Research Projects

Between solidarity and fragmentation. 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

PhD Researcher: Rosa Kösters MA 
Thesis advisor and project leader: Dr Matthias van Rossum
Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr Leo Lucassen

In the project Between solidarity and fragmentation the consequences are examined of the transformation of work in the Netherlands for shop-floor relations and its effects on how workers organize.

• Project lead: Rombert Stapel
• Grant: € 149.884 by NWO (Replication Studies, 3rd round)
• Start: September 2020 (runtime: two years)

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Project leader: Almudena Rubio
Project: Research, Photobook and International Exhibition

Margaret Michaelis (Dziedzice, 1902 - Melbourne, 1985) and Kati Horna (Budapest, 1912 - Mexico, 2000) were two Jewish immigrant photographers who put their cameras at the service of the social revolution launched by the anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists of the CNT-FAI during the Spanish Civil War. Despite what has been understood in the past, their photographs from the war did not fall into the hands of Franco´s regime, disappear into the ruins or perish during the bombings. They were where they belonged, in the files of the offices where the photographers worked: the Foreign Propaganda Office of the CNT-FAI.

Op 10 januari 1740 verging het VOC-schip Rooswijk in een zware winterstorm voor de kust van Engeland. Anno 2018 staat het schip volop in de schijnwerpers. Afgelopen zomer werd de opgraving van het schip voor het 2017 afgerond. Britse en Nederlandse archeologen, professionele duikers, amateur archeologen en tientallen studenten, hebben duizenden vondsten naar boven gehaald. De Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, die dit project leidt, werkt samen met Historic England aan het vervolg van het project in 2017 en 2018. 

• Project lead: Ulbe Bosma, Matthias van Rossum
• Grant: € 749,840 (€ 316,920 IISH) by NWO
• Start: 2017
• Partner: Leiden University

Exploring Slave Trade in Asia - Towards an Indian Ocean and Maritime Asia Slave Trade Database

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.

The IISH holds the complete archive of the Dutch Diamond Workers Union (Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB)).

• Projectleader: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2018
• Grant: Monderiaan Fonds

The main objective of this project is to develop an empirical and qualitative understanding of labour as well as labour force in the Iranian oil industry.

Project-leader: Touraj Atabaki

Tegen de stroom in: de sociale mobiliteit van joodse Nederlanders (1880-1940)

• Project-leader: Karin Hofmeester en Leo Lucassen
• Grant: € 500.000 by KNAW Onderzoeksfonds
• Partner: Huygens ING

• Project-leader: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2013

• Grant: € 218,500 by Gerda Henkel Stiftung

40 years of lifecycle for migrants and non-migrants in the Netherlands

• Project lead: Leo Lucassen
• Grant: € 500,000  (€ 182.540 IISH) by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Start: 2017
• Partner: NIDI