Dear colleagues,

The Working Class Movement Library will again be celebrating International Women's Day (8th March) on the nearest Saturday. This will be on Saturday 10 March beginning at 2pm. There will be a number of speakers, an exhibition and refreshments. Women and men welcome. The event is free. The final programme will be announced at the end of January.

Mary Zimmerman, Jacquelyn Litt and Christine Bose, eds. Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xi + 400 pp. Notes, references, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-5323-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-5324-5.

Reviewed by: Elizabeth Rose, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University.
Published by: H-Childhood (September, 2006)

Published by EH.NET (December 2006)

Lien Bich Luu, Immigrants and the Industries of London, 1500-1700. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. xiii + 366 pp. $100 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-7546-0330-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics.

The annual Midwest Labor and Working Class History (MLWCH) colloquium will be held April 6-7, 2007, on the campus of the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Graduate students from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Iowa rotate in organizing the colloquium. This event is an annual gathering of scholars in the fields of labor, working class, and social history, and social scientists from the Midwest.

The Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung presents the latest issue of its electronic newsletter at [url]http://www.fes.de/archiv/newsletter/main/nl.set.htm[/url]

Michael Uhl. Mythos Spanien: Das Erbe der Internationalen Brigaden in der DDR. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 2004. 556 pp. Appendix, maps, bibliography. EUR 29.80 (cloth), ISBN 3-8012-5031-8.

Reviewed by: Ana Monica Fonseca, Portuguese Institute for International Relations, New University Lisbon.
Published by: H-German (September, 2006)

La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero recibe la Medalla de Honor de la Emigración

El ministro de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Jesús Caldera, ha entregado las condecoraciones coincidiendo con el Día Internacional del Migrante. Las Medallas de Honor de la Emigración premian la labor de personas e instituciones a favor de los emigrantes Entre los 15 galardonados destacan dos fundaciones, cuatro medios de comunicación y el actor Carlos Iglesias
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In 2006 IALHI welcomed eight new members:

Association La Fraternelle (Saint-Claude, France)
Society for the preservation of the old co-operative's archives
E-mail: [mailto]lafraternelle3@wanadoo.fr[/mailto]

Fondation Jean Jaurès (Paris, France)
French Socialist Party archives
[url]http://www.jean-jaures.org[/url]

8th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society
University of Plymouth, UK, July 12-14, 2007.

The 8th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society will be held at the University of Plymouth, July 12th to 14th , 2007. The conference will examine a range of topics related to utopia and utopianisms, its historical articulation and contemporary realisation. Keynote speakers are Dr Esther Leslie (Birkbeck) and Lalit Kishor Bhati (Auroville, India).