Sixth European Social Science History Conference
RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-25 March 2006

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

The Samuel Gompers Papers project invites you to visit our new and improved website at www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm.

In the true Gompers' fashion of "more, more, more" it offers more documents, more information, and more opportunities for students and teachers to use primary documents in the classroom.

Highlights include

Ursula Langkau-Alex
Deutsche Volksfront 1932-1939: Zwischen Berlin, Paris, Prag und Moskau

Erster Band: Vorgeschichte und Gründung des Ausschusses zur Vorbereitung einer deutschen Volksfront
2004. XIX, 358 S. - 150 x 240 mm, Gb, €39,80, ISBN 3-05-004031-9

'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.

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.

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).

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

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

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

The IWW 100 Years
Call for Papers, Workshops, and Presentations
A Conference for Labour Activists, Organizers, Students, Educators and Scholars
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre - Vancouver, BC
June 10-12, 2005

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago in June 1905. Now 100 years later, the 2005 PNLHA conference will consider the Wobblies enduring contribution to the labour and social justice movements and their current influence.