Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Marcel van der Linden

Profile

Research Director, International Institute of Social History
President, International Social History Association (2005-10).
Member, International Scientific Committee, ITH-International Conference of Labour and Social History, Vienna, Austria.
Honorary Fellow, Research Centre in Work and Labour Market Studies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Honorary Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), Australia.
Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK.
Member, Advisory Board, Victor Adler Institute, Vienna, Austria.
Vice-President, Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte, Bremen, Germany.
Member, Board, Stichting ter bevordering van de Azië-Studies in Nederland, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Chair, Executive Committee, research programme "Changing Labour Relations in Asia" (joint project of International Institute of Asian Studies/Leiden, IISH, and Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen).
Chair, Editorial Committee, International Review of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK.
Associate Editor International Labor and Working-Class History, New York, USA.
Editorial Adviser Revista Mundos do Trabalho (Brazil).
Editorial Adviser Revista História Social, Campinas, Brazil.
Editorial adviser Historical Materialism. Research in Critical Marxist Theory, London, UK, and Leiden, The Netherlands.
Editorial adviser Peripherie. Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, Münster, Germany.
Co-Editor Istorija Sotsialnaja, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Corresponding editor Labour History (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History).
Corresponding editor Historia Social (Spain).
Corresponding editor Labour History Review ([British] Society for the Study of Labour History).
Co-Editor Sozial.Geschichte Online, Bremen, Germany.
Member, Advisory Board Brood & Rozen. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen (Ghent).
Corresponding editor Soathar (Irish Labour History Society).
Member International Advisory Board Labour/Le Travail (Canadian Committee on Labour History).
Corresponding editor International Newsletter of Historical Studies on Comintern, Communism and Stalinism (Germany).
Corresponding Editor Socialism and Democracy (City University of New York).
Series editor Studies in Global Social History, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston, USA: Brill.
Series co-editor Historical Materialism Book Series, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston, USA: Brill Academic Publishers.
Series editor, International Studies in Social History, Oxford, UK, and New York, USA: Berghahn.
Series editor, International and Comparative Social History, Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Main research interest: global labour history.

Award

Doctor philosophiae honoris causa, University of Oslo, 2008.

Selected publications

1. Books and Pamphlets

The Past and Present of the International Labour Organization. Edited with Magaly Rodriguez García, Jasmien Van Daele and Geert Van Goethem (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009: forthcoming).

1968 - A View of the Protest Movements 40 Years After, from a Global Perspective. Edited with Angelika Ebbinghaus and Max Henninger (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2009).

Über Marx hinaus. Arbeitsgeschichte und Arbeitsbegriff im 21. Jahrhundert. Edited with Karl Heinz Roth in collaboration with Max Henninger (Berlin and Hamburg: Assoziation A, 2009: forthcoming).

Labour Matters: Towards Global Histories. Studies in Honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Edited with Prabhu P. Mohapatra (New Delhi: Tulika, 2009).

Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008). xii + 480 pp.

Transnational Networks in the Twentieth Century. Ideas and Practices, Individuals and Organizations. Edited with Jürgen Mittag and Berthold Unfried (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2008). 332 pp.

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917 (Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007). XII + 380 pp.
* Earlier Dutch version: Het westers marxisme en de Sovjetunie. Hoofdlijnen van structurele maatschappijkritiek, 1917-1985 (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG, 1989). 366 pp.
* Earlier German version: Von der Oktoberrevolution zur Perestroika. Der westliche Marxismus und die Sowjetunion (Frankfurt/M.: Edition Zeta/Dipa Verlag, 1992). 348 pp.

Was war die Sowjetunion? Kritische Beiträge zum real existierenden Sozialismus. Edited volume (Vienna: Promedia, 2007). 176 pp.

Kontroversen über den Zustand der Welt. Weltmarkt - Arbeitsformen - Hegemoniezyklen. Edited with Christoph Lieber (Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 2007). 253 pp.

Coolies, Capital and Colonialism: Studies in Indian Labour History. Edited with Rana P. Behal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). [Supplement 14 of the International Review of Social History]. 286 pp.

* Indian edition: India's Labouring Poor. Historical Studies, c. 1600 - c. 2000 (New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2007). 286 pp.

Mutualist Microfinance. Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core? Edited with Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006). 217 pp.

Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System. Edited with Berthold Unfried (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2004).

