23 October 2018
17.30 – 18.00 - Opening Remarks
Matteo Millan (ERC-PREWArAs Principal Investigator, University of Padova)
18.00 – 19.30 - Keynote Address
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan), Normalizing and fracturing civility, 1860-1930: What were the tracks and boundaries of violence?
24 October 2018
9.00 – 11.00 - First Panel
Panel Chair: Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
George Gilbert (Southampton), Strike breaking in the late Russian Empire: reaction and revolution.
Volodymyr Kulikov (CEU Budapest), Repression of Labor Movement in the Company Towns of Russia.
Claire Morelon (Padova), For the protection of willing workers": Violence and Strikebreaking in Late Habsburg Austria.
Amerigo Caruso (Padova), Anti-labor violence and the rise of strikebreakers’ gangs in late Imperial Germany, 1905-1914.
11.30 - 13.30 - Second Panel
Panel Chair: Patricia Clavin (Oxford)
Alessandro Saluppo (Padova), Strikebreaking and Maritime Labor in Britain, 1890- 1914.
Erik Bengtsson (Lund), Sweden: the labour market regime without repression? An overview with a specific look at the 1899 anti-strike Akarp Law.
Charles Fawell (Chicago), Labour in the In-Between Spaces of Empires: Militancy and Repression Along the Maritime Highways of the French Empire, c. 1880-1930.
Romain Bonnet (Padova), The Making of a Counter-Internationalism? Strikebreaking, political violence and the Fédération Nationale des Jaunes de France in Europe Belle Époque.
14.30 - 16.00 - Third Panel
Panel Chair: Giulia Albanese (Padova)
Bruno Settis (SNS Pisa, CHSP), Security and surveillance services in mass production industries: the case of Fiat.
Thanasis Betas (Thessaly), Cairo, Athens, Salonica. Strikebreaking and anti-labour employers’ and state’s practices in the cigarette industry in the earlier twentieth century.
Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (EUI), An honest worker against the red tyrants’: the dirty war between libres and cenetistas in Spain, 1919-23
16.00 – 17.30 - Fourth Panel
Panel Chair: Marc Mulholland (Oxford)
Vilja Hulden & Chad Pearson (UCB & Collin College), The Wild West of Employer Anti-Unionism: Individualism, Vigilantism, and the Glorification of Organized Anti- Union Leagues in the Early-Twentieth Century United States.
Prerna Agarwal (LSE), Countermanding the Red-Flag in the Name of Allah and ‘Constitutionalism’: the Murky World of Labour Politics in Calcutta Docks, 1930s.
Pierre Eichenberger (Zurich), ‘Employers of the world, unite!’ The International Organization of Industrial Employers, 1900-1939.
17.45 - 18.30 - Final Remarks and discussion
Martin Conway (University of Oxford)