Transformations of Trade Unionism

Ad Knotter is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Regional History at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

• Introduction, Chapter 1 An international of insolence: the great anger of the cloth shearers in north-western Europe in the eighteenth century Chapter 2 Transnational cigar-makers: cross-border labour markets, strikes, and solidarity at the time of the First International (1864-1873) Chapter 3 From artisanal associations to collective bargaining agents: two phases of early trade unionism in Amsterdam (1864-1894) Chapter 4 Trade unions and workplace organization: regulating labour markets in the Belgian and American flat-glass industry and in the Amsterdam diamond industry (c. 1880-1940) Chapter 5 From placement control to control of the unemployed: trade unions and labour market intermediation in western Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Chapter 6 The transnational origins of Dutch miners' unionism: a case study in the nationalization of labour movements (1907-1926) Chapter 7 Justice for Janitors goes Dutch. Precarious labour and trade union response in the cleaning industry (1988-2012): a transnational history, Conclusion: past and future transformations, Bibliography, Index

"This detailed, well-written and novel account should be on the shelves of anyone interested in the history of unionism." - Michele Fenzl, *LSE Review of Books*, April 2019