Beatrix Bouvier. Die DDR--ein Sozialstaat? Sozialpolitik in der Ära Honecker. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Sozialgeschichte. Bonn: Verlag J .H. W. Dietz, 2002. 360 pp. Appendix, abbreviations, bibliography. EUR 27.80 (cloth), ISBN 3-8012-4129-7.
Reviewed by: Mark Pittaway, Department of History, Open University.
Published by: H-German (January, 2006)
Peter Alheit and Hanna Haack. Die vergessene "Autonomie" der Arbeiter: Eine Studie zum frühen Scheitern der DDR am Beispiel der Neptunwerft. Berlin: Karl Dietz, 2004. 472 pp. Bibliography. EUR 19.90 (cloth), ISBN 3-320-02051-X.
Reviewed by: Thilo Schimmel, Department of History, University of Illinois.
Published by: H-German (January, 2006)
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Cortona Colloquium 2006
Cultural Conflicts, Social Movements and New Rights: A European Challenge
20-22 October 2006, Cortona, Italy
Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii + 277 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8014-3469-6; $25 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8014-8473-1.
Reviewed for EH.NET by William Boal, College of Business and Public Administration, Drake University (April 2006)
May is Labor History Month, and since the Haymarket Riot in Chicago in 1886, May 1 has held a special significance for the American Labor movement.
To assist those archives with labor history collections celebrate the month, and promote their programs, we have developed a package of press releases and promotion ideas. We have also provided a list of events at a number of labor archives around the nation. This material can be found at [url]http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/labor/Index.asp[/url].
New World Coming - The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
An Interdisciplinary Conference at Queen's University
Kingston Ontario
13-16 June, 2007
We are changing the IALHI web pages' extensions, from .html to .php
The new URL for the IALHI Index/News page is:
[url]http://www.ialhi.org/index.php[/url]
The IALHI Members page has been renamed to
[url]http://www.ialhi.org/imembers.php[/url]
Other IALHI pages are changed accordingly. We apologize for the inconvenience.
For any questions, please write to
Jenneke Quast
[mailto]ialhi@iisg.nl[/mailto]
Kathleen Thelen. How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 352 pp. Index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-5218-3768-5.
Reviewed by: Gary Herrigel, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
Published by: H-German (January, 2006)
Exposition Carhop sur le logement à l'hôtel de ville de Bruxelles
Madame, Monsieur, chers amis,
Le CARHOP a le plaisir de vous inviter à l'exposition sur le logement, le 9 mai 2006 à l'Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles lors de la journée de la commission consultative de la famille (CCF) qui fête ses 30 ans.
Vous trouverez ci-joint l'invitation et le programme de la journée.
Au plaisir de vous y voir nombreux.
2006 Kenny Prize Lecture, Wednesday, May 31, 4pm
This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Jean-Claude Parrot for his book My Union, My Life - Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, published by Fernwood Publishing.
