Onderzoekt en verzamelt de geschiedenis van werk, werkenden en arbeidsverhoudingen wereldwijd

Inaugurale rede Kristoffel Lieten

Kristoffel Lieten hield op 21 november 2003 zijn oratie als bijzonder hoogleraar 'Kinderarbeid, in het bijzonder de historische en sociale aspecten' aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

De titel is 'Kinderarbeid. Prangende vragen en contouren voor onderzoek'.
De plaats is de aula van de UvA, op de hoek van Singel en Spui.
De leerstoel is ingesteld door het IISG met steun van de Amsterdam Foundation for International Research on Exploitation of Working Children (IREWOC).

Kristoffel Lieten (Belgium, 1946) studied in Antwerp, The Hague, Reading and New Delhi, where he obtained degrees in linguistics, political science and history respectively. He did his PH.D. under the guidance of late professor Gerrit Huizer at the University of Nijmegen on the triangular relationship between the trade union movement, the nationalist movement and the colonial state in Mumbai, 1928-29. He has worked extensively on political developments in South Asia and on issues related to development sociology. For a long time, he combined his academic work with journalism as the correspondent for the Dutch and Belgian radio in South Asia.
Lieten joined the department of Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology at the University of Amsterdam in 1978. He presently holds the Child Labour chair at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute for Human Development in New Delhi. He is the director of the IREWOC Foundation (Institute for Research on Working Children) and in that capacity Dr. Lieten has initiated several research projects on child labour and child agency in various countries across the globe.
His present research interests relate to aspects of child labour, globalisation and development and development aid.

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28 november 2003