In order to promote the exchange of information about friendly societies, co-operatives and mutuality the Friendly Societies Research Group has established an email news group for people interested in this subject. Joining this group will enable you to ask questions of, and receive replies from, others on the list and you'll be kept informed of developments within the group. We'll be posting information about the forthcoming conference on 24th November 2000 to be held at the Open University, Milton Keynes and entitled 'Mutuality, survival strategies and the friendly society'.

Elizabeth Sanders, Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999. x + 532 pp. $16.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-226-73477-3; $48.00 (cloth), 0-226-73476-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Gerald Friedman, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts.
Published by EH.Net, April 2000.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the refoundation of the Socialist International in Frankfurt am Main the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) compiles a bibliography, which intends to register all publications of the various social democratic internationals in the period from 1914 to 2000, whether they are printed or, as in some cases, mimeographed. All those publications that were intended for public use will be included as well as publications published by the secretaries or presidents of the Internationals on behalf of theirorganisations (e.g.

Working Life and Federation 1890-1914
Friday 28 April 2000, 8.30am - 5.30pm
Holme Conference Centre, University of Sydney, Australia

Conference Report:
Second International Conference on Indian Labour History
Noida, March 16-18, 2000

Humble suppliants...: Petitions in Social History

Call for articles
International Review of Social History

Stefan Berger and Andy Croll are organising a conference on Comparative Coalfield Histories at the University of Glamorgan in the spring of 2002. They are also still looking for papers for the conference. Any proposals of papers should be submitted to Prof. Stefan Berger, Dept. of History, School of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, E-mail: SBerger@glam.ac.uk. Among the list of current speakers are Klaus Tenfelde, David Gilbert, Alan Campbell, Nina Fishmann and Chris Williams.

Project 2000: Significant Works in Twentieth-Century Economic History

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Review Essay by Stanley Engerman, Departments of Economics and History, University of Rochester.
Published by EH.Net, March 2000.

Capitalism, Protestantism, and Economic Development: Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism after Almost One Century

The Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati would like to inform you about some of the latest volumes published in the series Società e cultura (Lacaita Publishing House), both on the same subject:

• Z. Ciuffoletti, Contro lo statalismo: il socialismo 'federalista liberale' di Carlo Rosselli
• Carlo Rosselli e il socialismo liberale, edited by M. Degl'Innocenti

In the series Strumenti e fonti (Lacaita Publishing House) the following volume (part of the Papers and Writings of Filippo Turati) has been published just now:

Please may I draw to your attention two working papers available on the web; comments are welcome. The core of the two papers is the same; differences are noted as follows.