Working Lives Research Institute

Below are two advertisements that will be appearing in the Guardian on October 29 and the following week. They are the first big swathe of appointments in our new Working Lives Research Institute. The first ad is for 5 new posts. I should be grateful if you would publicize these as widely as possible through the movement and via your email lists.

Tamiment Seminar

Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History

New York University's Tamiment Institute and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is launching a seminar in labor and social history that will begin in March of 2003. The seminar will take place at the Tamiment Institute which is on the 10th floor of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. We will meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM during the academic year.

Labour in London

Labour Heritage
Not Just Electoral Politics: Culture and London Labour

Conference
Saturday 23 November 2002, 10am - 4pm
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Rd, London, EC1R OHB
(nr. Farringdon Rd BR & Underground Station)

Following the very successful Conference in January at the LMA, this 2nd London Conference on aspects of the history of the London Labour Party and labour movement history will focus on:

Sources of Radicalism

Seminar announcements for Sources of Radicalism

The programme is as follows:

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Nigel Fountain: Women in the First and Second World Wars: An Oral History based on the Imperial War Museum Archive

Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Tariq Ali: History is Fiction – Fiction is History (Reading from novels on Islam)

The above seminars will take place at the Britons Protection Pub, 50, Gt. Bridgwater Street, Manchester 1

American Labour Markets

Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80780-8; $20 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00287-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren C. Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.