for his book:
Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History
(Studies in Global Social History vol. 1)
Leiden: Brill Publishers 2008
469 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-166837
The awarding ceremony
took place in the frame of the opening of ITH's
45th Linz Conference on September 10, 2009,
at Jägermayrhof.
Award
presentation by Berthold Unfried, representative of the jury (in German)
Lecture
of the prize winner (in German)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Marcel van der Linden
born in 1952, is Research Director at the International Institute of Social
History in Amsterdam, Professor of Social Movement History at Amsterdam
University and Executive Editor of the International Review of Social
History.
His research mainly deals with labour history and the history of ideas.
He edited or wrote numerous books including The End of Labour History
(Cambridge 1993), Social Security Mutualism (Berne 1996), New
Methods for Social History (Cambridge 1998; together with Larry Griffin)
and Transnational Labour History. Explorations (Aldershot 2003).
His works have appeared in English, Dutch, German, French, Danish, Swedish,
Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese.
Jury:
Prof. Gerhard Botz (Institute for Contemporary History, Vienna University)
Prof. Josef Ehmer (Institute for Economic and Social History, Vienna University)
Prof. Rüdiger Hachtmann (Berlin)
Prof. Jörg Roesler (Berlin)
Prof. Claudia Ulbrich (Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Dept. of History and
Cultural Studies, FU Berlin)
Ass. Prof. Berthold Unfried (ITH & Institute for Economic and Social
History, Vienna
University)
The René
Kuczynski Prize
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