An essay describing the background, taxonomy, and applications of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations. It explains the project's goals regarding social inequality and how its data can be combined with other socio-economic data. The taxonomy for categorizing labour relations worldwide over the past five hundred years is detailed and updated as work progresses.
Use Cases
- Analyzing long-term trends in labour relations based on the project's global taxonomy.
- Studying social inequality by combining the Collaboratory's data with other socio-economic datasets.
- Understanding historical categorizations of labour and labour relations.
- Applying the updated taxonomy to new datasets and research insights.
Strengths
- The taxonomy covers labour relations worldwide for at least the past five hundred years.
- The project's data is designed to be combined with other socio-economic macro and micro data.
- The taxonomy is updated as new datasets and insights become available.
Limitations
- The dataset appears to be an essay/document, not a structured data table; column-level documentation is absent.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The description focuses on project background and taxonomy, not on the raw data content.
Provenance
- Source
- Hofmeester, Karin; DataverseNL Harvested Dataverse
- Time Range
- 1500-2000
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-18 06:11:36; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Global