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.
Unheard Voices: American Women in the Emerging Industrial and Business Age
www.library.hbs.edu/hc/unheard_voices
Baker Library at the Harvard Business School has just completed the first year of a project to identify the records on women's history in its business manuscript collections.
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is pleased to announce the continuing annual competition for the ALBA George Watt Memorial prizes for the best college student work about the Spanish Civil War, the anti-fascist political or cultural struggles of the 1920's and 1930's, or the lifetime histories and contributions of the Americans who served beside the Spanish Republic from 1937- 1938. This work may take the form of an essay, visual art, video or film, a dance, theatrical work or a musical composition.
Sweatshop U.S.A.: Essays in the New Social History
Edited by Richard A. Greenwald (United States Merchant Marine Academy) and Laura Hapke (Pace University). With a forward by Daniel Walkowitz (New York University).
On 10-11 May 2001 the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History (K.U.Leuven) and the Centre for Business History (UFSIA), in co-operation with the Antwerp Port Authority, will organise a "Conference on comparative Antwerp-Rotterdam port history (1870-2000)".
The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to a Scholarship for an Essay on the topic:
The figure and activity of Amadeo Bordiga in the context of the International Socialist and Communist Movement
The Scholarship value amounts to LIT 4,000,000 (four million Italian Liras) or 2065.83 Euros (two thousand and sixty-five/ 83 cents), less applicable tax.
Rules:
The Essential E.P. Thompson
Edited and Introduced by Dorothy Thompson, Professor of History at the University of Birmingham, author of The Chartists and Queen Victoria: Gender and Power, partner and co-worker with E.P. Thompson over many years.
The most comprehensive collection of historical writings from the author of The Making of the English Working Class. A useful anthology for courses on class and history.
From David Ladipo (David.Ladipo@nottingham.ac.uk)
I am hoping you will be willing to publicize the upcoming Work, Employment and Society Conference which takes place at the University of Nottingham on September 11-13, 2001. Plenary papers - addressing the theme of "Winning and Losing in the New Economy" - will be given by Naomi Klein, Theo Nichols, Kate Purcell and Richard Sennett. Sub-themes will address issues relating to:
Call for papers on Labour and Working Class History
for the European Social Science History Conference
The Hague (Netherlands), 27 February-2 March 2002
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
7th Biennial National Conference
Australian National University
Canberra, 19-21 April 2001
The conference committee is now seeking informal presentations and work-in- progress papers from academics, postgraduates and others who would like a stimulating environment in which to discuss their work.
