North American Labor History Conference

This year's North American Labor History Conference is approaching and we have a very exciting program coming up. The program can be accessed at [url]http://nalhc.wayne.edu[/url] (no 'www' in front).
We are also pleased to announce a tour to Chrysler's Sterling Heights production plant for Thursday October 18 from 11:00-4:00. The tour is free but preregistration is required. Space is limited so please contact [mailto]jmlanza@wayne.edu[/mailto] if you are interested.

Engines of Change: Indian Railroads

Ian J. Kerr. Engines of Change. The Railroads That Made India. (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007. 210 pp. ISBN 0-275-98564-4.

Engines of Change provides a readable, compact, up-to-date history of India's railroads, 1850-2001. The book places the railroads within their evolving historical contexts in an attempt to show how the railroads shaped the making of modern India, and also were affected by other forces involved in that same making, most notably colonialism and nationalism.