Fellow
PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1980. Taught at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, 1980-1996 (from 1990 as Professor of Comparative History).
Since 1996 Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History.
Publications: Willem van Schendel – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
The project Plants, People and Work: The Social History of Cash Crops in Asia, 18th to 20th Centuries started in 2007with a 500,000 euro grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (N.W.O.). It fits in the central 'Global Labour History' research program of the IISH.
The silver trade powered global connections for more than three centuries, and from 1450 to 1800, 85% of the world’s silver originated from the Americas.
This project aims at creating an occupational information system that is both international and historical, and simultaneously links to existing classifications used for present-day conditions.
Director data & collections
This Women at Work Collection Guide provides information about the history of working women worldwide.
The IISH collection metadata are available through:
All metadata can be used under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license.
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 6
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 10
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 19
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 22
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 24
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 29
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 30
Academic Advisory Board of the IISH
Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Plaats van uitgave: Leiden
Publisher: Brill (externe link)
Year: 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-166837
The Handbook Global History of Work provides an overview of research findings of the daily routines of workers in different parts of the world and how they have changed over time. It also seeks to be the basis of further research.
Trien de Haan-Zwagerman (1891-1986) became a prominent figure in the Dutch left wing movement of the 1920s. Bart Lankester wrote her biography.
