Slave Emancipation

Amy Dru Stanley. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Era of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Index, Bibliography. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-41470-9; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-63526-8.

 

Reviewed by Daniel Hamilton, Harvard University.
Published by H-SHEAR (February, 2000)

1956

Jeno Gyorkei and Miklos Horvath, eds. Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. Trans Emma Roper Evans. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999. xv + 318 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, endnotes, biographical notes. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9116-36-X; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9116-35-1.

 

Reviewed by Johanna Granville, Clemson University.
Published by Habsburg (January, 2000)

New Insights on the 1956 Crisis

Women Workers

Project 2000: Significant Works in Twentieth-Century Economic History

Ivy Pinchbeck. Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. London: George Routledge, 1930. x + 342 pp.

Review Essay by Joyce Burnette, Department of Economics, Wabash College.
Published by EH.Net (February, 2000)

 

A Pioneer in Women's History: Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850

Postgrads Wanted

ESTER, the European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European universities. The network organizes research training in the form of annual series of Advanced Seminars on specialized themes within Economic and Social History. Each seminar can host a maximum of 15 postgraduates from European universities who are given the opportunity to discuss their work with a number of renowned senior scholars in their field of research. The network language is English.

Sylvia Pankhurst

Labour historian Mary Davis (Head of Trade Union Studies at The University of London) will discuss the life and politics of Sylvia Pankhurst on Thursday 9th March, 7pm, at Frontline Books, 255 Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, Manchester, England.

Mary's book on Sylvia was published last year by Pluto Press. More information on 44-(0)161-242-0909.

Posted: 25 February 2000

Anarchism and Judaism

In cooperation with the Centre international de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme (Lausanne), the Centro Studi Libertari (Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli) of Milan organizes an international meeting on "Anarchism and Judaism" to be held in Venice, 5-7 May 2000.

The meeting consists of a conference that will take place in the auditorium of the Campo Santa Margherita (5-6 May), and a cultural program scheduled in the evenings of 5-6 May and during the whole of 7 May in San Leonardo Hall.