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.
Diamond Workers Union project
9 May 2019 12:13
The IISH holds the complete archive of the Dutch Diamond Workers Union (Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB)).
- Projectleader: Karin Hofmeester
- Start: 2018
- Grant: Monderiaan Fonds
Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry
15 April 2019 15:04
The main objective of this project was to develop an empirical and qualitative understanding of labour as well as labour force in the Iranian oil industry.
Project-leader: Touraj Atabaki
Against the current: the social mobility of Jewish Dutch (1880-1940)
15 April 2019 10:48
Tegen de stroom in: de sociale mobiliteit van joodse Nederlanders (1880-1940)
- Project leader: Karin Hofmeester and Leo Lucassen
Grant: € 500,000 by KNAW Research Fund
Partner: Huygens ING
Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000
4 April 2019 11:45
- Project-leader: Karin Hofmeester
- Start: 2013
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Grant: € 218,500 by Gerda Henkel Stiftung
The multicultural drama in perspective
4 April 2019 10:17
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: 2018
- Partner: NIDI
LONGPOP
3 April 2019 17:08
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
3 April 2019 16:47
- 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
3 April 2019 12:15
- 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
1 April 2019 15:20
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
1 April 2019 15:18
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
1 April 2019 14:01
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
1 April 2019 13:36
- Project lead: Bas van Leeuwen
- Project start: 2015
- Grant: circa € 1,400,000 by European Research Council | ERC Starting Grant
