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Zo d.’Axa (pseudonym of phonse Al Gallaud; for additional also also in and folio format, contains from notes agricultural of sorts all Dordrecht e Zeeland. somewhat a in bound is from ex contains it but manner, plainer notes. for pages white tra La Feuille In their general meeting of December , the Friends de cided to allocate revenues for the the of Institute the by acquisition supplemented by books from the four collection; these other also clearly show similar use. e daily first two have been in the collection quite a while, but the other two almanacs have also been recently acquired. consist of ese a Munich (), equipped with two copper bound locks and and an entry by what was prob ably the original owner, “Chris tian Heilberger Pr[...] Meister”; there is also a calculations book for linen merchants by Joannes de Cock, published in Ghent in , which is bound in a folio format. e Schrijf-Almanak en Writingfice andAlmanac), pub lished in Amsterdam in , is ese two new acquisitions are - - - - - , published , Tariffa by John Playford, · the early nineteenth century. in letters to i will you show show in letters to i will you the first is I in all mans right right the next is F to tell you think i spell amiss and if you it is and there then look below Flatham.” John a is second e in a folio format in Bologna in . is book consists table with rates of of exchange a for calculating the value of Bolog nese coins against Italian liras in prices of transport barge tickets and coach, for etc. is been fifthhave must from edition used for a long time, because the first page contains the statement, John“A Flatman ow[n]e[d] this book .” is owner surely not have mustbeen a collector, but which a is simple borne user, out by his disclosure on Novem ber th : “If any man my know name would can clearly be seen that the book trip. a on taken be to intended was It has a protective envelope (vel lum) and lock. In addition, this It use. of traces bears clearly book publication of type this precisely is have them of most for rare, is that use. after discarded been e contents consist of a small almanac, interest tables, calcula tion tables, information about markets, postal and trade routes, At the end of we were able to to able were we of end the At exhibit at the acquire LiberBerlin two books whose workmanship been had they that showed clearly intended for daily use. e first of these is the fifthedition of the Vade Mecum . in London in printed e first printing of thischants mer handbook appeared . From in the workmanship it . - - - - -
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is valuable that some acquisitions some that valuable is and use, for intended clearly were in those cases traces of use are in fact desirable! in the world), often come from merchants, wealthy of libraries the part were or nobleman, cloister, a of explicit material used to train guess only can we But merchants. what an “ordinary” would have merchantused. at is why it existence we know of, or what they contained, is very limited. We find that most of the books in the collection whose the origins way this in (and traced be can from other collections elsewhere something that had clearly been that see to able be to order in used it was not an academic publica tion, but that it had truly been useful in practice. e number of mercantile libraries whose as possible of a book or brochure; brochure; or book a of possible as and in this way an institute is no different from an individual, al though this rule is not really true merchant collecting In cases. all in actu is it cases some in literature, ally more important to acquire acquisitions, we would also like to call the reader’s attention tothe and library the of those literature Merchant In general, each collector would like to own as good an example tions. Some of the acquisitions are are acquisitions the of Some tions. spectacular, especially if we note us. to came they which in way the reader the point we regard this In re the about below section the to turn of the archives from Russia. In addition to the As previously, in the first half of the half than more archives: hundred half than less while ones, new were collec supplementary of consisted INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL OF INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL
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On the Waterfront because the original owners chock full of correspondence) and and correspondence) of full chock the one of the Sozialistische Ju (International Internationale gend Youth). Socialist , . , ,. un not was It alive. longer no are ship first the that April til ment, consisting of collections ar m, of dimension total a with rived at the still packed in the original Rus sian archive boxes. Although not yet, returned been everythinghas you ask we occasion festive this on to turn your attention to the two most spectacular collections: that dossiers of (comprised Bloch of (cf. also ). Following many discussions, in June , on yearsthe of occasion of a visit to Russia by the Dutch Queen, the Russians declared that they were prepared although collections, return to would remaining the of fate the Included discussion. under remain needed still that collections the in to be returned are also a few that had belonged to the in that collections of number a as all likelihood will be kept by the archive especially established for this of existence e purpose. this “special archive” was only made in . known About collections from Netherlands landed the in Moscow
