Fondazione Filippo Turati

Book Presentation:

"IL CENTRO-SINISTRA E LA RIFORMA DELLA SCUOLA MEDIA"
Firenze, 3 dicembre 2004, ore 9.30
Casa Lapi - ex Palazzo Coppi
via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 13

In occasione della presentazione del volume Il centro-sinistra e la riforma della scuola media (1962) di Massimo BALDACCI, Franco CAMBI, Carlo G. LACAITA, Maurizio DEGL'INNOCENTI, Casa editrice Lacaita 2004, Collana "Strumenti e Fonti".

Women in Ports

'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies

A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005.

Keynote speakers: Dr Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Dr Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.

The Profintern

A new book on the Profintern, just published in Germany and therefore, unfortunately for many readers, in German. Nevertheless, the bibliographical data are as follows:

Reiner Tosstorff, Profintern. Die Rote Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920-1937, Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2004, 791 pp, ISBN 3-506-71793-6.

Telegraph Messenger Boys

Gregory J. Downey, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002. xiii + 242 pp. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-415-93108-8; $25.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-415-93109-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Tomas Nonnenmacher, Department of Economics, Allegheny College. Published by EH.NET (November 2004).

Coal-Mining and Heritage

University of Leeds Centre for Heritage Research in collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum of England and YorkshireMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council

SEMINAR: COAL-MINING AND HERITAGE - TWENTY YEARS ON

Friday 26 November 2004
2.30 - 6.00pm
Venue: National Coal-mining Museum
New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH

Manliness and Respectability

The Program in Early American Economy and Society Jointly with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies invites you to its 2004-2005 seminar series:

Brian Luskey, PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow
Manliness and Respectability: White-Collar Workers in Antebellum America

Friday, November 19, 2004, 3 to 5 p.m.
Followed by a reception

Location:
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA

Labour in Protest

The 31st Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference will meet together with the Labor and Working Class History Association at the University of California at Santa Barbara on May 5,6 and 7, 2005. This joint conference aims to bring together unions, universities and social justice groups around the general theme:

Labor in Protest: The Legacy of the 1960s for the U.S. Labor Movement