Marcel Marius van der Linden (born 9 October 1952) was director of research at the International Institute of Social History until 2014, is now Senior Researcher at the Institute, and also holds a professorship dedicated to the history of social movements at the University of Amsterdam .
4-499: The International Social History Association (ISHA) is a learned society based in Amsterdam. It was established in 2005 to promote research in social history and facilitate collaboration among social historians working in diverse academic cultures. It is currently the only academic organization in the field of social history that has the explicit aim of embracing the whole discipline and intends to connect social historians from all parts of
8-768: The ISHA has been a full member of the International Economic History Association (IEHA). It is also affiliated with the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS). Marcel van der Linden Van der Linden was elected the first president of the International Social History Association , founded in Sydney in 2005 with current residency in Amsterdam. He has served as president from 2005-2010, then from 2010-2015, and
12-655: The world. The ISHA is based in Amsterdam. The president is Marcel van der Linden . Apart from individuals, among others, the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, the Canadian Committee on Labour History, and the Journal of Social History are also members of the ISHA. In the first few years of its existence the ISHA sought to establish closer relationships with other international learned societies. Since 2006
16-484: Was again elected for the period 2015-2020. Van der Linden is widely recognized in his field for his approach of a "global labour history" which he has developed since the 1990s. Global labour history is seen by many scholars of labour studies as a new paradigm that wants to overcome both traditional labour history and the "new labour history" developed in the 1960s by scholars like Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson . Marcel van der Linden received an honorary doctorate from
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