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L’Endehors groups in the then Soviet zone, and were transported to Moscow service. Intelligence Soviet the by ey were secretly stored in an During the Second World War, the German occupiers also seized a number of archives in of many the countries they occupied, including the Netherlands. After these archives the end of the war, were found by special Red Army and . is periodical, with its with periodical, is . and notable illustrators, was very im portantcollection unique our for works. of anarchist Restitution of the Russia from archives Support from the Friends made it possible to complete our col lected publications of Zo d’Axa. We already owned his other pe riodical, issues between had appeared e collection came from granddaughter of Zo d’Axa, who the still had a set. e price at which she offered thethe collection antiquarian via bookseller was Ffrs ,, but for the lowered the price by Ffrs. http://www.iisg.nl/collections/ zodaxa/index.html), a libertarian publicist, was the editor, while Willett Anquetin, Luce, Steinlen, and others were responsible for the illustrations. information see our web site: ’ . , , “” : () - . ------ , . , ( ), . “ ”: , , , ------he wrote – during his imprison his during – Following the Following war and the strug gle for independence in which Adam took an active became part, involved in he communist trade union work at the factory paint in Surabaya. is bled ena him to travel as a delegate of the trade union federation the first two months he received a received he months two first the salary for this work, but then the he war, the (after ceased payments claimed these from the Japanese government, which paid no at thirty Over claims). his to tention later years ment under Suharto in time this of memories his about “Men called story romanticised a search (In hilang” yang kakak cari of a lost brother). e part of secondthe original manuscript, along with many other personal Ten Emile. to gave he documents, years ago Frits van den Bosch, who worked at the Amsterdam municipal library and published on Indonesia, met Soepardjanand translated his memoirs from to but Bahasa Dutch, was unable to find a publisher. Two ago, years after his death, his widow enabled the Institute to acquire a number of manuscripts about Soepardjan. Japanese would play an important important an play would Japanese Indonesian for struggle the in role independence, he worked verya as them young with gether to For “Romushas”. the of supervisor ------ / , pp. (e Com Het Keerpunt
· On Waterfront the Het Gemeenebest New Guinea. Convinced that the the that Convinced Guinea. New During his visit in to December Indonesia , Emilecidentally came in ac contact with Adam Soepardjan, a teacher of Surabaja. in German and English Soepardjan, who was born, decided in to search for fifteen. only was he when brother his His brother had during disappeared the Japanese of the Netherlands invasion East Indies. Although he had intendedgo to the Celebes, to he landed in terials, and has become increas (see regard this in successful ingly also: and). Indeed, in the last half his year effortsresultedre in our including materials, many of ceipt the archives of e Siauw Giap, Raden Darsono Notosudirdjo, Adam Soepardjan, publisher Djambatan. and We shall as extensively, two last the discuss the Piet of collection related a as well Staveren. van historian Hajo Brugmans) and of monwealth). e mainly includes correspondence collectionG.D.H. Carr, (E.H. authors with Cole, Alfred Mozer, HenrietteCarmiggelt Simon Holst, Roland and many others). Soepardjan Adam For the past several years Emile Schwidder had as his main task ma Indonesian of acquisition the they wanted to end the “pillariza the end to wanted they thathadpreviously tion” beenso Netherlands.characteristic the in Opstelten was a proponent the Nederlandse of Volksbeweging (Dutch People’s Movement) as well as a genuine “breakthroughs” advocate of in the democratic social party. sec functionsas Opstelten’s were Important retary-editortheInternationalof Personalist Journal prin (whose Point) Turning (e cipal editor was the well-known rent major of Rotterdam. Like Koejemans and many Opstelten others, senior was active the inpolitical renewal movement War. World Second the following Peoplein this movement desired to change things, and above all, ------which which – Within the the Within , it seemed
