Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
University of Toronto Press 2002.
0802036112 Cloth $70.00
0802084621 Paper $29.95

Below are two advertisements that will be appearing in the Guardian on October 29 and the following week. They are the first big swathe of appointments in our new Working Lives Research Institute. The first ad is for 5 new posts. I should be grateful if you would publicize these as widely as possible through the movement and via your email lists.

Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
May 2-5, 2003
www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/cfp.htm

Call for Papers, Presentations, Panels and Participation

Labour Culture – Union Culture – and the Culture of Resistance

Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History

New York University's Tamiment Institute and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is launching a seminar in labor and social history that will begin in March of 2003. The seminar will take place at the Tamiment Institute which is on the 10th floor of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. We will meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM during the academic year.

Howard W. Dick, Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2002. xxvii + 541 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 0-89680-221-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Heather Sutherland, Free University of Amsterdam.

Labour Heritage
Not Just Electoral Politics: Culture and London Labour

Conference
Saturday 23 November 2002, 10am - 4pm
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Rd, London, EC1R OHB
(nr. Farringdon Rd BR & Underground Station)

Following the very successful Conference in January at the LMA, this 2nd London Conference on aspects of the history of the London Labour Party and labour movement history will focus on:

The Labour Party in North-West England
Saturday March 1st 2003 10.30AM
The Education Room, People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester

Speakers:

Seminar announcements for Sources of Radicalism

The programme is as follows:

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Nigel Fountain: Women in the First and Second World Wars: An Oral History based on the Imperial War Museum Archive

Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Tariq Ali: History is Fiction – Fiction is History (Reading from novels on Islam)

The above seminars will take place at the Britons Protection Pub, 50, Gt. Bridgwater Street, Manchester 1

We're pleased to announce an International Symposium on Proletarian Literature in East Asia to be held November 1-2, 2002, at the University of Chicago.

A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000