Work in the Bell System

Venus Green. Race on the Line: Gender, Labor and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. xv + 370. Illustrations, tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2554-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2573-x.

Reviewed for H-South by Michael French, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Scotland. April 2002.

South African Trade Unions

Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster, eds. Trade Unions and Democratization in South Africa, 1985-1997. International Political Economy Series. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xvii + 238 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. $69.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-22253-X.

Reviewed by Franco Barchiesi, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Published by H-SAfrica (February, 2002)

Adolf Douai

Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson. Adolf Douai, 1819-1888: The Turbulent Life of a German Forty-Eighter in the Homeland and in the United States. New German American Studies; Neue Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 364 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8204-4881-8.

Reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Department of History, Texas A&M University.
Published by H-GAGCS (January, 2002)

Globalization, Labour, and Inequality

Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference
May 9-11, 2002
California State University
Los Angeles 5151 State University Dr

Theme "Globalization, Labor, and Inequality Within and Across Borders"

Thursday, May 9

5:00 Registration-Program Area, University Student Union (2nd Floor)
6:00-9:00 Film and Reception: "Made in India" Maxwell Theatre

Friday, May 10

8:00 Registration-Program Area, University Student Union (2nd Floor)

Session 1 9:00-10:30

Wages and Currency

Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Symposium in Amsterdam/Leiden, 24-25 May 2002

Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam, and National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK: Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with 'Labour 1500-2000')

American Communist History

American Communist History will be the impartial, leading journal for scholarship about the history of the Communist Party in the United States and its social, political, economic and cultural impact on its members, on its opponents, and the public at large. The journal will deal with the American party and with the various outside influences which have dealt with its representation, with the controversial folklore that has been engendered about it, and with the many differing views about its antecedents, and its diverse opponents on the Left and Right.

Wisconsin Labor History Society

Pioneering Struggles of Public Worker Union
Featured at Labor History Conference, April 27

The Wisconsin Labor History Society¹s 21st Annual Conference will look at the dramatic, pioneering struggles of the state¹s public employees to gain strong union contracts.

The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 27, 2002 at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin - Madison Campus, at 702 Langdon St.

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