A Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations in the period 1500-2000

First Workshop

Pictures of the first workshop

Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Program

Thursday 12 April

19.00 Welcoming dinner in Amsterdam

Friday 13 April

09.30 Welcome with coffee and tea

10.00 Short introduction of all participants

10.15 Introductory remarks on the Collaboratory and on the Henkel Stiftung project

10.30 Discussion on the typology of the various forms of labour relations and their applicability world wide (based on a paper by Marcel van der Linden and Jan Lucassen)

12.30-13.30 Lunch at the IISH

13.30 Methodological implementation I: discussion on the available data and its shortcomings based on the inventories of the participants, sent in before 1 April; creation of a provisional wish-list for supplementary research

15.30 Coffee and tea break

15.45-17.45 Methodological implementation II: discussion on the format of the database and the methods to share data, based on the example of the 1900 database by Karin Hofmeester, to be published on the website of the project

19.00 Dinner in Amsterdam

Saturday, 14 April

10.00 Re-evaluation of the typology: do the preliminary inventories of the data lead to adaptations of the typology?

11.00 Adoption of a questionnaire to create uniformity in the data gathered, developing a working-plan for the members of the research group

13.00-14.00 Lunch at the IISH

14.00-15.45 Discussion on the ideological aspects of various types of labour relations

16.00-17.00 Conclusions and planning of the next meetings