IISH Research focuses on the transnational and transcontinental study of labour, labour relations and workers' social movements in the broadest sense of the word.
Its Global Labour History Programme concerns the history of all those people who through their work have built our modern world - not only wage labourers, but also chattel slaves, sharecroppers, housewives, the self-employed, and many other groups. It focuses on the labour relations of these people, as individuals but also as members of households, networks and other contexts. Global Labour History covers the last five centuries and, in principle, all continents. It compares developments in several parts of the world and attempts to reveal intercontinental connections and interactions.
For more information see the position paper by Marcel van der Linden Globalizing Labour Historiography: The IISH Approach and the paper by Jan Luiten van Zanden On global economic history; a personal view on an agenda for future research.
Research projects
- Current projects on Global Labour History, Global Migration History, and Global Economic History.
- Past projects
Datahubs and Region Desks
- Region Desks (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Russia) staffed by IISH researchers
- Datahubs and collaboratories
Staff
Profiles and publications of staff members (A-Z) and fellows of the Research department. For more information on research fellowships.
Publications
International Review of Social History, book publications, journals and research papers by IISH staff.
Conferences, Workshops
- European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)
- World Economic History Congress (WEHC) 2009
- International Congress of Historical Sciences (ICHS) 2010
- Past conferences, workshops and lectures (Research News Archive)