Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii + 200 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-50507-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Department of Economics, University of Kansas.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.
Earlier this year, the Tamiment Institute (New York) published Kathleen Barry's guide on Sources in US Women's Labor History. Now an illustrated version has been posted. This includes illustrations from the collections of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, including the stunning 1930 cover of Mary Heaton Vorse's novel Strike!.
Posted: 18 July 2000
Philippe Aghion and Jeffrey C. Williamson, Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii + 207, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65070-4; $17.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-65910-8
Reviewed for EH.NET by John R. Hanson, Department of Economics, Texas A and M University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.
The Union of International Associations has decided, in order to stress the importance of the associative phenomenon in what is rapidly becoming a worldwide society, to award a prize of 6,000 euro for a doctoral thesis prepared on a subject concerning the life, operations or work of international non-governmental organisations. The competition is open to students of all nationalities.
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 353 pp., $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65231-6.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Jan Hogendorn, Department of Economics, Colby College.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.
Ben S. Bernanke, Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. vii + 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01698-4.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.
Labor and Working Class History Association Update, July 2000
Since last October, when the first officers of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) began serving their terms, a lot has been accomplished. With an eye both to filling you in and encouraging your thoughts and feedback, we provide information here about LAWCHA's main activities in the recent past and future.
Mark M. Smith, Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the AntebellumAmerican South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 117 pp. $39.95 (hardback), 0-521-57158-8; $11.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-57158-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by James R. Irwin, Department of Economics, Central Michigan University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.
At the latest update (July 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,641.
Workshop at the International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, 6 October 2000
Second session in a series of workshops on Socialism and Sexuality.
For the preliminary program and abstracts of (part of) the papers see:
www.iisg.nl/~womhist/freelove.html
For registration, please send an e-mail message to Jenneke Quast:
The registration fee (NLG 25) covers lunch, coffee and drinks at the IISH. Payment of the registration fee at the IISH on Friday morning.
