Class Matters

Working Class Studies Association Conference Pittsburgh, Pa. June 3-6,2009

The Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) is pleased to announce that its biennial conference will be held at the Universityof Pittsburgh, June 3-6, 2009.

Proposals are invited for presentations, panels, workshops, and performances, according to the guidelines below. Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009.

The Working Class Studies Association

Work and Makeshifts

Work and Makeshifts: Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-29th, 2008)

Deadline for abstracts July 3, 2008

This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project "The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)." Historians dealing with similar issues, regardless of period or place, as well as researchers in other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.) are expressly invited to collaborate in the workshops.

Beer and Revolution

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Beth English, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Published by [mailto]H-SHGAPE@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (May, 2008)