Ad Knotter
Biographic Data
| ID | 2811138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ad Knotter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ad |
| FAMILY NAME | Knotter |
| SIGNATURE | KNOTTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social History |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6161-686X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Many Tears Were Shed’
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, workplace occupation belonged to the standard repertoire of workers’ and trade union activism in the Netherlands. Between 1972 and 2000, 177 of them can be identified. In this article, I focus on the role of emotions in the motives and behaviour of the occupiers, as reported in digitized newspapers. I will argue that these emotions were closely related to the moral economy of the occupiers and ex…
‘Verzet=Bezet’
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, workplace occupation belonged to the standard repertoire of workers’ and trade union activism in the Netherlands. Between 1972 and 2000, 177 of them could be identified. In this article I analyse the character, causes, and changes in the use of this repertoire. What kind of occupations can be identified and how did they relate to other, similar actions? In what branches did they occur and what wa…
More Combative Than the Dutch
This article examines the role of Belgian frontier workers in labor conflicts in the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on contemporary press reports, the study analyzes key cases, such as the Sphinx ceramics factory in Maastricht, the Etna factory in Breda, and the Clitex textile plant in Clinge. Belgian frontier workers frequently initiated or sustained strikes, often driven by grievances linked to their cross-border status, includ…
Unwanted Guests. Migrant Strikes in the Netherlands, 1961–1974. Hidden Histories of Resistance and Repression
Institutional arrangements to regulate labour migration to North-Western Europe in the postwar period were in many ways decisive for the rights and restrictions of migrant workers in industrial relations. Agreements with migrant-sending states stipulated that ‘guest workers’ and Dutch workers had equal rights, but in practice migrants were in an inferior position. It was common practice to dismiss, or threaten to dismiss, striking ‘guest workers’…
Fabrice Bensimon, Artisans Abroad. British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The History of Trade Unionism and Working Class Politics as Social Movement History
In the past twenty years or so, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland) have seen a “renewal” in labour history. Thanks to exchanges outside the Nordic sphere and the “global turn” in labour history, new questions have been raised and topics addressed. Increased attention has been paid to the variations of labour and labour relations (including coerced labour), to working lives and the workplace, and to gender. The st…
Idealisme en technocratie
Jan Tinbergen was een idealistische technocraat, bij wie een specifieke, uit de jaren 1930 daterende ‘plansocialistische’ invulling van het sociaaldemocratische programma samenging met een naïef geloof in de objectiviteit van de economische wetenschap en de voorspellende waarde van econometrische modellen. Tinbergen heeft zowel in de wetenschappelijke als in de beleidssfeer enorme invloed gehad. Nog in de jaren 1990 bleek een meerderheid van de N…
Geen makke schapen
In 1964, the Netherlands experienced an average gross wage increase of 17 percent. In the economic literature, this wage explosion is mostly explained by the contrast between labour market developments and the restrictive wage policies by the Dutch government, which until that year adhered to central, state led wage determination. Overfull employment pressured employers to circumvent and ignore government regulations, and induced trade unions to …
Arbeid van vrouwen in Limburg in de twintigste eeuw
Female labour force participation declined in Limburg from a relatively high level at the start of the twentieth century to a relatively low level at the end of that century. In this article this “silent revolution” is analysed by focussing on the development of women’s labour in agriculture, in the South Limburg mining district, and in the Maastricht glass and pottery industries. The high level of female labour force participation was, firstly, …
Justice for Janitors Goes Dutch. Precarious Labour and Trade Union Response in the Cleaning Industry (1988–2012)
Precarious labour has been on the rise globally since the 1970s and 1980s. Changing labour relations in the cleaning industry are an example of these developments. From the 1970s onwards, outsourcing changed the position of industrial cleaners fundamentally: subcontracting companies were able to reduce labour costs by recruiting mainly women and immigrants with a weak position in the labour market. For trade unions, it was hard to find a way to c…
Trade unions and workplace organization
In all three industries, internal subcontracting as a way to organize the workplace determined the emergence of craft unionism in the nineteenth century. In both Belgian and American window-glassmaking craft unionism, originally based on exclusion of low-skilled workers who had been underhands in the system of subcontracting, persisted well into the twentieth century, until full mechanization made artisanal glassblowing obsolete. Only then all wo…
