IISH News Service July 1, 2008
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New items on the IISH website in June 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/globlab-toronto.php[/url]
Summer Institute 'Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods' at the University of Toronto, co-sponsored by the IISH.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/friends/meeting.php[/url]
Meeting of the Friends of the IISH on 3 July 2008.
Falling Behind or Catching Up? - The East German Economy in the 20th Century
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff, GHI Washington Dr. Uta Andrea Balbier, GHI Washington, Washington, DC 24.09.2009-26.09.2009, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Deadline: 15.08.2008
Falling Behind or Catching Up? - The East German Economy in the 20th Century
Ingezonden
Transnational social policies reformist networks and the International Labour Organization 1900-1980
Prof. Sandrine Kott (Université Genève), Dr Isabelle Moret Lespinet (Université ParisX, IDHE)
15.05.2009-16.05.2009, Genf
Deadline: 30.09.2008
As the International Labour Organization (ILO) celebrates its 90th anniversary, the objective of this conference is to reflect upon the activities of the ILO and those of other international actors who have undertaken to organize and promote global social regulation.
Das Institut für soziale Bewegungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum plant, vom 2.-4. April 2009 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung zum Thema "Theoretische Ansätze und Konzepte der Sozialen Bewegungs-Forschung in den Geschichtswissenschaften" auszurichten. Übergeordnetes Ziel der Tagung ist es, Stand und Perspektiven der historischen Bewegungsforschung mit Blick auf theoretische und konzeptionelle Perspektiven zu diskutieren.
Peace HistoriansAnn: founding a European NetworkEuropean Network of Peace Historians
Aims
Müller, Reinhard: Marienthal. Das Dorf - Die Arbeitslosen - Die Studie. Innsbruck u.a.: StudienVerlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-7065-4347-7; Hardcover; 423 S.; EUR 39,90.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Jan Surman, Universität Wien
E-Mail: [mailto]jan.surman@univie.ac.at[/mailto]
The University of Illinois Press has just released Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture by Lawrence Richards. The book is part of the series "The Working Class in American History," edited by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nelson Lichtenstein, David Montgomery, and James Barrett.
The following description is from the University of Illinois website:
Labour HistoryA Journal of Labour and Social HistoryNumber 94 * May 2008
Editorial
President's Column
Tribute to Eric Fry and Bob GollanEdited by Peter Love
Obituaries:
Eric Fry (1921-2007)
Peter Love
Robin Gollan (1917-2007)Stuart Macinytre
Tributes:
With Thanks, Always: For Eric Fry and Bob Gollan Susan Magarey
R.A. Gollan, E.C. Fry and the Canberra years of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History John Merritt
The Abolition of the Slave Trade: Long-term Consequences
A conference at the IISH from 30 June until 2 July 2008.
The colloquium focuses on the long-term consequences of the British abolition of the Atlantic slave trade (1807-8):
