Peter Waterman Papers

Papers received in 1998: general correspondence 1971-1978; correspondence and other documents concerning his seminars on Nigeria at Birmingham University 1967-1973, his activities as coordinator, lecturer and field trip organiser at the ISS 1973-1981, 1989 and as editor of the Newsletter of International Labour Studies (NILS) 1978-1993; correspondence, notes and documentation on his research projects and subsequent publications and contributions to symposia on industrial relations, trade unions and labour in India 1951-1988, Nigeria 1944-1984, Peru 1974-1989, the Philippines 1976-1991 and Spain 1966-1993; documents of ISS-colleague Jos Hilhorst concerning advisory activities on the fifth 5-year development plan and regional development plans in Indonesia 1979-1992. Accrual 2012: files on the research project 'Women and international communication in Latin America' and other files on the position of women 1973-1993; files on the project 'Trade unions 2000', resulting in Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman, Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization: Alternative Union Models in the New World Order (Basingstoke, 1999) 1995-1999; files on the Workers' movement in Russia 1993-1995, the conference 'Seoul international labor media '97' 1997, the European Social Forum workshop on 'commons and communities' in Florence, Italy 2002, a workshop organized by the University of Kassel, Germany, and Waterman's paper 'Union Organisations, Social Movements and the Augean Stables of Global Governance' 2006; file on the conference 'Impact of Global Production Systems on Trade Union Strategies', organized by ILO/ISS, in The Hague 2006; 2 CD's with the autobiography of Peter Waterman 2010. Accrual 2014: correspondence with and press cuttings on the University of Durban-Westville 1994-1996; files on the 'Globalisation, communication, solidarity' project of Peter Waterman at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa 1994; pamphlets and press cuttings on the struggle of the dockworkers in Durban 1994; publications of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and the South African Labour Education Project (SALEP) 1976-1996; papers and other documents on the trade unions and social-economic policy debates in South Africa 1990-1994. Accrual 2017: analog and digital material, the digital part includes the autobiography by Peter Waterman (last version 2010).