Conference Announcement

Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
October 4-5, 2002

Friday, October 4, 2002

This is to let H-Laborites know about my redesigned and greatly expanded Department of Labor history website that "rolled out" on May 6, 2002. "History@DOL" (for short) incorporates virtually everything from my previous history page and adds a lot of new material. The most important features of the site are research on DOL agencies and issues, and selected notable DOL documents. Included are a number of the published articles, conference papers, and unpublished monographs which my office has produced over the years.

Timothy J. Minchin. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xi + 277 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-8078-2618-9; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4933-2.

Reviewed for H-South by Evan P. Bennett, Lyon G Tyler Department of History, The College of William and Mary.

The Construction Industry before the Industrial Revolution (13th to 18th Centuries)
XXXVI Study Week
Prato, 26-30 April 2004

Call for Papers

Jose R. Deustua. The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru. Monographs in International Studies, Latin American Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xvi + 290 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, tables, and index. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 0-89680-209-4.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alfonso W. Quiroz, Department of History, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. March 2002.

Labor Arts (laborarts.org) invites you to our latest exhibit: "May Day Posters and Parades," a sampling of images from May Day celebrations, many of them from Union Square in New York City.

We invite comments--there are many images for which there is little information. We also invite H-Labor-Arts members to post information about May Day images on other websites, or to suggest possible sources for additions to the Labor Arts exhibit.

Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x + 262 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-252-02527-X; $16.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-252-06840-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. April 2002.

Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Political Studies Association - Labour Movements Group
Annual Conference Programme
Clifton Hill House, Bristol
4-5 July 2002

Thursday

The London Socialist Historians Group is pleased to announce the establishment of the Socialist Historians Message Board, atwww.londonsocialisthistorians.org/messageboard.

Sources of Radicalism - a major conference on the history of radical political, industrial, social and cultural movements - will take place in Manchester on 11th May.

There will be a wide range of topics discussed including Anti-fascism, the Irish in Britain, Women Trade Union League, the 1945 Pan African Congress in Manchester, the General Strike of 1926, 1970s radical press, contemporary trade unionism, politics and the internet, punk and disco music and Palestine.