Funding for research on labour market in the eighteenth century
Jelle van Lottum has received funding from NWO’s SGW Open Competition L. This will allow him to conduct research into the opportunities of migrant workers on the Dutch labour market in the eighteenth century.
Despite better wages, migrants often experienced challenges such as loss of status, housing problems and poverty. Career advancement was often the only way to escape these. The aim of the project is to understand what it took to achieve this and what obstacles existed. With the results of this research, Van Lottum hopes to gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by migrants then and now and contribute to a broader understanding of the causes of inequality in society.
SGW Open Competition offers researchers the opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choice, without thematic prerequisites. This research programme is intended for a broad group of researchers at different stages of their scientific career. SGW Open Competition L is for researchers who obtained their PhD 15 years ago or more and is open every other year.
Jelle van Lottum is not only head of our research group LivesLab, but also endowed professor at Radboud University in the Department of History, Art History and Antiquity and the Institute for Culture and History with a specialisation in the history of labour migration in comparative perspective.
