Historical Occupations

HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Andrew Miles

HISCO addresses a long-standing problem faced by researchers using occupational information from historical sources in different countries: how to make effective comparisons between nations and across regional boundaries.

Youth in Revolutionary Russia

Anne Gorsuch is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia. A review of her book for H-Russia was reprinted in IALHI's News Service. We therefore also publish her reply to the list:

Dear Editor:

I am writing in reference to a recent review by Sandra Pujals of my book Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

H-Labor-Arts

ANNOUNCING H-LABOR-ARTS: H-Net Network on the Cultural and Artistic Heritages of Working People
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University

ABOUT H-LABOR-ARTS

Women and Work Culture

We are organising a conference in the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University on the theme of 'Women and Work Culture 1850-1950', to take place 2-3 November 2002.

Confirmed speakers: Gisela Bock, Mary Eagleton, Judy Giles, Philippa Levine, Jim McMillan, Rosemary O’Day, Pat Thane, Deborah Thom, Daniel Walkowitz, Maggie Walsh.

American Labour Markets

David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xxii + 297 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8476-9728-2; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8476-9729-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University. January 2002

Labour and Literature

Vient de paraître aux éditions de l'Atelier: Le roman social - Histoire, littérature et mouvement ouvrier (sous la direction de Sophie Béroud et Tania Régin)

Cet ouvrage analyse les rapports multiples qui se sont noués entre le monde des lettres et le mouvement ouvrier sur plus d'un siècle.