For comrades concerned to know the latest on the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) at the Australian National University, the following is a summary of the press release published after a December conference hosted by the Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
In 1999, the Cahiers du Monde russe published a special issue entitled: "Assessing the new Soviet archival sources / Archives et nouvelles sources de l'histoire soviétique, une réévaluation".
Articles include:
Workshop on Working-Class and Labour History
The Canadian Committee on Labour History is organizing a Workshop during the Congress of the Social Science and Humanities in Edmonton.
Date: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, 30 May
Place: Old St. Stephen's College, University of Alberta Campus
Details of the sessions, which will include both academics and community activists, will be announced shortly.
All Welcome...
Masayo Umezawa Duus. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. (Translated by Beth Cory and adapted by Peter Duus.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiii + 375pp. $55 (cloth), 0-520-20484-0: $18.95 (paper), 0-520-20485-9.
Reviewed by Edward D. Beechert, Professor Emeritus of Labor History, University of Hawaii.
Published by EH.Net (February, 2000)
Gerald Friedman. State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States 1876-1914. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv + 317 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-2325-2.
Reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky, Departments of History and Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY.
Published by EH.Net (January, 2000)
The International Institute of Social History announced two updates on its Web server:
Labor History Conference to Focus on Effects of Technology
Authors Aronowitz, Dowd, Shostak, Wellman Featured
The 32nd Annual Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference will focus on the effects of technology on workers and their organizations.
From Artisanship to Information Age: Lessons for Labor's Struggle is the theme of the prestigious annual conference.
The conference will be held at the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington from May 19 — 21, 2000.
International Labor and Working-Class History is planning a special issue to appear in 2002 (Spring) on Sweating. As always, we are interested in article proposals which are single cases or comparative across space or time, historical or contemporary. We seek both papers that address sweating in different countries and periods and those which consider broader questions about changes in the meaning and impact of sweating and what kinds of action may be taken about sweating inside and outside the United States.
Please send a detailed proposal and short vita to
The Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan) announced the publication of three volumes related to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union:
Jeffrey Burds. Peasant Dreams and Market Politics: LaborMigration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xiv + 314 pp. Tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $ 50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4049-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5655-1.
