The History of Strikes, Lock-Outs and General Strikes

The Society for the Study of Labour History and Historical Studies inIndustrial Relations

The History of Strikes, Lock-Outs and General Strikes

ConferenceKeele University
6 May 2006

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the British General Strike and miners lock-out, the Society for the Study of Labour History and Historical Studies in Industrial Relations have jointly organised a conference on the historical experience of strikes.

Barbara Wertheimer Prize in Labor History

To recognize serious study in labor and work history among undergraduate students, the New York Labor History Association will award the Barbara Wertheimer Prize of $100.00 for the best research paper written during the 2005-2006 academic year. The winning entry will, with permission, be posted in the NYLHA website. Please encourage your best undergraduate students to submit their work.

Papers on any aspect of labor or work history will be considered. Entries will be evaluated on the basis of scholarship and literary merit.

Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary

Applications are invited for the Edward Thompson Memorial Bursary. The bursary has been established by the Society for the Study of Labour History in honour of one of its distinguished founders and past Presidents. It is tenable at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, in the value of up to £200 per annum, in order to support research in the MRC archive.

Culture in Radical Politics

The Labour History Archive and Study Centre holds the archives of the Labour Party and the British Communist Party as well as collections that document many aspects of the history of radical political struggle in the UK since the mid-nineteenth century.

As part of a programme of activities designed to promote the study of the collections to new audiences we are organising a day conference called Culture in Radical Politics.

Fight

S.L. Publications has published a facsimile edition of Fight For the Fourth International, which ran from October 1936 to November 1937 and was the first Trotskyist periodical in Britain to express the views of an independent Trotskyist organisation: 218 pages, A4 format paperback, price: £ 20, US$ 35, 280 Skr + freight

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Labor: Best Article prize

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas is pleased to announce the winners of its first Best Article prize competition.

John Donoghue, 'Unfree Labor, Imperialism, and Radical Republicanism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661' in Volume 1 Number 4. Reminding us that religious, political, and economic ideas flowed in myriad channels throughout the Atlantic world, Donoghue provides new insights into how the experiences of Puritan refugees in New England shaped their subsequent resistance to Cromwell in Old England.

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Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings, and Popular Movements

The editors of Encyclopedia of Revolutions, Uprisings, and Popular Movements, a 5 volume reference set edited by Immanuel Ness, to be published by Facts on File are looking for entries on Eastern Europe.

This project is intended as a major reference work on social unrest and revolutions in history. We are searching for authors of entries on Eastern Europe, in particular on: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.

New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War

Seminar Announcement:

For the first time ever, the story of New Zealand's involvement in the Spanish Civil War will be publicly examined. The Trade Union History Project will host a major seminar in Wellington, NZ on the weekend of 4-5 November 2006. A number of specialist experts, both academic and otherwise, have agreed to speak on subjects such as the New Zealanders in the International Brigade, New Zealand non-combatants such as doctors and nurses, the role of NZ trade unions to the civil war, the position of the Catholic Church, and the Quaker fundraising campaign.

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