Labnet: Conf Ann: Intermediaries in labour relations from pre-industrial societies to the XXth century - Brussels 12/08

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From:    Kenneth Bertrams <kbertram at ulb.ac.be>

Conf Ann: Intermediaries in labour relations from pre-industrial societies to the XXth century - Brussels 12/08
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The FWO Research Network "Labour 1500-2000"; The National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS);The ULB Business  History Group; The ULB Institute for the Study of Europe, Brussels 05.12.2008, ULB Institute for the Study of Europe / Institut d'etudes
europeennes - 39-41, av. Roosevelt

Nowadays, following the rise of financial markets, economics has got a grip on the word « intermediation » and ended up assigning a very limited meaning to it, that of financial intermediation. A quick search in university libraries catalogues confirms this impression: the search results in an overwhelming number of titles related to Financial economy, market economy and banking systems. Such works, though useful, give us only a partial insight into the multiplicity of forms that intermediation takes and may take in a long term (be it from a cultural, economic or political point of view).
 
Emphasis has been laid on economy for this workshop. But as such, we wish also to recast intermediation in a much broader scope: we view it as a phenomenon of social interactions, which does not reduce itself to the financial world but, on the contrary, expresses itself in an extended range of activities - whether formal or informal - in the labour relations.

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Workshop
Free University of Brussels (ULB)
Institute for the Study of Europe
39-41 av. Roosevelt - Brussels

Friday 5 December 2008
9h00 - 17h45

PROGRAM
8h30	Registration 
9h00 	Opening remarks

9h10-10h45	Session 1 : METHODOLOGIES
Chair : Michele Galand (ULB)

9h10	François ANTOINE (Archives Generales du Royaume, Bruxelles)
La vente des biens nationaux ou le monopole des commands

9h30 	Andre CATROU (Universite de Bretagne-Sud)
Les negociants et l'activite de commission a Morlaix au XVIIIe siecle : un choix pertinent dans un contexte de crise

9h50	Xavier STEVENS (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Quelques reflexions sur l'intermediation des domestiques dans les relations sociales et economiques, XVIIe-XIXe siecles

10h10	Discussant : Martha HOWELL (Columbia University)

10h30 	Discussion S1

10h45   Coffee break

11h00-12h35 	Session 2 : MODALITIES
Chair: Jean-Jacques Heirwegh (ULB)

11h00	Anton TANTNER (University of Vienna)
Early Modern "Registry Offices" as Employment Agencies

11h20	Anne CONCHON (Universite Paris I - Sorbonne)
Entre l'Etat et les corveables : le role des intermediaires dans la requisition de travail en France au XVIIIe siecle

11h40	Christian PAPINOT (Universite de Brest) 
Externalisation de la relation d'emploi et transformations des relations de travail : l'exemple contemporain de l'intérim dans l'industrie en France

12h00 	Discussant : Olivier GODECHOT (CNRS)

12h20	Discussion S2

12h35	Lunch break

14h00-15h35 	Session 3 : SPATIALISATION (I)
Chair : Chloe Deligne (FNRS-ULB)

14h00	Eberhard CRAILSHEIM (University of Graz)
Intermediaries in the First Atlantic Economy: Seville, 1580-1640 - Spaniards between Foreigners and the American Trade

14h20	Jordi DOMENECH (York University)
The evolution of spatial wage variation in the first industrialised economy, England and Wales, 1850-1913

14h40	Peter LIMB (Michigan State University)
Intermediaries in Early South African Labour Relations, 1890-1920: Class, Nation, Gender, and Place in the Forging of New Identities and Social Forces

15h00	Discussant: Paul ARBLASTER (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

15h20	Discussion S3

15h35	Coffee break

15h50-17h00 	Session 4 : SPATIALISATION (II)
Chair : Chloe Deligne (FNRS-ULB)

15h50	Amit Kumar MISHRA (University of Hyderabad)
Arkatis, Kangani and Maistry: Intermediaries in the Indian Labour Diaspora

16h10	David PICHERIT (Universite Paris X - Nanterre)
Everyday Life of Labour Intermediaries in South India: Prestige, Loyalty and Authority

16h30	 Discussant: Kenneth BERTRAMS (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

16h45 	Discussion S4

17h00 	Coffee break

17h15 	General discussion

17h30 	Concluding remarks by Hugo SOLY (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

17h45 	End of workshop

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Kenneth Bertrams
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Institute for the Study of Europe
kbertram at ulb.ac.be; pkusman at ulb.ac.be 

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