The Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs is pleased to announce the launch of its new Web site at [url]http://www.reuther.wayne.edu[/url].

Das Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung möchte Ihnen heute die neuesten Archiv-Nachrichten, den elektronischen Newsletter des AdsD, präsentieren.

Den Link zu unserer neuesten Ausgabe finden Sie hier:

[url]http://www.fes.de/archiv/adsd_neu/inhalt/news.htm[/url]

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Notez la date!

L'atelier annuel du Comité canadien sur l'histoire du travail aura lieu dans la journée le dimanche 24 mai 2009, tout juste avant l'assemblée annuelle de la Société historique du Canada à Ottawa. L'événement de cette année se déroulera au Centre du patrimoine ouvrier d'Ottawa situé au 306, avenue Cyr, à Ottawa. Des renseignements concernant l'inscription et un programme détaillé suivront sous peu. Tout le monde est bienvenu!

Save the Date!

Dear Friends,

From: Fishman N. [mailto]N.Fishman@swansea.ac.uk[/mailto]
Ann: Togliatti,Thorez and Pollitt. Western European Communist leaders in comparative perspective

Socialist History Society meeting, Saturday 31 January 2009, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1. (nearest tube: Holborn), 2.0-4.30.
Speakers: Donald Sassoon, John Bulaitis and Andrew Thorpe.
Discussants: Stephen Hopkins, Giuseppe Vatalaro.

Call for Papers: The Welfare State in Capitalism Revisited.
Utrecht, 3-7 August 2009.

Dear members of LabNet,

Professors Pauli Kettunen, Klaus Petersen and Chris Lloyd are on behalf of Nordwel organizing a session at the upcoming World Economic History Congress ([url]http://www.wehc2009.org/[/url]) in Utrecht 3-7 August 2009. The session is entitled "The Welfare State in Capitalism Revisited".

For more information, please see the link below:

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada

Colleagues,

I have produced a 28 page pamphlet titled: 'Plebs'. The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education'.

This relates to the centenary of the 'strike' at Ruskin College in Oxford from 26 March to 6th April 1909, and also to the formation of the Plebs League in October 1908 and the opening of the Central Labour College in September 1909.

E' uscito per la collana Strumenti e Fonti il volume:

Filippo Turati e i corrispondenti italiani
Vol.II (1893-1898)

a cura e con introduzione di Maurizio Punzo

con il contributo del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

Piero Lacaita Editore
collana Strumenti e Fonti pp. 326
€. 18,00

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Call for sessions and papers on Labour and Working Class History for the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Ghent ( Belgium), 13-16 April 2010