The Labour History Archive and Study Centre in Manchester have organised a series of talks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Miners’ Strike 1984-85.
The lectures are open to anybody, whether they have a personal, academic, professional or general interest in the strike.
Changes in Class Structure and the New Tendencies: Non-traditional Class Movements and Experiences in Turkey and in the World
Symposium on Class Studies
Center for Class Studies in Turkey (TUSAM)
16-17 October 2004
Istanbul
'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies
Call for Papers
A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005. Keynote speakers Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.
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.
