The Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the International WAGE Project, in collaboration with the International Labour Office and the MESHS Lille (France), are organizing an
International symposium "Wages in the USSR, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe since 1950s"
27th-28th April 2018
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, Center for Economic History, Moscow.
The symposium aims at:
- A general scientific inventory on the subject (by sampling themes)
- The establishment of a coordinated cross-country research program under the WAGE project
- Eventually, a targeted partnership with companies and entrepreneurs: a concrete analysis of the wage strategy of companies (surveys) and of professional and employers' unions
This symposium is considered as one of the preconferences of the WEHC Boston 2018 session "Wages and waves of globalization since 1930/1950: convergence, inequalities and strategies"
The main themes of the symposium are:
1. Evolution of average wages and their modalities of dispersion since the 1950s / 60s including post-socialist period
2. Analysis of wage differentiation in the pay-scale and of relations between skills and wages (also for young people and women).
3. Reflection about the wage strategy of socialist or post-socialist States or public authorities, of companies (also small private companies) and of household (school-strategy for children e.g.): wage hierarchy, skill premium, manpower mobility etc.
Comparison with Western countries will be welcome
The former socialist countries present a number of specific wage characteristics, with a lot of differences in comparison with the liberal-capitalist system (central planning, mono-syndicalism, widespread nationalization of corporate assets). These differences are absolutely real (labour conflicts e.g.), but strongly "politically" characterized by a centralized wage strategy management. However, there are many similarities to be observed on the "technical" and "social" side: pay scales, role of qualification and hierarchy of wages related to qualification, workers' demands to unions and through unions to the public authorities, welfare or social state, conciliation processes, etc.
Interested researchers, colleagues and doctoral candidates are invited to contact the organizers before 15 March 2018, and send a paper proposal (short summary of less than one page) with a CV.
Schedule:
- Submission of paper proposals: before 15 March 2018
- Finalization of the proposals selection: 22 March 2018
- Symposium: 27-28 April 2018
Submissions (including summary containing 300-500 words) should be sent jointly to the organizers:
Prof. Leonid Borodkin, Moscow University, lborodkin@mail.ru
Prof. Michel-Pierre Chélini, Université d'Artois : mpchelini@gmail.com
All the logistics details could be clarified by Prof. Leonid Borodkin
Proceedings of symposium will be published either by Peter Lang AG (Switzerland) or Cambridge Scholars (UK) by the end of 2018. Papers should be ready for peer review by June 15, 2018.
The symposium location: MSU, Faculty of History, Shuvalovsky korpus, Lomonosovsky Prospekt, 27-4, Moscow, 119192 Russia
Language: English
Support: the speakers and participants have to take care of their journey and accommodation.
The organizers can provide participants with rooms at the University Main Building.
Steering committee:
Leonid Borodkin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Michel-Pierre Chélini, Université d'Artois, Arras, Fr.
Linda Clarke, Westminster University, London, UK
Dmitrii Didenko, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Ciprian Panzaru, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Sociology, Romania
Muriel Perisse, Université d'Artois, Arras, Fr.
André Steiner, Universität Potsdam/Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Germany,
Timur Valetov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia