The New York State Labor History Association is proud to announce that the 2008 Barbara Wertheimer Prize has been awarded to Genna Braverman for her essay Historical Struggles: The Evolution of Gender, Race, and Organizing at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Using oral interviews and the relevant secondary sources, Ms. Braverman has written a theoretically sophisticated essay that traces the as yet largely unfulfilled efforts (except for food service) to organize the hospital.

From: Greg Patmore [mailto]g.patmore@econ.usyd.edu.au[/mailto]

Please find below the list of contents for the current issue of Labour History [...]. Of particular interest is a special thematic in the issue that relates to Trans-Tasman Labour History, which brings together a number of perspectives on Australian and New Zealand Labour History. If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy please contact Margaret Walters at [mailto]m.walters@econ.usyd.edu.au[/mailto]

Totalitarian Laughter: Cultures of the Comic under Socialism
Call for papers

May 8-9, 2009

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Princeton University
[url]http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/[/url]

Intermediaries in labour relations from pre-industrial societies to the XXth century - Brussels 12/08
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The FWO Research Network "Labour 1500-2000"; The National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS); The ULB Business History Group; The ULB Institute for the Study of Europe, Brussels 05.12.2008, ULB Institute for the Study of Europe / Institut d'etudes europeennes - 39-41, av. Roosevelt

Hello all (and apologies for cross-posting),

Declared "Indispensable" by the Guardian, Peter Marshall's massive anthology - 818 pages! - is now reedited by Harper Perennial.

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, 2008. 818 p. Index. Cov. ill. ISBN 978-0-00-686245-1.

The author has added a 40 pages epilogue which presents some of the more recent trends, particularly in the U.S.A.

New Collection Available at the George Meany Memorial Archives

Call for Papers and Participation

Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa

23-25th of September 2009
Wilberforce Institute, Hull, UK

Conference Call

Race, Labor, and the City: Crises Old and New Thursday, May 28 - Saturday, May 31, 2009 Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Sponsored by the Labor and Working-Class History Association And the Fund for Labor Culture and History (Laborlore Conversations VI)

CFP: Gemeinsame Tagung der International Walter Benjamin Association und der Internationalen Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft - Antwerpen 12/08
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International Walter Benjamin Association und Internationale Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft 31.12.2008-31.12.2008, Antwerpen
Deadline: 31.12.2008