Amsab Nieuwsbrief, 8e jaargang, nr. 6, december 2013
Quiz van Oxfam-WW
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Mundos de Trabalho
Grupo de Trabalho - ANPUH
III International "Worlds of Labor" Conference
VII National Workshop of Labor History
III International "Worlds of Labor" Conference
November, 26th - 29th 2014 * Salvador, Bahia * Brazil
Universidade do Estado da Bahia
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Call for papers
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Dear Friends,
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
DECEMBER 2013
SPECIAL ISSUE ON LABOR MIGRATION AND FILM
Saër Maty Bâ, Guest Editor
Summary Notes
Early American Marxism website
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New Files update #13-28
December 1, 2013.
Five new files. A short anti-war piece by Socialist Party leader Gene Debs from 1917 opens this week's material. Also included are three more graphic pdfs of full issues of The Proletarian from 1921 and another of an ultra-rare polemic pamphlet from 1931 offering a glimpse at the Third Period factional warfare between the Communists and Socialists in the Finnish Cooperative movement in the Upper Midwest.
Dear ANU Archives supporter,
Our news has been updated on the ANU website at http://www.archives.anu.edu.au/news-and-events-1 .
• 12th Annual Archives Lecture
• Eric Fry Labour History Scholarship (applications close 31 January 2014)
• Database news
• New collections available for research
• Repository move
• Staff news
http://www.archives.anu.edu.au/news-and-events-1
In the brandnew Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, a highlight from the collections of the IISH is on show: the manuscript of the memoirs of the Russian writer and advocate of freedom of speech Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), Byloe i dumy (English-language edition My Past and Thoughts, the Memoirs of Alexander Herzen). Herzen left his fatherland in 1847 to fight a propaganda war against the Tsarist regime and the restrictions to freedom of speech in Russia.
CFP: A New 'Social Question' or 'Crisis as Usual'? Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Inequalities - Bielefeld 06/14
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) 04.06.2014-06.06.2014, Bielefeld, Bielefeld University
Deadline: 15.01.2014
Ende der 1970er Jahre startete die Osteuropa-Abteilung des Historischen Seminars der Universität Zürich unter der Leitung von Prof. Carsten Goehrke das Forschungsprojekt "Auswanderung aus der Schweiz in das Zarenreich". Neben zahlreichen Studien zu kantons- und berufsspezifischen Aspekten der Russlandwanderung haben die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Lehrstuhls für Osteuropäische Geschichte eine Datenbank mit Angaben zu fast 4'000 Berufstätigen erstellt, systematisch Materialien gesammelt, Tonbandinterviews mit Rückwanderern geführt und eigene Forschungsarbeiten vorangetrieben.
From the Reading Room – Legacies of British Slave Ownership
Posted on November 25, 2013 by Charles Harrowell
The collections of Senate House Library are rich with regard to published and manuscript material slavery and plantation life – especially in the Caribbean. Archival resources related to slavery are outlined here. One of the most important collections are the papers of the Newton Estate in Barbados -MS523.
Hannah Young – a PhD student has been reading a range of material from the papers and I asked her how she was using this archive;
