Arbeitswelten und Arbeitsbeziehungen als Gegenstand historischer Forschung
neue Perspektiven auf die Gewerkschaftsgeschichte

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Bonn 08.10.2009-09.10.2009

New Collection: AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department Records

The George Meany Memorial Archives is pleased to announce the opening of two new collections:

RG9-003. Civil Rights Department. Records, 1946-2000. This collection is comprised of the records of the AFL-CIO's Civil Rights Department, primarily from the 1960s through the 1980s and under the directorships of Donald Slaiman and William Pollard.
81 cubic feet.

Amsab-ISG nieuwsbrief 4e jaargang, nr. 6, september 2009

The Godwin Diary: Reconstructing London's Culture 1788-1836

Kolloquium der Forschungsstelle für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (FSW)
der Universität Zürich
FSW, Rämistrasse 64, 8001 Zürich

Forschungskolloquium Herbstsemester 2009

Jeweils 18.15 bis 19.45 Uhr im Kolloquiumsraum 015 (Hochparterre der Forschungsstelle, Rämistrasse 64, 8001 Zürich)

Programm:

1. Oktober 2009: Marcel van der Linden (IISG und Universität Amsterdam) Sozialgeschichte im Zeitalter der Globalisierung, oder: Warum wir die Arbeitsgeschichte neu denken sollten
Moderation: Markus Bürgi

Finally we are able to announce the release of the 2009 issue of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online. The online edition, which can be freely downloaded from the INCS website at [url]http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/incs/[/url], incorporates 364 pages, which is over a hundred pages more than the last issue and thus is the largest INCS issue ever (once again).

The United States and The Cold War September Seminars

To RSVP or to receive a copy of the paper please email, [mailto]zk3@nyu.edu[/mailto]

Thursday, September 17, 2009
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz "The AFL-CIO's Cold War in Honduras: The First Years of Intervention, 1954-59"
5:30 - 7:00pm (with reception to follow)

November 20, 2009

Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen

Keynote Speaker: Tim Leunig (Department of Economic History, LSE)

"Apprenticeship, information, human capital and development: Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution"

Call for papers

A new website has been launched called Manchester's Radical History at http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/.

The authors state the following:

Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We're not affiliated to any single movement or Party and have a range of views on major political issues of the past, present and future.

Von Sigurd bis Sickingen: Rittertugenden und Wertekanon von der Romantik bis zur Arbeiterbewegung - Bad Münster am Stein - Ebernburg

Varnhagen Gesellschaft e. V.; in Kooperation mit der Fouqué-Gesellschaft Berlin-Brandenburg e. V.; dem Verkehrsverein Rheingrafenstein e. V.; der Salongesellschaft Eltville; dem Kurpfälzischen Amtshof; dem Weinaurant Bach; unterstützt von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten aus Mitteln des Bundesbeauftragten für Kultur und Medien; Schirmherrin: Andrea Nahles MdB, Bad Münster am Stein - Ebernburg