Strikes in the Netherlands
The database on this website was used in its original form for the thesis written by Sjaak van der Velden in 2000.
An overview of the yearly number of strikes and lock-outs is available here.
In 2007 Sjaak published Strikes around the World, 1968-2005. Case-studies of 15 countries
Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers 2007: ISBN: 90-5260-285-1, 384 p. in cooperation with Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon and Kurt Vandaele.
Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers 2007: ISBN: 90-5260-285-1, 384 p. in cooperation with Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon and Kurt Vandaele.
You can download the original database from: https://collab.iisg.nl/web/labourconflicts/datafiles
On this page you can search for more than 16,000 strikes and lock-outs that occurred in the Netherlands 1372 to date.