Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History

New York University's Tamiment Institute and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is launching a seminar in labor and social history that will begin in March of 2003. The seminar will take place at the Tamiment Institute which is on the 10th floor of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. We will meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM during the academic year.

Howard W. Dick, Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2002. xxvii + 541 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 0-89680-221-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Heather Sutherland, Free University of Amsterdam.

Labour Heritage
Not Just Electoral Politics: Culture and London Labour

Conference
Saturday 23 November 2002, 10am - 4pm
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Rd, London, EC1R OHB
(nr. Farringdon Rd BR & Underground Station)

Following the very successful Conference in January at the LMA, this 2nd London Conference on aspects of the history of the London Labour Party and labour movement history will focus on:

The Labour Party in North-West England
Saturday March 1st 2003 10.30AM
The Education Room, People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester

Speakers:

Seminar announcements for Sources of Radicalism

The programme is as follows:

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Nigel Fountain: Women in the First and Second World Wars: An Oral History based on the Imperial War Museum Archive

Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Tariq Ali: History is Fiction – Fiction is History (Reading from novels on Islam)

The above seminars will take place at the Britons Protection Pub, 50, Gt. Bridgwater Street, Manchester 1

We're pleased to announce an International Symposium on Proletarian Literature in East Asia to be held November 1-2, 2002, at the University of Chicago.

A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000

Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80780-8; $20 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00287-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren C. Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles, HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp. $79.50 (cloth), ISBN: 90-5867-196-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Hamish James, Collections Manager, History Data Service, University of Essex.

The Right to Organize: Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Labor Movement
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2003

Call for Papers