The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000: Background, Set-Up, Taxonomy, and Applicationshdl:10622/4OGRADIISH Data Collection2016-06-061Hofmeester, Karin; Lucassen, Jan; Lucassen, Leo; Stapel, Rombert; Zijdeman, Richard, 2016, "The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000: Background, Set-Up, Taxonomy, and Applications", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/4OGRAD, IISH Data Collection, V1The Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000: Background, Set-Up, Taxonomy, and Applicationshdl:10622/4OGRADHofmeester, KarinLucassen, JanLucassen, LeoStapel, RombertZijdeman, RichardIISH Data CollectionStapel, RombertStapel, Rombert2016-06-06Arts and HumanitiesSocial SciencesThis essay consists of two parts. Part one, which comprises four sections, is written for a general readership and explains the background to the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, 1500-2000. It elaborates on the key social and economic issues it wants to address (including social inequality) and on how the data collected by the Collaboratory can be combined with other socio-economic macro and micro data for this purpose. The essay shows furthermore how the project stands in the context of a long tradition of categorising labour and labour relations, and how the taxonomy developed by the project to categorise labour relations worldwide for at least the past five hundred years is constructed. As the project is work in progress, the taxonomy is updated when new datasets and insights become available. Part two is written specifically for members of the Collaboratory and other taxonomy users, and explains what modifications were made to the taxonomy, and why. The Appendix gives an overview of the definitions of labour relations as used in the taxonomy.For use of this dataset a <strong>CC-BY</strong> license applies. This means that users may share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material, for any purpose, even commercially. Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If users remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute depositor’s contributions under the same license as the original. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the depositor endorses the user or her/his use. Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. <br><br>More information and the full license text is available at: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_link">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>Collaboratory Background Text 26 October 2015.pdfapplication/pdf