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For those who experience the momentum of revolution, time passes differently: the future becomes a promise that waits somewhere in the past, always anticipating return. The archive itself becomes a tool for perceiving time, offering the possibility to return and remember. 

As part of the IISG’s 90th-anniversary year, artist Golrokh Nafisi and researcher Ahmadali Kadivar will inhabit the institute in a performative sit-in during the first week of December.

Out on the streets it is hard to miss their delivery boxes and cargo bikes. The rapid rise of bicycle couriers shows that work in the Netherlands has changed enormously over the past ten years.

How can we explore the many ways in which coercion has occurred in and through paid labour? This book discussion brings visual and written sources and interpretations into dialogue, broadening the analytical horizon of Labour History. 

When it comes to the Netherlands and employment, the Netherlands is always referred to as the “champion of part-time work”. The question is whether this is meant in a positive sense. The fact that Dutch women are dismissed as “part-time princesses” makes it abundantly clear how this is perceived.