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The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Beeld & Geluid. Digitization can, however, be requested from Beeld & Geluid via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
Hendrik Kuiper (born 1897) started as a garden worker in the Westland, was active in the Roman Catholic Agricultural and Garden Workers’ Union and grew further in the RKWV, becoming a permanent employee in 1935. He recounts his experiences in the various positions he held in the Roman Catholic trade union movement until some time after the war. He would eventually become director of the Social Insurance Bank in Amsterdam.
An interesting article on the life of Hendrik Kuiper.
Interviews by Henne Pauli on Wim Kok’s presidency of the FNV with Joop den Uyl, Chris van Veen, Piet Vos and Kok himself.
Joop den Uyl in July 1983. 83 min.
Chris van Veen, chairman of the Confederation of Dutch Enterprises (VNO). 97 min.
Piet Vos, secretary of the Industrial Union FNV. 139 min.
Wim Kok. 93 min.
Interviews by Pauli with politicians and union officials: Willem Aantjes, Fons Arnolds, Wim Duisenberg, Ruud Lubbers, Greetje Lubbi, Piet Steenkamp, Jan Terlouw and Karin Adelmund.
Willem Aantjes and Ruud Lubbers on 25 October 1978 following the debate on ‘Bestek ’81’ . 124 min.
Fons Arnolds, expert on the Catholic labour movement, on 20 March 1983 on the future of the FNV . 124 min.
Wim Duisenberg on 16 July 1984 on the SER. 91 min.
Greetje Lubbi, president of the Food Union FNV, on 20 March 1983. on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death on Marx’s traces in the trade union movement. 94 min.
Piet Steenkamp on working time reduction. 62 min.
Jan Terlouw on a report released by D’66 on technological innovation and socio-economic policy. 65 min.
Karin Adelmund. 45 min.
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam has been investing in so-called ‘oral history projects’ for several years now. Which means, among other things: gaining insight into aspects of social and trade union history through conversations and interviews, which you don’t find so directly in most written or digital material.
This led in 2016-2017 to a series of extensive and fascinating interviews with Wim Kok (1938-2018), followed in 2018 by a series of no less exciting conversations with Lodewijk de Waal.
In early 2023, the next shoot on the trunk of this project saw the light of day: the Henk Muller tapes. Four interviews with this dyed-in-the-wool trade unionist.
The result: many hours of unique trade union historical video material. Below is the complete overview and links to the interviews.
Collection Interviews Wim Kok
Collection Interviews Lodewijk de Waal
Collection Interviews Henk Muller
Between 1981 and 1989, former FNV employee Jan Varkevisser interviewed former union officials and former cadres of the FNV, ABOP and
CNV interviewed. The project was a collaboration between the Trade Union Historical Society and the IISH and aimed to add personal experiences to trade union history.
The files contain interviews with 42 former trade union officials. They tell the story of their private and working lives. The interviews were conducted as part of a project to provide more background on union history.
Frans Drabbe, Nel Tegelaar, Herman Bode, Wim Spit, © Het geheugen van de vakbeweging
The Trade Union Historical Society was founded in 1983; its objectives were to increase knowledge of trade union history and promote interest in the history of the trade union movement.
This audio collection features interviews with members of the St Eloy Katholieke Arbeidersbeweging, Algemeene Nederlandsche Metaalbewerkerbond Rotterdam, the Algemene Nederlandse Bouwarbeidersbond, ABB and ABVA, Amsterdam, NVV, Friesland, the Transportbond and the Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkerbond.
The archive was deposited with the IISH in 2005 by the VHV “Friends of the History of the Trade Union Movement” Foundation; with an addition in 2018 from IISH backlogs and in 2021 from Jacques van Gerwen.
Interviews by Henne Pauli with Jaap Boersma, Frans Drabbe, Jaques Penders and Arie Groenevelt on the role of the 1977 strike.
The collection originally consisted of 8 cassettes signed BG GC1/551 to GC1/558.
Literature: Henne Pauli, De FNV gaat niet opzij!;
Hoe de vakbeweging de grote staking van ’77 won,
Voorlichtingsdienst Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging, 1977.
