The next Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop is scheduled for December 11th at the Eckley Miners' Village. Two papers will be distributed in advance to the workshop participants and we will spend about an hour discussing each paper. Afterward the workshop participants will have an opportunity to take part in a guided tour of the historic Eckley Miners' Village and have lunch together if they choose. A second workshop will be held in April 2011, specific date and location to be announced later.

The Samuel Gompers Papers Project invites you to visit our newest website: A Short History of Labor Day, [url]http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/Labor%20Day.htm[/url]

We offer documents, graphics, and basic information about Labor Day and May Day parades and celebrations that (we hope) are suitable for classroom use.

In honor of the holiday, why not take a look?

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is located in Amsterdam. Founded in 1935, it is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general and the history of the labour movement in particular. IISH holds over 3,000 archival collections, some one million printed volumes and about as many audio-visual items.

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A new booklet, Symbolism in trade union emblems from the collection of the Working Class Movement Library, has been produced. The fruits of many months' labour by volunteer Hazel Bowden, the illustrated booklet investigates the roots of the wide-ranging and complex imagery of the many 19th century trade union membership certificates which line the Library's walls. Copies are available from the Library and cost £2.50 plus 50p p&p.. More information: [mailto]enquiries@wcml.org.uk[/mailto].

Dear Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre,

The Ninth Annual Archives Lecture of the ANU Archives Program and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre is coming up next month. Dr Peter Stanley, head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia will speak on the topic:

Smiths in Stasiland: Archival Reminders of an Uncomfortable Australian Past
Tuesday 14 September 2010, 5.30-7pm
McDonald Room, Menzies Building, Fellows Road, ANU

A global approach to feminist labour history adds new contents and insights. Our intention with this overview of available sources at the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) is to inspire researchers, both academics and those actively interested in researching their own history, to look beyond national borders.

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Mittelweg 36, Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 19 (2010), 4

Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser,

in der am 15. August erscheinenden Ausgabe des Mittelweg 36 (4/2010) mit dem Schwerpunkt "Zur Kommunikation des Beschweigens" liest Júlia Garraio in Reinhard Jirgls "Die Unvollendeten" und Hans-Ulrich Treichels "Der Verlorene" Vergewaltigung als Schlüsselbegriff einer misslungenen Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Dem Beitrag schließen sich einige Anmerkungen zur Wirkungsmacht des Beschweigens an.

Craig Phelan and Gerald Friedman, the editors of Labor History, and Routledge would like to congratulate the winners of the Labor History prizes for 2009:

Best articles

Best article, US topic
Timothy J. Minchin, 'It Knocked This City To Its Knees': The Closure of Pillowtex Mills in Kannapolis, North Carolina and the Decline of the U.S.
Textile Industry
Labor History 50:3

North American Anarchist Studies NetworkCFP: 2nd Annual Conference, Toronto Jan 2011
2nd Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference

Toronto, Canada
January 15-16, 2011
Deadline for Proposals: November 1, 2010