Global Labour Relations We study all types of work and labour relations. How are they interrelated, how can we explain the changes in labour relations and what are the effects of these changes on workers, their position and social inequality? Read more Resisting Enslavement A Global Historical Approach to Slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815) Resisting Enslavement The Global Business of Slave Trade Patterns, Actors and Gains in the Early Modern Dutch and Iberian Slave Trade Global business slave trade Slavery insured A study into the Amsterdam Assurantie Compagnie 1771 and its involvement in slavery, 1771-1873 Slavery Insured History of the Netherlands Labour Authority, 1890-2025 The Netherlands Labour Authority was founded in 1890 to ensure that conditions in the workplace remained safe and humane. Labour Authority Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations Collab History of Work HISCO HISCO Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) ESTA Completed Projects Between local debts and global markets Explaining slavery in South and Southeast Asia, 1600-1800 Local debts global markets Naval Shipyards: Laboratories of Capitalism Naval shipyards in the Atlantic World as centers of innovation in production, administration and labor control (1720-1870) Naval shipyards Staat en Slavernij State and Slavery details how the Dutch state and its predecessors were involved in colonial slavery. Staat en Slavernij Slaves, commodities, logistics How important was Atlantic slavery for the Dutch economy in the eighteenth century? Slaves, commodities, logistics The slavery history of historical predecessors of ABN AMRO. An investigation into Hope & Co. and R. Mees & Zoonen. It is the result of historical research commissioned by ABN AMRO and conducted by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. ABN AMRO
