Jan Lucassen

Jan Lucassen is Emeritus Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and an honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History, where he founded the IISH Research Department as well as the biannual European Social Science History. He recently published The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind (2021). He is an expert in labour and migration history. His publications include the following books: Workers in the Informal Secto r (2005, together with Sabyasachi Bhattacharya),...See more

Jan Lucassen is Emeritus Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and an honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History, where he founded the IISH Research Department as well as the biannual European Social Science History. He recently published The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind (2021). He is an expert in labour and migration history. His publications include the following books: Workers in the Informal Secto r (2005, together with Sabyasachi Bhattacharya), Global Labour History: A State of the Art (2006), Globalising Migration History: The Eurasian Experience (2014, together with Leo Lucassen). Among his articles are studies about brick making in India, workers of the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory and the circulation of copper money in India. See less