Women in Venice

Monica Chojnacka. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 118th series, vol. 3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxii + 188 pp. Illustrations, tables, map, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6485-2.

Reviewed for H-Italy by Carole Collier Frick, Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University. Published by H-Italy (June 2003).

Women and AT&T

Lois Kathryn Herr. Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. xvii + 200 pp. Illustrations, tables, preface, notes, index. $47.50 (cloth),ISBN 1-55553-537-2; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 1-55553-536-4.

Reviewed for H-Women by Thomas C. Jepsen, National Coalition of Independent Scholars. Published by H-Women (May 2003).

The Poor in Africa

Elizabeth Isichei. Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, vol. 12. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002. x + 287 pp. Drawings, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-158046-107-7.

Reviewed for H-Africa by John Philips, Department of International Society, Hirosaki University, Japan. Published by H-Africa (May 2003).

State Social-Political Library

Current attempts to bring the State Social-Political Library (Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka, GOPB) in Moscow under control of the Moscow State Social University elicited the following letter from the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Karin Englund, IALHI's General Secretary, wrote a note in support of it.

To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoj

Dear Mikhail Efimovich:

Labor History

Routledge, one of the leading international publishers of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science journals, invites applications for the Editorship of its key history journal, Labor History.

Globalizations

Print ISSN 1474-7731
Online ISSN 1474-774X

Call for Papers

Globalizations is a new journal, edited by Barry Gills, and supported by the Globalization Research Network. With an editorial board consisting of active globalization scholars, the journal will seek to publish the best work exploring new meanings of globalization, bringing fresh ideas to the concept and contributing to debates that shape the future.