Acta: International Conference: The Past and Future of International Trade Unionism
edited by Amsab-Institute of Social History and IALHI

IALHI's XXXIII Annual Conference will be organized by the Labour Movement Archives and Library (Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek) and take place in Stockholm on September 4-7, 2002.

The preliminary program is now available at www.ialhi.org/iconf.php. Please note that the meeting is intended primarily for IALHI members.

HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Andrew Miles

HISCO addresses a long-standing problem faced by researchers using occupational information from historical sources in different countries: how to make effective comparisons between nations and across regional boundaries.

A 100th Anniversary Commemoration of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
October 25 and 26, 2002

Anne Gorsuch is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia. A review of her book for H-Russia was reprinted in IALHI's News Service. We therefore also publish her reply to the list:

Dear Editor:

I am writing in reference to a recent review by Sandra Pujals of my book Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

ANNOUNCING H-LABOR-ARTS: H-Net Network on the Cultural and Artistic Heritages of Working People
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University

ABOUT H-LABOR-ARTS

We are organising a conference in the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University on the theme of 'Women and Work Culture 1850-1950', to take place 2-3 November 2002.

Confirmed speakers: Gisela Bock, Mary Eagleton, Judy Giles, Philippa Levine, Jim McMillan, Rosemary O’Day, Pat Thane, Deborah Thom, Daniel Walkowitz, Maggie Walsh.

New publications of the Archive of Social Democracy and the Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Recently the archive and library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung have published two titles concerning the international labour movement:

Robert J. Steinfeld, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi + 329 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-77360-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77400-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gillian Hamilton, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. March 2002

David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xxii + 297 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8476-9728-2; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8476-9729-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University. January 2002