Individual and collective action

An analysis of the consequences of and reactions to changing labour relations by the shop-floor and trade union movement in the Netherlands, 1970-2020.

A Global Historical Approach to Slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815)

Women and their strategies for upward social mobility in Dutch settlements in Asia and the Atlantic world

The aim of this project is to promote gender equality in the ICT and cleaning sectors by establishing, supporting, expanding and researching women's networks (Network Vs). 

The Global production chain of printed textiles (1700-1900) 

The goal of the HUB is to develop a new data collaboration which collects information about labour conflicts through time and space.

Photographers Kati Horna and Margaret Michaelis in the Spanish Civil War

A biographical dictionary of some 650 Dutchmen who took part in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

HSNDB is the collective name for the datasets containing Dutch individuals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with which more than 500 publications have been written on issues such as life histories, social mobility, infant mortality and longevity.

A global historical approach to enslavement across the Atlantic & Indian Ocean. This is the aim of the ERC Consolidator Project Voices of Resistance.

Via the careful administration of the unions of diamond workers, this project unveils the careers, family memberships and social mobility of diamond workers in Amsterdam. Moreover, for the first time it provides data to test 'well known facts' such as the sex-segregation among diamond workers as well as the importance of racial background for social mobility.

In the 19th century, up to 40% of all male workers left the Principality of Lippe every spring. Until the autumn they were working on brickworks in the north of Germany, in the Netherlands, in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Nowhere else in the world can you find so much and dense information on seasonal workers of origin and destination for such a long and early time on that scale. They are invaluable for the history of migrations, work and the family, but also for genealogists with ancestors from Lippe.

Preliminary research into the recent history of the (Dutch) trade union movement.

Individual life strategies employed by Dutch Jews and the relation between these strategies and outcomes in integration, social mobility, and (de) segregation.