Labor History Conference to Focus on Effects of Technology
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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

The Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan) announced the publication of three volumes related to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union:

Jeffrey Burds. Peasant Dreams and Market Politics: LaborMigration and the Russian Village, 1861-1905. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. xiv + 314 pp. Tables, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $ 50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8229-4049-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8229-5655-1.

Two additional pathfinders by history graduate students are now on the Tamiment webpage. These are

Guide to Yiddish­Speaking Labor and Radical Movements
www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/yiddish/Index/index.html
by Jane Rothstein

and

Call for Papers

Visual Culture and the Factory: Artistic Practice, Artistic Production, and Industry in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union ca 1800 to the Present

A conference organized by the National Museum of Labour History, the Society for the Study of Labour History and Manchester University, Social History Curators Group
Monday 3rd April 2000, 10.30-5.00
Pump House: People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3ER

The archive and library of the Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, which holds the records of the Unión General de Trabajadores, among others, have moved. The new address is:

Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
Archivo y Biblioteca
C/Antonio Grilo, 10
28015 MADRID
Telephone: ++34-915477990
Fax: ++34-915423140
E-mail: [MAILTO]archfflc@ugt.es[/MAILTO]
Contact: Ester Ramos, Nuria Franco

Posted: 11 February 2000

In the face of capitalist triumphalism, with its seemingly endless vistas of polarization, poverty, alienation, crisis and ecological catastrophe, the classical Marxist theory of socialismand communism remains the only credible alternative vision for human development. Yet the experience of the post-capitalist societies of the 20th century, inspired by Marxism, was clouded by the narrow technical, political and cultural foundations on which they were built.

Calvin Winslow, ed. Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class. The Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 204 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02392-7; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06691-X.

Reviewed by [MAILTO]pcole@boisestate.edu Peter Cole[/MAILTO], Department of History, Boise State University.
Published by H-Labor (October, 1999)