Call for Papers

Southern Labor Studies Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, April 7-10, 2011

Co-Sponsored by the Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University Library; Southern Labor Studies Association; Labor and Working Class History Association

Memory and Forgetting: Labor History and the Archive

"The struggle against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting"From "The Uprising of '34", courtesy of Milan Kundera

Keynote addresses will be given by Robert Korstad, Duke University and Alessandro Portelli, University of Rome.

Global Consumers' Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective

19 November
The Women's College, The University of Sydney, Australia

Van der Linden, Marcel: Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (= Studies in Global Social History 1). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers 2008. ISBN 978-90-04-16683-7; 469 S.; EUR 129,00.

Rezensiert für geschichte.transnational und H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Leon Fink, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
E-Mail: [mailto]leonfink@uic.edu[/mailto]

Newsletter n. 7 – 5 luglio 2010

Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]

Per il Partito radicaleRelazione letta al I Congresso Nazionale del Partito radical

Il primo tentativo nella storia dell’Italia repubblicana di fondare un partito laico, di ispirazione laburista, in dialogo con le culture della sinistra italiana. Un testo inedito di Leo Valiani.

ToC: "Labor in the Information Age," a special issue of Labor History
Labor History, volume 51, issue 1, February 2010

Guest editors: John Hogan, Peter Nolan, and John Trumpbour

Table of Contents
John Trumpbour, "Labor in the Information Age: An Introduction"

Peter Nolan and Gary Slater, "Visions of the Future, the Legacy of the Past:Demystifying the Weightless Economy"

John Hogan, Peter Nolan, and Margaret Grieco, "Unions, technologies of coordination, and the changing contours of globally distributed power"

International Institute of Social History

IISH News Service July 5, 2010
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New items on the IISH website in June 2010:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/vanthoff/index.php[/url]
An extraordinary bookcase from the IISH collections on display at an exhibition on the Dutch avant garde architect Robert van 't Hoff.

Malekandathil, Pius: Maritime India. Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean. Delhi: Primus Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-9-380-60701-6; 211 S.; $ 64.00.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Dietmar Rothermund, Heidelberg
E-Mail: [mailto]dietmar.rothermund@t-online.de[/mailto]

Neben Aufsätzen, Rezensionen und Berichten dokumentiert der aktuelle Band des Marx-Engels-Jahrbuches schwerpunktmäßig Beiträge der Konferenz "Marxens Konzeptualisierungen und Beschreibungen von Akteuren", die im September 2009 an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg stattgefunden hat.

Inhalt

David Leopold
'All Tell the Same Tale': The Young Engels and Communal Settlements in America and England

Klaus Müller
Tendenzieller Fall oder Anstieg? Zur Komplexität ökonomischer Erscheinungen am Beispiel der allgemeinen Durchschnittsprofitrate

Martedì 6 luglio - ore 21 - Sala Zavattini
Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico presenta
1960 I Ribelli

di Mimmo Calopresti
una produzione Unitelefilm
in collaborazione con
Fondazione di Vittorio
Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico
Istituto Luce
RAI 3

Interverranno:Mimmo Calopresti (regista del film e Presidente Fondazione AAMOD)Susanna Camusso (Vicesegretaria generale CGIL)Carlo Ghezzi (Presidente Fondazione di Vittorio)