The latest issue of the National Library of Australia News contains an article commemorating the centenary of the birth of the Australian trade union leader Dr Lloyd Ross. Dr Ross was a working-class educator in the 1920s and a trade union campaigner in the 1930s and again in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He was also involved in the political activities of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party.

The article is written by Dr Stephen Holt, the author of a biography of Dr Ross published by University of Queensland Press.

Socialist Register 2001 examines the concept and the reality of class as it effects workers at the beginning of the 21st Century. Theoretical contributions explore: today's old and new working classes, workers 'north' and 'south', peasants and workers, gender and the working class, migrant workers, tele-working. Other essays examine critically important regional experiences in East Asia, India, South Africa, Brazil, Iran, Russia, Europe and North America.

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Call for papers:
Industrial Environments - Creativity and Consequences, 1800-1940
A seminar series at Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis

Call for papers for a workshop organised by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, January 25-26, 2002

The IISH invites PhD students
- involved with historical research on gender and welfare states in the 20th century
- interested in reconsiderations of maternalism and
- eager to discuss the pitfalls of international comparisons to participate in a two-days-workshop

'Maternalism reconsidered: Mothers and method in 20th century history'

Odd Arne Westad, ed, Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Cold War International History Project Series. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1998. xxii + 404 pp. Appendix and index. $ 45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3484-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-3485-2.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Matthew Young, Department of History, Bowling Green State University.
Published by H-Russia, February 2001.

Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
15 February 2001

A step forward for Archives, at last, but only a first step

Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal
by David E. Bernstein
Duke University Press
ISBN 0-8223-2583-7, cloth $39.95
February 2001, 216 pages

Website, with links to the Preface and Introduction: mason.gmu.edu/~dbernste/Redress.html.

Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, eds, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxxiv, 348 p. Illustrations, references, and index. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-465-03175-7.

Reviewed for H-PCAACA by Ulf Zimmermann, Kennesaw State University.
Published by H-PCAACA, January 2001.

Postgraduate History Conference
April 10 and 11 2001
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

This postgraduate conference offers an opportunity for the dissemination and discussion of an exciting range of current postgraduate research on social, economic and political identities and movements in modern British and European history. Sessions include:

Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiii + 316 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-25163-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Mark Aldrich, Department of Economics, Smith College.
Published by EH.NET, February 2001.