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De Strijd-rondleiding 'Stakingen in Nederland'
Dit najaar zendt de VARA de serie De Strijd uit, over de geschiedenis van de arbeider in Nederland. Hiervoor is veel onderzoek gedaan bij het IISG. Het instituut organiseert daarom drie ‘De Strijd-... [Event]
Labour Conflicts on a Global Scale
Please find the call for collaboration on a project initiated by the International Institute of Social History in the Netherlands.With this project we aim at collecting data on labour conflicts on a... [Event]
Publiekswandeling: De Bloednacht van Kattenburg
In  juli 1911 vindt er op het Amsterdamse eiland Kattenburg een ware veldslag plaats. Opmaat is de eerder die zomer uitgeroepen zeeliedenstaking. Het is daardoor al weken onrustig in de stad en met... [Event]
Conference: Combined Approaches to Conflicts
The second International Conference Strikes and Social Conflicts: Combined approaches to conflicts (Eighteenth century to the present) will take place in Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Dijon (France... [Event]
Gansch het raderwerk...
De spoorwegstakingen van 1903Onder de titel 'Gansch het raderwerk...' is in De Burcht te Amsterdam tot en met 17 augustus 2003 een tentoonstelling te zien over de spoorwegstakingen van 1903. De... [Event]
Kranen over de wal
Boekpresentatie In 1970 brak de grootste na-oorlogse haven- en metaalstaking in Rotterdam uit. Deze staking was de aanzet tot een massale stakingsbeweging in Nederland waar uiteindelijk meer dan een... [Event]
Strikes in an international perspective 1970-2000
Since the 1970's there has been a dramatic decline in strike activity in most western countries. This decline can be seen in the ILO statistics on the subject, but also in the data published by the... [Event]
Paris, May '68
The posters from the May '68 Paris student movement became immediate collectors' items. An explosion of creativity accompanied the rebellion of the students: new slogans ("Ce nest qu'un début"), new... [Image gallery]
Paris, May 1968
In May 1968 students in Paris occupied university buildings to launch an avalanche of protests and strikes against the authorities. This was only the beginning of a wide-ranging social and cultural... [Image gallery]
In Memoriam : the February Strike
On 25 February 2017 the seventy-sixth anniversary of the February Strike will be commemorated in front of the synagogue and the Dokwerker [Dockworker] Monument in Amsterdam.Exactly seventy-six years... [Collection highlight]

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