Introduction

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen holds the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant:

`Towards Open Societies? Trends, Variations and Driving Forces of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe over the Past Three Centuries”. Towards Open Societies

 

He studied history in Amsterdam and sociology in Utrecht, and has taught in these disciplines.

He is professor of historical sociology in Utrecht, and honorary research fellow at  the International Institute of  Social History. 

His chosen field is social inequality world wide from 1500 to the present.

His research on welfare deals with philanthropy, charity, mutual aid, private and social insurance, and the history of risks.

His research on social structure and mobility deals with residential segregation, occupational change, intergenerational mobility, career mobility and partner choice.

He is interested in comparative historical studies of  work, status and class.

Links

Giving in the Golden Age (GIGA) project.

HISCO-collaboratory
History of Work (including HISCO)
HISCAM

Hisclass

Origins of the modern career
Towards Open Societies

WOG-HD

Research program on Institutions

Social Inequality network of the ESSHC

Social History of Communities of the N.W. Posthumus Graduate School for Economic and Social History

Key publications

Selection

Welfare - charity, philanthropy, mutual aid, insurance

Selection

1991 - 'Les assistés catholiques d'Amsterdam, 1750-1850. Un example d'application particulière de la methode de reconstitution des familles'. Annales de Démographie Historique 1991, 239-253. (with J.A. Faber).

1992 - Bijstand in Amsterdam, ca. 1800-1850. Armenzorg als beheersings- en overlevingsstrategie [Poor Relief in Amsterdam, 1800-1850. Charity as a Control and Survival Strategy] Waanders Publishers. 420 pp.

1993 - 'Surviving With a Little Help. The Importance of Charity to the Poor of Amsterdam 1800-1850, in a Comparative Perspective'. Social History 18, 319-338. 

1994 - Sociale zorg. Cahier regionale en lokale geschiedenis [Social Welfare. Regional and local history] Walburg Pers. 64 pp.

1994 - 'Logic of Charity: Poor Relief in Preindustrial Europe'. Journal of Interdisciplinary History xxiv, 589-613.

1996 - `Amsterdam en de armenzorg tijdens de Republiek’ [`Amsterdam and the charity of the Dutch Republic’], NEHA-Jaarboek 95, 132-161.

1996 - `Liefdadige giften in Amsterdam tijdens de achttiende eeuw’ [`Charitable Gifting in Amsterdam during the Eighteenth-Century’], Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 22, 417-442.

1997 – `Trade Unions and the Provision of Welfare in The Netherlands 1910-1960'. Economic History Review , 764-791.

1997 - 'Collective Agreements, Unions and Welfare in the Netherlands, 1910-1960',73-82, in: A. Knotter et al. (eds.), Labour, Social Policy and the Welfare State. IISH. Amsterdam.

1998 - Studies over zekerheidsarrangementen. Risico's, risicobestrijding en verzekering in Nederland vanaf de Middeleeuwen [Five centuries of security in the Netherlands, 1500-present] Amsterdam. NEHA. (Netherlands Economic History Archives) Publishers (edited with J. van Gerwen). 1059 pp. with chapters on:

I Armenzorg 1800-1912: erfenis van de Republiek

II Armenzorg 1912-1965: van centrum naar periferie

III Opbloei van de charitas na 1965

1999 - `Armenzorg en charitas, ca. 1800-2000. Een historische erfenis’  [Poor Relief and Charity, c. 1800-2000. A Historical Heritage], 159-178, in R. van der Bie and P. Dehing (eds), Nationaal Goed. Feiten en cijfers over onze samenleving ca. 1800-1999. Central Bureau of Statistics. The Hague.

2000 - Logic of Charity. Amsterdam,1800-1850. Macmillan Press. 242 pp.

2000 - De rijke Republiek. Gilden, assuradeurs en armenzorg 1500-1800 [The Rich Republic: guilds, insurance brokers, and poor relief 1500-1800] NEHA (Netherlands Economic History Archives) Publishers. 480 pp.

2000 - De eenheidsstaat: onderlinges, armenzorg en commerciële verzekeraars 1800-1890 [The nation state: mutual aid, poor relief, and insurance 1800-1890] NEHA (Netherlands Economic History Archives) Publishers. 419 pp.

2002 -  `Histories of risk and welfare in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries’, 32-66, in O.P. Grell, A. Cunningham and R. Jütte eds., Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century Northern Europe: History of Medicine in Context. Ashgate.

