From: London Socialist Historians Group
1956 was the year of Khruschev's secret speech, the year of the Russian invasion of Hungary and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez.
Fifty years on, the London Socialist Historians Group is organising a one day event to assess the historical significance of the events of 1956, particularly in terms of its impact on the left.
We intend to have panels on 1956 in the Middle East and in Hungary to start and finish the conference.
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - Newsletter n. 5, 5 aprile 2005
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
http://www.feltrinelli.it/fondazione
Gli archivi del presente: dal documento tradizionale al documento digitale.
Archives of the Present: from Traditional to Digital Documents.
[A conference held in Milan on Dec 2-3, 2004]
From: Julie Herrada
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The IWW is the oldest anti-capitalist trade union federation in history. Their mission, the abolition of the wage system, still holds today; their practice of justice and fairness and their commitment to worker empowerment serves as a model for all trade unions.
Fifth Estate (http://www.fifthestate.org) will be joining in this centenary celebration by dedicating its Fall issue to the topic of "Wobblies and Work."
Wobbly Culture on laborarts.org
Friends, we have a new exhibit on the LaborArts.org website, created by Joseph Deodato, and we'd be delighted to hear your thoughts.
"Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture celebrates one of the most remarkable developments in the American labor movement's history-- the formation just a century ago of the Industrial Workers of the World. The exhibit features cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry, evoking the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th century.
Published by EH.NET (March 2005)
Steven Leiken, The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxi + 233 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8143-3128-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Ken Fones-Wolf, Department of History, West Virginia University.
Call for papers on Labour and Working Class History for the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 22-25 March 2006.
La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" announces the publication of:
Rodolfo Mondolfo, Educazione e socialismoa cura di Tiziana Pironi, Piero Lacaita Editore, Collana "Società e Cultura", pp. 302, Euro 18,00
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze
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Pagine web: http://www.pertini.it/turati.html
Announcement: 2005 Kenny Prize Lecture, Thursday, May 5, 4pm
This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Ann Porter for her book Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945, published by University of Toronto Press.
Co-sponsored by the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and the Labor and Working Class History Association
Call for Papers for the 2005-06 academic year
Deadline for Submission: 1 June 2005
The next meeting of the Tamiment Seminar will be on April 13 (6:30 -8:30 PM). David Montgomery (Yale University) will be presenting a paper "Workers Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920) to Bandung (1955). Herrick Chapman (NYU) will comment.
The Tamiment Seminar is co-sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association
The Tamiment Library is located on 70 Washington Square South, 10th floor
To get a copy of David Montgomery's paper and rsvp for the seminar please contact , 212-998-2428