Mineração de carvão, migração e etnicidade
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2015v7n14p13Em todo o mundo, empresas de mineração defrontaram-se com a escassez de mão de obra e tiveram de encontrar maneiras de recrutar um número suficiente de trabalhadores para as suas minas. As soluções adotadas variaram desde o envolvimento de camponeses em tempo parcial, cooptação de trabalhadores mediada por empreiteiros de mão de obra, sistemas de trabalho forçado, e até migração nacional e internaci…
Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
This article provides a general background to the case studies in this Special Issue by highlighting some general themes in the history of migration to coalfields worldwide. All over the world, mining companies have struggled with labour shortages and had to find ways to recruit sufficient numbers of mineworkers. The solutions adopted ranged from the involvement of part-time peasant miners, organized mediation by labour contractors, and systems o…
Perspectives on Cross-Border Labor in Europe
A common explanation for the incidence and development of cross-border labor are cross-border economic disparities and uneven economic developments: in border regions with high levels of cross-border labor, important growth poles with high wages and employment opportunities at a short distance at one side of the border, attract workers from a less developed side. Recently, however, geographers Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde have argued …
Changing Border Regimes, Mining, and Cross-border Labor in the Dutch–Belgian–German Borderlands, 1900–1973
In this article the incidence of cross-border commuting to the mining districts in the Belgian–Dutch–German borderlands, known today as the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, will be related to the impact of state borders in different periods. Cross-border labor was closely related to changing border regimes based on uneven economic development, (un)familiarity, and the policy impact of powerful institutions like the state and the church. The main argument is…
Transnational Cigar-Makers
Several authors have argued that one of the main goals of the International Working Men's Association was to control transnational labour markets. In the eyes of trade unionists, especially in Britain, uncontrolled cross-border migratory movements threatened to undermine wage standards and working conditions. Their solution was to organize internationally, both to prevent strike-breaking and wage-cutting by workers from abroad, and to support uni…
Little Moscows” in Western Europe
Small communist strongholds were commonly nicknamed “Little Moscow”, both in Britain and in Europe. Small-place communism has been widespread since the interwar period, often in distinctly hostile surroundings. In this article, based on research into a number of cases in western Europe, I try to identify common characteristics which might explain their receptiveness to communist policies and ideas. My aim is to present a taxonomy for further rese…
Inleiding
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Leo Lucassen en Wim Willems, Gelijkheid en onbehagen. Over steden, nieuwkomers en nationaal geheugenverlies
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A borderless region? (Nazi‐)German Westforschung and the German‐Dutch‐Belgian Borderland
This paper focuses on the historical research tradition of kulturraumforschung (the study of ‘cultural regions') as it was developed in germany before world war ii, and its impact, not only on the nazi program of border change in the 1930s and 1940s, but also on the contemporary political construction of a ‘de-bordered’ euregio meuse-rhine in the german-dutch-belgian borderland. The paper argues that the profound essentialism of this way of think…
Poverty and the family-income cycle
Based on data collected from the files of the municipal poor relief institutions, the incomes of amsterdam casual (dock) laborers and of their wives and children, poor relief, and other sources of income are plotted against their family cycles. The emerging patterns confirm results arrived at in american, british, and belgian studies: married women worked for wages mainly in the first period of the marriage, when the children were still too young…
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
This article provides a general background to the case studies in this Special Issue by highlighting some general themes in the history of migration to coalfields worldwide. All over the world, mining companies have struggled with labour shortages and had to find ways to recruit sufficient numbers of mineworkers. The solutions adopted ranged from the involvement of part-time peasant miners, organized mediation by labour contractors, and systems o…
Perspectives on Cross-Border Labor in Europe
A common explanation for the incidence and development of cross-border labor are cross-border economic disparities and uneven economic developments: in border regions with high levels of cross-border labor, important growth poles with high wages and employment opportunities at a short distance at one side of the border, attract workers from a less developed side. Recently, however, geographers Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde have argued …
Changing Border Regimes, Mining, and Cross-border Labor in the Dutch–Belgian–German Borderlands, 1900–1973
