CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
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Occupational Identity & Railway Work
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15-16 September 1999
at the National Railway Museum, York
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SESSION 1: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH RAILWAY WORKER
Perceptions of the locomotive driver: image and identity on British
railways, 1840-1950 - Ralph Harrington, Institute of Railway Studies,
York
The British railway worker: eighty years of declining status? - Tim
Strangleman, University of Nottingham
SESSION 2: THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF RAILWAY IDENTITY: INTERNATIONAL
COMPARISIONS
French "cheminots": occupational identity in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries - Christian Chevandier, l'Universite de Paris I
Panthon-Sorbonne
Occupational identity and railway work in Italy - Stefano Maggi,
Universita degli Studi di Siena
SESSION 3: OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY ON THE MODERN RAILWAY
Managers' views on railway management and privatisation - Andrew
Pendleton, Manchester Metropolitan University
New working cultures since rail privatisation: the case of
intermodal freight terminals in Yorkshire' - Neil Worthington,
Sinclair Knight Mertz Transport Consultants, & Nick Rahtz, Sheffield
Hallam University
Occupational identity and trade unions on the railways in Britain
1980-1997 - Keon-Ho Oh, Seoul National University
SESSION 4: CHALLENGING RAILWAY IDENTITIES
Making men moral: the changing identity of the railway worker as
seen through the writings of women missionaries to railway employees,
1830-1920s - Di Drummond, Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds
Outsiders inside: gender and work culture in Swindon works' - Rosa
Matheson, University of the West of England
Company loyalty: adherence and rejection in railway workshops' -
Frank McKenna
SESSION 5: RAILWAY IDENTITY: NETWORKS AND BONDS
Brothers or mates? Identity and trust in two railway trades in
Sweden and the USA - Birgitta Edelman, University of Stockholm
Discipline, surveillance and the "career": employment on the Great
Western Railway 1850-1914 - Mike Savage, University of Manchester
SESSION 6: A HERITAGE IDENTITY?
Preserving identity: railway work in a heritage setting - David
Wilson
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For further information please contact:
Ralph Harrington, Institute of Railway Studies, Department of History,
University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD
E-mail [log in to unmask]
Fax 01904 432986
Please note that if you have already contacted us requesting
information about the conference your details will be on our mailing
list and there is no need to contact us again.
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