Labour and Literature

Vient de paraître aux éditions de l'Atelier: Le roman social - Histoire, littérature et mouvement ouvrier (sous la direction de Sophie Béroud et Tania Régin)

Cet ouvrage analyse les rapports multiples qui se sont noués entre le monde des lettres et le mouvement ouvrier sur plus d'un siècle.

Making Social Movements

Second Call for Papers

Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of Social Movements

June 26-28, 2002
Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England

Conference Sponsors: The Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, The London Socialist Historians Group, The Socialist History Society, Historical Materialism

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

  • Dorothy Thompson
  • Brian Manning
  • Bryan D Palmer
  • Ellen Wood

Confirmed Speakers

British Social History

Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham, editors, The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. xix + 284 pp. £44.00, $79.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7546-0114-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Giorgio Riello, Department of History, Open University and Department of History, University College London. February 2002.

Life Stories of Russian Women

Sheila Fitzpatrick and Yuri Slezkine, eds. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women From 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. ix + 443 pp. Glossary and index. $67.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01948-7; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-01949-5.

Reviewed for H-Women by Tom Ewing, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. February 2002.

Violence in Britain

Shani D'Cruze, ed. Everyday Violence in Britain 1850-1950: Class and Gender. Harlow, London and New York: Longman, 2000. xii + 233 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $24.00 (paper), ISBN 0-582-41907-7.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Lynn Abrams, Department of History, Glasgow University. February 2002.

Intolerable Acts: Men, Women and Violence in Everyday Life

US Economic Citizenship

Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi + 374 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-503835-5.

Reviewed for H-Labor by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Department of History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. March, 2002.

Gender Roles, Gendered Rights