Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xviii + 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-8753-1.
Reviewed by Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada.
Published by H-Canada (June, 2004)
Donald J Raleigh, Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov 1917-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 464 pp. 17 tables, 29 halftones, 2 maps. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-11320-3; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-03533-8.
Reviewed for H-Russia by Francis King, School of History, University of East Anglia, UK
H-Net Book Review published by H-Russia © h-net.msu.edu (August 2004)
A welcome addition to the literature
Utopian Visions and World's Fairs
A Symposium at the Hagley Museum and Library
Call for Papers
Get set to work real hard at chilling out, relaxing and partying with your friends and family, for Labor Day is here! Share all the fun and excitement with your sweetheart/ pals/ loved ones with our cute and cool ecards from
Catherine Johanson
Carol S. Wharton. Framing A Domain for Work and Family. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. 174 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7391-0367-9.
Reviewed for H-Business by Denise R. Johnson, Department of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Published by H-Business (July 2004).
Applications are invited for the E.P. Thompson bursary 2004.
The Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary was established by the Society for the Study of Labour History in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, up to the value of £200 per annum, to support research in the MRC archive. Eligible applicants are postgraduate research students on a PhD topic in labour history.
The following books were recently reviewed -- in German -- for the H-Soz-und-Kult discussion network:
Hannes Leidinger und Verena Moritz. Gefangenschaft, Revolution, Heimkehr. Die Bedeutung der Kriegsgefangenenproblematik für die Geschichte des Kommunismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1917-1920. Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2003. 754 S. EUR 85.00 (gebunden), ISBN 3-205-77068-4.
Reviewed by Rainer Pöppinghege.
IALHI's Annual Conference will take place in Paris, Nanterre, and Roubaix from 8-11 September 2004. Organization is in the hands of the Collectif des Centres de Documentation en Histoire ouvrière et sociale (CODHOS) in cooperation with the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) and the Centre d'Histoire sociale du XXe siècle (CHS).
The program is now available on the conference page of this web site.
Conference on Radical Economics in the 20th Century: Radical Economics and the Labor Movement
Call for Papers
Date: 15 - 17 September 2005
Place: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology adjacent to University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, in co-operation with the Business and Labour History Group at the University of Sydney, will be holding its biennial national conference at the University of Sydney on 30 June, 1 July and 2 July 2005. The conference will proceed the 20th International Congress for the Historical Sciences in Sydney.
The general theme is `The Past is Before Us' and international contributions will be welcome. It is a great opportunity to meetAustralian colleagues and find out the latest trends in Australian labour history.
