Chris Wrigley, British Trade Unions since 1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 106 pp. $40 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-57231-2; $15 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-57640-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (March 2004)

Robert Michael Smith. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xviii + 179 pp. Index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8421-41465-8; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8214-1466-6.

Reviewed for H-USA by Rachel M. Howse, School of Archives, Information and Library Science, University College London (February 2004)

Conference on Daniel Guérin (1904-88)
Loughborough University, 17-19 September 2004

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the purpose of this conference is to celebrate and critically examine the life and work of Daniel Guérin.

Nicolas NAIF, L'Eurocommunisme en Belgique: Crises et débats autour d'une voie belge au socialisme. Bruxelles 2004, Editions CARCOB et Centre d'historie des gauches ULB.

Y eut-il jamais une voie belge au socialisme? En d’autres termes, l’eurocommunisme fut-il la grande occasion ratée d’adapter aux conditions d’un pays occidental développé la doctrine qui avait enflammé les bolcheviks russes?

Thomas V. McClendon. Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s. Social History of Africa Series. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002. xxii + 234 pp. Tables, maps, photographs. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-325-07088-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-325-07110-1.

Reviewed by Aran MacKinnon, Department of History, University of West Georgia.
Published by H-SAfrica (January, 2004)

Christopher M. Paulin. White Men's Dreams, Black Men's Blood: African Labor and British Expansionism in Southern Africa, 1877-1895. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2001. viii + 258 pp. Bibliography, index. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-86543-928-1; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-86543-929-X.

Reviewed by Tsuneo Yoshikuni, Senshu University.
Published by H-SAfrica (January, 2004)

A New Thesis of Labor-Hungry Imperialism? The Scramble for Southern Africa

From: "Cordery, Simon" SIMON@monm.edu

The link below provides details for the following conference:

'We Band of Brothers': Freemasonry in Radical and Social Movements, 1700-2000

A Conference organised by:
The Centre For Research into Freemasonry
The Centre for Gender Studies in Europe
The Society for the Study of Labour History
and
The Friendly Societies Research Group

The Tapton Masonic Hall, Shore Lane, Fulwood, Sheffield S10 3BU, England
November 18-20 2004

Vladimir A. Kozlov. Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years. Translated and edited by Elaine McClarn and MacKinnon. Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xix + 351pp. Notes and index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-7656-0668-2.

Reviewed for H-Russia by David L. Ruffley, Department of History, Colorado College.

"Symbiotic Signals?" Mass Uprisings After Stalin

New Labor History Web Site Launched

The Incomka product has been installed and is available for research use at the Library of Congress. Incomka includes scanned images of 1,059,354 pages of Communist International records held at the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow. This is approximately 5% of the total volume of Comintern record. A committee of historians of the Incomka project picked the fond/opisi to be scanned.