Gottfried Mergner: Social Limits to Learning. Essays on the Archeology of Domination, Resistance, and Experience. Edited volume (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2004). viii + 160 pp.

Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2003). XIV + 226 pp.
* Spanish translation: Historia transnacional del trabajo. Valencia: Biblioteca Historia Social, 2006. 304 pp.

Class and Other Identities. Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History. Edited with Lex Heerma van Voss (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2002). vi + 250 pp.

Statt Menschenliebe: Menschenrechte. Lernprozesse zwischen gesellschaftlicher Anpassungsgewalt und Widerstand. Zur Erinnerung an Gottfried Mergner (1940-1999). With Wolfgang Nitsch et al. (Frankfurt am Main: IKO-Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2002), 247 pp.

Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman. Edited with Arvind N. Das (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002). 250 pp.

Deindustrialization: Social, Cultural and Political Aspects. Edited with Bert Altena [Supplement 10 of the International Review of Social History] (Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 176 pp.

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, (Berne [etc.]: Peter Lang Academic, 2000), 624 pp.

Labour Relations in Asia and Europe. Edited with Tommy Koh (Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, 2000), XIV + 121 pp.

The Rise and Development of Collective Labour Law. Edited with Richard Price (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), 459 pp.

Het naderende einde van de vaderlandse geschiedenis en de toekomstige studie der sociale bewegingen, (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG, 1999), 79 pp.

Prolegomena for a Global Labour History. With Jan Lucassen (Amsterdam: IISH, 1999), 24 pp.

New Methods for Social History. Edited with Larry Griffin (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 165 pp.

August Sartorius van Waltershausen: The Workers' Movement in the United States, 1879-1885. Edited with David Montgomery, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), XI + 243 pp.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited with Tom Brass. (Bern: Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 1997), 602 pp.

'Peripheral' Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization. Edited with Shahid Amin (Cambridge: University Press, 1997), IV + 177 pp.

Onderlinge hulpfondsen. Historische en etnografische essays. Edited with Jacqueline Sluijs (Amsterdam: Stichting beheer IISG, 1996), 180 pp.

Social Security Mutualism. The Comparative History of Mutual Benefit Societies (Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1996), 708 pp.

Racism and the Labour Market. Historical Studies. Edited with Jan Lucassen (Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1995), 648 pp.

The End of Labour History?, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 175 pp.
* Russian: Konec rabocheij istorii?, (Moscow: Center for Social History, 1996), 260 pp.)

Die Rezeption der Marxschen Theorie in den Niederlanden. Edited volume (Trier: Karl-Marx-Haus, 1992) 504 pp.

Kriegsbegeisterung und mentale Kriegsvorbereitung. Interdisziplinäre Studien. Edited with Gottfried Mergner, (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991), 296 pp.

Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International Perspective. Edited with Wayne Thorpe, (Aldershot: Gower/Scolar Press, 1990), 260 pp.

The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914. An International Perspective. Edited with Jürgen Rojahn, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), Two volumes, 819 pp.

Internationalism in the Labour Movement, 1830-1940. Edited with Frits van Holthoon (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988), Two volumes, 699 pp.

Gorbatsjov en de arbeiders. Edited with Joost Lagendijk and Hanneke Willemse, (Amsterdam: SUA, 1988), 150 pp.

Het Sovjetraadsel. Poging tot begrip van de Oosteuropese maatschappij. With Hans Kaiser et al. (Antwerpen: Leon Lesoil, 1983), 224 pp.

2. Articles

'Warum gab (und gibt) es Sklaverei im Kapitalismus? Eine einfache und dennoch schwer zu beantwortende Frage', in: M. Erdem Kabadayi and Tobias Reichardt (eds), Unfreie Arbeit. Ökonomische und kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven (Hildesheim, Zürich and New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2007), 260-79.

'De "methode de Swaan"', in: Annet Mooij et al. (eds), Grenzeloos nieuwsgierig. Opstellen voor en over Abram de Swaan (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2007), 286-90, 329-30.

'Ernest Mandel and the Historical Theory of Global Capitalism'. Edited with Jan Willem Stutje. Historical Materialism, 15: 1 (2007), 37-198.

'Ernest Mandel and the Historical Theory of Global Capitalism. Editorial Introduction', with Jan Willem Stutje, Historical Materialism, 15: 1 (2007), 37-45.

