Lenin's Heirs

Angelo Segrillo. Herdeiros de Lenin: A historia dos partidos comunistas na Russia pos-sovietica. Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras Publishers/Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Research Support, 2003. 148 pp. Index, bibliography, list of sources, list of acronyms. R$25.00 (paper. in Brazilian currency), ISBN 978-85-7577-032-0.

Reviewed by: Carlos Eduardo Rebello de Mendonça, Rio de Janeiro State University.
Published by: H-Russia (December, 2007)
The Resilience of Old-Style Communism

Tourism history of socialist countries

Tourism history of socialist countries
2008 year's panel
Tourism and the environment in socialist countries

The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, to be held in Ottawa, Canada, between the 18th and 21st of September, 2008.

Ruth Frow

A celebration of the life and work of Ruth Frow will take place on Saturday 5 April beginning promptly at 2pm. The venue will be Peel Hall, University of Salford which is situated immediately opposite the library on the university campus. It is easily accessible by public transport.

For details please visit the Working Class Movement Library website at [url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url].

Garibaldi et la France

Garibaldi et la France is a virtual exhibition on the image (or images) of Giuseppe Garibaldi in France (19th-20th century). Created by a group of young researchers of the various Universities of Paris, this website is a rich collection of iconographic materials that allows a study of the construction of Garibaldi’s heroic image and of the public uses of "the Two Worlds’ Hero" in France.

[url]http://www.histoire.ens.fr/garibaldi/[/url]

Southwest Labor Studies Association

Southwest Labor Studies Association
34th Annual Conference May 15-17, 2008
California Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA

Call for papers, workshops, and presentations

Working and Organizing Everyday: Workers, Families, and Communities in Local and Global Struggles

Featuring: Plenary Sessions on The State of Working Families in the Inland Valley and The Struggle for a Continental Living Wage

Labor History

Labor History
Volume 49 Number 2 (February 2008)

Contents

Defining a "Living Wage" in America: Transformations in Union WageTheories, 1870-1930
Tom Stapleford

British Trade Unions, the 1975 Referendum and Its Legacy
Philip B. Whyman

Challenging Cheap-Labour Theory: Nataland TransvaalCoal Miners, c. 1890-1950
Peter Alexander

49The FE PC and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s
Kevin M. Schultz

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