Samenvatting en summary

Samenvatting

A biography of Herman Derk Louwes (1893-1960), the organizer of Dutch agrarian interests in a pillarized country. Published as doctoral thesis.
In 1996 the Landbouwschap (Industrial board for Agriculture) was abolished. Employers and employees were unable to find each other in a collective wage agreement. Consequently the showpiece of regulatory industrial organizations (an important symbol of the Dutch 'poldermodel') came to an end, after more than fifty years of close cooperation between organized farmers and agricultural workers. This disserstation deals with the formation of this cooperative arrangement, from the end of the nineteenth century till the formal construction of the Landbouwschap in 1954. Special attention is given to Herman Derk Louwes, who played a major part in unifying an archipelago of extremely different organizations. With his respectful approach to all politico-religious convictions (in a pillarized society) and all interests (who varied widely in agriculture), he fulfilled an essential role in bringing them all together, unmistakenly becoming a 'mayor of Dutch agriculture'. Free discriptors: social-economic history, biography, agricultural institutions.
A biography of Herman Derk Louwes (1893-1960), the organizer of Dutch agrarian interests in a pillarized country. Published as doctoral thesis. 

English summary on p. 291