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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.
Migration history is both a prominent part of Global Labour History as well as crucial element of Global Economic History.
This publication explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History.
Hofmeester, K. & P. de Zwart, Colonialism, institutional change and shifts in global labour relations (Amsterdam 2018, AUP).
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Traditionally, acquisitions related to the Netherlands have included socialism and the labor movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the 1970s, the social movement has expanded to include environmental issues, human rights, squatters, and similar subjects. The legacy of these new social movements can be found at the IISH as well.
International organizations figure prominently in the collections at the IISH.
Bosma, U., The sugar plantation in India and Indonesia, Industrial Production, 1770-2010 (CUP 2013).
Global Labour History is not a theory but a field of attention. It concerns the history of all those people who through their work have built our modern world - not only wage labourers, but also chattel slaves, sharecroppers, housewives, the self-employed, and many other groups.
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 18
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 30
On the Waterfront is the semi-annual magazine of the IISH. This is issue 31 (2016)
Op 29 June 2017 vond een vriendendag plaats bij het IISG. Onderwerp van de middag was het project 'Papieren van de Russische Revolutie'. Dit is het verslag van die bijeenkomst.
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.
