Research director at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and professor of sical movement history at the University of Amsterdam
Marcel van der Linden is a dutch academic and works as editor or co-editor on numerous journals, reviews and magazines. His main field of study is global and conmparative labour history.
Selcted publications:
- Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2003). XIV + 226 pp.
- [Edited with Arvind N. Das] Work and Social Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of Jan Breman (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002).
- [Edited with Lex Heerma van Voss] Class and Other Identities. Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2002). vi + 250 pp.
- The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, (Berne [etc.]: Peter Lang Academic, 2000), 624 pp.
- Labour Relations in Asia and Europe, Edited with Tommy Koh (Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, 2000), XIV + 121 pp.
- The Rise and Development of Collective Labour Law, Edited with Richard Price (Bern: Peter Lang, 2000), 459 pp.
- Prolegomena for a Global Labour History, With Jan Lucassen (Amsterdam: IISH, 1999), 24 pp.
- New Methods for Social History, Edited with Larry Griffin (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 165 pp.
- Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues, Edited with Tom Brass. (Bern: Peter Lang Academic Publishers, 1997), 602 pp.
- 'Peripheral' Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization, Edited with Shahid Amin (Cambridge: University Press, 1997), IV + 177 pp.
- Social Security Mutualism. The Comparative History of Mutual Benefit Societies, (Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1996), 708 pp.
- Racism and the Labour Market. Historical Studies, Edited with Jan Lucassen (Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 1995), 648 pp.
- The End of Labour History?, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 175 pp. (- Russian:Konec rabo eij istorii?, (Moscow: Center for Social History, 1996), 260 pp.)
- Revolutionary Syndicalism: An International Perspective, Edited with Wayne Thorpe, (Aldershot: Gower/Scolar Press, 1990), 260 pp.
- The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914. An International Perspective, Edited with Jürgen Rojahn, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), Two volumes, 819 pp.
- Internationalism in the Labour Movement, 1830-1940, Edited with Frits van Holthoon (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988), Two volumes, 699 pp.