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).
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington is pleased to announce a new set of web resources. No part of the United States claims a labor heritage quite like the Pacific Northwest. Working men and women and their labor movements have been central to the region's history and remain a powerful force in contemporary society and politics.
RETHINKING BRITAIN 1918-1959
Institute of Historical Research, London, 18-19 March 2004
New Collections, Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University
Now processed and open for research:
The Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture
Co-Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University
2003-2004 Schedule
Fridays, 3:30-5:00 P.M., at The Newberry Library
French Left, Labour and Politics Seminar
Wednesday September 17, 2–5.30 pm
New Boardroom, Technology Tower, 166 Holloway Road, London N7
Sandwiches will be available at 1.30 pm.
H-Net Announcement
73rd Anglo-American Conference of Historians
Wealth and Poverty
7-9 July 2004 at the University of London Senate House
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Deadline: 2003-11-03
The conference "Ambiguities of Work: Knowledge, Power, and Culture" will take place Friday, November 7, 2003, at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Co-sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, the conference explores the intersections, struggles, and interrelationships over knowledge, work and the workplace.
The University of Illinois Press proudly announces the publication of two new titles in the series The Working Class in American History:
Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbie
On December 12, 2003, Amsab-Institute for Social History organizes a conference on Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), one of the most influential thinkers of 20th-century socialism. For more information (in Dutch) see www.amsab.be/hd/deman.htm.
