Prof. Dr. Marcel Marius van der Linden
Member of the International Advisory Board
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
mvl[at]iisg.nl
Current Position
Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Social History
Education
- 2008 Honorary doctorate, University of Oslo, Norway
- 1989 Ph.D. with honours, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
Academic Positions
- 2009–2012 Concurrent Professor at the University of Nanjing, China
- 2009–2010 Marcel Liebman Chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- 2003, 2008 Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2001–2014 Research Director, International Institue of Social History
- 1997–present Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
Awards
- 2014 German Historikerpreis (Bochum, Germany)
- 2009 René Kuczynski Prize
Additional Academic Activities
- 2005–2020 President of the International Social History Association
- 2015 Co-founder of the Global Labour History Network
- 2013 Co-founder of the European Labour History Network
- 1996 Co-founder of the Association of Indian Labour Historians
Publications
Marcel van der Linden’s articles have appeared in many peer reviewed journals, including African Studies, Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell’800 e del ‘900, Critique, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Historia Contemporanea, Historia Social, Historical Materialism, International Labor and Working-Class History, International Review of Social History, Journal of American History, Journal of Communist Studies, Journal of Social History, Labor, Labor History, Labour History, Labour History Review, Labour/Le Travail, Le Mouvement Social, Sozial.Geschichte, Theory and Society, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis, and Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d'histoire.
He (co-)authored or (co-)edited more than fifty books. Recent works include
- Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003; Spanish edition 2006);
- Western Marxism and the Soviet Union. A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates since 1917 (Leiden: Brill, 2007; reprint Chicago: Haymarket, 2009; Korean and Chinese editions);
- Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Leiden: Brill, 2008; paperback edition 2010; Brazilian and German editions; Spanish and Turkish translations forthcoming);
- The Global History of Work. Critical Readings. 4 volumes (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019);
- The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global View (co-edited; Oakland: University of California Press, 2019).
