Worlds of Labour
Reassessing Social Change in
Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
Workshop
Organizers:
Labour History Initiative, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
Historical Doctoral Program, Institute of History, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger
Labour and State Socialism Working Group, European Labour History Network
Wednesday, 9th April, 9 a.m. – 18.15 p.m.
Venue: Central European University, Nádor utca 13 building, room no. 002 (groundfloor)
09:00 Introduction
Session I
Chair: Susan Zimmermann (History & Gender Studies, Central European University)
09:10 Péter Alabán (History, Eszterházy Károly College)
Rural Societies with Industrial Workers in the North-east of Hungary
Commentator: Adrian Grama (History, Central European University)
10:20 Péter Nagy (History, Eszterházy Károly College)
Special Urbanization? The Effects of Industry on the Rural Settlement
Commentator: Eszter Bartha (History, Eötvös Loránd University)
11: 30 Eszter Bartha (History, Eötvös Loránd University)
Workers in Postsocialist East Germany and Hungary: a Lonely Struggle
Commentator: Stefan Guga (Sociology, Central European University)
12:30 – 13.30 Lunch break (Sandwich lunch, sponsored by the History Department, CEU)
Session II
Chair: Tibor Valuch (Sociology, University of Debrecen)
13:30 Andrea Papp (History, Eszterházy Károly College)
Changes of Mining Settlements in Time and Space during the 20th Century – Focus on North Eastern Part of Hungary
Commentator: Alina Cucu (Sociology, Central European University)
14:40 Goran Music (History, European University Institute)
"They Came as Workers Only to Return as Serbs": The Role of Rakovica's Blue-Collar Workers in Serbian Social Mobilizations of the late 1980s
Commentator: Eszter Bartha (History, Eötvös Loránd University)
15:50 Adrian Grama (History, Central European University)
Labour's Risks: Social Insurance, Work Accidents and the Logic of Productivity in Socialist Romania (1948-1977)
Commentator: Andrea Papp (History, Eszterházy Károly College)
17:00 Alina Cucu (Sociology, Central European University)
Two Bureaucratic Instruments in Search of an Author: Employment Contracts and Collective Contracts in Socialism
Commentator: Péter Nagy (History, Eszterházy Károly College)
We have reserved a table in the Restaurant Central Bistro (in the Nádor 13 building) from 18:15
Participants:
Péter Alabán: Doctoral Student, Institute of History, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger alaban.peter@gmail.com
Eszter Bartha: Assistant Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, barthaeszter@hotmail.com
Alina Cucu: Doctoral Student, Sociology and Social Anthropology Department, Budapest, Hungary, Cucu_Alina-Sandra@ceu-budapest.edu
Adrian Grama: Doctoral Student, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Grama_Adrian@ceu-budapest.edu
Stefan Guga: Doctoral Student, Sociology and Social Anthropology Department, Budapest, Hungary, guga_stefan@ceu-budapest.edu
Goran Music: Doctoral Student, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, goran_music@yahoo.com
Péter Nagy : Doctoral Student, Institute of History, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, petiuraj@freemail.hu
Andrea Papp, Doctoral Student, Institute of History, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger andrea.papp79@indamail.hu
Tibor Valuch: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Debrecen, Hungary, valuch@t-online.hu
Susan Zimmermann: University Professor, Central European University, Department of History, Department of Gender Studies, Budapest, Hungary, zimmerma@ceu.hu