Several Amsab-ISG publications that have recently gone out of print are now available online through our catalog. Although these are somewhat older works, they often contain contributions of international caliber that are certainly still relevant to anyone who wants to read about social history today. These are the articles you've always wanted to read but never had the time. No more excuses! Here are the 2023 holiday reading lists.
At the end of the 1990s, Professor Marcel van der Linden (IISG, Amsterdam) asked
whether national or 'patriotic' history still had a future in
a globalizing world.
Gita Deneckere, Peter Scholliers, Marc Jacobs and Bart De Wilde
debated this in this modest but beautiful book.
"Is our fatherland national?" full text in the Amsab-ISG catalog
Cooperatives are once again attracting public attention as a path
to a greener and more sustainable future.
Exactly 20 years ago, Amsab-ISG organized a prestigious international conference
on the history of cooperative thinking. Fourteen speakers discussed
experiences in their countries, from Sweden to Italy, but also from Japan and Suriname.
Or how the past remains burningly relevant ...
“Consumerism versus Capitalism?” full text in the Amsab-ISG catalogue
Already in 1999, Amsab-ISG organized this groundbreaking international colloquium
on feminism and the gender factor in the emancipation struggle of the lower social
classes, or Socialism & Sexuality .
Factory Boy Meets Factory Girl... Speakers will explore gender in the factory
and office, sterilization, and separate art education for girls.
In short, #MeToo in the last century.
"Gender and Class" full text in the Amsab-ISG catalog
Another small but nice book that contains some hidden gems.
Professors from the US, France, Germany and Great Britain will debate
labour and culture or, as Maarten Van Ginderachter
puts it more colourfully, Culture and Canaille .
Who cares what workers read? Isn't the common man constantly
being taken advantage of by either intellectuals or populists?
Jan Art, Bart De Nil and Marc Jacobs present a well-considered response.
"The Story of the Average Joe" full text in the Amsab-ISG catalog
Anti-globalists were the thorn in the side of the late 20th century,
the only ones who dared to disrupt the global consensus
by disrupting international meetings of world leaders.
But the anti-globalists also built another and better world,
an alter-mondialism , as during the World Social Forum in 2003
in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Yesterday, the fight against poverty , today the fight against global warming .
Francine Mestrum and Donald Weber pose the question of
the movement's origins and how to preserve its legacy.
"Inside Outside" full text in the Amsab-ISG catalog
In 2000, on the threshold of a new millennium, Amsab-ISG convened an international
congress on trade unions at the international level .
Bart De Wilde gathered 23 speakers from six countries. The intention was to
focus solely on the past, but the event quickly got out of hand.
What will happen to unions worldwide? That's a question that, unfortunately,
has lost none of its relevance.
"Past and Future of International Trade Unionism" full text in the Amsab-ISG catalogue
And last but not least... a classic from our range of publications and perhaps
the title that Amsab-ISG is most proud of.
That time we traveled to Russia and long-lost documents
from the Nazi era . Wouter Steenhaut and Michel Vermote, the Captain
Haddock and Tintin on duty, tell the enduring story of this
grueling and adventurous quest .
When the Belgian government finally sent some army trucks to
collect the archive boxes, the Russians joked that it was the first time since Napoleon that
a foreign army had reached Moscow.
Would they still make that joke today?
