From 1st April 2008, Erik-Jan Zürcher (54) will be the new director of the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. Zürcher will continue to be affiliated to Leiden University as professor of Turkish languages and culture for one day a week.
New items on the IISH website in February 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/zurcher.php[/url]
From 1 April 2008, Erik-Jan Zürcher will be the new director of the IISH. At present, he is professor of Turkish languages and cultures at Leiden University.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/wagescurrency/[/url]
New research by Jan Lucassen shows the connection between coin circulation and payment of wages.
Dear friends, I would like to draw your attention to a very important forthcoming Summer School on transnational labour history, to be held in Toronto. We are still looking for students interested in joining. (We are trying to have a somewhat even distribution across continents.)
You will find all the necessary information at the following website:
[url]http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/programs/globallabour.htm[/url]
Kind regards,
Please note the extended deadline of March 1st, 2008, for the this year's Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium:
Call for Papers
Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium, University of Illinois at Chicago, april 18-19, 2008
Keele University are considering plans to make redundant 38 out of 67 academic staff in the School of Economic and Management Studies (SEMS). This development, if it goes ahead, will have adverse implications for labour history research in the UK not least because Keele's plans could threaten the future of the renowned journal, Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. Academics from the School have also been extremely active in their use of archives at labour history institutions.
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel; Dammann, Rüdiger (Hrsg.): 1968. Die Revolte. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 2007. ISBN 978-3-10-010230-0; kart.; 255 S.; EUR 14,90.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Alexander Holmig, Brandenburg an der Havel
E-Mail: [mailto]alexander.holmig@gmx.net[/mailto]
Xiaolan Bao. Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women GarmentWorkers in New York City, 1948-92. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xvi + 330 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02631-4; $22.00 (paper),ISBN 0-252-07350-9.
Reviewed for H-Business by Evan Roberts, Department of History andMinnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota
Not Just Another History of the New York ILGWU
Rüthers, Monica: Moskau bauen von Lenin bis Chruscev. Öffentliche Räume zwischen Utopie, Terror und Alltag. Wien: Böhlau Verlag/Wien 2007. ISBN 978-3-205-77490-6; brosch.; 363 S.; EUR 35,00.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Oksana Bulgakowa, Berlin
E-Mail:
Pollock, Ethan: Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2006. ISBN 0-691-12467-1; geb.; 224 S.; EUR 29,98.
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Dietrich Beyrau, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
E-Mail: [mailto]osteuropa@uni-tuebingen.de[/mailto]
Angel Smith, Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction. Catalan Labor and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923. International Studies in Social History 8. New York, Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN: 1-84545-176-7 405 S.; $ 89.95
Reviewed by Gemma Rubí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
E-Mail: [mailto]gemmarubi@telefonica.net[/mailto]
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