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Video van bijeenkomst Flexibilisering in Scandinavië
Video van de bijeenkomst op 23 maart in Pakhuis de Zwijger in de reeks #detoekomstvanwerk. Het IISG is partner van deze reeks,Dåår ook alles flex? - Toekomst van Werk 13 from Pakhuis de Zwijger on... [News]
IRSH Special Issue
"Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters: States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500–2000",  IRSH latest Special Issue (vol 61 no 24, December 2016), for example presents a research article on the... [News]
ISHA Newsletter
The International Social History Association (ISHA) published its December 2017 Newsletter (vol. 6 no. 1).CONTENTS:The Politics of History: A Global Family Story by Catherine HallLaudatio for... [News]
Verslag What's New? Flexibilisering Arbeidsmarkt
Donderdag 25 februari was de start van de reeks 'What's New?' waarin het IISG laat zien dat we meer kunnen leren van het verleden dan we denken. In elke aflevering wordt een actuele maatschappelijke... [News]
"On Pauperism in Present and Past"
is the title of the new book by IISH’s honorary fellow Jan Breman. In this book Breman argues that the poor in India are getting more separated from the non-poor. The non-labouring poor are unable to... [News]
'Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History' web launch
In Buenos Aires, at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, on March 10 Rossana Barragán will launch the web-page about research and archives on Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History... [News]
Thesis defence Kaveh Ehsani
On October 2nd Kaveh Ehsani successfully defended his thesis at Leiden University.“The Social History of Labor in the Iranian Oil Industry, the Built Environment and the Making of the Industrial... [News]
European Labour History Network
On 12 October 2013, the European Labour History Network (ELHN) was established during a meeting at the IISH in Amsterdam.The ELHN aims to function as a gateway to share knowledge and (digital)... [News]
Illegal but Licit
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in Asia.Willem van Schendel (Asia Department, IISH & University of Amsterdam) has received a four-year grant for an international research programme on... [News]
Arvind N. Das Memorial Lecture
On March 19, 2004 Prof. dr. Marcel van der Linden, research director of the IISH, delivered the third Arvind N. Das Memorial Lecture. His lecture at the Indian Labour conference in Noida was titled '... [News]

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