The Colour of Work

Timothy J. Minchin. The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xi + 277 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-8078-2618-9; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4933-2.

Reviewed for H-South by Evan P. Bennett, Lyon G Tyler Department of History, The College of William and Mary.

Mining in 19th Century Peru

Jose R. Deustua. The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru. Monographs in International Studies, Latin American Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xvi + 290 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, tables, and index. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 0-89680-209-4.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alfonso W. Quiroz, Department of History, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. March 2002.

May Day Exhibit

Labor Arts (laborarts.org) invites you to our latest exhibit: "May Day Posters and Parades," a sampling of images from May Day celebrations, many of them from Union Square in New York City.

We invite comments--there are many images for which there is little information. We also invite H-Labor-Arts members to post information about May Day images on other websites, or to suggest possible sources for additions to the Labor Arts exhibit.

Sources of Radicalism

Sources of Radicalism - a major conference on the history of radical political, industrial, social and cultural movements - will take place in Manchester on 11th May.

There will be a wide range of topics discussed including Anti-fascism, the Irish in Britain, Women Trade Union League, the 1945 Pan African Congress in Manchester, the General Strike of 1926, 1970s radical press, contemporary trade unionism, politics and the internet, punk and disco music and Palestine.

MayDayNet

A transnational project co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of Culture 2000 Programme

Project leader: Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico (Italy)

Co-organisers:
AMSAB (Belgium)
Discoteca di stato (Italy)
Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (France)
Istituto per il lavoro (Italy)
Narodni filmovy archiv (Czech Republic)
Työväen Arkisto (Finland)