Announcement: 2005 Kenny Prize Lecture, Thursday, May 5, 4pm
This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Ann Porter for her book Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945, published by University of Toronto Press.
Co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and the Labor and Working Class History Association
Call for Papers for the 2005-06 academic year
Deadline for Submission: 1 June 2005
The next meeting of the Tamiment Seminar will be on April 13 (6:30 -8:30 PM). David Montgomery (Yale University) will be presenting a paper "Workers Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920) to Bandung (1955). Herrick Chapman (NYU) will comment.
The Tamiment Seminar is co-sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association
The Tamiment Library is located on 70 Washington Square South, 10th floor
To get a copy of David Montgomery's paper and rsvp for the seminar please contact , 212-998-2428
Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai
Radical History Review invites submissions of abstracts for a forthcoming thematic issue exploring the subject of religion and its historical relations to politics, culture and society. We especially encourage proposals for articles with interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives.
One Big Union: the Dream, the Reality, the History
The IWW and a Century of Radical Labor Activism, 1905-2005
A Conference and a Celebration
Saturday, May 7, 2005
Paul Robeson Campus Center
Rutgers University, Newark Campus
350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, New Jersey
The Modern Record Centre's latest Information Bulletin, no. 77 (February 2005) has just been published. It is available in pdf format at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/pubs/ib/ib77.pdf
Best wishes
CW
Mrs Christine Woodland
Archivist, Modern Records Centre
University Library
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Villia Jefremovas, Brickyards to Graveyards: From Production to Genocide in Rwanda. SUNY Series in the Anthropology of Work. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xi + 162 pp. Maps, schemata, figures, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $59.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-7914-5487-8; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7914-5488-6
Reviewed by: Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.Published by: H-Genocide (January, 2005)
Andrew E. Barshay, The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Tradition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.xiv + 331 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-23645-9.
Reviewed by: Brian J. McVeigh, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona. Published by: H-US-Japan (December, 2004)
International Conference
Archives of the Present: from Traditional to Digital Documents
Sources for a History of Contemporary Social Movements
Milan, 2-3 December 2004
Entrance to the conference sessions is free.
Download the program of the conference at http://www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/donwload/invitofeltrinelli.pdf.
