The Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop will be holding its initial meeting on May 8th, at 10 AM at the Cornwall Iron Furnace Historic Site in Cornwall. Labor historians from across the state will be gathering to set up a steering committee for the group and to finalize other organizational issues. The Workshop offers PA labor historians the opportunity to meet on a regular basis and to engage with on-going work by fellow scholars aboutthe history of working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Call for conference proposals: "West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim"

To be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara February 3-5, 2011

CfP: The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements - St Andrews 09/10

Centre for Transnational History
University of St. Andrews, St Andrews
16.09.2010-17.09.2010, School of History, University of St Andrews
Deadline: 15.04.2010

The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements

Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, Counter-Power Vol. ILucien van der Walt & Michael Schmidt

Black Flame examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on 5 continents. An indispensable conceptual and historical road map, with close attention to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, looking at its:

Opposition to hierarchy, capitalism and the state

Strategy: building revolutionary counter-power

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Newsletter 2010:4 (Italian text)

Anna Maria Mozzoni, Alle fanciulle

Editore: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Luogo di edizione: Milano
Collana: Testo ritrovato
Pagine: 27
Anno di pubblicazione: 2010

Presentazione
Scegliere il proprio ruolo nella società è un diritto di tutte le donne

CFP: Economic crises, social crises:
30th Annual Conference of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association

Amélia Branco Dias / Carlos Bastien / Leonor Freire Costa / Pedro Neves / Rita Martins de Sousa, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão 19.11.2010-20.11.2010, Lissabon
Deadline: 30.04.2010

Lisbon, 19-20 November 2010
Deadline: 30 April 2010

Alessandra Gissi
Otto marzo
La Giornata internazionale delle donne in Italia
collana La storia. Temi, 14marzo 2010, 15x21 cm, 96 p., 46 ill. col e b/n f.t.bross. ISBN 978-88-8334-447-3 € 10,00

New book announcement: Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 by Paul Michel Taillon

The annual international Chartism Conference is organised by the Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and the South Wales Centre for History and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR). It will be held at the Sorbonne, Paris, 2-4 July 2010.

Speakers include:

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce our latest publication:
Anarchist International Action Against Francoism From Genoa 1949 to The First Of May Group by Antonio Téllez Solà, translated by Paul Sharkey

From the end of the Spanish Civil War, the anarchist movement fought to undermine the Francoist dictatorship. Solidarity actions in Western Europe aimed to isolate the regime, and bring pressure to bear in defence of militants inside Spain. Determined to avoid casualties, their campaign of armed protests saved many activists from the death penalty.