Wages and Currency

Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Symposium in Amsterdam/Leiden, 24-25 May 2002

Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, and National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK: Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with 'Labour 1500-2000')

American Communist History

American Communist History will be the impartial, leading journal for scholarship about the history of the Communist Party in the United States and its social, political, economic and cultural impact on its members, on its opponents, and the public at large. The journal will deal with the American party and with the various outside influences which have dealt with its representation, with the controversial folklore that has been engendered about it, and with the many differing views about its antecedents, and its diverse opponents on the Left and Right.

Wisconsin Labor History Society

Pioneering Struggles of Public Worker Union
Featured at Labor History Conference, April 27

The Wisconsin Labor History Society¹s 21st Annual Conference will look at the dramatic, pioneering struggles of the state¹s public employees to gain strong union contracts.

The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 27, 2002 at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin - Madison Campus, at 702 Langdon St.

Second Emancipation

Donald Holley, The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. xvi + 284 pp. $36 (cloth), ISBN: 1-55728-606-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Craig Heinicke, Department of Economics, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. March 2002.

Historical Occupations

HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Andrew Miles

HISCO addresses a long-standing problem faced by researchers using occupational information from historical sources in different countries: how to make effective comparisons between nations and across regional boundaries.