United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
by Ileen A. DeVault

In the late nineteenth century, most jobs were strictly segregated by sex. And yet, despite their separation at work, male and female employees regularly banded together when they or their unions considered striking. In her groundbreaking book, Ileen A. DeVault explores how gender helped to shape the outcome of job actions-and how gender bias became central to unionism in America.

New site on the IISH server: Life Courses in Context, a collaboratory based on Dutch population registers and censuses (19th and 20th century).

The programme's objective is to develop a database with about 40.000 individual life courses of people born in the period of 1863-1922. This database with micro-data will be supplemented with core data on the level of the municipalities. This will be done by digitalizing the results of the ten-yearly censuses as they were taken between 1859 and 1947.

Strikes in an International Perspective

Heiner Dribbusch, Dave Lyddon, Sjaak van der Velden, Wessel Visser

The Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War

James M. Anderson. The Spanish Civil War: A History and Reference Guide. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. xxviii + 221 pp. Photographs, chronology, biographies of major participants, primary documents, glossary, political organizations leaders, annotated bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-32274-0.

Reviewed by Wayne Bowen, Ouachita Baptist University.
Published by H-War (May, 2004)

The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published four new titles:

Thomas Sokoll, ed. Essex Pauper Letters, 1731-1837. Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, vol. 30. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix + 727 pp. Notes, indexes. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-726242-2.

Reviewed by Steve King, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
Published by H-Albion (April, 2004)

Fink Shrink

Stephen H. Norwood. Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2705-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5373-9.

Reviewed for H-Business by Paul Moreno, Department of History, HillsdaleCollege
Published by H-Business (May 2004)

Call for Papers
Editors: Keri Cronin and Kirsty Robertson
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario

The Costume Society of America, Region I (New England and Canadian Maritime Provinces) announces a call for papers for the symposium "At Work: An Exploration of Occupational Clothing", to be held on Saturday,October 16, 2004 at Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund it is now possible to search The National Archives Catalogue for subjects about the working conditions of men and women in the UK between 1892 and 1933. Subjects covered in the records include: working hours, industrial disputes, train strikes, equal rights for women workers, employment during and after World War I, juvenile labour and safety at work.