Jose R. Deustua. The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru. Monographs in International Studies, Latin American Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. xvi + 290 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps, tables, and index. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 0-89680-209-4.
Reviewed for H-LatAm by Alfonso W. Quiroz, Department of History, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. March 2002.
Labor Arts (laborarts.org) invites you to our latest exhibit: "May Day Posters and Parades," a sampling of images from May Day celebrations, many of them from Union Square in New York City.
We invite comments--there are many images for which there is little information. We also invite H-Labor-Arts members to post information about May Day images on other websites, or to suggest possible sources for additions to the Labor Arts exhibit.
Janet Irons, Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. x + 262 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-252-02527-X; $16.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-252-06840-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. April 2002.
Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Political Studies Association - Labour Movements Group
Annual Conference Programme
Clifton Hill House, Bristol
4-5 July 2002
Thursday
The London Socialist Historians Group is pleased to announce the establishment of the Socialist Historians Message Board, atwww.londonsocialisthistorians.org/messageboard.
Sources of Radicalism - a major conference on the history of radical political, industrial, social and cultural movements - will take place in Manchester on 11th May.
There will be a wide range of topics discussed including Anti-fascism, the Irish in Britain, Women Trade Union League, the 1945 Pan African Congress in Manchester, the General Strike of 1926, 1970s radical press, contemporary trade unionism, politics and the internet, punk and disco music and Palestine.
A transnational project co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of Culture 2000 Programme
Project leader: Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico (Italy)
Co-organisers:
AMSAB (Belgium)
Discoteca di stato (Italy)
Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (France)
Istituto per il lavoro (Italy)
Narodni filmovy archiv (Czech Republic)
Työväen Arkisto (Finland)
A Critical Condition? Class and the Practice of History in the Twenty-first Century
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
15th June 2002
Department of History, University of Essex
Final Call for Papers
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Steve Smith - University of Essex
Dr Simon Gunn - Leeds Metropolitan University
XXII MEETING APHES
Aveiro (Portugal) 15-16 November 2002
Call for Papers
The Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (Associacao Portuguesa de Historia Economica e Social - APHES) holds its XXII Meeting in Aveiro, on 15-16 November 2002.
The general theme of the XXII Meeting is "Enterprises and Institutions in Historical Perspective." However, following the practice of previous meetings, papers on other themes of economic and social history are welcome.
Last night at the University of Melbourne the Hon Justice Geoffrey M Giudice, President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, launched a unique online resource to provide labour and trade union history scholars with a one-stop-shop to source material.
