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.

"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

• 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