9:30 AM - 9:45 AM: Registration: Room 60, Neue Aula, Geschwister Scholl Platz
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM: Welcome & Opening
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Session 1
How diverse was the distribution of numeracy among social groups (females, Indians, and others) in late 18th century Mexico City? (Rafael Dobado González, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Take Thee to a Nunnery: Women, Convents, and Public Good Provision in Nineteenth Century France (Florentine Friedrich, London School of Economics)
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Session 2
Printing and Women: The Gendered Impact of Printing Technology in Imperial China (Nina Liu, King's College London)
Coeducation, Female Human Capital, and the Evolution of Gender Norms (Bin Huang, University of Zürich)
Gender Pay Gap in U.S. Science (Bangh Dinh Nguyen, University of Bayreuth)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Session 3
Social Conventions and Institution Shaping Gendered Work and Mobility in Early 20th Century South West Germany (Yasmina Wardere, Hohenheim University)
The role and determinants of women's work in the Spanish textile and footwear shadow economy, 1959-1973 (Universitat de Barcelona)
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM: Coffee Break
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM: Session 4
What’s in a Daily Wage? Insights from Daily Wage Workers in Ghana and Sierra Leone in the Twentieth Century (Maria Pont Chafer, Université de Genève)
‘Tobacco is a man’s crop’ A historical perspective on women in tobacco cultivation in Malawi (Leoné Walters, University of Cape Town)
5:15 PM - 5:45 PM: Break
5:45 PM - 7:00 PM: Keynote Adress I by Prof. Dácil Juif (Carlos III de Madrid): Labor, Human Capital and Gender in 20th Century Peripheral Mining Economies
Raising human capital, achieving gender equality, and ensuring decent work are essential development goals. This presentation explores key questions surrounding these issues and their intersections in the context of 20th-century industrial mining in the Global South. Large-scale mining operations by Western companies profoundly shaped the lives of local populations in peripheral economies such as Chile, Zambia, and Congo. We seek to answer several important questions: What factors determined native workers' wages in industrial mining? How can we explain geographic variations and changes over time in workers’ material compensation? How did industrial mining influence human capital formation? What impact did mining have on women’s economic roles, and did their exclusion from formal labor or relegation to auxiliary roles affect other aspects of society, such as their children's education? By taking a comparative and dynamic approach across different regions of the Global South, we aim to shed light on these complex issues.
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Session 5
Peasant Women and the Industrious Revolution in the German Southwest (Leon Zimmermann, University of Tübingen)
Time, gendered labour and daily life in Ottoman Thessaly 1700 - 1820 (Leonidas Charampoulos, University of Athens)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Session 6
Women and the Commons: Women’s Role in Enclosure Protest and the Implications for Women’s Work and Economic Position (Jessie Wall, University of Oxford)
The importance of the family in musical instrument manufacture in London, 1760-1860 (Jenny Nex, University of Edinburgh)
Child labour in England and Wales, 1851-1911 (Xuesheng You, University of Cardiff)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Session 7
Investigating socio-economic status’s role in the intergenerational transmission of mortality (Kristina Thompson, Wageningen University & Research)
Was there an economics of the family before 1870?: evidence of fertility choice in a long-running random ‘experiment’, London, c. 1760-1870 (Louis Henderson, London School of Economics)
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM: Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Session 8
Agricultural Practices, Organised Workers and Female Empowerment: Evidence from Italian Mondine (Luca Bagnato, University of Milan)
Early evidence of paid work in social reproduction: wetnurses’ wages in Italy from the 17th to the 20th century (Giuliana Freschi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Pisa)
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM: Break
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM: Keynote Adress II by Prof. Jane Humphries (London School of Economics): Caring about care: Towards an economic history of caring labour
Caring work is essential to both wellbeing and the functioning of the economy, but it is neglected by economists when purchased and completely ignored when provided unpaid. In most historical sources it remains hidden in plain sight, unremarked upon and unvalued, partly because usually performed by women. The first section of the paper builds on gender historians’ recent use of ‘doing words’ to link women with specific tasks and so illuminate their repertoires and schedules. I extend beyond a focus on verbs to also identify work and labour relations by the possession of equipment and raw materials, the sale of produce, and other contextual information. Evidence on time use from historical and modern sources fills out the picture. Used together these sources and methods provide an account of the catalogue of tasks performed paid and unpaid by a typical working woman over her working day. The second section of the paper uses market equivalents for the tasks completed and time spent to impute value to the unpaid work, and then generalises across families to estimate its aggregate value in comparison with total incomes. These figures are then compared with other historical and modern estimates of the relative value of housework and caring labour. I close with some conclusions about the timeless grind of unremunerated devotion.
From 8:00 PM: Conference Dinner (Neckarmüller)
Workshop Day
Good data: Methodologies for linking a diverse population across historical microdata (Dr. Ryah Thomas, WU Wien)
9:30 AM - 11:00 PM: Workshop
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM: Workshop
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Lunch
3:00 PM - 3.45 PM: Workshop
3.45 PM - 4:00 PM: Closing Remarks
4:00 PM: Closing Coffee