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Work in Britain in the 20th Century Britain Conference Programme
18th Annual Conference of the Centre for Contemporary British History, 14-16 July 2004,
Senate House, University of London.

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Wednesday 14 July

10.00-10.30 Registration; Coffee

10.30-12.0 Setting the Scene: Overviews introducing the key issues
Chair: Peter Nolan (Leeds, Director ESRC Future of Work Programme)
Robert Taylor (LSE, former Financial Times Employment Editor) ‘Britain’s World of Work: Myths and Realities’
Richard Donkin (Financial Times, author of The History of Work 2004?) ‘The History of Work’
Humphrey Southall (Portsmouth) ‘Changing Spatial Divisions of Labour in 20th Century Britain’

12.00-13.00 Polly Toynbee (Guardian)
Women Low-Paid Workers since the 1970s

12.00-13.00 Polly Toynbee (Guardian)
Women Low-Paid Workers since the 1970s

13:00-14:00 Lunchtime Presentation: Work in the Archives 1
Christine Woodland, Modern Records Centre, Warwick
Christine Coates, TUC Collections, London Metropolitan University
Amanda Hill, Archives Hub, University of Manchester
Sue Donnelly, Archivist, LSE Library

14.00-15.30 Gender and Paid Employment
Pat Thane (IHR) Gender, Age and Work
Kevin James. Paid Outwork in Ulster: Female Employment in the Garment and ‘Making-Up’ Trades, 1900-1914
Deborah Thom (Cambridge) .’The Women do not actually blow the glass’: Representations of Women’s Work and Innovation in the Great War.’

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.30 Manual Work
Alun Howkins (Sussex) ‘Only a Poor Labourer’: The Farm Workforce, 1880-1950
John Lloyd (Amicus) ‘The Changing Role of the Electrician from 1900 to the present’
Andrew Taylor The Decline of the Coal Miner

17.30-18.50 All our Working Lives
Peter Pagnamenta. ‘All Our Working Lives’. Showing and commentary by the director on the making of the 1984 TV Documentary.

19.00-20.30 Reception and Book Launch
James Cronin New Labour’s Past: The Labour Party and its Discontents. (Longman Pearson).

Thursday, 16 July

9.30.11.0 Industrial Relations
Peter Howlett (LSE): Sticks and Carrots: Disciplining Railway Workers in the Great Eastern before the First World War
David Howell (York): Industrial Relations on the Railways between the Wars
Willie Brown (Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Cambridge) : Industrial Relations since the 1960s

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.45 The Affluent Worker
Professor Mike Savage (Sociology, Manchester) Post-war Sociology and Cultures of Work: a critical discussion of the ‘affluent worker’ studies forty years on.

Professor Jennifer Platt (Sussex) Discussant

12.45-13.45 Lunch
Lunchtime Presentation: Work in the Archives 2
Jone Garmendia ( The National Archive). Labouring Men, Labouring Women : online resources at The National Archive’

13.45-15.45 Occupational Ill-Health
Arthur McIvor (Strathclyde) : The Body at Work: Occupational Health in Britain, 1900-1950
Mike Esbester : ‘Safety First’: Employee Safety on British railways, 1913-30
Christine Hallett (Manchester) : Welfare Officers in the Lancashire Cotton Mills, 1920-1970
Mark Bufton (Exeter): Industrial Lung-Disease in History.

15.45-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.30 Skilled Work
Ian Gazeley (Sussex): Skill and Gender Differentials, 1913-1945
Margaret Ritchie (Strathclyde) : The Work Came First: Skilled Women Workers in the East of Scotland, 1900-1950
Christine Wall (Cambridge) : ‘Never argue with the architect’: hierarchies, skill and status in the mid 20th c construction industry

17.30-18.30 Madeleine Bunting (Guardian) The Overworked British

Friday, 16 July

9.30-10.30 Management and White Collar Workers
Michael Heller (UCL) London clerical workers, 1880-1914
Emma Haxhaj Up Periscope: The Management of the Royal Dockyards from 1956
Jo Workman (Sussex) Explaining the Rise and Rise of the MBA.

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.30 The State and Work
Noel Whiteside (Warwick) From Casual Labour to Flexible Employment: Historical Perspectives on 20th century Labour Market Reform
Jim Cronin (Boston College) ‘New Labour’ and Work

12.30–13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.45 Gender and Paid Employment
Selina Todd (IHR) . ‘A Job for Life? Young People and Work in England, 1918-1950’
Dolly Smith Wilson (Boston College) . A New Look at the Affluent Worker: The Working Mother in Post-War Britain
Jane Neal-Smith( Bradford) Masculinity and Physical Labour: the changing image of the airline pilot, the employment of women pilots and aircraft technology.

14.45-15.00 Tea

15.00-17.30 Witness seminar: Thatcher’s Industrial Relations Policy
 

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