'The "Law" of Uneven and Combined Development: Some Underdeveloped Thoughts', Historical Materialism, 15: 1 (2007), 145-65.

'Labour History: The Old, the New and the Global', African Studies, 66: 2 (2007), 1-12.
* German: 'Was ist neu an der globalen Arbeitsgeschichte?', Sozial.Geschichte, 22: 2 (2007), 31-44.

'Sattelzeit: Strategien von oben, Lernprozesse von unten', in: van der Linden and Lieber, Kontroversen über den Zustand der Welt, 15-28.

'Varieties of Mutualism', in: van der Linden and de Swaan, Mutualist Microfinance, 183-210.

'Transnationale Arbeitergeschichte', in: Gunilla Budde, Sebastian Conrad and Oliver Janz (eds), Transnationale Geschichte. Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006), 265-274.

'A Case of Lost Identity? A Long View on Social Democracy Worldwide', in: John Callaghan and Ilaria Favretto (eds), Transitions in Social Democracy. Cultural and Ideological Problems of the Golden Age (Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press, 2006), 35-41.

'Globalization from Below. A Brief Survey of the "Movement of Movements"', in: Francine Mestrum and Donald Weber (eds), Anti-Globalism: Inside Outside. Ghent, Amsab-ISH / IALHI /Kreveld, 2006, 28-41.

'What is the Problem? And How Can We Be Part of Its Solution?', Labor History, 47: 4 (November 2006), 566-570.

'Reading Ethnography as Labour History. The Example of the Iatmul, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea', Labour History, 89 (November 2005), 197-213.

'Labour History: An International Movement', Labour History, 89 (November 2005), 225-34.

'Metamorfoses da socialdemocracia européia (1870-2000)', in; Alexandre Fortes (ed.), História e perspectivas da esquerda (São Paulo and Unochapecó: Fundação Perseu Abramo and Argos Editoria Universitária, 2005), 19-45.

'Conceptualising the World Working Class', in: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen (eds), Workers in the Informal Sector. Studies in Labour History 1800-2000 (Delhi [etc.]: Macmillan India, 2005), 21-44.
* German: 'Plädoyer für eine historische Neubestimmung der Welt-Arbeiterklasse', Sozial.Geschichte, 20: 3 (2005), 7-28.
* Portuguese: 'Rumo a uma nova conceituação histórica da classe trabalhadora mundial', História [São Paulo], 24: 2 (2005), 11-40.

'Syndicalismes et "nouveaux" mouvements sociaux autour de 1968', in: Michel Pigenet, Patrick Pasture and Jean-Louis Robert (eds), L'apogée des syndicalismes en Europe occidentale (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005), 139-166.

'The "Globalization" of Labor and Working Class History and its Consequences', International Labor and Working Class History, 65 (Spring 2004), 136-156.
* Also published as 'The "Globalization" of Labour and Working-Class History and Its Consequences', in: Jan Lucassen (ed.), Global Labour History. A State of the Art. Berne: Peter Lang Academic, 2006, 13-36.
* Spanish: 'La "globalización" de la historia del trabajo y de la clase obrera y sus consecuencias', in: Vicent Sanz Rozalén and José A. Piqueras Arenas (eds), En el nombre del oficio. El trabajador especializado: corporativismo, adaptación y protesta (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2005), 345-369.
* German: 'Die Geschichte der Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter in der Globalisierung', Sozial.Geschichte, 1: 1 (2003), 10-40.

'On Council Communism', Historical Materialism. Research in Critical Marxist Theory, 12: 4 (2004), 27-50.

'"Proletarian Internationalism": A Long View and Some Speculations', in: Immanuel Wallerstein (ed.), The Modern World System in the Longue Durée (New York: Paradigm books, 2004), 107-131.
* German: 'Die Zukunft der internationalen Gewerkschaften in historischer Perspektive', in: Unfried and van der Linden, Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalising World System, 103-124.
* Swedish: 'FFI vid skiljevägen. En historisk tolkning',  Arbetarhistoria, 109-110 (2004), 4-15.
* Turkish: 'Proleterya Enternasyonalizmi: Bir Gelecek Öngörüsü ve Bazı Spekülasyonlar', in: Immanuel Wallerstein (ed.), Modern Küresel-Sistem. Istanbul: Pınar Yayınları, 2006, 161-194.

