North West Labour History Journal

The 2005 issue of the North West Labour History Journal (UK) has just been published. It includes articles on 100 years of the Bolton Socialist Club, the radical Stalybridge cleric Joseph Rayner Stephens, Mary Banniff's experiences working at sea in the 1960s, the Nelson Clarion clubhouse, Michael Davitt, health in the workplace plus news and reviews.

The journal is dedicated to exploring the rich labour history of the North West of England.

Alfredo Rocco, Alessandro Schiavi

The Fondazione Turati (Florence) published two new titles:

  • Saverio Battente, Alfredo Rocco. Dal nazionalismo al fascismo 1907-1935. Franco Angeli Editore. Collana della Fondazione "Filippo Turati". Euro 32,00
  • Alessandro Schiavi. La casa e la città. A cura di Silvia Bianciardi. Piero Lacaita Editore. Collana "Strumenti e Fonti". Euro 15,00

Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze

www.pertini.it/turati.html

Building Trades

Labor History
Volume 46 Number 4
Table of Contents (Special Issue on the Building Trades)

Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the 21st Century
Jeff Grabelsky and Mark Erlich

The Contemporary Industrial Relations System in Construction: Analysis, Observations and Speculations
David Weil

From Craft to Qualified Building Labour in Britain: A Comparative ApproachLinda Clark

Sources for the History of the Building and Construction Industry Janet Wells Greene

Oral History

From: Tracy E K'Meyer,

The organizers of the conference are particularly interested in papers related to labor activism in the modern period (any geographic area)

Call for Papers

2006 OHA Annual Meeting
October 25-29, 2006-Little Rock, Arkansas
Generational Links: Confronting the Past, Understanding the Present, Planning the Future

Miners' Strike

Capital & Class 87 Autumn 2005: Miners' Strike Special Issue

Contents

Introduction

'The past we inherit, the future we build'
Anne Suddick
In the preface to this special edition, Anne Suddick discusses the issues that came out of the women's forum at last year's Miners' Strike Twenty Years On: Challenges and Changes conference, which was attended by women activists from the Durham area, and by national officials from Women Against Pit Closures.

BEHIND THE NEWS

The Immigrant Threat

Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The integration of old and new migrants in Western Europe since 1850. University of Illinois Press 2005.

This book is the first volume of the new series Studies of World Migrations, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Leslie Page Moch.