Professor Simon Middleton (University of East Anglia) and I (Billy Smith, Montana State University) invite scholars to submit proposals for essays to be published in a volume tentatively titled "Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800." To encourage discussion of these issues and to make the volume more coherent, we are organizing a conference focusing on this topic in September 2003 in Bozeman, Montana. We ask potential contributors to the volume to present their essays at the conference.

The May 2002 issue of the National Library of Australia News features an article by Dr Stephen Holt on the Australian Labor Party senator Don Cameron (1879-1962). The article examines Cameron's working-class politics from the Boer War through to the 1960s as revealed in his surviving political papers. It may be consulted at www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/may02/article3.html.

For further information Dr Holt may be contacted at stephen.holt@dewr.gov.au.

Labor, War, and Imperialism
Twenty-Fifth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 16-18, 2003

Call for Papers

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Labor, War and Imperialism, for our twenty-fifth annual meeting to be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Deutsche Arbeiter und Handwerker in Paris
Migration im 19. Jh. in vergleichender Perspektive

Zweisprachiges Atelier am 21. Juni 2002 im Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris
organisiert von Dr. Mareike König (DHI, Paris)
Präsident: Michel Espagne (ENS, Paris)

Programm

Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 293 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-64160-8; $20.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77819-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, University of Kansas, Department of Economics. May 2002.

Priamukhino Readings
July 27-28, 2002
Priamukhino, Tver region, Russia

On July 27-28, in the village of Priamukhino, at the estate of the Bakunin family, the second Priamukhino readings will be held. The organizers of the Priamukhino readings consider them to be a continuation of the cause, as well as a tribute to Natalya Pirumova, the well-known Russian historian, who organized the Bakunin readings in 1994 (and numerous other events devoted to the Russian anarchist and revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin).

The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland's annual conference will be held 8-9 November 2002, at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Papers are invited on the theme of "Popular cultures in Ireland."

Papers should be on any aspect of the subject, and presentations will be approximately 30 minutes in length. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to:

Dr. Maura Cronin
History Department
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Road
LIMERICK
Republic of Ireland

The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2002.

ILWCH at the AHA: Proposals for Seminar on Recent Research in Labor History

The Labor Roundtable of the Society of American Archivist has updated the Labor Archives Directory originally prepared by Debra Bernhardt and Brenda Parnes. The directory is mounted on the SAA site:

www.archivists.org/saagroups/labor/labor_archives_directory.asp

The site covers the United States and Canada.

For comments, corrections, and additions please write to Patrizia Sione, kheel_center@cornell.edu.

The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements has four remaining essays on labor history covering the following chronological periods: