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Global Labour History in the 21st Century
This conference was organized on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the IISH.Abstracts of papers presented during the conference:Marcel van der Linden, Global Labour History: Preliminary... [Event]
Labour in Asia
Aims of the SeminarLabour studies in Asia are either general in nature with an emphasis on quantitative anlysis, or have a strong regional focus based on a case study approach. Comparison between... [Event]
Wages and Currency
Visualizing Wage PaymentsIn Wages and Currency. Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, an interdisciplinary project involving social and economic history as well as numismatics,... [Exhibition]
Mine Workers in Pakistan
A recent collection of photographs and audio tapes documents the harsh working lives of those who labour in the coal, salt, and other mines of Pakistan. Part of an ongoing project by Ahmad Saleem and... [Image gallery]
May Day and Textile Workers in Angola 1975
Photos by Frits EisenloeffelPhotographer Frits Eisenloeffel visited Angola in 1975 and 1976 to witness the transfer of power from the Portuguese to the Angolan liberation movement and the... [Image gallery]
Elections and Migrant Workers in Namibia 1978
Photos by Frits EisenloeffelPhotographer Frits Eisenloeffel travelled in December 1978 to Namibia to report on the elections. The elections were organized by the South African government and intended... [Image gallery]
Praise for IISH
The Institute and its Global Labour History Research Program were paid a high tribute by the late professor David Montgomery, one of the foremost academics specializing in US labour history.He did so... [News]
Global Labour History Worldwide
The leading French social history journal Le Mouvement Social has embraced IISH's Global Labour History approach.Its latest issue (no 241, 'Travail et Mondialisation')is totally devoted to Global... [News]
Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden
The Global Labour History approach, developed within the IISH research department, is more and more being followed outside the institute. The October 2012 issue of the online, open access journal... [News]
Grant for Global Labour History Research
A generous grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf will enable the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, a collaboration of international researchers founded by the IISH... [News]

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