Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
21 November 2000
ANU Thumbs Its Nose at Senate and Australian People As It Proceeds with Destruction of Archives
Staff of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre were yesterday informed that the ANU Executive had approved the cuts to the Archives proposed by University Librarian Colin Steele. Two of the four permanent staff will lose their jobs.
Call for papers
Labor/working-class history
SSHA, Social Science History Association, Chicago (Nov 15-18, 2001)
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-01-20
From: H-NET Announcements Editor
The Labor network of the Social Science History Association invites panel or paper submissions for the 2001 annual conference (November 15-18, Chicago). Interdisciplinary and nonwestern work related to labor history is especially encouraged.
C. S. Walton, Ivan Petrov: Russia Through a Shot Glass. New Orleans: Garrett County Press, 1999. viii + 241 pp. Maps. $12.00 (paper), ISBN 1-891053-83-3.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by W. Arthur McKee, independent scholar.
Published by H-RUSSIA, November 2000.
(Hair of the) Dog Bites Socialism!
Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek
Labour Movement Archives and Library
Stockholm
The International Labour Movement on the Thresholds of Two Centuries
24-25 October 2002
Call for papers
Vient de paraître:
Militantisme et militants, coordonné par José Gotovitch et Anne Morelli
Actes du colloque organisé par le Groupe d'histoire et de sociologie des Gauches - U.L.B.
Un volume de 230 pages
EVO Couleurs Savoir
Dans un monde qu'on dit dominé par l'immobilisme et l'individualisme, qu'est-ce qui les fait donc s'agiter ainsi?
Le Centre d'Etude sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (EHESS)et la Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest (CNRS) organisent une journée d'étude sur le thème:
Récompositions chinoises
La question du travail et la construction de l'Etat (Quelques aspects)
le 6 décembre, au Collège de France, amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris
Programme:
Arwen Mohun, Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 348 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6002-4 (cloth, $19.95).
Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Jeffrey M. Hornstein, PhD candidate in the Department of History, University of Maryland.
Published by EH.NET, November 2000.
The Working Class Movement Library (Salford) is pleased to announce that it will be sending out updated information on a regular basis to friends, users and those interested in the Library via an e-mail bulletin.
We hope to keep you informed on donations of books and materials, changes to the Library, events and much more. You can access our web page at www.wcml.org.uk. We would welcome any comments you have on how we can improve our site.
Labor's Heritage, vol. 11, no. 2 has just been published. It contains the following articles:
The Associazione Duccio Bigazzi was founded in April 2000 in memory of the life and work of the well-known Italian historian.
The Association has instituted a two-year scholarship for young researchers (35 years or younger) in the field of business and labour history. Proposals are requested on the topics of company history, the organization of work and the labour movement; special attention should be paid to questions of methodology and the use of sources. The deadline for submission is 60 days after the call for proposals was launched (October 31).
