The latest work of the Fondazione Vera Nocentini is the publication of a guide to the trade union historical archives of the Italian Confederation of Workers Unions (CISL) of Turin.

The Fondazione was conceived and organized "as a cultural service for all those who are interested in getting informed about trade unions and the social problems in Turin and in the province, in studying its characteristics, events and activities in the years following the Second World War." It offers an archive -- the one this guide is about -- and a newspaper library.

& -- the ampersand is the essential part of "La BDIC & ses lecteurs" -- is a new bulletin published by the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine. The first issue appeared in December 1999.

For comrades concerned to know the latest on the Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) at the Australian National University, the following is a summary of the press release published after a December conference hosted by the Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.

In 1999, the Cahiers du Monde russe published a special issue entitled: "Assessing the new Soviet archival sources / Archives et nouvelles sources de l'histoire soviétique, une réévaluation".

Articles include:

Workshop on Working-Class and Labour History

The Canadian Committee on Labour History is organizing a Workshop during the Congress of the Social Science and Humanities in Edmonton.

Date: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday, 30 May
Place: Old St. Stephen's College, University of Alberta Campus

Details of the sessions, which will include both academics and community activists, will be announced shortly.

All Welcome...

Masayo Umezawa Duus. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. (Translated by Beth Cory and adapted by Peter Duus.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiii + 375pp. $55 (cloth), 0-520-20484-0: $18.95 (paper), 0-520-20485-9.

Reviewed by Edward D. Beechert, Professor Emeritus of Labor History, University of Hawaii.
Published by EH.Net (February, 2000)

Gerald Friedman. State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States 1876-1914. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv + 317 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-2325-2.

Reviewed by Melvyn Dubofsky, Departments of History and Sociology, Binghamton University, SUNY.
Published by EH.Net (January, 2000)

The International Institute of Social History announced two updates on its Web server:

Labor History Conference to Focus on Effects of Technology
Authors Aronowitz, Dowd, Shostak, Wellman Featured

The 32nd Annual Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference will focus on the effects of technology on workers and their organizations.

From Artisanship to Information Age: Lessons for Labor's Struggle is the theme of the prestigious annual conference.

The conference will be held at the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington from May 19 — 21, 2000.

International Labor and Working-Class History is planning a special issue to appear in 2002 (Spring) on Sweating. As always, we are interested in article proposals which are single cases or comparative across space or time, historical or contemporary. We seek both papers that address sweating in different countries and periods and those which consider broader questions about changes in the meaning and impact of sweating and what kinds of action may be taken about sweating inside and outside the United States.

Please send a detailed proposal and short vita to