'New Trends in Transnational Labor History', special issue of International Labor and Working-Class History, edited with Michael P. Hanagan, 66 (Fall 2004).

'Gottfried Mergner', in Mergner, Social Limits to Learning, 1-19.

'Labour History as the History of Multitudes', Labour/Le Travail, 52 (2003), 235-243.

'Gaining Ground', Journal of Social History, 37, 1 (2003), 69-75.
* German: 'An Boden gewinnen. Perspektiven der Sozialgeschichte', in: Richard Heigl, Petra Ziegler and Philip Bauer (eds), Kritische Geschichte: Perspektiven und Positionen (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2005), 133-143.

'Metamorfoses da Social-Democracia Européia (1870-2000)', História [São Paulo], 21 (2002  [recte 2003]), 41-72.

'Introduction', with Touraj Atabaki, International Review of Social History, 48 (2003), 353-359.

'First International', in: Neil Schlager (ed.), St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact. 2 vols (Detroit [etc.]: Thomson & Gale, 2003), vol. I,  311-314.

'International Federation of Miners', in: Neil Schlager (ed.), St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact. 2 vols (Detroit [etc.]: Thomson & Gale, 2003), vol. I, 465-468.

'Transport Workers' Strike, Worldwide 1911', in: Neil Schlager (ed.), St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact. 2 vols (Detroit [etc.]: Thomson & Gale, 2003), vol. II, 334-336.

'Globalizando a Historiografia das Classes Trabalhadores e dos Movimentos Operários: Alguns Pensamentos Preliminares', Trajetos. Revista de História UFC [Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil], 1: 2 (2002), 9-24.

'Vorläufiges zur transkontinentalen Arbeitergeschichte', Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 28 (2002), 291-304.

'Globalizing Labour Historiography: The Amsterdam Approach', in: Josef Ehmer, Helga Grebing and Peter Gutschner (eds), 'Arbeit': Geschichte — Gegenwart — Zukunft (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2002), 151-164.

'Introduction', in: Jan Kok (ed.), Rebellious Families. Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2002), 1-23.

'Conclusion', in: Jan Kok (ed.), Rebellious Families. Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2002), 230-242.

'Introduction', with Lex Heerma van Voss, in : Heerma van Voss and van der Linden, Class and Other Identities, 1-39.

'Gottfried Mergner als Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung. Rekonstruktion eines Lernprozesses', in: Nitsch et al., Statt Menschenliebe: Menschenrechte, 51-69.

'Introduction', in: Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman. Edited with Arvind N. Das (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002), 9-16.

'Refuting Labour History's Occidentalism', in: Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman. Edited with Arvind N. Das (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002), 249-261.

'Labor History', International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (London [etc.]: Elsevier Science, 2001), 8181-8185.

'Working Classes, History of', International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (London [etc.]: Elsevier Science, 2001), 16579-16583.

'Global Labor History and "the Modern World System": Thoughts at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center', International Review of Social History, 46 (2001), 423-459.

'The Prehistory of Post-Scarcity Anarchism: Josef Weber and the Movement for a Democracy of Content (1947-1964)', Anarchist Studies, 9 (2001), 127-145.
* Earlier German version: 'Wider den gesellschaftlichen Rückschritt: Die Bewegung für inhaltliche Demokratie, 1947-1964', in: Angelika Ebbinghaus and Karl Heinz Roth (eds), Grenzgänge (Lüneburg: Zu Klampen Verlag, 1999), 222-237, 425-429.

'Conclusion', in: Bart De Wilde (ed.), The Past and Future of International Trade Unionism (Ghent: IALHI-AMSAB, 2001), 310-314.

'Het naderende einde van de vaderlandse geschiedenis en de toekomstige studie der sociale bewegingen', in: Is ons vaderland internationaal? De grenzen van de studie van sociale bewegingen (Ghent: AMSAB – Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 2001), 14-27.

'Nawoord', in: Is ons vaderland internationaal? De grenzen van de studie van sociale bewegingen (Ghent: AMSAB – Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 2001), 63-67.

'Dockers' Configurations', with Lex Heerma van Voss, in: Sam Davies et al. (eds), Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970 (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2000), vol. II, 762-780.
* Spanish: 'Estibadores: Configuraciones 1790-1970', Historia Social, 45 (2003), 35-52.

