Published by EH.NET (August 2005)
Timothy J. Minchin, Fighting against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor since World War II. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. xiv + 232 pp. $59.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8130-2790-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
From: Ronald Creagh
Umberto Marzocchi's Remembering Spain: Italian Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, Expanded second edition, Translated by Paul Sharkey
The Fondazione Turati (Florence) published two new titles:
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze
New online publications on the website of the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli:
Giuseppe Mazzini, La questione italiana (PDF)
Le opere di Giuseppe Mazzini possedute dalla Fondazione (PDF)
Mark Curthoys. Governments, Labour, and the Law in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Trade Union Legislation of the 1870s. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. viii + 284 pp. Bibliography, index. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-1992-6889-4.
Jose Harris, ed. Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 319 pp. Bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-1992-6020-6.
Fran Lisa Buntman. Robben Island and Prisoner Resistance to Apartheid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 358 pp. Index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-5210-0782-8.
Reviewed by: Noel Solani, Department of Education, Pretoria, South Africa.
Published by: H-SAfrica (June, 2005)
Nick Thomas. Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xv + 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9-8597-3645-9; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 1-8597-3650-5.
Reviewed by: Michael L. Hughes, Department of History, Wake Forest University.
Published by: H-German (June, 2005)
Call for Paper Proposals
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University,October 19-22, 2006
Rethinking Worlds of Labour:
Southern African labour history in international context.
A conference from Friday 28th to Monday 31st July 2006
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Organised by the History Workshop and the Sociology of Work Unit, at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Call for papers
ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History
Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria
Labour Biographies and Prosopography
September 15 to 18, 2005
AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof
Römerstr. 98a, A-4020 Linz
41st Linz Conference, organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz, the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
