Labour Movement Archives and Library &amp; Workers Museum, Copenhagen<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ilse Fischer, Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Friedrich-Ebertstiftung, Bonn<\/li>\n<li>Ulf J\u00f6nson &amp; Kalle Laajala, Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm<\/li>\n<li>Jenneke Quast, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam<\/li>\n<li>Berith Backlund, University Library of Gothenburg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>15.30 &#8211; 16.00 Coffee<\/h4>\n<h4>16.00 &#8211; 17.30 Parallel sessions<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sat 9 Delivering Cleanliness: Laundry Workers, Office Cleaners, and Wives in the US, Canada and Britain (ROOM 252)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto<br \/>\nComment: Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susana Miranda, &#8220;Portuguese Immigrant Women Resist Contracting-Out in Toronto&#8217;s Building Cleaning Industry, 1970s-1980s&#8221;, York University<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Carson, &#8220;Corporate Bullies, Laundry Organizing and Union Renewal in the 21st Century&#8221;, Ryerson University<\/li>\n<li>Ruth Percy, &#8220;Representations of Womanhood in the Labour Press in 1930&#8217;s Britain&#8221;, University of Southern Mississippi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 10 Representations of women and work in national censuses (ROOM 255)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Anita Nyberg, Stockholm University<br \/>\nComment: Lisa Helps, University of Victoria<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric W. Sager, &#8220;Women, work and wages in early twentieth-century Canada&#8221;, University of Victoria<\/li>\n<li>Hege Roll Hansen, &#8220;The construction of work and gender in Norwegian Census&#8221;, Oslo University<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Stephen, &#8220;Waiting on the &#8216;long run&#8217;: Robert Hamilton Coats and the politics of unemployment at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canada, 1935-1940&#8221;, York University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sat 11 Women&#8217;s work in long lines (ROOM 254)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chair: Anu Lahtinen, University of Turku<br \/>\nComment: Deborah Simonton, University of Southern<br \/>\nDenmark<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giovanna Benadusi, &#8220;Women and Work in Early Modern Italy&#8221;, University of South Florida<\/li>\n<li>Maria \u00c5gren, &#8220;Gender and work in the early modern world: some questions and preliminary answers&#8221; Uppsala University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sat 12 Feminist working-class literature (PELARSALEN)<\/h3>\n<p>Chair: Dorothy Driver, University of Adelaide<br \/>\nComment: Ebba Witt-Brattstr\u00f6m, S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University College<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Janet Zandy, &#8220;Writing the Common Woman: Formations of American Working-Class Women&#8217;s Literature&#8221;, Rochester Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<li>Soma Marik, &#8220;The Love of Worker bees: Cultural Construction of Gender in Early Post revolutionary Soviet Russia 1918-25&#8221;, RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan<\/li>\n<li>Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, &#8220;Burst soap bubbles &#8211; representations of the &#8220;backlash&#8221; of women&#8217;s emancipation in Finnish working-class culture during the 1910s and the 1920s.&#8221; University of Helsinki.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>19.30 &#8211; 22.00 Conference Pub<\/h4>\n<p>at Rydbergs Bar &amp; Matsal, Drottninggatan 88<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday August 31<\/h3>\n<h4>9.00 &#8211; 10.00 Professor Anita Nyberg Stockholm University, Labour force data &#8211; ideology or reality? (MUSIKSALEN)<\/h4>\n<h4>10.00 &#8211; 10.30 Coffee<\/h4>\n<h4>10.30 &#8211; 12.00 Feminist theory and working class history<\/h4>\n<p>Chair: Ann Ighe, University of Gothenburg<br \/>\nComment: Elizabeth Jameson, University of Calgary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joan Sangster, &#8220;Words of Experience\/Experiencing Words: Reading Working Women&#8217;s Letters to Canada&#8217;s Royal Commission on the Status of Women&#8221;, Trent University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The uses of Joan Scott: Concepts and theories in Nordic studies of gender and work in the 1990s<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ulla Manns, &#8220;Joan Scott in a Nordic gender context&#8221;, University College of S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn<\/li>\n<li>Ann-Catrin \u00d6stman, &#8220;The Uses of Joan Scott: Nordic women&#8217;s history and challenges of mainstream historiography&#8221;, \u00c5bo Akademi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>12.00 Closing comment<\/h4>\n<p>by Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m, Stockholm University<\/p>\n<h4>13.00 &#8211; 18.00 Excursion: A feminist sightseeing tour to Stockholm&#8217;s working women&#8217;s history<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"committees\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Planning committee<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Perihan Aydin<\/strong>, Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Silke Neunsinger<\/strong>, Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Yvonne Svanstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, Department of Economic History, University of Stockholm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Anna Thoursie<\/strong>, Agora, Stockholm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prof. Ulla Wikander<\/strong>, Department of Economic History, University of Stockholm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prof. Ebba Witt Brattstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, Comparative Literature, University College of S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>International advisory committee<\/h3>\n<p>Professor Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara; Professor Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers university; Professor Dorothy Driver, University of Adelaide\u00b8 Professor Miriam Glucksmann, University of Essex; Professor Gro Hagemann, Oslo university; Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University; Professor Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto; Professor Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University; Nathalie Le Bouteillec, Universit\u00e9 Picardie-Jules Verne, Dr Gisela Notz, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation Bonn; Professor Bente Rosenbeck, university of Copenhagen; Associate Professor Kimberly L. Phillips, William and Mary, Williamsburg<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"sponsors\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors and co-operation<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Agora\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arenagruppen.se\/ag5\/default.asp?cat=agora&amp;act=start\">Agora<\/a>, Stockholm<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.arenagruppen.se\/agora<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Bank of Sweden  Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rj.se\/\"> The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation<\/a> (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.rj.se\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Canadian  Committee on Women's History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cha-shc.ca\/ccwh-cchf\/\">Canadian Committee on Women&#8217;s History<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.cha-shc.ca\/ccwh-cchf\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Department of  Economic History, Stockholm University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ekohist.su.se\/\"> Department of Economic History, Stockholm University<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ekohist.su.se\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FAS, Swedish Council for  Working Life and Social Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.se\/\"> FAS Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.fas.se\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Friedrich Ebert  Stiftung\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fes.de\/\">Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.fes.de\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The International  Institute of Social History (IISH)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iisg.nl\/\"> The International Institute of Social History (IISH)<\/a>, Amsterdam<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.iisg.nl\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"International  Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ith.or.at\/\"> International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)<\/a><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ith.or.at\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Labour Movement  archives and library\" href=\"..\/\">Labour Movement archives and library<\/a>, Stockholm<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/arbark.se\/<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stockholm Transport Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.se\/Templates\/SubStart.aspx?id=3204\">Stockholm Transport Museum<\/a> (Sp\u00e5rv\u00e4gsmuseet)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.sl.se\/Templates\/SubStart.aspx?id=3204<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swedish Research Council  (Vetenskapsr\u00e5det)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vr.se\/\">Swedish Research Council<\/a> (Vetenskapsr\u00e5det)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.vr.se\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working-Class History in Europe and Beyond. 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