Women in Ports

'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies

Call for Papers

A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005. Keynote speakers Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.

Canadian Unions

Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xviii + 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-8753-1.

Reviewed by Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada.
Published by H-Canada (June, 2004)

Civil War in Saratov

Donald J Raleigh, Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov 1917-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 464 pp. 17 tables, 29 halftones, 2 maps. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-11320-3; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-03533-8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Francis King, School of History, University of East Anglia, UK
H-Net Book Review published by H-Russia © h-net.msu.edu (August 2004)

A welcome addition to the literature

Labor Day

Get set to work real hard at chilling out, relaxing and partying with your friends and family, for Labor Day is here! Share all the fun and excitement with your sweetheart/ pals/ loved ones with our cute and cool ecards from

Laborday-Ecards.com

Catherine Johanson

E.P. Thompson Bursary

Applications are invited for the E.P. Thompson bursary 2004.

The Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary was established by the Society for the Study of Labour History in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, up to the value of £200 per annum, to support research in the MRC archive. Eligible applicants are postgraduate research students on a PhD topic in labour history.

IALHI 2004 Conference

IALHI's Annual Conference will take place in Paris, Nanterre, and Roubaix from 8-11 September 2004. Organization is in the hands of the Collectif des Centres de Documentation en Histoire ouvrière et sociale (CODHOS) in cooperation with the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC) and the Centre d'Histoire sociale du XXe siècle (CHS).

The program is now available on the conference page of this web site.

Radical Economics

Conference on Radical Economics in the 20th Century: Radical Economics and the Labor Movement

Call for Papers
Date: 15 - 17 September 2005
Place: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology adjacent to University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States