10:00 Welcome words
10:15–11:15 Keynote, Maïka De Keyzer:
A peasant makeshift economy: avoiding precariousness or building economic resilience? Different income strategies of peasant households in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Campine area, Southern Low Countries)
11:30–13:00 Session 1: Alternative and Diverse Sources of Income
Ville-Pekka Kääriäinen (University of Helsinki): A Poorer Class of Peasants? Torpare and Makeshift Livelihoods in Eastern Finland
Jonas Lindström: (Uppsala University): The poor of eighteenth-century Sweden: How did they survive?
Henrik Forsberg (University of Helsinki): Making bark bread affordable for the poor: An accounting exercise on tar economy and its invisible side incomes in Kauhajoki (Western Finland) in the 1760s
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Session 2: Household Economies in Times of Shocks and Crises
Heikki Kämäräinen (University of Jyväskylä): Debt and private credit in 1830s agrarian community
Opeyemi Afolabi Femi-Oladunni (Universidad Europea Madrid): The Inequality Harvest: How Social Tables Defined Rural Spain (1906–1936)
Eeva Houtbeckers (University of Eastern Finland): The need for paradigm shifts: Conceptualisations of work in socio-ecological crises, the standpoint of workers, and the makeshift economy
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:30 Session 3: Criminality, social control and shadow economies
Monia O’Brien Castro (Tours University): Making a Living in the Margins: British County Lines
Beate Althammer (Trier University): Poverty, Mobility and Petty Delinquency: Makeshifts in the Prussian Rhineland (Nineteenth Century)
Ulla Ijäs (University of Turku): Makeshift economy, space and body. Experiences in the early 19th century Finland
19:00 Dinner
9:00 Keynote, Mikko Jakonen
Making a Living in the Margins of the Post-Industrial Welfare State
10:15–12:15 Session 4: Precarity and working life transformation
Ella Viitaniemi (University of Tampere): Precarious clergy and struggling career-paths
Gabi Wüthrich (University of Zurich): Making a living in the middle of rural society: Investigating plural occupations in early-modern Switzerland through proto-statistical survey
Xin Liu (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies & Karlstad University): The experts of savings lottery. The Unsung heroes of China’s Economic Warfare (1949-1952)
Ossi Laaksamo (University of Jyväskylä): Strands of makeshift economy and self-sufficiency in a Finnish workfare scheme and its historical background
12:15–13:15 Lunch
13:15–15:15 Session 5: Earning Strategies and Incomes of Women and Children
Noora Viljamaa (University of Turku): Child poverty in urban 19th-century Finland
Sofia Gustafsson (University of Helsinki): The soldier families' makeshift economy in Helsinki in the mid-eighteenth century
Riina Turunen (University of Jyväskylä): Between wages and subsistence: Women’s earnings in estate labor on the western coast of Finland, ca. 1830
Leena Enbom (University of Helsinki): Makeshift Economies in a Changing Society: Methodological Reflections Based on Welfare Archives
15:15–15:45 Coffee break
15:45–16:15 — Closing remarks and discussion