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Sr. Opstelten, Ivo e archive of senior Ivo Opstelten is the stelten was the same father of the cur size. Op to Moscow; since a couple of years years of couple a since Moscow; to the film).From one of his children boxes two acquire to able were we full of material from the archives -. years the covering new circle of friends. In the s s the In friends. of circle new well as autobiography his wrote he as a slightly critical biography of David Wijnkoop he (for had gained permission which fromar the view to widow Wijnkoop’s transfer its chive before definitive was very painful for him. In Koejemans became a member of Doopsgezinde Ge the Verenigde meente Amsterdam (Amsterdam United Mennonite a found he that there was CongregaIt tion). sum a run-down library in the Ri the in library run-down a sum jnstraat in He called Amsterdam. the library nections with the they no longer led to anything, sides both on relations in and were definitively severed First Chamber and the Provincial Provincial the and Chamber First position a took Koejemans States. with the communist publishing house Pegasus, where, in he , was also discharged. Luckily, through the efforts of friends he was able to purchase for a small with Paul de Groot that caused him to be discharged as princi pal editor in January : the accusation was “petty bourgeois and wavering moods”. He was also relieved of other functions, including his membership of the although other excuses were also war, the After him. malign to used himself prin devoted Koejemans to cipally a as upon looked was ‘Koej’ Party, problems the mainly was It wimp. the liberation in May , he be he , May in liberation the came principal editor of the legal the At daily. popular very then and , in conference July turbulent joined the opposition Koejemans against Paul De Groot, and this him, against held always was error When, in , a third illegal lead illegal third a , in When, ership of the principal as Koejemans appointed editor of INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL OF INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL
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being yet fresh radio documen radio and the post-war (see above). Prob , who strongly advocated al his experiences in the pre-war Brug (e Bridge), to which the Indonesian translation would later be added. had as its goal to strive broadest in the way towards development cultural in an international context; it wanted to contribute political and social, cultural, the to from Madiun from ). ese not only show a convinced and optimistic communist idealist, but also provide direct informa tion about an important episode in the struggle for independence. Indonesian Jambatan Although nationalist hysteria in strug the against Netherlands the gle for Indonesian independence was substantial, it was not only the communists that resisted this mood. Several critical socialists also questioned if the ment, in those years led by social govern the chosen indeed had democrats, especially was is course. correct true for the of editors land well- the in us, ternatives. known former resistance fighter Henk van Randwijk, with together several colleagues, decided to found a publishing house that bore the meaningful name of De socialist communist contacts had also He mind. his in in the ties close had he that fact the ably with the Indonesian communists his for responsible was Madiun in ultimately being taken prisoner by the Hatta regime and deported then to the ere he was subject to Netherlands. a prison sentence, which result he a As . until Leeuwarden served in of this there were protests by In communists Dutch and donesian (i.a. an article by eun de Vries in Pravda). In he was inter a in viewed tary by Marion Bloem and Ivan Wolffers. Besides the substantial amount of documentation and a few photos, the primary portance im of the collectionthe innumerable letters covering are the - period (these also documents original few a include –
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the Republican Youth Movement Youth Republican the letters of Piet van Staveren (). (). Staveren van Piet of letters As a communist, he had already protested sending military con a as con but Indonesia, to scripts sequence of Minister van Maars soldiers these that promise seveen’s he fighting, for used be not would July In group. this up with ended Dutch major the first when , he military threatened, campaign Indonesian the of troops the joined Jogyakarta. in Republic ere he made himself useful in the Dutch and Indonesians for independence was not entirely black and Dutch young men, motivated by white. Sometimes idealistic principles joined “the enemy”. ey remembered the recent Dutch struggle for inde pendence against the Germans still Several too years vividly. ago the Institute received the archive young of these of known the best (-). Princen Poncke men, of intervention the through Later, the acquired also we Morriën, Joop egates. e woman unwore [sic] her plastic wristwatch and gave it to Arman by saying: “is is for your daughter”. Suhadi got a pocket-watch from the husband. From all the souvenirs that they both had received during their this regarded Arman abroad, visit even gift valuable most the as one though it was only old watches.’ Staveren van Piet At times the struggle between having enough money, although our children are wise enough, to be able to continue their studies When struggle. hard a be will [it] Arman ended his speech, he saw that several female activists got tears in their eyes. deeply ey touched by were the still ter rible fate of the working-people of Indonesia. en one of them nodded to her husband that sat on the other side of the Similarly table. they stood their up seats and fromwent to the del Suhadi has five children”. Arman has Suhadi five children”. replied on a question of one of the activists. As a father of our children, we hope that we shall be able to send our children to school and that they shall gradu ate the university. But without - - - - - · without any trial. is to Europe in April to July – ace” in Potsdam. He spoke to the to spoke He Potsdam. in ace” assembled German Comrades as follows: ‘“I have four children, three sons and one daughter. And brother with his colleague Ratna Saptari. Ratna colleague his with In one of the travel books there Arman by visit a about report a is third the in himself to referred (he colleague, a with together person) pal workers’ “mine the to Suhadi, In addition to the pieces that Emile Emile that pieces the to addition In second his (upon received himself those as well as ) April in visit den Bosch from (which Mrs Van he had been referred to), he also together interview long a recorded knowledge, he was able to support support to able was he knowledge, himself, albeit that as ex-Tapol take to had he prisoner) (political in his sign as a teacher of foreign it risk or evenings the in languages or damaged. being removed kept of this trip. Not surprisingly, surprisingly, Not trip. this of kept he was imprisoned from to imprisonment also had advantages, as he spent that time some (he German and English learning already knew Dutch). With this . At this time he visited East Germany and Czechoslovakia. been also have memoirs of Books “ ) ( ” ( ) . -. , . . , ------, along with other other with along , in Berlin) these papers in effect, they belonged to to belonged they effect, in – – with this archive have come into our possession. Bogaers B.Ph.M. Peter immigration of history the While research the in pursued actively is department, colleagues from the collections department are also s. While there she became acquainted with Karl and Edith Leipzig, in judge a was He Müller. and she was judge in the juvenile court early had who Karl, elite. local the become a convinced communist, had been imprisoned by the Na zis was in the s. Mrs Posthuma archives, their acquire to able later and was kind enough to present the to them owned she that materials valuable (including, among other things, phonograph records and from Sanders Huub East Via Germany). Axel Diederich (who represents the finally came to Amsterdam.It is interesting to establish a link be Supardjan’s and archive this tween memoirs about East Germany(above). Illustrative of the politi the are German East of culture cal many membership booklets that - - - - - ).
· lived in East Germany in the children remained in the palace with their father. is move to conse other had polygamy wards marriage Sukarno’s well: as quences to Hartini was a major blow to the anti-polygamist campaign of the early rights nation’s women’s groups, including Gerwani (the wing women’s of the Indonesian Party, Communist (-) Müller Fritz Karl woman, Dutch a Posthuma, Ellen his daughter as she keeps falling with him.” in love is idyllic picture did not last long. In Sukarno took an to addition in Hartini, wife, other his third wife Fatmawati (whom he had wed in had experienced the struggle and for who independence with him (he had previously been twice divorced). ereupon, Fatmawati immedi ately left him, together with her youngest son Guntur. e other ( , ,( . ), (“”)( ), , ), , ( idealizes her father. As one jour .), nalist wrote: “She clearly idolises . is ‘He very her handsome’ father. , that giggling, says, She laughs. she sometimes she thinks she is not ’ . ------, decided On Wa the Sinhalese, and Sinhalese,
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draws immediate attention. Sit ting lovingly next to him is the current President Sukarnoputri, then about years old. She still America. Because of its system the system, card geographical atic collection is easily accessible. We show a group of three randomly selected photos, in family which photo the of President karno (probably from Su /) and also member of the research department of the to bring it to the Institute. e photos are relevant for Indonesia well as countries, Asian other and as for Europe, Africa, and a few even relate to North and South Professor Wertheim’s group at the the at group Wertheim’s Professor University of Amsterdam. ere it was administered by his suc Raymond and Pluvier Jan cessors Feddema. Willem van Schendel, the current holder of this chair (this archive contained roughly , pieces when it closed in this to happened has What ). unquestionably valuable archive from such a unique international firm remains a puzzle, butphoto the archive ended up with (Bahasa, Burmese, (Bahasa, Arabic). Notable was the impor tant role that illustrations played in the production. Jambatan e publisher could make use of an extensive and very good photo archive that had been opened up his doctorate in Utrecht. e most most e Utrecht. in doctorate his of the publi emphasis significant historical the on was policy cations and cultural works about South east Asia and the world of Islam. European in published were ese languages as well as Asian ones fice was established in Rangoon in in Rangoon in established was fice that coincidence no was It Burma. one of the largest publications in Jambatan was a -part Burmese encyclopedia, overseen by Maung Mang, who had received Dr dam professors Wim Wertheim and Jan Romein (see terfront a to led Indonesia in involvement deal being paid of great attention was office an and country, that to of third A Jakarta. in opened also development of the peoples who journalists, Besides freed. been had the in interested also were scholars Amster the included ese group.
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on the basis ”, in which many Tachtigers De De Groene Groene became more politically fessors prominent historians played an especially important role,cluding Hajo in Brugmans, G.W. Kernkamp, and Jan With the German occupation of Romein. the Netherlands, the weekly was discontinued in . an editorial board and company archive and, on the other hand, the browsing of were , responsible for issues, the neces sary problems. he Further, deals briefly with the history of the In sub-periods. of number a of first thirty years of its existence, it was typically a publication for comfortable, liberal burgers. Po litically, it was often radical (e.g. it dealt with the workers’ move etc.) and in War, ment, the Atjeh the forefront culturally, having a sense for talent, especially with regard to the eve of the First World War, Groene radical, and again devoted more space to the cultural avant garde, especially the graphic arts (Van Doesburg) and music (Vermeu len). e period from Hartmans to calls the “Pro humanity, and findshumanity, creating po litical drawingslight-hearted “no business”. e archive we received through col our of one of offices good the leagues from the Press museum includes correspondence, proof prints, and innumerable photos which headlines, political from cut as intended were and collected he prints. political his for examples leading a graphic plea for greater ------is Tachtigers Tachtigers , which he weekly, -” weekly, De Groene of poets and novelists “A radical tradition! tradition! radical “A
Groene Amsterdammer e not only the oldest Dutch · Lecture by Rob Hartmans: Hartmans: Rob by Lecture De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdammer Groene De both the almost total absence of ism and the rise the de-colonialisation and Hitler, of Mussolini of Indonesia, the and Cold War, the never-to-be-forgotten most important developments in the of art and culture. realm It is little wonder that Hartmans spoke enthusiastically about the history of started only a fewFirst years ago. of all he deals with odological the meth problems, in which (a group in published s) the in formed Israel Jacob as well as weekly, this de Haan and his sister Carry van Bruggen, Van Eeden (who for a time was even editor), Matthijs Vermeulen, Vestdijk, Braak,Ter Slauerhoff, Marsman, Perron, Du J.B. Charles, Abel Herzberg, Si mon Vinkenoog, etc. Passionate debates fill its columns on sub jects such as the Atjeh theWar, Boer theWar, First World War, the Russian Revolution, Stalin D opinion weekly still in existence, exciting an constitute also staff its roster of Dutch culture: almost everyone from the the European andnationality” as independent-pro with “someone gressive convictions without any illusions”. Behrendt is someone who regards his primary task as honour possible in his profession: profession: his in possible honour the forAward International Edi September in and Cartoons, torial Cross Major the received he presi German the from Service of dent. He describes himself, having humanist “a as by preference, - - - - and Vrede Vrede . From (e Free Free (e (Labour), (e Real
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Behrendt’s work has been accord been has work Behrendt’s ed recognition many times. In highest the received he April said about him: “It is good that whose man a have we Behrendt in pen functions in the service of a good cause, continuing to plead for humanity and alerting us to anything that threatens or deni grates humanity”. peace in a world of free people”. Political prints by Behrendt also appeared in the to he still worked for Het Parool at that time, H.W. Sandberg, enVrijheid organisation. e goal bulletin, of which first appeared this in , was “to defend the against truth the lies ofthe guard to order in propaganda communist Word) the magazine of a German German a of magazine the Word) group of anti-fascists, and in the for Netherlands a publication of the PvdA. For quite a while he for also worked Truth), a bulletin of the ing the events in Prague in , Behrendt found that the had become a “Stalinist splinter club”. Yugoslavia and later in East Ber lin, where, in , he began to for draw the