Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000
- Project-leader: Karin Hofmeester
- Start: 2013
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Grant: € 218,500 by Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Research Projects
The IISH conducts research in Project Clusters.
- Global Labour Relations
- Commodities, Environment and Labour
- Social and Economic Inequality
- Collective Action and Individual Strategies
This is an overview of the Research Projects within the four clusters.
Research Projects
The multicultural drama in perspective
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
LONGPOP
LONGPOP: Methodologies and Data Mining techniques for the analysis of Big Data based on Longitudinal Population and Epidemiological Registers
- Project lead: Kees Mandemakers
- Start: 2015
- Grant: € 3.860,731 (€ 510,748 IISH) by the European Research Counsil - Marie Curie - Horizon 2020
CLARIAH - Structured Data WP4
- Project lead: Henk Wals/Richard Zijdeman
- Start: 2014
- Grant: € 2,067,639 (€ 694,602 IISH) by NWO Large Research Infrastructures
- Partners: Free University Amsterdam, Utrecht University
Between local debts and global markets: Explaining slavery in South and Southeast Asia, 1600-1800
- Project lead: Matthias van Rossum
- Duration: 01-01-2016 to 28-02-2019.
- Grant: € 250.000 by NWO (VENI)
Commodity Frontiers: Capitalist Transformations of the Global Countryside During the Past Six Centuries
This large multi-year project aims to study the long history of commodity frontiers through an interdisciplinary research design that uses both written archival sources and fieldwork.
Luxury and Labour, a global trajectory of diamond consumption and production, 16th -19th century
In the past four hundred years large scale circulations of people, ideas and commodities took place, leading - amongst other things - to shifts in labour relations worldwide. Many historians share the idea that consumption plays an important role in the production of these commodities and therefore also in shaping labour relations.
Naval shipyards: Laboratories of capitalism
Naval Shipyards in the Atlantic World as Centers of Innovation in Production, Administration and Labor Control (1720-1870)
- Project lead: Pepijn Brandon
- Project start: 2016
- Grant: € 250,000 (€ 125,000 IISH) by NWO [VENI]
- Partners: Free University Amsterdam
The Historical Dynamics of Industrialization in North-Western Europe and China, 1800-2010
- Project lead: Bas van Leeuwen
- Project start: 2015
- Grant: circa € 1,400,000 by European Research Council | ERC Starting Grant
Value of the Guilder versus Euro
A comparison of the purchasing power of the guilder from the year 1450 to another year.
To determine the value of an amount of money in one year compared to another, enter the values in the appropriate places below.
Exploring the recent History of Labour Union Practices
- Projectleader: Matthias van Rossum
- Junior researcher: Moira van Dijk
- Student-assistants: Loran van Diepen, Rosa Kösters en Bob Scholte
