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Comparative History of the Christian Workers' Organisations 1840-2000

A conference organised by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and HIVA- KADOC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Amsterdam, 11-13 January 2001


Program

Thursday 11 January

13.30  Introduction to the conference theme by Patrick Pasture

14.00-17.30  Session 1, chair: Patrick Pasture

Paul Misner (Marquette University, Milwaukee), The Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Christian Labor Movement: Autonomy and Pluralism

Lex Heerma van Voss (IISG), The choice for a Christian labour movement as a part of living strategies

Friday 12 January

9.30-13.00  Session 2, chair: Irina Novichenko

Claudia Hiepel (UGH-Essen)/Jan Zwemer (Serooskerke)/Alfredo Canavero (Milano University)/Wilhelm Damberg (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum), The formation of anti-socialist/Christian working–class organisations

Jan De Maeyer (KADOC, Leuven University)/Carlo Felice Casula (University of Cagliari), The formation of a Christian workers' culture in pillarised societies: Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy

13.00-14.00  Lunch

14.00-17.30  Session 3, chair: Jan De Maeyer

Godfried Kwanten (Leuven University), Between Church and Democracy

William Patch (Grinell College), Fascism, Cathlic Corporatism, and the Christian Trade Unions of Germany, Austria, and France

Andrea Ciampani (Università di Padova)/ Massimiliano Valente (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza'), Cultural and Political tendencies of the Christian Labour Movement in countries with a unified trade union landscape and secularised context: Italy and Germany (post 1945)

Saturday 13 January

09.30-13.00  Session 4, chair: Lex Heerma van Voss

Frank Georgi (Université de Paris 1) et alii, Christian trade unions and the organisation of industry

Patrick Pasture (Leuven University), The role of the CLM in the development of the welfare state in continental Europe

Hugh Mc Leod (University of Birmingham), Religion and the organisation of the working class in the U.K. and Ireland

13.00-14.00  Lunch

14.00-16.00  Session 5, chair: Claudia Hiepel

Irina Novichenko (IISG, Head of the Moscow office), A CLM in Eastern Europe?

Carl Strikwerda (University of Kansas), The CLM and the socialist movement: a comparison

16.00  closure of the conference

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