Onderzoeksprojecten

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.

Het IISG bewaart het volledige archief van de Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkersbond (ANDB). 

• Projectleider: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2018
• Grant: Mondriaan Fonds

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

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

• Projectleider: Karin Hofmeester
• Grant: € 500.000 van KNAW Onderzoeksfonds
• Partner: Huygens ING

• Projectleider: Karin Hofmeester
• Start: 2013
• Grant: € 218,500 door Gerda Henkel Stiftung

• Projectleider: Leo Lucassen
• Grant: € 500,000  (€ 182.540 IISG) door de Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie voor Wetenschappen
• Start: 2017
• Partner: NIDI

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

• 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

• Project lead: Matthias van Rossum
• Duration: 01-01-2016 to 28-02-2019.
• Grant: € 250.000 by NWO (VENI)

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.

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.