The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published three new titles:

The Working Class Movement Library will again be taking part in the national Heritage Open Day scheme on Saturday 9 September 11am to 4pm.

Hermann Weber and Andreas Herbst. Deutsche Kommunisten: Biographisches Handbuch, 1918-1945. Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 2004. 992 pp. Photos, appendices, bibliography, index. EUR 49.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-3200-2044-7.

Reviewed by: Gary Roth, Rutgers University at Newark.
Published by: H-German (September, 2005)

Stalinists as Victims

Sean McMeekin. The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. viii + 398 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-09847-2.

Reviewed by: Michael Grutchfield, Department of History, Portland State University.
Published by: H-German (August, 2005)

Gabriele Metzler. Der deutsche Sozialstaat: Vom bismarckschen Erfolgsmodell zum Pflegefall. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2004. 269 pp. Index. EUR 22.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-4210-5489-4.

Reviewed by: Larry Frohman, Department of History, SUNY Stony Brook.
Published by: H-German (August, 2005)

Call for Papers

Conference: Global Labor History and the Question of Freedom and Unfreedom
To be held in Berlin, December 14-16, 2006

The conference is funded by the State of Berlin Senate's Office for Science, Research, and Culture and will be realized by the joint cooperation between the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin (WZB) under the direction of Professor Jürgen Kocka (WZB) and Professor Andreas Eckert (Universität Hamburg).

Management and Organizational History
Special Issue Call for Papers
Company Magazines, Work and Organizations
Editors
Michael Heller, Queen Mary College, University of London (UK)
Stefan Schwarzkopf, Queen Mary College, University of London (UK)

A conference

Date: Friday 29th September 2006
Venue: Manchester Museum, University of Manchester

Society for the Study of Labour History

Parliamentary Labour Party Centenary Conference

24-25 November 2006
London South Bank University
The Keyworth Centre
Keyworth Street, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 0AA.

Hunn, Karin: "Nächstes Jahr kehren wir zurück ...". Die Geschichte der türkischen "Gastarbeiter" in der Bundesrepublik (= Moderne Zeit 11). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-89244-945-7; 598 S.; EUR 46,00.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:Patrice G. Poutrus, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung PotsdamE-Mail: [mailto]poutrus@zzf-pdm.de[/mailto]