Conducts research and collects data on the global history of labour, workers, and labour relations

Holiday at last

Holiday cards sent to the Dutch diamond workers' union ANDB on the occasion of the first holiday week, August 1910.

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Rebels with a cause

More than 200 highlights from the collections of IISH, collected between 1935 and 2010.

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Down and Out

Photographs by Ravi Agarwal of working people in the so-called informal sector of India's economy, 1997-1999.

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Women in the Paris Commune

A dozen portraits of Pétroleuses, a small selection of photos from the Paris Commune by Appert.

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International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.
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