The Editors : Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Senior Research Fellow of the International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His publications include Revolutionary Syndicalism. An International Perspective (Aldershot, 1990 ; edited with Wyne Thorpe) and The Formation of Labour Movements. An International Perspective (two volumes : Leiden, 1990 ; edited with Jürgen Rojahn).
Jan Lucassen (1947) is Senior Research Fellow of the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam, and Professor of International and Comparative Social History, Vrjie Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His major publication is Migrant Labour in Europe 1600-1900. The Drift to the North Sea (London, 1987). The Contributors : Marcel van der Linden and Jan Lucassen, Dik van Arkel, Eric Arnesen, E.M.
Beck and Stewart E. Tolnay, Maria Stella M. Bresciani, Bernard A. Cook, Rick Halpern, Michael Honey, William B. Thomas and Kevin J. Moran, Earl F. Mulderink, III, Renfrew Christie, Pieter van Duin, Raymond Markey, Erik Olssen, Yoav Peled, Apollo Rwomire, Gershon Shafir, Priscilla Wegars, Bob Carter and Kathleen Paul, Chandersen E.S. Choenni and Artwell C. Cain, Els Deslé, Diana Kay and Robert Miles, Tony Kushner, John Wrench