prison in Amsterdam. After the war he became of a the member progressive youth”, according to Behrendt (the above mentioned Piet van Staveren member was of this group). Follow also a the Netherlands. Born in Berlin, he and his parents left Germany in for political reasons. By the end of the BehrendtWar, had Second been held as World a political prisoner for a while in his environment was subject, and subject, was environment his documents from Iranian groups in the Netherlands. Behrendt Fritz the of one is () Behrendt Fritz in illustrators political known best many newspaper clippings,great many original letters from a shed that escape his following Iran light on the repression to which
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has been distributed. meeting of members meeting Report of the general the general of Report o start with, front e board: one of the members (Bram Stemerdink) has resigned. Luckily, two other histori are friendsBoth join. to prepared are Maarten and Marinus Bauke ans: T A few improvements have been added to the colophon on page . e cover has been modern ised and now includes a Chinese poster that had been purchased Friends. the of assistance the with We plan to choose a cover annually, differentalways based on a purchase made possible by the Friends. Further, the following discussed: matters were
------De De albeit – · is actuallyisreturn is exceptionally critical of De Groene De liberal, a great deal of independentculture,indeedispolitics. It more uncommitted, butis also a that part of the tradition”. Amerongen, the new principal editor (who has since died), the tendency that in had been still seen as an achievement was reversed. Hartmans that observes ing “to its old traditions: open, began to change, and afterendless an succession of all of action groups kinds and social“new the left has movements”, become increasingly tired of these, and many readers began around to . Under Martin desert van has now come to replace the pages pages the replace to come now has of travel stories, aesthetic educa tion, and episodes from history are pages about the culture struggle and economic analyses.” of this type of thinking slowly Soon ing middle-class culture. the Now world picture that provides the material for the writing has become clearly socialist with all the gradations that word classi on emphasis e have. can What disappeared. has culture cal ernment. On the anniversary of its centen nial in , the weeklyacterises its char position as follows: years ago“Ten percent of the paper still consisted of cultivat the departure of some of the staff staff the of some of departure the (Jordaan, Carmiggelt, Herzberg, major second e Koolhaas). and question is the de-colonialisation subject which on Indonesia, of Groene gov Dutch the of standpoint the munism is able to realise this; the this; realise to able is munism not may communism of methods be pleasant, but they are indeed “historically necessary”; finally: it is easy for Westthe to and talk. One of the consequences is publication does not choose wish sides, and, to at the understanding much shows time, same period. the of communism the for radical follows: as is argument e social reorganisation is necessary because of social wrongs; com reappeared, and what is especially especially is what and reappeared, period War Cold the in noticeable is a strong tendency to put issues in an objective perspective. e - - - - - in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, teh teh Unfortunately, Amsterdam. in capacity to do this is not Friends’ the time same the at and sufficient operating the for large too is sum expenses of the Institute but too small to interest other sources in the project. e board welcomes a solution. suggestions towards : “(“ , ’ ” .”) . . : “ (“ . , ”). ” ,, . , . at least , euro to support a social history archive in Bangla desh. A very competent collector there, with support from the In stitute (especially from Professor Willem van Schendel) will make further for available collection his both research, in and Bangladesh - - - to to through other other through of “Women’s Work”. We are are We Work”. “Women’s of ·
