UK Political Studies Association Labour Movements Specialist Group Conference
Advance notice and call for papers

Interpretations of Labour

Mechanics Institute, Manchester
Friday, 6 July 2001

Amsab - Institute of Social History (Ghent)

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii + 286 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-820453-1.

Reviewed for EH.NET by John Singleton, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

A new book by Bert Hogenkamp, author of "Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain, 1929-39" (1986, reprint 2000), has been published last week by Lawrence & Wishart, London. "Film, Television and the Left in Britain, 1950 to 1970" is a comprehensive survey of the left's approach to films and television from the period after the second world war until the beginnings of the growth of independent cinema in the late 1960's.

Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii + 200 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-50507-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Department of Economics, University of Kansas.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

Earlier this year, the Tamiment Institute (New York) published Kathleen Barry's guide on Sources in US Women's Labor History. Now an illustrated version has been posted. This includes illustrations from the collections of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, including the stunning 1930 cover of Mary Heaton Vorse's novel Strike!.

Andrew Lee

Posted: 18 July 2000

Philippe Aghion and Jeffrey C. Williamson, Growth, Inequality and Globalization: Theory, History and Policy. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. viii + 207, $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65070-4; $17.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-65910-8

Reviewed for EH.NET by John R. Hanson, Department of Economics, Texas A and M University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

The Union of International Associations has decided, in order to stress the importance of the associative phenomenon in what is rapidly becoming a worldwide society, to award a prize of 6,000 euro for a doctoral thesis prepared on a subject concerning the life, operations or work of international non-governmental organisations. The competition is open to students of all nationalities.

David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 353 pp., $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65231-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Jan Hogendorn, Department of Economics, Colby College.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

Ben S. Bernanke, Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. vii + 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01698-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.