Work and Makeshifts

Work and Makeshifts: Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-29th, 2008)

Deadline for abstracts July 3, 2008

This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project "The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)." Historians dealing with similar issues, regardless of period or place, as well as researchers in other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.) are expressly invited to collaborate in the workshops.

Beer and Revolution

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Beth English, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Published by [mailto]H-SHGAPE@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (May, 2008)

Bread and Roses

Bruce Watson. Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-303735-4.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, Department of Social Sciences, Purdue University North CentralPublished by [mailto]H-NewEngland@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)

From Peasants to Labourers

Vadim Kukushkin. From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi + 283 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-3267-0.

Reviewed for H-Migration by Krystyna K. Cap, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Published by [mailto]H-Migration@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)