quested to consider a donation of donation a consider to quested of Amsterdam society, will round will round society, of Amsterdam off her book within the frame work indeed pleased that an additional this for offered been has researcher the by project van Drs Elise Nederveen sources: spin on research do will Meerkerk sters. In the meanwhile, we have the to request a submitted project. this expand e Friends’ board has been re yet much on the “ird World”. erefore, in the future we hope to start a among these four areas. global comparison Second, there is project the “Women’s work research in the by directed Dr Dutch Republic”, Ariadne Schmidt. She is ready to engage a second researcher. addition, In Dr Lotte van de Pol, who has already come quite far with her own research into the levels lowest the in market labour and while there is a great of materialdeal available for Europe and North America, there is not - - - - - (the Dutch National
Endowment Endowment for the Humanities) to begin comparative research in India. In any case, we try to pro vide a world-wide comparison, workers. e workers’ families, in in families, workers’ e workers. their turn, react to these (“fam ily living strategies”), which also leads to further reactions on the part of the state. In September a request will be submitted the to relationship between the sian Rus state and the workers, will include the period from around , that is, before the Revolu tion. e state takes numerous as well as directly which measures the of life the influence indirectly have engaged four postdocs Afontsev, Andrei Dr inresearch: the Dr Andrei Markevich, Dr Victo (London), and Tyazhelnikova ria Dr Timur isValetov. project, which deals with the mutual all, the research project “Work, Income and the State – Russia / Soviet Union / Russia, - ” under the direction of Dr Gijs Kessler. In the meanwhile, Kessler, together Kloosterman and Jan with Lucassen, Jaap
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Ivo Kuijpers IN DE SCHADUW VAN DE GROTE OORLOG De Nederlandse arbeidersbeweging en de overheid, 1914-1920 (ISBN 90 5260 190 0, 306 PAGINA’S, GEÏLLUSTREERD, ¤ 27,50) De historische belangstelling voor de effecten van de Eerste Wereldoorlog op Nederland was tot voor enkele jaren gering. Deze originele studie bevat een analyse van die effecten op de hoofdstromen van de Nederlandse arbeidersbewe- Antropologie ging: katholieken, socialisten, protestants christelijken en syndicalisten. Een van Etnische studies de conclusies is, is dat de fundamenten van de Nederlandse overlegeconomie en verzorgingsstaat van na 1945 tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog werden gelegd. Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis Frank Zuijdam Politieke theorie TUSSEN WENS EN WERKELIJKHEID Sociologie Het debat over vrede en veiligheid binnen de PvdA Communicatiewetenschap in de periode 1958-1977 Vrouwenstudies (ISBN 90 5260 049 X, 468 PAGINA’S, GEÏLLUSTREERD , ¤ 31,30) Waarom sloegen de standpunten van de PvdA inzake vrede en veiligheid in de jaren zestig en zeventig van de vorige eeuw in zeer korte tijd zo radicaal om? Voor de beantwoording van deze vraag plaatst Frank Zuijdam het debat binnen Verkrijgbaar in de de PvdA over vrede en veiligheid tegen de achtergrond van de turbulente ont- wikkelingen in de partij, de internationale verschuivingen en de ontwikkelingen betere boekhandel in de roerige jaren zestig. of rechtstreeks bij de uitgeverij G.J. Schutte e.a. (red.) BELANGENPOLITIEK Cahier over de geschiedenis van de christelijk- sociale beweging 4 (ISBN 90 5260 031 7, 152 PAGINA’S, GEÏLLUSTREERD, ¤ 13,60) De christelijk-sociale beweging bestaat uit verschillende maatschappelijke organi- saties. Om hun doelen te bereiken onderhandelen ze met hun zogeheten coun- terparts, organisaties die zich op hetzelfde terrein begeven, maar aan de andere kant van de tafel zitten. Maar dit is lang niet altijd voldoende. Zo onderhandelen vakorganisaties met werkgevers over werktijden, maar ter ondersteuning van hun onderhandelingspositie is wetgeving noodzakelijk. Een nauwe relatie met de politiek is daarom onontbeerlijk. Dit Cahier gaat in op de relatie tussen vooral het cnv en de christen-democratische partijen arp en cda.
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