John A. Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii + 295 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8262-1395-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Clete Daniel, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).

Hugh D. Hindman, Child Labor: An American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xi + 431 pp. $83.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7656-0935-5; $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7656-0936-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Carolyn Tuttle, Department of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).

Stephen J. Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 320 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-09287-7.

Reviewed for H-California by Robert I. Cruickshank, Department of History, University of Washington
Published by H-California (June 2003).

Stefan Berger. Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany. Themes in Modern German History. London and New York: Longman, 2000. xiii + 280 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, maps, index. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-29814-8.

Reviewed by William Patch, Department of History, Grinnell College.
Published by H-German (July, 2003).

Bridget Hill. Women Alone: Spinsters in England, 1660-1850. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii + 220 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08820-5.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Belinda Peters, Irvine, California. Published by H-Albion (June 2003).

Surviving Without a Husband

Images from the TUC Library Collection at London Metropolitan University have been added to IALHI's web museum.

Andrew M. Drozd. Chernyshevskii's What Is to Be Done?: A Reevaluation. Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2001. ix + 332 pp. Preface, chronology, introduction, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8101-1739-8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Roger E. Chapman, Department of Social Sciences, Lincoln Trail College. Published by H-Russia (July 2003).

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) is pleased to announce the publication of e-Dossier No. 7, "Operation Manuel: Czechoslovakia and Cuba," featuring documents were found by a team of researchers headed by Oldrich Tuma in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Prague and introduced by Daniela Spenser (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (Mexico City). To access the e-Dossier, go to cwihp.si.edu.

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung -- Library
International and European Trade Union Organisations -- New publications

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

Jonathan A. Grant. Big Business in Russia: The Putilov Company in Late Imperial Russia, 1868-1917. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. viii + 203 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4110-4.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Clayton Black, Department of History, Washington College. Published by H-Russia (June 2003).