David S. G. Goodman. Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China: The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945. Asia/Pacific/Perspectives Series. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. xxxii + 345 pp. Tables, chronology, maps, list of abbreviations, bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-0864-1; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-0865-X.
The 2003 conference of the Scottish Labour History Society will be held at the Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, on Saturday 4th October. Proceedings will begin at 10am. The theme of the conference is 'Labour, the Trade Union Movement and Industrial Relations in late 20th Century Scotland'.
Three papers will be presented:
Louise Michel Papers
Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
Ludden, David. Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalization of South Asia. London: Anthem South Asian Studies 2002. 429pp+Appendix I, 6pp.+Appendix II, 7pp. (paperback) ISBN 1843310597.
Reviewed for H-ASIA by Anupama Rao, Barnard College.
The 25th Annual North American Labor History Conference, "Labor, War and Imperialism," will be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The 2003 Program is now on the web at:
www.cla.wayne.edu/History/conferences/nalhc.htm
The NALHC program web page offers a pdf file of the conference program, information about hotels and parking and the 2004 call for papers.
Call for Papers for a Panel at the 18th European Association of Modern South Asian Studies Conference in Lund, Sweden, July 6-9 2004
Empires, Nationalisms and the Containment of Labour in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Convenors: Ravi Ahuja (Heidelberg University) and Benjamin Zachariah (Sheffield University)
Avram Taylor, Working Class Credit and Community since 1918. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2002. x + 218 pp. £45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 0-333-96232-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Peter Scott, Department of Management, University of Reading.
Published by EH.NET, August 2003.
Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics
Fourth International Research Seminar on Socialism and Sexuality
Amsterdam, October 3-4 2003
Preliminary Program
The sequence of the papers is based on a more or less chronological order.
Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 328 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2705-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-5373-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University.
Published by EH.NET (August 2003).
