Southwest Labor Studies Association
34th Annual Conference May 15-17, 2008
California Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA
Call for papers, workshops, and presentations
Working and Organizing Everyday: Workers, Families, and Communities in Local and Global Struggles
Featuring: Plenary Sessions on The State of Working Families in the Inland Valley and The Struggle for a Continental Living Wage
La Fondazione di studi storici "Filippo Turati" comunica
E' uscito per la collana Società e Cultura il volume:
Enrico Landoni, Il laboratorio delle riforme. Milano dal centrismo al centro-sinistra (1956-1961). Piero Lacaita Editore. Collana Società e Cultura. pp. 535 €. 20,00
La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
[mailto]fondazione.turati@pertini.it[/mailto]
Labor History
Volume 49 Number 2 (February 2008)
Contents
Defining a "Living Wage" in America: Transformations in Union WageTheories, 1870-1930
Tom Stapleford
British Trade Unions, the 1975 Referendum and Its Legacy
Philip B. Whyman
Challenging Cheap-Labour Theory: Nataland TransvaalCoal Miners, c. 1890-1950
Peter Alexander
49The FE PC and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s
Kevin M. Schultz
Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 34 - enero de 2008
Actividades Culturales
Exposición "De la España que emigra a la España que acoge", en Huelva
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Call for Papers
International Sociological Association Research Committee on Labour Movements Barcelona, September 5 - 8 2008
The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce their latest pamphlet, an interview in which Juan Garcia Oliver gives his version of his revolutionary life.
Jan Lucassen (ed.), Wages and Currency: Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century. Bern [etc.], Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-03910-782-7
IISH News Service February 2008
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New items on the IISH website in January 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/womancounts.php[/url]
Economic historians De Moor and Van Zanden present their research into the long term development of education.
Mai-68.fr
1968-2008 : retour aux sources
Mai 68 est encore, comme le prouvent certains récents discours tenus au plus haut niveau de l’Etat, un enjeu politique d’importance. Mais c’est aussi, bien entendu un enjeu historiographique et documentaire. C’est en fonction de cela que le CODHOS s’est donné pour tâche de recenser les différentes manifestations occasionnées par le 40ème anniversaire. Il s’agit de faire, dans un souci documentaire et analytique, une radiographie des formes que prendra cet anniversaire.
Memory, history, morality: the socialist past today
11-12th September 2008, Newcastle University (UK)
Memory and history, it has been argued, are closely connected to identity, both communal and individual. Memory and history are therefore also made in the present according to present demands. Yet, the past sometimes also presses into the present, or, as Bergson writes 'the past that is gnawing on present and future'.