'Conclusion: The Past and Present of International Trade Unionism', in: van der Linden, The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 519-540.

'Conclusion: Rethinking Labour Rights', in: Koh and Van der Linden, Labour Relations in Asia and Europe, pp. 110-121.

'Transnationalizing American Labor History', Journal of American History, 86 (1999), 1078-1092.

'The End of Eurocentrism and the Future of Labour History: Or, Why We Should and How We Could Reconceptualise the Working Class', in: Actos dos V Cursos Internacionais de Verão de Cascais (Cascais: Câmara Municipal de Cascais, 1999), vol. I: O Trabalho, 159-174.
* Portuguese: 'O fim do eurocentrismo e o futuro da história do movimento laboral: ou, por que motivo deveríamos e de que mode poderíamos conceptualizar de novo a classe operária', in: Actos dos V Cursos Internacionais de Verão de Cascais (Cascais: Câmera Municipal de Cascais, 1999), vol. I: O Trabalho, 175-191.
* Spanish: 'El fin del eurocentrismo y el futuro de la historia del trabajo: o por qué debemos y podemos reconceptualizar la clase obrera', in: Javier Paniagua, José A. Piqueras and Vicent Sanz (eds), Cultura social y política en el mundo del trabajo (Valenicia: Biblioteca Historia Social, 1999), 301-322.

'Hacer historia comparativa del trabajo: algunos preliminares esenciales', Historia Social, 33 (1999), 111-131.
* Abbreviated English version: 'Doing Comparative Labour History: Some Essential Preliminaries'. in: Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells (eds), Australian Labour and Regional Change. Essays in Honour of R.A. Gollan (Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Halstead Press, 1998), 75-92.
* Dutch: 'Methodologische Aanvulling', in: Van der Linden, Het naderende einde van de vaderlandse geschiedenis en de toekomstige studie der sociale bewegingen (1999), 28-57.

'Wie Normal ist das Normalarbeitsverhältnis?', 1999, 14: 1 (1999), 7-18.

'Metamorphoses of European Social Democracy', Socialism and Democracy, 12 (1998), 161-186.

'Second Thoughts on Revolutionary Syndicalism', Labour History Review, 63/2 (1998), 182-196.
*Swedish: 'Revolutionär syndikalism: Eftertanke och omvärdering', Arbetarhistoria, 87-88 (1998), 4-11.
* German: 'Neue Überlegungen zum revolutionären Syndikalismus', 1999: Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. und 21.  Jahrhunderts, 16: 2(2001), 141-158.

'Prolegomeny k globalnoi rabochei istorii' [with Jan Lucassen)], Social'naya istoriya, 1 (1998), 53-68.

'Comentarios a las ponencias de Manuel Pérez Ledesma y Bruce Laurie', Historia Contemporánea, 16 (1998), 89-96.

'Socialisme ou Barbarie: A French Revolutionary Group, 1949-1965', Left History, 5: 1 (1998), 7-37.

'August Sartorius von Waltershausen (1852-1938), German Political Economy and American Labor' [with Gregory Zieren], in Montgomery and van der Linden, August Sartorius von Waltershausen, 23-65.

'Notes from an Outsider', in: Paul C. van Royen, Jaap R. Bruijn and Jan Lucassen (eds), 'Those Emblems of Hell'? European Sailors and the Maritime Labour Market, 1570-1870 [Research in Maritime History, v. 13] (St. John, 1997), 349-362.

'The Historical Limit of Workers' Protest: Moishe Postone, Krisis and the Commodity Logic', International Review of Social History, 42 (1997), 447-458.
* German: 'Zur historischen Grenze des Arbeiterwiderstandes: Moishe Postone, Krisis und die Warenlogik', in: Thomas Geisen, Katrin Kraus, Veronika Ziegelmayer (Hg.), Zukunft ohne Arbeit? Beiträge zur Krise der Arbeitsgesellschaft (Frankfurt am Main: IKO – Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 1998), 191-206.

'Forced Labour and Non-Capitalist Industrialization: The Case of Stalinism (c. 1929 - c. 1956)', in: Brass and van der Linden, Free and Unfree Labour, 351-362.

'The Origins, Spread, and Normalization of Free Wage Labour', in: Brass and van der Linden, Free and Unfree Labour, 501-523.

