Work and Makeshifts: Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-29th, 2008)

Deadline for abstracts July 3, 2008

This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project "The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)." Historians dealing with similar issues, regardless of period or place, as well as researchers in other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.) are expressly invited to collaborate in the workshops.

Call for papers

Thematic Issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR)

New Perspectives on Soviet Mass Violence

International conference "Historical experience of socialist resistance against authoritarianism", taking place in Moscow, Russia, on 12-13 July 2008.

See also: [url]http://www.praxiscenter.ru/about_us/english/[/url]

Praxis Research and Education Center
[url]http://www.praxiscenter.ru[/url]

Praxis Research and Educational Center

Global South: Sephis e-magazineA new issue of Global South was posted. Sephis e-Magazine is a platform for scholars and students based in in countries of the "south" to engage in conversations about development and history.

[url]http://sephisemagazine.org/current/current.html[/url]

New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War invites scholars to submit proposals to present at the Center's seminar series. The Cold War seminar is a venue for works in progress. It is interdisciplinary and international in scope. All papers are pre-circulated.

Chinese Posters 1937 - Present: Propaganda, Politics, History
[url]http://chineseposters.net[/url]

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Beth English, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Published by [mailto]H-SHGAPE@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (May, 2008)

Bruce Watson. Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-303735-4.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, Department of Social Sciences, Purdue University North CentralPublished by [mailto]H-NewEngland@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

Vadim Kukushkin. From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi + 283 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-3267-0.

Reviewed for H-Migration by Krystyna K. Cap, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Published by [mailto]H-Migration@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

Hollensteiner, Stephan: Aufstieg und Randlage. Linksintellektuelle, demokratische Wende und Politik in Argentinien und Brasilien (= Veröffentlichungen des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts Preußischer Kulturbesitz 104). Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3-86527-239-3; 462 S.; EUR 48,00.

Rezensiert für geschichte.transnational und H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Stephan Scheuzger, Institut für Geschichte, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
E-Mail: [mailto]scheuzger@history.gess.ethz.ch[/mailto]