The University of Illinois Press has just released Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture by Lawrence Richards. The book is part of the series "The Working Class in American History," edited by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nelson Lichtenstein, David Montgomery, and James Barrett.
The following description is from the University of Illinois website:
Labour HistoryA Journal of Labour and Social HistoryNumber 94 * May 2008
Editorial
President's Column
Tribute to Eric Fry and Bob GollanEdited by Peter Love
Obituaries:
Eric Fry (1921-2007)
Peter Love
Robin Gollan (1917-2007)Stuart Macinytre
Tributes:
With Thanks, Always: For Eric Fry and Bob Gollan Susan Magarey
R.A. Gollan, E.C. Fry and the Canberra years of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History John Merritt
The Abolition of the Slave Trade: Long-term Consequences
A conference at the IISH from 30 June until 2 July 2008.
The colloquium focuses on the long-term consequences of the British abolition of the Atlantic slave trade (1807-8):
Working Class Studies Association Conference Pittsburgh, Pa. June 3-6,2009
The Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) is pleased to announce that its biennial conference will be held at the Universityof Pittsburgh, June 3-6, 2009.
Proposals are invited for presentations, panels, workshops, and performances, according to the guidelines below. Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009.
The Working Class Studies Association
Call for Papers: Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe (1-3 April 2009)
Intermediaries in Labour Relations From Pre-industrial Societies to the XXth Century
Call for Papers
Business History Center/Groupe d'histoire des entreprises Free University of Brussels/Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 04.12.2008-05.12.2008, Institute for the Study of Europe/Institut d'etudes europeennes
Deadline: 01.09.2008
Work and Makeshifts: Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-29th, 2008)
Deadline for abstracts July 3, 2008
This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project "The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)." Historians dealing with similar issues, regardless of period or place, as well as researchers in other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.) are expressly invited to collaborate in the workshops.
Call for papers
Thematic Issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR)
New Perspectives on Soviet Mass Violence
International conference "Historical experience of socialist resistance against authoritarianism", taking place in Moscow, Russia, on 12-13 July 2008.
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Praxis Research and Educational Center
Global South: Sephis e-magazineA new issue of Global South was posted. Sephis e-Magazine is a platform for scholars and students based in in countries of the "south" to engage in conversations about development and history.
