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Historiography of the international free trade union

Organization:

  • Responsible(s) Federal Science Policy: Van doninck Bogdan
  • Final decision of the Ministers Council: //
  • Duration of the research: 15/12/1996 - 30/9/2000
  • Budget: 207,610.83 EUR
  • Research projects: 1

Accompanying committee:

KU Leuven, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, UIA, University of Warwick, RUG, OSTC.

Description:

On the occasion of fifty years of the International Association of Free Trade Unions and a century of the international trade union movement, the IALHI (International Association of Labour History Institutions) carried out an international historical research project which resulted in a general historiography of the international free trade union movement.
The results of the research have been published in a book and presented at a colloquium ("The Past and Future of International Trade Unionism", Ghent 18-20.V.2000).

Research projects:

IV/DD/01: Historiography of the international free trade union

Documentation:

Anthony Carew, Michel Dreyfus, Geert Van Goethem, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Marcel van der Linden (eds.).
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Peter Lang, Bern - Berlin - Bruxelles- Frankfurt am Main - New York - London - Wien, 2000.