Rosa Kösters
PhD Researcher
- E-mail:rosa.kosters@iisg.nl
- Department: Research
Bio
Rosa Kösters is a researcher at the IISH. She specialises in global labour history, Dutch labour history, strikes and collective action.
Rosa studied History at the University of Amsterdam (BA and MA cum laude). She participated in the IISH and FNV project Historische Verkenningen Vakbeweging (2017) and worked as an independent researcher for The Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement (WB) (2019).
Rosa has won several awards (Scriptieprijs voor de vakbeweging 2018, KNAW Faces of Science 2022) and is a regular expert contributor to the national media.
Publications: Rosa Kösters – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
Current projects
Rosa is the Principal Investigator (PI) of Women Forward with Network V. This project is a collaboration between IISH and FNV and focuses on promoting gender equality in ICT and cleaning through the creation, support, expansion and research of women's networks. This project has been co-funded by the European Union.
She is the coordinator of the Hub Global Labour Conflicts, a data collaboration project that aims to collect and make accessible data on different types of collective action around the world.
Rosa is also completing her PhD research on a distribution centre (Albert Heijn), supermarkets (Albert Heijn) and a sausage and soup factory (Unox/Unilever) in the Netherlands in the period 1960-2020. It looks at changes in the workplace from the perspective of the migrant workers, women, men and young people in these companies. It asks how these workers organised themselves inside and outside formal trade unions.
Committees
Vice Chair Steering Committee, European Labour History Network (ELHN).
Co-founder and coördinator of the ELHN Working Group Precarious Labour.
