Papers are invited for the 2004 Southern Labor Studies Conference. It will be held in Birmingham, Alabama April 22-24, 2004. The theme of the conference is, "Moving Workers: Migration and the South." Professor Joseph Trotter will be the keynote speaker. There will also be two plenary sessions, one examining contemporary migration into the South and a second plenary will address the historical and interpretive dimensions to migration.
The conference web-site is: www.slsc2004.org.
Raymond Chien Sun. Before the Enemy Is within Our Walls: Catholic Workers in Cologne, 1885-1912, A Social, Cultural and Political History. Studies in Central European Histories Series. Boston: Humanities Press, 1999. xii + 339 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, appendices, index. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-391-04096-0.
Reviewed by Marc Engels, Department of Social and Economic History, University of Aachen.
Published by H-German (April, 2003)
Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo. Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 188 pp. Bibliography. $32.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-66039-7.
Reviewed by Susan B. Carter, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside.
Published by EH.Net (July, 2002)
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ANNOUNCING H-Migration: H-Net Network on the Global History of Migration
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University and by the International Institute for Social History Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
ABOUT H-Migration
We hereby wish to inform you about the forthcoming International Congress "Consuming against Capitalism? Co-operatives seen from an InternationalComparative Perspective", Ghent, 16-17 October 2003. For more details, please go to www.amsab.be/co/coop.htm.
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Janet R. Horne. A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2782-1; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2792-9.
Reviewed by Robert Beck, Université de Tours, France.
Published by H-Mediterranean (April, 2003).
International Conference:
Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted
to be held at
Faculty of Economics, Business and Law
The University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
1-3 December, 2003
First Circular and Call for Papers
Invitation
The Conference conveners cordially invite you to participate in an international conference Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted, to be held at The University of New England from 1-3 December, 2003.
Conference Theme
Call for Papers
The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also welcome.
