Labor, the state and social...

policies during world war 2, US and Britain

Programme

EHESS, CENA, 105 Bd. Raspail, Paris 6ème, Mercredi 9 mars 2005, 9h30-16h30

9h30-12h30

• Introduction (Pap Ndiaye et Jean-Christian Vinel)
• Jean-Christian Vinel (université de Tours) : "The Other side of Industrial Pluralism : Harry A. Millis, William Leiserson, Paul Herzog and the elusive quest for an employment democracy, 1939-1947".
  Commentaire : Romain Huret (EHESS)
• Alexis Chommeloux (université de Tours) : "The law, state intervention and industrial relations in Britain: the impact of the Second World War assessed".
  Commentaire : Laura Lee Downs (EHESS)
• Orjan Appelqvist (université de Stockholm), "From International New Deal to geopolitics. American influences in the European reconstruction plans, following the trace of Gunnar Myrdal."
  Commentaire : Pap Ndiaye (EHESS)

14h30-16h30

• Ronald Schatz (Wesleyan University) : " George Taylor and the National and Regional War Labor Boards, 1942-1945".
  Commentaire : Patrick Fridenson (EHESS)
• Donna Kesselman (université de Paris 10) : " "Union Leaders and Workers' Demands: a Bread and Butter View of the 1940s UAW Factional Struggle"
  Commentaire : Ronald Schatz