In this article the incidence of cross-border commuting to the mining districts in the Belgian–Dutch–German borderlands, known today as the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, will be related to the impact of state borders in different periods. Cross-border labor was closely related to changing border regimes based on uneven economic development, (un)familiarity, and the policy impact of powerful institutions like the state and the church. The main argument is…
Transnational Cigar-Makers
Several authors have argued that one of the main goals of the International Working Men's Association was to control transnational labour markets. In the eyes of trade unionists, especially in Britain, uncontrolled cross-border migratory movements threatened to undermine wage standards and working conditions. Their solution was to organize internationally, both to prevent strike-breaking and wage-cutting by workers from abroad, and to support uni…
Little Moscows” in Western Europe
Small communist strongholds were commonly nicknamed “Little Moscow”, both in Britain and in Europe. Small-place communism has been widespread since the interwar period, often in distinctly hostile surroundings. In this article, based on research into a number of cases in western Europe, I try to identify common characteristics which might explain their receptiveness to communist policies and ideas. My aim is to present a taxonomy for further rese…
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Poverty and the family-income cycle
Based on data collected from the files of the municipal poor relief institutions, the incomes of amsterdam casual (dock) laborers and of their wives and children, poor relief, and other sources of income are plotted against their family cycles. The emerging patterns confirm results arrived at in american, british, and belgian studies: married women worked for wages mainly in the first period of the marriage, when the children were still too young…
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Inleiding
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Leo Lucassen en Wim Willems, Gelijkheid en onbehagen. Over steden, nieuwkomers en nationaal geheugenverlies
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A borderless region? (Nazi‐)German Westforschung and the German‐Dutch‐Belgian Borderland
This paper focuses on the historical research tradition of kulturraumforschung (the study of ‘cultural regions') as it was developed in germany before world war ii, and its impact, not only on the nazi program of border change in the 1930s and 1940s, but also on the contemporary political construction of a ‘de-bordered’ euregio meuse-rhine in the german-dutch-belgian borderland. The paper argues that the profound essentialism of this way of think…
Little Moscows” in Western Europe
Small communist strongholds were commonly nicknamed “Little Moscow”, both in Britain and in Europe. Small-place communism has been widespread since the interwar period, often in distinctly hostile surroundings. In this article, based on research into a number of cases in western Europe, I try to identify common characteristics which might explain their receptiveness to communist policies and ideas. My aim is to present a taxonomy for further rese…
Perspectives on Cross-Border Labor in Europe
A common explanation for the incidence and development of cross-border labor are cross-border economic disparities and uneven economic developments: in border regions with high levels of cross-border labor, important growth poles with high wages and employment opportunities at a short distance at one side of the border, attract workers from a less developed side. Recently, however, geographers Henk van Houtum and Martin van der Velde have argued …
Changing Border Regimes, Mining, and Cross-border Labor in the Dutch–Belgian–German Borderlands, 1900–1973
In this article the incidence of cross-border commuting to the mining districts in the Belgian–Dutch–German borderlands, known today as the Euregion Meuse-Rhine, will be related to the impact of state borders in different periods. Cross-border labor was closely related to changing border regimes based on uneven economic development, (un)familiarity, and the policy impact of powerful institutions like the state and the church. The main argument is…
Transnational Cigar-Makers
Several authors have argued that one of the main goals of the International Working Men's Association was to control transnational labour markets. In the eyes of trade unionists, especially in Britain, uncontrolled cross-border migratory movements threatened to undermine wage standards and working conditions. Their solution was to organize internationally, both to prevent strike-breaking and wage-cutting by workers from abroad, and to support uni…
Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
This article provides a general background to the case studies in this Special Issue by highlighting some general themes in the history of migration to coalfields worldwide. All over the world, mining companies have struggled with labour shortages and had to find ways to recruit sufficient numbers of mineworkers. The solutions adopted ranged from the involvement of part-time peasant miners, organized mediation by labour contractors, and systems o…
Trade unions and workplace organization
