Left politics and labor / International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History
Archives and custodyMovement documentsactive
The archive's reading. The archive reads it as a holder in #1725's sense: an academy institute that keeps the records of organisations and persons of labour and emancipatory movements outside the bodies that produced them. The saved text states no policy on the losing side.
| Kind | research institute holding collections in socio-economic history, and a data centre on socio-economic history |
|---|---|
| Operator | the International Institute of Social History, an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), in its Humanities Cluster |
| Unit of record | not stated in the saved text; the collections are archives, publications and audiovisual collections, and the data are datasets |
| What it records | organisations and persons in the field of labour and social and emancipatory movements (the collections); demography, wages, life courses, inequality, prices and labour relations (the datasets) |
| Whose record it keeps | the archives, publications and audiovisual records of organisations and persons in labour and social and emancipatory movements |
| Who holds it | the IISH, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; collections made available online and in the reading room as much as possible; a License page is linked, unsaved |
| The losing side | not recorded |
| Method | collection development and preservation of archives, publications and audiovisual material (menu items Collection Development and Preservation & Management); datasets compiled under a research programme |
| Coverage | geography: not stated in the saved text; period: not stated in the saved text; the institute's history goes back to the 1920s |
| Count | value: collections of more than 50 kilometres; thousands of datasets; as_of: 2026-10-31 |
| Holdings | archives, publications and audiovisual collections of more than 50 kilometres; thousands of datasets on demography, wages, life courses, inequality, prices and labour relations; Linked Open Data and the HSNDB (menu items) |
| Stated limits | collections are made available online and in the reading room 'as much as possible'; the reading room is open Monday to Thursday, 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Data access | online catalogue (Search the catalogue), scan ordering, a reading room in Amsterdam, datasets and Linked Open Data |
| Licence | not stated in the saved text; a License page is linked in the footer |
| Lifecycle | state: active; detail: officially established in 1935, with a history going back to the 1920s; reading room open; current research clusters and annual reports listed |
| Founded | 1935 |
What its record can settle
- whether the IISH holds collections on a named organisation or person in labour and social movements (through its catalogue, unsaved here)
- which datasets it holds on wages, prices and labour relations
What it cannot settle
- which collections it holds, from the saved text (the catalogue was not read)
- whether it keeps the records of minority tendencies, splits or expulsions, from the saved text
Kept apart
- NOT a party or movement archive: an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- NOT only an archive: also a data centre on socio-economic history and a research institute
- NOT described in the saved text as keeping any particular tendency's papers
Evidence
- collections (the resource's own statement):
The IISH manages a rich collection in the field of socio-economic history that is made available online and in the reading room as much as possible. The archives, publications and audiovisual collections cover more than 50 kilometres and offer (historical) information on organisations and persons in the field of labour and social and emancipatory movements.
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - data (the resource's own statement):
View our thousands of datasets on demography, wages, life courses, inequality, prices, and labour relations here. The IISH is one of the world's leading data centres on socio-economic history.
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - operator (the resource's own statement):
An Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - cluster (the resource's own statement):
Annual Reports KNAW Humanities Cluster
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - research (the resource's own statement):
our four research clusters Global Labour Relations, Commodities, Environment and Labour, Social and Economic Inequality and Individual and Collective Action.
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - method (the resource's own statement):
Collection Development Preservation & Management
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - data_access (the resource's own statement):
Visit & Use Search & Browse Ordering Scans
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - lod (the resource's own statement):
Datasets HSNDB Linked Open Data About our data
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - catalogue (the resource's own statement):
Search the catalogue
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - reading_room (the resource's own statement):
The Reading Room is open Monday - Thursday: 09:00 to 17:00
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - license_link (the resource's own statement):
FAQ | Privacy | Cookies | License |
https://iisg.amsterdam/en · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 0a0832bcc211eecf… - founded (the resource's own statement):
The IISH was officially established in 1935, but its history goes back to the 1920s.
https://iisg.amsterdam/en/about · read 2026-10-31 · http 200 · sha256 771d5f1882c1747d…
Unchecked
the catalogue and its collection descriptions; the Mission, Organisation, Foundation and History pages (only their teasers are in the saved About page); the License page; the datasets
Cite: Lee Sharks, ed. "International Institute of Social History." Mary Lee Labor meta-aggregator: left politics and labor, maryleelabor.org, compiled 2026-10-31. https://www.maryleelabor.org/aggregators/iish