16. Women and Trade Unions in Europe
Panel 1: Trade Union Women’s Activism: Gender, Class, and Political System
Nadia Varo Moral (Labour, Institutions and Gender-University of Barcelona), Women and Labour Movement under a Dictatorship Comisiones Obreras (Workers’ Comissions) in the area of Barcelona during Franco’s dictatorship (1964-1976)
Anna Frisone (European University Institute), Trade Union Feminism across borders: a comparative perspective of 1970s Italian and French experiences, European University Institute Department of History and Civilization
M V Shobhana Warrier (Department of History, Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University), Gender, class and community in the mobilisation of labour
Ingrid Hayes (Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle - Paris), La place des femmes dans les mobilisations sur les sites industriels, permanences et variations : les cas de La Redoute et Deffrenne à Roubaix dans les années 1970
Susan Zimmermann (Central European University, Hungary), Hungarian Trade Union Women and the Struggle for Equality and Difference at the Workplace, 1965-1980s
Comment: Lars Berggren
Panel 2: A Biographical Approach to Women and Trade Unions in Italian History: The Case of Emilia-Romagna
Discussant: Kirsty Niskanen (Stockholm University)
Anna Salfi/Fiorenza Tarozzi, Gendering the history and memory of Italian trade unions through biography
Elena Musiani, The basis of Italian trade unionism in a gender perspective: the long 19th century
Simona Salustri, Women and trade unions during the Fascist “ventennio”
Eloisa Betti, Female trade unionists in Cold War Italy
Roberta Mira, Writing the biographies of female trade unionists in the 21th century: a digital humanities project
Comment: Kirsti Niskanen