Call for Papers Social Inequality Network

Deadline for pre-registration on May 1, 2011

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) convenes in Glasgow, April 11-14 2012.

You are invited to present a paper, or to organize a session of four papers, on the theme of social inequality in a broad sense.

Sessions that have been suggested (you may well propose something different):

Textiles, social inequality, and the relief of poverty (Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (enm@iisg.nl)

Collections for the poor (Danielle Teeuwen, dte@iisg.nl)

Keeping account of charity: account-books as source for individual charitableness Henk Looijesteijn)

Philanthropy and Civil Society

Hospitals

International links between policymakers (David Green)

Ideological origins of European welfare practices

Comparative social work, and welfare work

Globalization and inequality

Demographic Pressures, State Welfare Systems and Inequality

Current state of welfare states in Europe (Kate Lynch)

Intergenerational Social Mobility (Paolo Guimaraes)and Vladimir Vladimirov)

Help by kin and friends

Effect of kin on social mobility

Notions of Giving

Risks in World History

The Changing Status of Occupations

Underclass and poverty

Careers in history

Measuring social inequality in the past

Social movements to stop social inequality

Recruitment of teachers (David Mitch)

Philanthropic collections

Environment and social inequality

Technological changes and social inequality

Empires and Inequality