In 1917, a critical year in the First World War, socialists of various national and political backgrounds planned to gather in a neutral country for a peace conference to show the way to permanent world peace. There was a great deal of attention for this attempt at informal diplomacy, but governments generally viewed it with distrust.
Marjatta Rahikainen, Centuries of Child Labour: European Experiences from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, 2004. ix + 272 pp. $90 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-7546-0498-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Carolyn Tuttle, Department of Economics, Lake Forest College.
Published by EH.NET (November 2005)
Annette Wilczek. Einkommen--Karriere--Versorgung: Das DDR-Kombinat und die Lebenslage seiner Beschäftigten. Berlin: Metropol, 2004. 280 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography. EUR 19.00 (paper), ISBN 3-936411-45-X.
Reviewed by: Thilo Schimmel, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Published by: H-German (July, 2005)
Hans Ehlert und Arnim Wagner, Hrsg. Genosse General! Die Militärelite der DDR in biografischen Skizzen. Militärgeschichte der DDR. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2003. viii + 632 pp. Illustrations, charts, timeline, notes, bibliography, index. EUR 29.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-86153-312-X.
Christian Th. Müller. Tausend Tage bei der "Asche": Unteroffiziere in der NVA. Militärgeschichte der DDR. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 2003. xiv + 429 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, index. EUR 24.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-86153-297-2.
The Volunteer Journal Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
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Call for Papers - Co-operation and the Politics of Consumption
Sheilagh Ogilvie and Richard Overy, eds. Germany: A New Social and Economic History, Volume 3--Since 1800. London: Arnold, 2003. xvii + 430 pp. Tables, notes, index. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-3406-3214-4; $27.50 (paper), ISBN 0-3406-5215-2.
Reviewed by: L. M. Stallbaumer-Beishline, Department of History, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Published by: H-German (September, 2005)
John Shepherd. George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xix + 407 pp. Illustrations, abbreviations, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-820164-8.
Reviewed by: Jonathan Schneer, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Tech.
Published by: H-Albion (August, 2005) St. George
Call for Papers
Humour and Social Protest
Supplement, International Review of Social History 14 (2007)
The 2005 issue of the North West Labour History Journal (UK) has just been published. It includes articles on 100 years of the Bolton Socialist Club, the radical Stalybridge cleric Joseph Rayner Stephens, Mary Banniff's experiences working at sea in the 1960s, the Nelson Clarion clubhouse, Michael Davitt, health in the workplace plus news and reviews.
The journal is dedicated to exploring the rich labour history of the North West of England.
