On February 12, 2003 from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., The Tamiment Library at New York University will be hosting a book talk by Steven Norwood. Professor Norwood will be discussing his new book. This study is a pioneering work on the culture, ideology, and practice of strikebreaking during the early years of the last century. Unfortunately, this is a story that has become very familiar today.

The Tamiment Library is located on the 10th floor of NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New YorkCity.

For further information please contact:

The first five volumes of the eight-volume Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (BWSA, Biographical Dictionary of Socialism and the Labour Movement in the Netherlands) are now available on line at www.iisg.nl/bwsa/index.html. The entries can be browsed and searched. The text is in Dutch.

David Johnson, World War II and the Scramble for Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1939-1948. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000. iv + 179 pp. ISBN: 0-908307-85-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Laird Jones, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (December 2002).

The 'Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion' strand of the Social History Conference (UK) would like to invite proposals for single papers and entire panels for the 2004 Social History Society Annual Conference, Rouen, 7-9 January 2004, (with the University of Rouen).

This meeting will also mark the launch of Cultural and Social History: the Journal of the Social History Society.

Papers from scholars working the areas outlined below are welcome and a founding principle of the strand is to encourage the work of both new and established scholars.

New Historical Materialism Book Series

Editorial board: Sebastian Budgen, Paul Blackledge, Vivek Chibber, Stathis Kouvelakis, Marcel van der Linden, China Mieville, Tony Smith.

Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002. viii + 361 pp. $39.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8139-2115-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. December 2002.

The December 2002 issue of the National Library of Australia News features an article by Dr Stephen Holt on the Australian Labor Party politician William Slater (1890-1960). The article focuses on Slater's political career during World War One and his experience as Australia's first diplomatic representative to the USSR during the Second World War.

It may be consulted at

www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2002/dec02/article4.html

The latest (2001/2) annual report for the Modern Records Centre is now available on the web at

www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/2001-02.shtml

As well as giving news of the Centre, particularly the large amount of information about its holdings now available electronically, the report includes a full list of additions to the holdings made in 2001/2.

We hope that you will find this useful.

History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present, and Future
Spring Conference: Saturday May 3rd, 2003

Call for Papers

From democratizing forces to new forms of legitimate representation, social movements have been attributed multiple, disparate, and frequently conflicting roles in the changes occurring in social, cultural, political, and economic systems. The increasing complexity of these roles challenges the limits implied by theoretical premises raising such questions as:

LAWCHA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AWARDS 2003

1 - Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) Graduate Research Paper Award

The Labor and Working Class History Association is delighted to announce its third annual graduate research paper award competition. The award's purpose is to stimulate research in working class history and to recognize outstanding work by a young scholar in the field. The award includes a check for $500, a certificate, inclusion of the paper in the program of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC) in Detroit, October 2003.