2007 - Historical Welfare Economics in the Nineteent Century: Mutual Aid and Private Insurance for Burial, Sickness, Old Age, Widowhood, and Unemployment in the Netherlands, in B. Harris and P. Bridgen (eds), Historical Perspectives on Charity and Mutual Aid: European and American Experiences since 1800. Routledge , 89-130.

2007- Filantropie in Nederland. Voorbeelden uit de periode 1770-2020 [Philanthropy in the Netherlands. Examples from the period 1770-2020] (edited with V. Kingma). Aksant Publishers. 219 pp.

(2011) - `Guilds and middle-class welfare 1550-1800: provisions for burial, sickness, old age, and widowhood', Economic History Review.

 

Social structure - class and rank, social mobility, social homogamy, careers, residential segregation

Selection

1991 - 'Log-linear Analysis of Changes in Mobility Patterns. Some Models with an Application to the Amsterdam Upper Classes in the Second half of the Nineteenth Century'. Historical Methods 24 (1991), 66-79. (with I. Maas).

1996 - 'Long Term Social Mobility: Research Agenda and a Case Study (Berlin, 1825-19)', Continuity and Change 11, 399-433.(with I. Maas).

1997 - 'Social Mobility in a Dutch Province, Utrecht 1850-1940'. Journal of Social History 30, 619-644. (with I. Maas).

1998 - `Residentiële segregatie in Hollandse steden, 16e-19e eeuw’  [`Residential Segregation in Urban Holland, 16th-19th Centuries’], Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 24, 402-441. (with W. van der Berg and C.G.M. Lesger).

2002 - `Partner choice and homogamy in the nineteenth century: Was there a sexual revolution in Europe?’ , Journal of Social History, 101-121. (with I. Maas).

2002 - 'Industrialization and intergenerational mobility in Sweden', Acta Sociologica 45 179-194. (with I. Maas).

2002 - HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. Leuven University Press. (with I. Maas and A. Miles). 441 pp. USA: Cornell Press

2004 - `Creating an Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations (HISCO): an exercise in multi-national, interdisciplinary co-operation’, Historical Methods 37, 186-197. (with I. Maas and A. Miles).

2004 - `The history of the modern career: an introduction’, 3-41, in D. Mitch, J. Brown, and M.H.D. van Leeuwen (eds), Origins of the Modern career. Ashgate. (with J. Brown and D. Mitch).

2004 - `Sozdanie HISCO” [“Creating HISCO”], 16-56, in V. Vladimirov (ed.), Istoricheskor professiovedenie. Sbornik nauchnikh statie’, Barnaul. University Press. (with I. Maas and A. Miles)

2004 - `Occupational careers of the total male labour force during industrialization: the example of Nineteenth-Century Sweden’, 227-258, in D. Mitch, J. Brown, and M.H.D. van Leeuwen (eds), Origins of the Modern career. Ashgate. (with I. Maas).

2005 - `Berufsmobilität’, in Enzyklopaedie der Neuzeit Band 2, 65-72,  Verlag J.B. Metzler. (with C. Lesger).

2005 - Genegenheid en gelegenheid. Twee eeuwen partnerkeuze en huwelijk [Two centuries of partner choice and marriage] Aksant.  335 pp. (edited with J. Kok)
With the chapter:
`Genegenheid, gelegenheid en dwang: Twee eeuwen partnerkeuze in Nederland en Vlaanderen’ [`Preference, Opportunity and Constraints. Two Centuries of Marriage and Partner Choice in the Netherlands and Flanders’], 1-28 (with J.Kok). 

2005 - 'Marriage Choices and Class Boundaries: Social Endogamy in History', special issue International Review of Social History 50 (edited with A. Miles and I. Maas). Book version Cambridge University Press. 295 pp

2005 - 'Endogamy and Social Class in History: An Overview', International Review of Social History 50, 1-24. (with I. Maas).

2005 - 'Migration and Endogamy According to Social Class: France, 1803-1986', International Review of Social History 50, 219-246.(with J-P. Pélissier, D. Rébaudo and I. Maas).

2005 - `Total and Relative Endogamy by Social Origin: A First International Comparison of Changes in Marriage Choices during the Nineteenth Century’, International Review of Social History 50, 275-295. (with I. Maas).

