The conference "Ambiguities of Work: Knowledge, Power, and Culture" will take place Friday, November 7, 2003, at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Co-sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, the conference explores the intersections, struggles, and interrelationships over knowledge, work and the workplace.

The University of Illinois Press proudly announces the publication of two new titles in the series The Working Class in American History:

Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbie

On December 12, 2003, Amsab-Institute for Social History organizes a conference on Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), one of the most influential thinkers of 20th-century socialism. For more information (in Dutch) see www.amsab.be/hd/deman.htm.

John A. Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii + 295 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8262-1395-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Clete Daniel, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).

Hugh D. Hindman, Child Labor: An American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xi + 431 pp. $83.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7656-0935-5; $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7656-0936-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Carolyn Tuttle, Department of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).

Stephen J. Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 320 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-09287-7.

Reviewed for H-California by Robert I. Cruickshank, Department of History, University of Washington
Published by H-California (June 2003).

Stefan Berger. Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany. Themes in Modern German History. London and New York: Longman, 2000. xiii + 280 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, maps, index. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-29814-8.

Reviewed by William Patch, Department of History, Grinnell College.
Published by H-German (July, 2003).

Bridget Hill. Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii + 220 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08820-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Belinda Peters, Irvine, California. Published by H-Albion (June 2003).

Surviving Without a Husband

Images from the TUC Library Collection at London Metropolitan University have been added to IALHI's web museum.

Andrew M. Drozd. Chernyshevskii's What Is to Be Done?: A Reevaluation. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2001. ix + 332 pp. Preface, chronology, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8101-1739-8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Roger E. Chapman, Department of Social Sciences, Lincoln Trail College. Published by H-Russia (July 2003).