The Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) and the Instituto de Historia de Cuba are pleased to invite researchers, scholars, journalists, trade unionists, information specialists, institutions, and organizations to participate in the Fourth International Scholarly Conference on May Day, to be held in La Habana, on April 25, 26 and 27, 2001.

The purpose of the conference will be to provide analyses and debates on workers' roles, their past and challenges at present in this early century, full of enormous challenges and difficulties to overcome.

Lynn Hollen Lees, The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 373 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-57261-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by George R. Boyer Department of Labor Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.Net, May 2000.

The North West Labour History Journal (England) would like to appeal for contributions to two forthcoming issues. We hope to do special issues on the 1960s (to appear in 2001) and the 1970s (to appear in 2002). We would like to have contributions from researchers and also from those active in the radical and labour movements of those years. Surveys of these decades have largely focused on national movements (ie London) and we in the north west think it is high time that we redressed the balance.

Jamie L. Bronstein, Land Reform and Working Class Experience in Britain and the United States 1800-1862. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1999. x + 372 pp. Index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3451-8.

Reviewed by Howard B. Rock, Florida International University.
Published by H-SHEAR (April, 2000).

The Encyclopedia of Colonialism (EoC)--a 1,200-page, three-volume, illustrated reference work--is soliciting entry writers. Professor Melvin E. Page is serving as General Editor of the EoC, which is being produced by East River Books and will be published by ABC-CLIO in 2001.

Juergen Kocka, Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. xvii + 325 pp. Index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-57181-158-3.

Reviewed by Roland Spickermann, Assistant Professor of History, University of Detroit Mercy.
Published by H-W-Civ (May, 2000).

ViVa Women's History Database now available on the Web

ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than hundred European, American and Indian journals. The ViVa database now contains bibliographic records describing about 4700 articles published between 1975 and 2000 in 107 historical and women's studies journals.

Call for Articles for Edited Volume
Gender and '68 in Comparative Perspective

Abstract and cv: September 1, 2000
Article Draft: June 15, 2001

In recent decades labor and business historians have begun to transform how we view and study the evolution of the modern corporation. We are editing a collection of essays drawing on the insights of new scholarship to illuminate the history of the General Electric Corporation (GE), a corporation that has had a unique and profound impact on our society, and, indeed, the world.

Domestic Service and Mobility: Labour, Livelihoods and Lifestyles
Trivandrum, India, 26–28 October 2000
Call for Papers