New Historical Materialism Book Series

Editorial board: Sebastian Budgen, Paul Blackledge, Vivek Chibber, Stathis Kouvelakis, Marcel van der Linden, China Mieville, Tony Smith.

Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002. viii + 361 pp. $39.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8139-2115-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. December 2002.

The December 2002 issue of the National Library of Australia News features an article by Dr Stephen Holt on the Australian Labor Party politician William Slater (1890-1960). The article focuses on Slater's political career during World War One and his experience as Australia's first diplomatic representative to the USSR during the Second World War.

It may be consulted at

www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2002/dec02/article4.html

The latest (2001/2) annual report for the Modern Records Centre is now available on the web at

www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/2001-02.shtml

As well as giving news of the Centre, particularly the large amount of information about its holdings now available electronically, the report includes a full list of additions to the holdings made in 2001/2.

We hope that you will find this useful.

History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present, and Future
Spring Conference: Saturday May 3rd, 2003

Call for Papers

From democratizing forces to new forms of legitimate representation, social movements have been attributed multiple, disparate, and frequently conflicting roles in the changes occurring in social, cultural, political, and economic systems. The increasing complexity of these roles challenges the limits implied by theoretical premises raising such questions as:

LAWCHA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS 2003

1 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) Graduate Research Paper Award

The Labor and Working Class History Association is delighted to announce its third annual graduate research paper award competition. The award's purpose is to stimulate research in working class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the field. The award includes a check for $500, a certificate, inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, October 2003.

The Labour Movement and Fascism
Conference: 8 November 2003, School of Continuing Education, University of Leeds

Call for Papers

Plenary Speakers: Roger Griffin, Ken Lunn

A History of the Left in New Zealand

On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor, Paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 1 877276 19 7, $39.95. Illustrated with historical photographs.

Curtis J. Evans. The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001. 337 pp. Illustrations, chart, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8071-2695-0.

Reviewed for H-South by Randall M. Miller, Department of History, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia. October 2002.

A Yankee Deep in the Heart of Dixie

Socialism and Sexuality Seminar (2003)
Center for Millennial Studies--Boston University

Postponed from an earlier date, the fourth annual Socialism and Sexuality seminar will be hosted by the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, on Friday, April 25, 2003.