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

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Local forms of production as resistance against global domination: anti-commodities
An international workshop aiming to focus on responses to global commodity production both in terms of resisting or adapting to changing social (labour) relations as well as resisting or adapting to... [Event]
Anti-globalism and Counter-globalism
The Institute of Culture and History (Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam) and the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) organised an international seminar about the impact... [Event]
No Deal in Hong Kong
Kong Yee Sai Mau! [Say No to WTO] was one of the battle cries of the anti-global protesters who gathered in Hong Kong to protest the Conference of the World Trade Organization in December 2005. The... [Image gallery]
Disobedient Objects
'Disobedient Objects' is a powerful exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (26 July 2014  - 1 February 2015). Many 'disobedient objects' in the present exposition are on loan from the... [News]
Say No to WTO
Kong Yee Sai Mau! [Say No to WTO] was one of the battle cries of the anti-global protesters who gathered in Hong Kong to protest the Conference of the World Trade Organization from 13 until 18 ... [Item of the Day]
Battle of Seattle
The World Trade Organization (WTO) had its convention in Seattle from 30 November till 2 December 1999. Some ten thousand demonstrators blocked the entrance and paralyzed the city during a week of... [Item of the Day]