2008 - Istoricheskoe professiovedenie: istochniki, metody, tekhnologii analiza. [Studies on historical occupations: sources, methods, technology of analysis]. Barnaul University Press. (ed. with V. Vladimirov). 255 pp.

2008  `Izuchenie social’nojj mobilnosti v proshlom' [“The study of social mobility in the past”], 101-148 in V. Vladimirov and M.H.D. van Leeuwen (eds), Istoricheskoe professiovedenie: istochniki, metody, tekhnologii analiza [Studies on historical occupations: sources, methods, technology of analysis]. Barnaul, Barnaul University Press.

2008 - Honderdvijftig jaar levenslopen. De Historische Steekproef Nederland. [Hundred fifty years of lifecourses. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands] Amsterdam University Press & Themanummer Mens en Maatschappij. (ed, with I. Maas and K. Mandemakers).

With the chapter 'Van een dubbeltje een kwartje? Beroepsloopbanen van de Nederlandse bevolking' ['From rags to riches? Occupational careers of men and women in the Netherlands 1865-1940']', (with I. Maas).

2008  “HISCO (Historical International Standard Classification of Occupation): construindo uma codificação de ocupações para o passado brasileiro”, Revista da ABET [Brazilian Journal of Labour Studies], VI. 2, p. 166-181. (with T. R. Botelho, I. Maas, and A. Miles)

2009  Mobilidade Social em Sociedades Colonais e Pós-Coloniais: Brasil e Paraguai, séculos XVIII e XIX. [Social Mobility in Colonial and Post-Colonial Societies: Brazil and Paraguay, 18th and 19th centuries]. Fapemig. (ed. with T. R. Botelho).

2009   Istoricheskoe professiovedenie: sozdaniye HISCO i issledovaniya professional'noi i  mobil'nosti [Historical occupational studies: The creation of HISCO and the study of occupations and occupational mobility in Russia]. Barnaul University Press. (ed. with V. Vladimirov)

2009  “Social Inequality and Mobility in History”, Continuity and Change, 24.3, 399-419.

2009 “The next generation of  historical studies on social mobility: some remarks”, Continuity and Change 24.3, 547-560.

2010 “Historical studies of social stratification and mobility”, Annual Review of Sociology 36, 429-451. (with I. Maas).

2010   `Soziale Mobilität',  Enzyklopaedie der Neuzeit Band 12 ,250- 256. Stuttgart/Weimar. Verlag J.B. Metzler. (with C. lesger)

2010 "Occupations and social class in rural France 1680-1820", 61-80 in: M.-P. Arrizabalaga, I. Bolovan, M. Eppel, J. Kok, M. L. Nagata (eds), Many Paths to Happiness? Studies in Population and Family History A Festschrift for Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux. Amsterdam, Aksant. (with I. Maas)

2010  Desigualdade social na América do Sul em perspectiva histórica [Social mobility in South-America in historical perspective]. Fapemig. (ed. with T. Bothelho).

2011 HISCLASS:  A Historical International Social Class Scheme. Leuven University Press. (with I. Maas).

(2011) “Residential Segregation in the Sixteenth to Nineteenth centuries: overview, examples, theory and conjectures”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History. (with C. Lesger) 

Other

Selection

1993 - 'Reconstructing the Demographic Regime of Amsterdam 1681-1920'. In: Economic and Social History in the Netherlands, 61-104. (with J.E. Oeppen).

1994 - Op lange termijn. Verklaringen van lange-termijn trends in de geschiedenis van samenlevingen [In the Long Run. Explaining Trends in the History of Societies] Hilversum. Verloren. (edited with H. Flap). 183 pp.

 

Papers

2008  “Church, State and Citizen: Charity in the Netherlands from the end of the Dutch Republic to the Welfare State”, conference on Dynamics of Religious Reform in Church, State and Society in Northern Europe, 1780-1920: Social Reform, German Historical Institute, London, 19-21 September. (with H.D. van Leeuwen)

2010  “Migrants’ Entitlements to Poor Relief in the Netherlands, 16^th-20^th centuries” Workshop on Migrants, Entitlements and Welfare, 1500-2000: Comparative Perspective, Royal Flemish Academy, Brussels, 6-7 September 2010

2010  “Establishing and Registering Identity in the Dutch Republic”, Workshop on the Comparative History of Civil Registration, St John’s College, Cambridge, 7-10 September  (with H. Looijesteijn).

Contact Information

Name	prof. dr. Leeuwen, M.H.D. van (Marco)
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