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20:uur, kleine zaalHoe kunnen we beter omgaan met illegaal werk, ongedocumenteerde arbeidsmigranten en uitbuiting?De schoonmaakster van je moeder, het brave buurmeisje dat weleens op je kinderen past... [Event]
Debat: Waarom is Afrika armer dan de rest van de wereld?
Debat in samenwerking met Spui 25 (amsterdam).Afrika wordt door velen gezien als ‘het verloren continent’. Straatarm en niet in staat dezelfde groeispurt door te maken als veel Aziatische landen.... [Event]
Almshouses in Europe
The conference Almshouses in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the Present - Comparisons and Peculiarities will take place in Haarlem (Doopsgezinde Kerk), the Netherlands, on 7-9 September 2011.... [Event]
"Born a penny, die a penny"
Henny (* 1960) grew up in a working-class family in the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant. She left school at the age of 15 to clean offices and work in a biscuit factory. “Born a penny, die a penny”,... [Collection highlight]
Arm en Rijk op het IISG
Arm en Rijk is het thema van de Maand van de Geschiedenis 2012. Het IISG houdt zich al sinds zijn oprichting in crisisjaar 1935 bezig met de verhouding tussen arm en rijk, waarbij de nadruk steeds op... [Collection highlight]
Arm in Zeeburgerdorp
Het IISG is gevestigd op enkele honderden meters van de plaats waar in de jaren '20 en '30 een armenkolonie huisde: Zeeburgerdorp. Zeeburgerdorp werd in 1926 gesticht met de bedoeling arme ‘asociale... [Collection highlight]
TSEG Special Issue on 'Great Divergence'
The latest special issue of TSEG is devoted to Peer Vries's Escaping Poverty. The Origins of Modern Economic Growth (2013). In this book, Vries engaged with the Great Divergence, one of the biggest... [News]
Report on 'The Social Question in Global Perspective' workshop
On November 17-18 the workshop 'The Social Question in Global Perspective' was held organized by the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research and the International Institute of Social History... [News]
X-Mas Giving in the Golden Age
The theme of X-Mas in the Golden Age was Generosity.The Dutch were far from thrifty: the 17,500 inhabitants of the city of Delft, for instance, donated 5000 guilders (the equivalent of 70,000 euro)... [News]
Giving in the Golden Age
This project deals with the history of philanthropy in the Dutch Golden Age.  Dutch funding organization NWO had funded the research project Giving in the Golden Age with 500.000 euro during the... [Project]

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