In November it will be 85 years ago that Joe Hill, whose name was Joel Hägglund when he left Sweden for the USA in 1902, was executed in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was one of the best-known members of the Industrial Workers of the World -- particularly so because he wrote some of their most famous songs.
International Anthology on Gender, Gender Relations, and Women's Activism in Mining Communities
Call for Proposals/Participation/Submissions
Deadline for Proposal: October 1, 2000
Deadline for Essay Submission: March 1, 2001
The Legacy of Slavery and Emancipation in Europe and the Americas
Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe
March 9-11, 2001
Call for Papers
Deadline: 2000-10-05
Explorations in the History of U.S. Trotskyism
New York City, Sept. 29 - Oct 1, 2000 (Friday - Sunday)
Sponsored by: New York University's Tamiment Library
There are planned panels on:
The University of Michigan Library marks the 150th Birthday of the anarchist Joseph Labadie with an exhibition and a symposium:
Jo Labadie and His Gift to Michigan: a Legacy for the Masses
Conference organised by the Institut CGT d'histoire sociale and the Institut d'histoire contemporaine
Dijon, 18-20 décembre 2000
Available NOW:
The 2001 PNLHA Two Color Annual Labour History Calendar
A celebration of the life and work of the Socialist writer Jim Allen will take place on Saturday 7th October in Manchester at the Cornerhouse cinema. Starting his writing career on Coronation Street in the mid-60s Jim went on to write such influential TV drama as The Big Flame, The Lump, The Spongers, Days of Hope and United Kingdom. Working with Ken Loach in the cinema in the 1980s and 1990s he wrote important films such as Raining Stones (on unemployment), Hidden Agenda (on Ireland) and Land and Freedom (on the Spanish Civil War).
Actes du Colloque "Militantisme et militants"
Groupe d'histoire et de sociologie des Gauches - U.L.B.
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 343 pp. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-262-15049-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Marvin McInnis, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Canada.
Published by EH.Net, August 2000.