In all three industries, internal subcontracting as a way to organize the workplace determined the emergence of craft unionism in the nineteenth century. In both Belgian and American window-glassmaking craft unionism, originally based on exclusion of low-skilled workers who had been underhands in the system of subcontracting, persisted well into the twentieth century, until full mechanization made artisanal glassblowing obsolete. Only then all wo…
Mineração de carvão, migração e etnicidade
http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2015v7n14p13Em todo o mundo, empresas de mineração defrontaram-se com a escassez de mão de obra e tiveram de encontrar maneiras de recrutar um número suficiente de trabalhadores para as suas minas. As soluções adotadas variaram desde o envolvimento de camponeses em tempo parcial, cooptação de trabalhadores mediada por empreiteiros de mão de obra, sistemas de trabalho forçado, e até migração nacional e internaci…
Justice for Janitors Goes Dutch. Precarious Labour and Trade Union Response in the Cleaning Industry (1988–2012)
Precarious labour has been on the rise globally since the 1970s and 1980s. Changing labour relations in the cleaning industry are an example of these developments. From the 1970s onwards, outsourcing changed the position of industrial cleaners fundamentally: subcontracting companies were able to reduce labour costs by recruiting mainly women and immigrants with a weak position in the labour market. For trade unions, it was hard to find a way to c…
Arbeid van vrouwen in Limburg in de twintigste eeuw
Female labour force participation declined in Limburg from a relatively high level at the start of the twentieth century to a relatively low level at the end of that century. In this article this “silent revolution” is analysed by focussing on the development of women’s labour in agriculture, in the South Limburg mining district, and in the Maastricht glass and pottery industries. The high level of female labour force participation was, firstly, …
Geen makke schapen
In 1964, the Netherlands experienced an average gross wage increase of 17 percent. In the economic literature, this wage explosion is mostly explained by the contrast between labour market developments and the restrictive wage policies by the Dutch government, which until that year adhered to central, state led wage determination. Overfull employment pressured employers to circumvent and ignore government regulations, and induced trade unions to …
Idealisme en technocratie
Jan Tinbergen was een idealistische technocraat, bij wie een specifieke, uit de jaren 1930 daterende ‘plansocialistische’ invulling van het sociaaldemocratische programma samenging met een naïef geloof in de objectiviteit van de economische wetenschap en de voorspellende waarde van econometrische modellen. Tinbergen heeft zowel in de wetenschappelijke als in de beleidssfeer enorme invloed gehad. Nog in de jaren 1990 bleek een meerderheid van de N…
Fabrice Bensimon, Artisans Abroad. British Migrant Workers in Industrialising Europe, 1815-1870
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The History of Trade Unionism and Working Class Politics as Social Movement History
In the past twenty years or so, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland) have seen a “renewal” in labour history. Thanks to exchanges outside the Nordic sphere and the “global turn” in labour history, new questions have been raised and topics addressed. Increased attention has been paid to the variations of labour and labour relations (including coerced labour), to working lives and the workplace, and to gender. The st…
Unwanted Guests. Migrant Strikes in the Netherlands, 1961–1974. Hidden Histories of Resistance and Repression
Institutional arrangements to regulate labour migration to North-Western Europe in the postwar period were in many ways decisive for the rights and restrictions of migrant workers in industrial relations. Agreements with migrant-sending states stipulated that ‘guest workers’ and Dutch workers had equal rights, but in practice migrants were in an inferior position. It was common practice to dismiss, or threaten to dismiss, striking ‘guest workers’…
‘Many Tears Were Shed’
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, workplace occupation belonged to the standard repertoire of workers’ and trade union activism in the Netherlands. Between 1972 and 2000, 177 of them can be identified. In this article, I focus on the role of emotions in the motives and behaviour of the occupiers, as reported in digitized newspapers. I will argue that these emotions were closely related to the moral economy of the occupiers and ex…
‘Verzet=Bezet’
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, workplace occupation belonged to the standard repertoire of workers’ and trade union activism in the Netherlands. Between 1972 and 2000, 177 of them could be identified. In this article I analyse the character, causes, and changes in the use of this repertoire. What kind of occupations can be identified and how did they relate to other, similar actions? In what branches did they occur and what wa…
More Combative Than the Dutch
This article examines the role of Belgian frontier workers in labor conflicts in the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on contemporary press reports, the study analyzes key cases, such as the Sphinx ceramics factory in Maastricht, the Etna factory in Breda, and the Clitex textile plant in Clinge. Belgian frontier workers frequently initiated or sustained strikes, often driven by grievances linked to their cross-border status, includ…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Trade union (5 works)