Together with NKV leader Wim Spit, he successfully leads the merger with the NVV to form the FNV. Under the slogan ‘The FNV does not go sideways’, he successfully leads the fight to retain full price compensation in 1977.
Interviews about experiences as a worker at Arbed, Acec and Vynckier The interviews were conducted for a study of the workers’ and students’ movement before and after 1968.
Interviewed group of workers 1950
Arbed: 6
Acec: 10
Vynckier: 3
Interviewed group of workers 1970
Arbed: 7
Acec: 4
Vynckier: 1
Mandatory registration as a reader of the General State Archives and State Archives in the Provinces.
An important figure in CegeSoma and present since its launch in 1969, Frans Selleslagh wrote a thesis on activism between 1914 and 1916. For many years, he devoted himself to collecting and filing documents relating to the second war period. His main research interests were Christian Youth Workers, compulsory work in Germany, and the Catholic Church. He also contributed greatly to the development of the Centre’s Images and Sounds section by developing an awareness of the importance of these formerly overlooked sources. He left CegeSoma in 2002 to retire. He then volunteered to contribute to the classification of the archives of the Archdiocese of Mechelen. In October 2008, he died of illness.
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Sound & Vision. Digitization can, however, be requested from Sound & Vision via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
Gerard Kuys – De vrees voor wat niet kwam : nieuwe arbeidsverhoudingen in Nederland 1935-1945, aan het voorbeeld van de Twentse textielindustrie
Niek Vos – De rauwe wet van vraag en aanbod: arbeidsverhoudingen in de Twents-Gelderse textielindustrie 1945 tot 1949
raditionally, Twente was an important center for the textile industry. Since 1830, the state invested in Twente. At its peak, about 160 factories were operating. Twente possessed a culture of strike action. As early as the end of the nineteenth century, factory workers began to unite in labor associations. The interviewees stand in these traditions and recount their experience between 1930 and 1960.
The interviews were conducted as part of the doctoral theses (economic and social) history (KUN) of the four interviewers, N. Vos, G. Kuys, J. Vos and E. Theloosen, on the subject of the labor movement and labor relations in the Twente textile industry 1930-1960.
A number of interviews were conducted with more than one person at a time. For example, Duyn, Ter Haar, the Kapitein couple and Pieperiet are together in one interview and the same goes for Messrs. Meijer and Tijdeman.
Almost all persons speak about the situation in the Twente textile industry from an active position in the leftist (trade) movement, especially NVV, NSV, NAS, EVC and OVB, in which, incidentally, a strong aversion to the CPN emerges. The exception is the liberal politician Stikker, who speaks more from the position of employers than from his views on the new (postwar) forms of cooperation between employers and employees. Among other things, he was the initiator of the Labor Foundation in 1945.
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Sound & Vision. Digitization can, however, be requested from Sound & Vision via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
In DAAN, het the digital archive of Sound & Vision the following item can be found: Niet Bekend – 19823, an interview from 1958 where Benno Stokvis, former member of the CPN speaks about the EVC
Title: De Eenheidevakcentrale EVC 1943-1948
Authors: Paul Coomans, Truike de Jonge, Erik Nijhof
Originally: doctoral thesis
ISBN : 9789001390167
In 1944, the groundwork was laid for an entirely new trade union organization, the Eenheidsvakbeweging (EVB), later renamed Eenheids Vakcentrale (EVC). This was an initiative of the underground leadership of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN), which had played an important role in the resistance and hoped that it would be able to convert the respect gained as a result into key positions in postwar society. The EVC opposed the colonial war and unsuccessfully sought to organize a strike against it.
Besides participating in a progressive government, the CPN also envisioned a supporting role in a renewed trade union movement, in which the old philosophical divisions would be overcome for the sake of the common struggle for optimal working conditions.
For this purpose, 10 persons were interviewed:
For more information on the interviews and interviewees, see: SFW Working Edition no. 8 (1995), pp. 4, 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 29, 35.
For further historical context see: Evert Smit, “Havenartiesten in actie. Het mobilisatieproces bij wilde stakingen in de Rotterdamse haven” in Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift 21:3 (1994)
