The Ambiguities of Work: Controlling Knowledge, Controlling Outcomes
A conference at the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, Nov. 7-8, 2003

From Adam Smith and Karl Marx through Harry Braverman and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., issues of knowledge and control over economic activity have been central to the fields of labor and business history. The famous aphorism attributed to Big Bill Haywood, "The boss's brains are under the workman's cap" captures these tensions, as do recent social science explorations of embedded and tacit knowledge.

The Newberry Library Labor History Seminar co-sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago and Urbana.

"How the Suburbs Saved the City: A Reconsideration of Working-Class Housing in the Metropolitan Region"
Joseph Bigott
Purdue University Calumet
December 6, 2002, 3:00-5:00 pm

Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. ix + 306 pp. Notes index. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00732-8.

Reviewed by Melissa Walker, Department of History and Politics, Converse College. Published by H-Women (August, 2002)

Interlocking Systems of Control

Pem Davidson Buck. Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. Viii + 279 pp. Notes index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-58367-047-5.

Reviewed by Penny Messinger, St. Bonaventure University. Published by H-Appalachia (August, 2002)

Whiteness Study Plumbs Kentucky

The Allan K. Wildman Group for the Study of Russian Workers and Society is pleased to announce the appearance of the article collection, New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918 (paperback, 248 pp., $25.99, ISBN: 0-89357-303-5). The volume, edited by Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate, is published by Slavica Publishers (www.slavica.com) and includes the following contributions by American and Russian scolars:

Donna J. Rilling. Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. Series on Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xii + 261 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3580-0.

Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Joshua R. Greenberg, Department of History, American University, June 2002

House as a Life

UK Political Studies Association
Labour Movements Group Conference
University of Salford
Friday 4 July 2003
EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Centre for Contemporary History and Politics
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT

Conference Organiser: Professor Steven Fielding

Call for Papers

Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
University of Toronto Press 2002.
0802036112 Cloth $70.00
0802084621 Paper $29.95

Below are two advertisements that will be appearing in the Guardian on October 29 and the following week. They are the first big swathe of appointments in our new Working Lives Research Institute. The first ad is for 5 new posts. I should be grateful if you would publicize these as widely as possible through the movement and via your email lists.

Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
May 2-5, 2003
www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/cfp.htm

Call for Papers, Presentations, Panels and Participation

Labour Culture – Union Culture – and the Culture of Resistance