Marcel Marius van der Linden
Curriculum vitae
| 1952 | born on October 9 |
| 1978 | MA social sciences, Utrecht University |
| 1989 | PhD under the supervision of F. de Jong, University of Amsterdam |
| 1997 | ‘bijzonder’ professor in history of social movements, endowed by the Foundation Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG), Amsterdam |
| … | research director of the IISG |
Special activities and positions
- President, International Social History Association, 2005-2010
- Member, Board, Stichting ter bevordering van de Azië-Studies in Nederland, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Chair, executive committee, Changing Labour Relations in Asia Project (with International Institute of Asian Studies/Leiden, IISH, and Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen)
- Chair, editorial committee, International Review of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Cambridge, UK
- Advisory editor, Cambridge World History (7 volumes), 2009-
- Series editor Studies in Global Social History, Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, USA: Brill.
- Series co-editor Historical Materialism Book Series, Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston, USA: Brill
Sources
- wikipedia
- personal page on website IISG
Publications on South Asia
In addition to many studies on global labour issues, Van der Linden wrote some works related to India:
1989 Het westers marxisme en de Sovjetunie: hoofdlijnen van structurele maatschappijkritiek (1917-1985), [s.l.: s.n.], 366 p. – PhD thesis University of Amsterdam; also publ. Amsterdam: Stichting Beheer IISG.
2003 & Arvind N. Das (eds), Work and social change in Asia: essays in honour of Jan Breman, New Delhi: Manohar.
– & Arvind N. Das, “Introduction.” In: Ibidem, pp. 9-16.
2006 & Rana P. Behal (eds), Coolies, capital, and colonialism: studies in Indian labour history, Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press (International Review of Social History 51, suppl. 14).
2007 & Rana P. Behal (eds), India’s labouring poor: historical studies, c. 1600 – c. 2000, New Delhi: Foundation Books, 286 p. – Indian edition of previous title.
2009 & P.P. Mohapatra, “Introduction.” In: M. van der Linden and P.P. Mohapatra (eds), Labour matters: towards global histories: studies in honour of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, New Delhi: Tulika, pp. ix-xx.
2012 & Leo Lucassen (eds), Working on labor: essays in honor of Jan Lucassen, Leiden and Boston: Brill.
– & Leo Lucassen, “Introduction.” In: Ibidem, pp. 1-18.