18th workshop on history and memory of NS concentration camps: Forced Labor, Exploitation, War Production

Kai Michael Becker, Noah Benninga, Dennis Bock, Henrike Illig; in collaboration with "Denkort Bunker Valentin"; and Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Research at the University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. Inge Marszolek)
31.08.2012-04.09.2012, Bremen, "Denkort Bunker Valentin" ("Submarine Bunker Valentin Memorial") Bremen-Farge, Lidicehaus Bremen

Workers of the World - International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts

Vol. 1, issue 1, June 2012

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
(p. 5)

DOSSIER: STRIKES AND REVOLUTION
(p. 6)

THE PARTY AS VANGUARD: THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN STRIKES IN ST. PETERSBURG, 1912–14
Alice K. Pate
(p. 6)

THE PREREVOLUTIONARY STRIKE MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA, 1912-1916
Kevin Murphy
(p. 19)

WORKERS’ STRIKES IN THE PARIS REGION IN 1968: CONTINUITIES AND
DISCONTINUITIES.
Michael Seidman
(p. 39)

International Conference "Crisis and Mobilization since 1789"

Please find below the call for papers for the upcoming conference: “Crisis and Mobilization since 1789”

The conference will be held here at the IISH, on February 22-24, 2013.

The deadline for proposals (250-300 words plus academic bio (max 100 words) is September 30th and papers can be sent to: H-SOCIALISMS [at] H-NET.MSU.EDU

Call for Papers
International Conference “Crisis and Mobilization since 1789” International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, February 22-24, 2013

organized by the

Am Sternenbanner das Geschick der Arbeiterklasse: 150 Jahre Beziehungen zwischen deutscher Sozialdemokratie

Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen; Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz; Stiftung Demokratie Saarland; Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarbrücken 23.11.2012-25.11.2012, Otzenhausen, Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen Europahausstraße 35, 66620 Nonnweiler, Fon +49 6873 662-0, Fax +49 6873662-150

Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE) project

The HOPE project brings together a partnership of thirteen European social history institutions with highly significant but scattered collections, comprising to date at least 3 million digital items (pictures, books, archival documents, sound, moving image et cetera). The project will make these items available through Europeana, the European digital library. The collections will also be searchable via LabourHistory.net.

New issue of TSEG, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis

The latest issue of TSEG, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis (vol 9 no 2), presents research articles on Film Distribution in Ghent, Belgium, and on Luxury Product Consumption in 18th century Cape Colony.

The latter paper by Johan Fourie and Jolandi Uys ascertains the nature, growth and distribution of luxury good ownership in the Cape Colony. The survey reveals a marginal increase over the course of the eighteenth century in household ownership.