Winning Equal Pay: the value of women's work, a partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress to record the long campaign to achieve equal pay for women. This new learning resource is supported by the European Social Fund EQUAL Programme. The website will be completed in December 2007 and will show filmed interviews with women who fought for and won equal pay, hundreds of digitised images and documents, plus contributions from historians and other experts.

Please circulate this call. Questions about this issue should be addressed to Michael Hanagan at [mailto]mihanagan@vassar.edu[/mailto]

Dear colleagues,

A special issue on labour internationalism for the Belgian journal Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis (Belgian Journal for Philology and History) has recently come out.

The publication contains the following contributions:

CIRA's 50th anniversary

The Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (CIRA) celebrates its 50th anniversary. In the same time, FICEDL (libertarian documentation centres federation) will hold a meeting.

14-16 September 2007

Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme
24 Avenue de Beaumont, 1012 Lausanne, Switzerland, (++41) 21 550 18 04

Programme of Festivities

Friday 14 September at the CIRAWelcoming buffet, accommodations

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam is one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). IISH maintains library, archival and audiovisual collections in the area of social history and provides access to these collections for research and parties interested. The institute is one of the most important scientific heritage institutions within the Netherlands. In the area of social and economic historical research, the IISH is a major international player.

Haymarket Books is proud to announce the paperback edition of the Marxist classic Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory, by Kevin Murphy.

Why did the most unruly proletariat of the Twentieth Century come to tolerate the ascendancy of a political and economic system that, by every conceivable measure, proved antagonistic to working-class interests?

Saludos.

En la web [url]http://www.asturiasrepublicana.com[/url] hemos colocado las novedades abajo detalladas.

Esperamos que continúen siendo de su interés, agradecemos su atención y rogamos disculpe cualquier molestia que le pudiéramos ocasionar.

Atentamente.

The 2008-9 edition of North West Labour History takes as its theme workers' memoirs and recollections. These may be in the form of personal recollections, oral testimony transcripts, unpublished recollections, diaries, poems, songs or image collections including photographs, drawings and cartoons. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2008. If you would like to contribute an article please contact: [mailto]editor@workershistory.org[/mailto]

1968 - A view of the protest movements 40 years after, from a global perspective
1968 - Ein Blick auf die Protestbewegungen 40 Jahre danach aus globaler Perspektive
International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) 11.09.2008-14.09.2008, Linz, Austria
Deadline: 31.10.2007

Call for Papers / Tagungspapier

Call for Papers: "Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond: The Newberry Conference on Labor History Across the Americas"