I would be pleased to hear from anybody who would like to contribute a book review to the 2005 issue of the North West labour history journal. This will be our 30th annual issue. The journal is aimed at those with a general interest in the history of the working class and labour movement in the North West of England. We welcome contributors and reviewers from all backgrounds. We wish to include a wide range of reviews of cultural, social and political history of books, films, drama and other forms.

Please contact Michael Herbert, reviews editor, .

Authors needed to write entries for the Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, (Eric Arnesen, editor) to be published in three volumes by Routledge in November 2006.

Study Group on the Russian Revolution
XXXII Conference
Nottingham, United Kingdom
3 - 5 January 2006

Call for papers
The call for papers for the study group's thirty-second conference is now open. Proposals for panels and for individual papers are welcomed, covering the period from the 1880s up until 1932. We welcome papers that draw on ongoing or recent research relating to revolutionary Russia.

Papers can be submitted and presented either in English or in Russian. Papers in Russian should be accompanied by an English abstract.

The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published two new titles:

• Alessandro Schiavi, Nel socialismo italiano ed europeo a cura di Gianni Silei. Piero Lacaita Editore, Collana "Strumenti e Fonti", Euro 12,00
• Sandro Pertini combattente per la libertá. Piero Lacaita Editore, Collana "Strumenti e Fonti", Euro 20,00

For more information:

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by . (February, 2005)

Immanuel Wallerstein. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004. xii + 109 pp. Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-3431-3; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-3442-9.

Reviewed by: Brian J. McVeigh, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona.
Published by: H-US-Japan (February, 2005)

World-Systems Theory: Sizing Up the Units of Spatial-Temporal Analysis

From: Bernd Huettner,

Bernd Hüttner, Gottfried Oy, Norbert Schepers (Hg.): Vorwärts und viel vergessen - Beiträge zur Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung neuer sozialer Bewegungen“; AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2005 (ISBN 3-930 830-59-0)

The table of contents and preface of this book can be found at www.vorwaerts.org. Orders could be made online. The language of the book is German.

From: Donald Weber

International Colloquium on Anti-globalism
Ghent, Friday 9 September 2005

Organized by Amsab-Institute of Social History
www.amsab.be/anti-globalism

Survey of the research on the anti-globalist movement.
Position towards the global governance authorities.

From: Ekaterina Kazurova ,

Call for papers

Anthropology of professions in Russia.
New and traditional occupations in changing Russia: social anthropologicalapproach
Conference in Saratov, Russia, 29-30 September 2005

Russian Sociological Society (ROS)
Saratov State Technical University
Department of social anthropology and social work
Center of social policy and gender studies

With the support of the Russian Foundation for Humanities.

Thematic priorities of the conference:

From: Sharif Gemie

Anarchist Studies 13:1 (2005) has just been published. It contains the following articles:

From: Greg Patmore

Major Labour History Conference

The Past is Before Us: Seeking the sources of social and political transformation in the struggles of past generations.

Registration
The Ninth National Labour History Conference
Thursday 30 June - Saturday 2 July 2005, 9 am to 5 pm

Holme Building, University of Sydney, Australia. One day registrations available.