Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century

A Conference Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the International Insitute of Social History
Amsterdam, 23-25 November 2000

Preliminary Program

Thursday 23rd November

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.45-14.00 Introduction, Jan Lucassen

14.00-14.30 Global Labour History, Marcel van der Linden

14.30-15.00 West Europe, Dick Geary

15.00-15.30 East Europe/Russia, Andrej Sokolov/Leonid Borodkin

15.30-16.00 North America, Bryan D. Palmer

16.00-16.30 Latin America, John D. French

16:30-17:00 Discussant, Bert Altena

17:00-18:00 Discussion

18:00 Drinks and dinner

Friday 24th November

09.00-09.30 Sub-Saharan Africa, Fred Cooper

09:30-10:00 North Africa/ Middle East, Zachary Lockman

10.00-10.30 South Asia, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

10.30-11.00 China, Alain Roux*

11.00-11.30 Australasia, Lucy Taksa

11.30-12.00 Discussant, Richard Price

12.00-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30 Railway Workers, Shelton Stromquist

14.30-15.00 Dock Labour, Lex Heerma vam Voss

15.00-15.30 Brick Making, Jan Lucassen

15.30-16.00 Discussant, Sylvia Hahn

16.30-17.30 Discussion

18.00-18.30 Reception

18.30-19.15 Public Lectures,
- Jaap Kloosterman: 'Rescuing International Heritage'
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya: 'Recovering the Pasts of Poverty: a view from the South'

19.15 Buffet

Saturday 25th November

09.00-09.30 Domestic Labour, Ratna Saptari

09:30-10:00 Coal Mining, Ian Phimister

10.00-10.30 Agricultural Labour, Prasannan Parthasarathy

10.30-11.00 Discussant, Ulbe Bosma

11.30-12.00 Discussion

12.00-12.30 Concluding Remarks, Jan Lucassen

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Presentations of Tools of Labour History
- Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN), Kees Mandemakers
- Historical International Standard Coding of Occupations (HISCO), Marco van Leeuwen
- Worldwide Web on the history of Wages and Prices (WWWP), Jan Luiten van Zanden

15.00 Walk through Amsterdam with Jan Lucassen, Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcel van der Linden

18.00 Dinner