À LA REDÉCOUVERTE DE LA « GRANDE FIÈVRE OUVRIÈRE » (1911-14)
REVISITING THE ‘GREAT LABOUR UNREST’ (1911-14)
15 & 16 September, Paris
Jeudi 15 septembre / Thursday 15
(Salle B203, UFR LSHS, Campus Villetaneuse / Paris 13)
9.00 Accueil des participants / Registration
9.30 Ouverture du colloque / Opening remarks
Une fièvre plurielle : déclinaisons locales et régionales /
The Great Labour Unrests: The Local, the Regional and the National
Modérateur / Chair: Logie Barrow (University of Bremen)
09.45 Lydia REDMAN (University of Cambridge)
Industrial Mediation in the Age of the New Liberalism: The London Dock Strike of 1911 12
10.15 Tri TRAN (Université François Rabelais – Tours)
The 1911 ‘Great Strike’ in the Port of London: Motives, Tactics, Impacts
10.45 Questions
11.00 Pause café / Coffee break
Modérateur / Chair: Myriam BOUSSAHBA-BRAVARD (Université de Paris Diderot)
11.15 John BELCHEM (Liverpool University)
The Liverpool General Strike of 1911: Beyond the Myth
11.45 Yann BELIARD (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
The Peter Progress Chronicles, or the ‘Great Unrest’ in Hull through the Lib-Lab Lens
12.15 Questions
13.00 Déjeuner / Lunch
Modérateur / Chair: Christian Civardi (Université de Strasbourg)
14.15 Lewis MATES (Durham University)
The ‘Great Unrest’ in the Durham Coalfield: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change
14.45 William KENEFICK (University of Dundee)
‘Lessons in the Usefulness of Solidarity’.
An Interregional and Transnational Perspective on the ‘Great Labour Unrest’ in Scotland
15.15 Questions
15.30 Pause Café / Coffee break
Les oublié(e)s de la Grande Fièvre / Forgotten Protagonists of the ‘Great Unrest’
Modérateur / Chair: Fabrice Bensimon (Université Paris 4 – Sorbonne)
15.45 Myriam BOUSSAHBA-BRAVARD (Université de Paris Diderot)
The Great Labour and Female Unrest
16.15 Sam DAVIES (Liverpool John Moores University)
The State Response to 1911
16.45 Questions et synthèse de la journée / Questions & conclusions of the day
19.30 Dîner / Dinner
Vendredi 16 septembre / Friday 16 September
(Grand amphithéâtre, Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l’école de médecine / Paris 3)
9.00 Accueil / Welcome
Perspectives comparatives et transnationales /
A British Strike Wave in Transnational Perspective
Modérateur / Chair: Romain Garbaye (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
9.15 Conférence plénière / Keynote lecture. Jonathan HYSLOP (University of Pretoria)
Were the South African Strikes and Insurgencies of 1913 14 Part of a Global Labour Revolt?
10.00 Questions
10.15 Pause café / Coffee break
Modérateur / Chair: Yann Béliard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3)
10.30 Constance BANTMAN (University of Surrey)
The Franco-British Syndicalist Connection, 1895-1913
11.00 Sjaak VAN DER VELDEN (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
The ‘Great Labour Unrest’ in the Netherlands
11.30 Questions
12.00 Déjeuner / Lunch
Le syndicalisme révolutionnaire en question /
The Syndicalist Impact : Old Questions, New Answers?
Modérateur / Chair: Karine Bigand (Université Paris 13)
14.00 Conférence plénière / Keynote lecture. Emmet O’CONNOR (University of Ulster)
Syndicalism and the ‘Great Labour Unrest’, 1911 14
14.45 Questions
15.00 Pause café / Coffee break
Modérateur / Chair: Constance Bantman (University of Surrey)
15.15 James THOMPSON (University of Bristol)
Revisiting and Rethinking Syndicalism, 1911 14
15.45 Ralph DARLINGTON (University of Salford)
The ‘Labour Unrest’, Trade Union Officialdom and the Syndicalist Challenge
16.15 Questions et conclusions du colloque / Questions & conclusions of the conference
17.00 Clôture du colloque / Conference ends.