David E. Bernstein, Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xiii + 189 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2583-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard K. Vedder, Department of Economics, Ohio University.
Published by EH.NET, April 2001.
In International Labor and Working-Class History, #60, Fall 2001:
Scholarly Controversy; Whiteness and the Historians' Imagination
Workers Unity in a World Economy
Asylum, Migrants and Refugees
A one day conference organised by the London Socialist Historians Group
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1
Saturday May 12th 2001, 9:30am-4pm
Plenary sessions:
Workshop sessions:
The North West Labour History Group now has a website at www.wcml.org.uk/nwlhg/home.html.
Michael Herbert
m.herbert@notes.manchester.gov.uk
Posted: 10 April 2001
This is to announce that the Wisconsin Labor History Society now has a website at URL wisconsinlaborhistory.org. Links to the site are welcomed, of course.
Bibliography Also Available
Of special interest at our site is the first version (with about 200 items) of the "Wisconsin Labor History Bibliography"; three ways are provided for viewing the bibliography: by author, by the geographic place discussed, and by the topic discussed.
All or part of this seminar on France may be of interest to you, to students, colleagues or trade unionists.
Wednesday May 2
University of North London
Holloway Rd
Henry Thomas Room
Technology Tower (opposite Holloway Road tube station)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xii + 372 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-300-08391-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David Stead, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Published by EH.NET, March 2001.
In the April 2001 issue of the National Library of Australia News Dr Stephen Holt describes how the works and beliefs of the American Populist Ignatius Donnelly influenced pre-Federation Australia and the early Australian Labor Party, and are still echoed in the beliefs of the anti-globalisation movement today. The article was written to mark the centenary of Donnelly's death.
For more information on Ignatius Donnelly centenary activities in Australia please contact stephenholt34@hotmail.com.
Posted: 6 April 2001
Amy Knight, Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery.New York: Hill and Wang, 1999. xiv + 331 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, and index. US$26.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090-64049.
Reviewed for H-Russia by Frank Schauff, PhD candidate, Department of Eastern European History, University of Cologne.
Published by H-Russia, March 2001.
The Greatest Mystery?
Rebellion on the Border
United Kingdom Exhibition
