Anke Ortlepp. "Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!": Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914. Transatlantische Historische Studien, 17. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 309 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. EUR 37.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-5150-8405-3.
Reviewed by: Janet M. C. Walmsley, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
Published by: H-German (September, 2005)
History and Critical Pedagogies: Transforming Consciousness, Classrooms, and Communities
Call for Papers: Issue #102, Radical History Review
This is a short reminder to instructors and authors in history, labour studies and related fields about the Eugene Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, awarded each year by the Canadian Commitee on Labour History. There is a graduate thesis award and also an undergraduate essay award. The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2006. Details are available at the following site address:
The Third Rethinking Social Democracy Conference University of Sheffield, UK, 28-30 June 2006
Social Democracy in the Post-Bipolar World: Challenges in the Developed World, Opportunities in the Developing World
Programme
The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published a new title:
Alessandro Schiavi, Il socialista riformista a cura di Gianni Silei. Piero Lacaita Editore. Collana "Strumenti e Fonti". pp. 205. Euro 15,00
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze
E-mail: [mailto]fondaizone.turati@pertini.it[/mailto]
Pagine web: [url]http://www.pertini.it/turati.html[/url]
The Summer 2006 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.
It contains articles by Keith Flett on eighty years after the General Strike and a review by Terry Ward of Kevin Murphy's Revolution and Counterrevolution - Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory.
It also contains, as usual, news and announcements of forthcoming seminars and other events of interest to socialist historians in the London area and beyond.
German Historical Institute
in collaboration with
the Society for the Study of Labour History
Call for Papers:
From the Blanketeers to the Present:
Understanding Protests of the Unemployed
Held at the German Historical Institute, London
16/17 February 2007
The lack of work has been a recurrent grievance for working people and a site of protest since the early days of labour movements. This conference will bring together the latest international research into the protests of the workless.
Boletín digital de actividades de la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballeronúmero 18 - mayo de 2006
Publicaciones
The "Programmatische Dokumente und Statuten der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung und der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands" (Programmatic Documents and Statutes of the German Trade Union Movement and the Social Democratic Party of Germany) are presenting in full text the programmatic positions of the German social democracy and trade union movement since their beginnings in the 19th century. The project was realized with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinnschaft (DFG).
The "Bibliographie zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung und zur Theorie und Praxis der politischen Linken" (Bibliography of the History of the German Labour Movement and the Theory and Practice of the political Left) shows the literature published since 1976. The project was realized with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinnschaft (DFG). The monographs and articles are about the history and politics of the German labour movement and are part of the collection of the library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn.