'Enteignung', in: Wolfgang Fritz Haug (ed.), Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 3. (Hamburg: Das Argument, 1997), cols. 444-454.

'Social History in the Netherlands' [with Jan Lucassen], Tijdschrift voor sociale geschiedenis, 23 (1997), 209-222.

'Old Workers' Movements and "New Political Economy": Uses and Drawbacks of Rational Choice Theory', Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d'histoire (Zürich), 4: 1 (1997), 128-143.
* Dutch version: 'Het nut van de "rational choice" theorie voor de geschiedschrijving van de arbeidersbeweging', Bulletin Nederlandse Arbeidersbeweging, 38 (1995), 32-47.
* Flemish version: 'Het nut van de "Rational choice" theorie voor de geschiedschrijving van de arbeidersbeweging', Brood & Rozen. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen, 1996/2, 34-42.

'Marx and Engels, Dutch Marxism, and the "Model Capitalist Nation of the Seventeenth Century"', Science and Society, 61 (1997), 161-192.
* Dutch: '"Vaderlandse Geschiedenis", anders gezien. Het marxisme, de Opstand en de Republiek', Kritiek, 1 (1991), 107-138.
* German: 'Marx und Engels, der niederländische Marxismus, und die 'kapitalistische Musternation des 17. Jahrhunderts'', in: Van der Linden, Die Rezeption der Marxschen Theorie in den Niederlanden (1992), 9-46.

'Die zweite Wandlung der Sozialdemokratie', in: Wladislaw Hedeler, Mario Keßler and Gert Schäfer (eds), Ausblicke auf das vergangene Jahrhundert. Die Politik der internationalen Arbeiterbewegung von 1900 bis 2000. Festschrift für Theodor Bergmann (Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 1996), 210-228.
* Dutch: 'De tweede gedaanteverwisseling der sociaaldemocratie', Kritiek, 4 (1995), 9-31.
* Shortened German version: 'Die zweite Wandlung der Sozialdemokratie', Analyse und Kritik, 378 (1995), nr. 378, 29-30.

'Contemporary German Studies of American Labor, 1865-1914' [with Gregory Zieren], Labor History, 36 (1995), 579-587.

'Keeping Distance: Alf Lüdtke's "Decentred" Labour History', International Review of Social History, 40 (1995), 287-296.

'Heimatliebe, Pariotismus, Internationalismus', in: Wilfried Belschner e al. (eds), Wem gehört die Heimat? Beiträge der politischen Psychologie zu einem umstrittenen Phänomen (Opladen: Leske+Budrich, 1995), 201-207.

'Anarchismus', in: Wolfgang Fritz Haug (ed.), Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Vol. 1.  (Hamburg: Das Argument, 1995), cols. 210-216.

'Methodologische Probleme vergleichender Sozialgeschichte: Eine Erwiderung auf Christiane Eisenbergs "methodenkritische Bemerkungen" zu einem IISG-Projekt' [with Jürgen Rojahn], Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 35 (1995), 231-239.

'Working-Class Consumer Power', International Labor and Working-Class History, 46 (1994), 109-121.

'Households and Labour Movements', Economic and Social History in the Netherlands, 6 (1994), 129-144.

'Austromarxisme en Nationalisme: Karl Renner en Otto Bauer' [with Siegfried Mattl], in: Jan Blommaert und Raymond Detrez (eds.), Nationalisme: Kritische Opstellen (Berchem: EPO, 1994), 242-252, 370-371, 392-394.

'Die Neue Zusammensetzung der WeltarbeiterInnenklasse und das Problem der Solidarität', in: Karl Heinz Roth (ed.), Die Wiederkehr der Proletarität. Dokumentation der Debatte (Cologne: ISP, 1994), 83-94.

'Mutual Workers Insurance: A Historical Outline', International Social Security Review, 46 (1993), nr. 3, 5-18.
* French: 'L'assurance mutuelle des travailleurs: un aperçu historique', Revue Internationale de Sécurité Sociale, 46 (1993), nr. 3, 5-20.
*German: 'Arbeiterversicherung auf Gegenseitigkeit: Ein historischer Abriß', Internationale Revue für soziale Sicherheit, 46 (1993), nr. 3, 5-20.
* Spanish: 'El seguro mutuo de los trabajadores: perfil histórico', Revista Internacional de Seguridad Social, 46 (1993), nr. 3, 5-20.

