Beatrix Hoffman, The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiii + 261 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2588-3; $17.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4902-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Melissa A. Thomasson, Department of Economics, Miami University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.
The Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan), has started an on-line exhibit of posters, "Images of Japanese Labor and Social Movement in the Post-1945 Japan" at oohara.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/posengl.
XIIth Bi-Annual Southern Labor Studies Conference
The Making of the Atlantic Working Classes
Miami Beach, Florida
April 26-28, 2002
Call for Papers
Social Movement Studies
journal of social, cultural and political protest
The latest issue of Revolutionary History, on 'The Comintern and Its Critics,' contains the following articles:
Due to an alteration of the archives depot, part of the archives will not be available from June 12th to the middle of August. The archives involved can be found at www.iisg.nl/archives/unavailable.html.
Histoire et société: revue européenne d'histoire sociale
Appel à contribution
The Summer 2001 issue of the London socialist Historians Newsletter is now available to be downloaded from the LSHG web site www.ch.u-net.com/lshg.
This issue contains an article by Michael Cox on the intellectual relationship between E.H. Carr and Isaac Deutscher, and a review by Ian Birchall on Pamela Pilbeam's French Socialists before Marx. It also contains, as usual, news reports, together with details of forthcoming seminars and other events of interest to socialist historians in the London area and beyond.
The Digital Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (library.fes.de/library/fr-digbib.html) recently added the following online publications:
Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2000. 379 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-393-04098-4.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Eric Rauchway, Modern History Faculty, Oxford University.
Published by EH.NET, April 2001.
