Lucas Poy
Fellow
- E-mail: lucas.poy@iisg.nl
- Department: Collection Development
Lucas Poy is a social and labour historian specializing in the Second International and the early labour movement in Argentina and Latin America. His research examines labour, migration, and socialism from a global perspective, with particular attention to transnational connections, the Global South, and questions of race and solidarity.
He is Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a fellow of the International Institute of Social History, where he edits the Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REVLATT) and supervises visiting fellows—including postdocs, PhD candidates, and other researchers—who come for short- and mid-term stays to use the IISH archives and collections for research on Latin American and Spanish labour and leftist movements. Previously, he was lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires and senior researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Between 2018 and 2023 he was coordinator of the International Association of Labour History Institutions.
His publications include three monographs on Argentina’s labour movement and Socialist Party, as well as articles in leading journals such as the International Review of Social History, Labor History, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Historical Materialism, and numerous Latin American journals. He is currently completing a monograph on socialist debates about labour migration in the age of empire (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan), and has just finished co-editing the volume Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world for the series “Work Around the World” edited by UCL Press in association with the IISH.
He has received fellowships and grants from different scientific institutions and universities in Latin America, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States. Dr Poy is part of the editorial team of several academic journals in the Americas and Europe, including the International Review of Social History, Journal of Labor and Society, and Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, and participates regularly in the organisation of international events and workshops.
Publications: Lucas Poy – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