'Connecting Household History and Labour History', International Review of Social History, Supplement 1 (1993), 163-173.

'Long-term Continuities in Labor History: The Case of the Dutch Republic', International Labor and Working-Class History, 44 (1993), 247-251.

'Reconsidering Leninism', in: Chronis Polychroniou (ed.), Socialism: Crisis and Renewal (Westport, CT.: Praeger, 1993), 31-48.
* German: 'Neue Überlegungen zum Leninismus', Beiträge zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, 34: 1 (1992), 43-57.

'Die Zeitperspektive in Trotzkis Theorie des degenerierten Arbeiterstaates', in: Theodor Bergmann/Gert Schäfer (eds.), Leo Trotzki - Kritiker und Verteidiger der Sowjetgesellschaft (Mainz: Decaton Verlag, 1993), 112-117.

'Kollektiver Widerstand. Erste Notizen für ein historisches Forschungsprogramm', in: Karsten Linne/Thomas Wohlleben (eds.), Patient Geschichte (Frankfurt/M.: Zweitausendeins, 1993), 343-352.

'Forced Labour and Non-Capitalist Industrialization: The Case of Stalinism (ca. 1929 - ca. 1956)', in: Tom Brass/Marcel van der Linden/Jan Lucassen, Free and Unfree Labour (Amsterdam: IISG, 1993), 19-30.

'De voorgeschiedenis van het industrieel kapitalisme in Nederland', Kritiek, 2 (1992), 273-281.

'Skvoz' prizmu istoricheskogo opyta', in: Timur Timofeev (red.), Social'niye idealy i politika v menjajushchemsja mire (Moskou: Nauka, 1992), 95-104.

'Analyzing the Second International (1889-1914): a proposal for future research', Socialismo Storia, 3 (1990), 771-780.
* Danish: 'Analysen af II Internationale 1889-1914. Forslag til fremdtidig forskning', Arbejderhistorie, nr. 40, 1993, 33-41.

'Arbeidsverhoudingen en arbeidersradicalisme. Het Vlissingse geval', Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 105 (1990), 605-610.

'Labour History and Organizational Ecology', International Review of Social History, 35 (1990), 273-280.

'Histoire comparée des Sociétés de secours mutuels', Revue de l'économie sociale, 19 (1990), 169-179.

'The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism' [with Wayne Thorpe], in: Van der Linden and Thorpe, Revolutionary Syndicalism, 1990, 1-24.
* German: 'Aufstieg und Niedergang des revolutionären Syndikalismus', 1999. Zeitschrift für Sozialgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1990, 3, 9-38.
* Japanese: 'Kakumeiteki sanjikarizumu no taito to suita', Ohara Shakai Mondai Kenkyujo Zasshi, 386 (1991), 15-36.
* French: 'Essor et déclin du syndicalisme révolutionnaire', Le Mouvement Social, 159 (1992), 3-36.
* Spanish: 'Auge y decadencia del sindicalismo revolucionario', Historia Social, 12 (1992), 3-29.
* Shortened Spanish version: 'Auge y decadencia del sindicalismo revolucionario', Libre Pensamiento, 29-30 (1999), 6-21.

'The Many Faces of Dutch Revolutionary Trade Unionism', in: Van der Linden and Thorpe, Revolutionary Syndicalism, 1990, 45-57.

'Revolutionary Syndicalism in Portugal' [met Bernhard Bayerlein], in: Van der Linden and Thorpe, Revolutionary Syndicalism, 1990, 155-166.

'Pourquoi le déclin de la Première Internationale était-il inéluctable?', Cahiers d'histoire, 37 (1989), 125-133.

'Phasen in dem Verhältnis der Arbeiterbewegung zum Staat', in Eric Corijn et al. (eds), Veelzijdig Marxisme/Marxisme pluriforme (Brussel: VUB Press, 1989), vol. I, 302-321.

'The Rise and Fall of the First International. An Interpretation', in: Van Holthoon and Van der Linden, Internationalism, vol. I, 1988, 323-335.

'The End of a Tradition. Structural Developments and Trends in Dutch Communism' [with Joost Wormer], Journal of Communist Studies, 4: 1 (1988), 78-87.

