Heather Ann Thompson. Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor in the Modern American City. Cornell University Press, 2001, x+295pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-8014-3520-X.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Wilbur C. Rich, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College. June 2002.

The Multiple Claims on Detroit

We are glad to announce the opening of the website of the F. Domela Nieuwenhuis Museum at Heerenveen. This Museum is dedicated to one of the founding fathers of Dutch Socialism and Anarchism. It opened its gates in 1925 in Amsterdam. After having been hosted by the International Institute for Social History, among others, it now is lodged in the Willem van Haren-Museum at Heerenveen. In a completely new presentation personal belongings and other artefacts inform the visitor about Domela Nieuwenhuis and the movements he was part of. The new website makes the Museum complete.

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations and The Society for the Study of Labour History
Joint Conference
UK Industrial Relations in the Twentieth Century
27-28 September 2002, Keele University, UK

PROGRAMME

Friday 27 September 2002

Joel Perlmann and Robert A. Margo, Women's Work? American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x +188 pp. $32 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-226-66039-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Susan B. Carter, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside. July 2002.

Julie Novkov, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. xii + 320 pp. $44.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-472-11198-1.

Reviewed for EH.NET by David Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law. June 2002.

Professor Simon Middleton (University of East Anglia) and I (Billy Smith, Montana State University) invite scholars to submit proposals for essays to be published in a volume tentatively titled "Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800." To encourage discussion of these issues and to make the volume more coherent, we are organizing a conference focusing on this topic in September 2003 in Bozeman, Montana. We ask potential contributors to the volume to present their essays at the conference.

The May 2002 issue of the National Library of Australia News features an article by Dr Stephen Holt on the Australian Labor Party senator Don Cameron (1879-1962). The article examines Cameron's working-class politics from the Boer War through to the 1960s as revealed in his surviving political papers. It may be consulted at www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/may02/article3.html.

For further information Dr Holt may be contacted at stephen.holt@dewr.gov.au.

Labor, War, and Imperialism
Twenty-Fifth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 16-18, 2003

Call for Papers

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Labor, War and Imperialism, for our twenty-fifth annual meeting to be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Deutsche Arbeiter und Handwerker in Paris
Migration im 19. Jh. in vergleichender Perspektive

Zweisprachiges Atelier am 21. Juni 2002 im Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris
organisiert von Dr. Mareike König (DHI, Paris)
Präsident: Michel Espagne (ENS, Paris)

Programm

Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 293 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-64160-8; $20.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77819-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, University of Kansas, Department of Economics. May 2002.