BUSINESS AND TRADE ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPE DURING THE XIX-XXth. CENTURIES WORKSHOP

BUSINESS AND TRADE ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPE DURING THE XIX-XXth. CENTURIES

WORKSHOP

IDHE and CRESC – Paris 13 carry Research program on European Business and Trade Organization that are major components of the present changing social model as well as part of a democratic State still in the process of construction. Our working hypothesis is that shifts of industrial Economy and globalization have consequences for entrepreneurs and businessmen, particularly on the ways they view themselves and on their relation with Society.

Our aim is to clarify, with the use of historical approaches, what strategies have been adopted for the promotion and defense of entrepreneurs and managers by unions, professional societies, chambers and trade organizations, clubs, or miscellaneous groups. In France and other European countries, this field has met with varying interest from lawyers, social scientists.

As expected, we adopt a comparative perspective covering time and space in order to study the early stages of the Business Organizations. Specifically we ask what strategies have been adopted for the promotion and defense of entrepreneurs and managers? In what historical context and for what reasons and where (ie. were they local or nationwide)?. How did these groups build their own identities? What was the sociological background of their members? In which fields of the Economy were they best organized? How did the evolving social and political context influence the way business associations were planned?

A workshop will be held in June 2010 and will be followed by 4 more meetings from 2011 to 2014.

Program according to the following agenda:

- 2011 : Genesis, Structures and Temporality of European Business Organizations - 2012 : Business Organizations and regulation of the market

- 2013 : Relations between Business Organizations and national and European institutions - 2014 : Relations between Business Organization, Trade Unions and political associations

With support from:

CRESC- University of Paris 13

Laboratoire Institutions et dynamiques historiques de l’économie – IDHE - UMR 8533 du CNRS

LARHA – laboratoire de recherche historique en Rhône-Alpes UMR 5190

Scientific Committee:

Allemagne :

Peter Hertner, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg Autriche :

Franz Traxler, Université de Vienne (TBC) Belgique :

Suzy Pasleau, Université de Liège

Dirk Luyten, Université de Gand, CEGES (Bruxelles) Espagne :

Antonio Miguel Bernal, Université de Séville France :

Jean-Claude Daumas, Université de Besançon Clotilde Druelle-Korn, Université de Limoges Olivier Dard, Université de Metz

Danièle Fraboulet, Université de Paris 13

Annette Jobert, Directrice de Recherches CNRS Michel Margairaz, Université de Paris I

Hélène Michel, Université de Strasbourg Jean-Marie Pernot, IRES

Gilles Richard, IEP Rennes

Béatrice Touchelay, Université de Paris XII Pierre Vernus, Université de Lyon II

Italie :

Paolo Tedeschi,Université de Milan-Bicocca R-U :

Francesca Carnevali , Université de Birmingham

Arthur Mac Ivor, Université de Strathclyde, Glasgow (TBC) Alan McKinlay, University of St Andrews, Scotland

Suisse :

Hans Ulrich Jost, Université de Lausanne Laurent Tissot, Université de Neuchâtel (TBC)