'The National Integration of European Working Classes, 1870-1914. Exploring the Causal Configuration', International Review of Social History, 33 (1988), 285-311.

'Zur inneren Logik von Arbeiterbewegungen', in: Internationale Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung: 21. Linzer Konferenz 1985 (Vienna: Europaverlag, 1986), 431-439.

'Linkssocialistische partijen in Noordwest-Europa. Een historisch-vergelijkende notitie', Komma – Tijdschrift voor Politiek en Sociaal Onderzoek, 5: 3 (1985), 69-81.

'Vorläufiges zur vergleichenden Sozialgeschichte des Syndikalismus', in: Heribert Baumann et al. (eds), Anarchismus in Kunst und Politik. Festschrift Arthur Lehning (Oldenburg: University Press, 1984), 41-57.

'Zur Kritik der politischen Eschatologie. Am Beispiel von C.L.R. James', in: Jos Gerwin et al. (eds), Alltäglichkeit und Kolonialisierung (Oldenburg: University Press, 1983), 86-94.

'Die Pazifistisch-Sozialistische Partei (PSP) der Niederlande', in: Jürgen Baumgarten (ed.), Linkssozialisten in Europa (Hamburg: Junius Verlag, 1982), 85-106.

'Over de grenzen van het wetenschappelijk socialisme', in: Marcel van der Linden and Ronald Commers, Marx en het 'wetenschappelijk socialisme' (Antwerpen: Leon Lesoil, 1982), 7-53.

'Problemen bij de theorie van de gedegenereerde arbeidersstaat', Toestanden, 1: 4 (December 1981), 5-22.
* Reprint in: Cahiers Ernest Mandel, 1: 2 (December 1997), 36-51.

'Der "wilde" Rotterdamer Hafenstreik 1979', Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit, 2-3 (1980), 85-105.

'Revolutie, ervaring en fantasie. Over Negts politieke economie van de subjektieve faktor', Te Elfder Ure, 18 (1975), 115-128.

'Het ontstaan van de naoorlogse Nederlandse studentenbeweging', Paradogma, 6: 1 (1975), 28-39.

'Kleine kritiek der genialiteit', De Gids, 137 (1974), 203-207.

'Massamedia-imperialisme in Latijns Amerika: Materiaal voor een theorie', Te Elfder Ure, 12 (1973), 485-491.

'Aspekten van de Zwitserse "Gesamtverteidigung"', Internationale Spectator, 25 (1971), 1324-1329.

3. Bibliographies

'Internationalism in the Labour Movement, 1930-1940. Fragments of a bibliography', in: Van Holthoon and Van der Linden, Internationalism, 1988, vol. II, 624-654.

'Bibliography', International Review of Social History, XXVIII (1983), 339-387, XXIX (1984) 92-131, 274-296, 386-417, XXX (1985), 237-263, 444-469, XXXI (1986) 95-119, 204-226, 324-361, XXXII (1987), 88-105, 180-200, 271-301, XXXIII (1988), 70-103, 218-245, 359-401, XXXIV (1989), 134-181, 350-385, 515-552, XXXV (1990), 140-183, 292-328, 469-506, XXXVI (1991), 119-152, 291-316, 463-489, XXXVII (1992), 123-149, 282-303, 417-442, XXXVIII (1993), 101-128, 261-287, 397-443.

'Bibliografie' [with Frits Bouman], in: Van der Linden and Sluijs, Onderlinge Hulpfondsen, 163-177.

'A Bibliography of Comparative Labour History', in: Jim Hagan and Andrew Wells (eds), Australian Labour and Regional Change. Essays in Honour of R.A. Gollan (Rushcutters Bay, NSW: Halstead Press, 1998), 117-145.
* Adapted Dutch version: 'Bibliografische Aanvulling', in: Van der Linden, Het naderende einde van de vaderlandse geschiedenis en de toekomstige studie der sociale bewegingen (1999), 58-77.

'Thematic Bibliography', in: van der Linden, The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 581-604.

'Gottfried Mergner: Schriftenverzeichnis' [With Claudia Lohrenscheit], in: Nitsch et al., Statt Menschenliebe: Menschenrechte (2002), 231-244.

'Select Bibliography', in: Behal and van der Linden, Coolies, Capital and Colonialism (2006), 279-286, and in: Behal and van der Linden, India's Labouring Poor (2007), 279-286.