A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000

Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80780-8; $20 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00287-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren C. Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles, HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp. $79.50 (cloth), ISBN: 90-5867-196-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Hamish James, Collections Manager, History Data Service, University of Essex.

The Right to Organize: Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Labor Movement
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2003

Call for Papers

"The Freeborn Englishman" Forty Years On
E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class revisited

Call for Papers

2003 marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of one of the classics of socialist history, Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.

Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Historical and Current Perspectives
Southwest Labor Studies Association Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored by Labor Center for Education and Research, UCB
May 8-10, 2003
International House
University of California, Berkeley

Conference Call For Papers, Exhibits and Performances

Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive (of California State University, Long Beach)
www.csulb.edu/voaha

The Sovietization of the Baltic States 1940-56
International Workshop
9-11 May 2003
Haapsalu, Estoniap

Call for Papers

After the occupation and annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 there started a long lasting process of sovietization until the regaining of independence in 1991. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars from the Baltic States, the West and Russia to discuss different aspects of the sovietization. The papers will be published later. Languages of the workshop are English and German.

Five sessions are planned:

Scienza e politica in Amadeo Bordiga (1910-1970)
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 24-25 ottobre

Al Convegno parteciperanno relatori di tutte le nazionalità. L'iniziativa, che riceve i contributi del CNR, è patrocinata dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione storica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, dal Dipartimento di Filosofia Politica dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli e dalla Fondazione Amadeo Bordiga.

The Tamiment Library is holding a reception on October 14, 2002 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the new book The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, just published by the University of California Press. The book, edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald Zelnick, contains essays from participants on both sides of the debate and reflections by historians. Speaking about the book at the Tamiment Library will be editor Robert Cohen along with contributors Margot Adler and Greil Marcus.