The Practical Utopians

Published by EH.NET (March 2005)

Steven Leiken, The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. xxi + 233 pp. $44.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8143-3128-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Ken Fones-Wolf, Department of History, West Virginia University.

Capitalism & Unemployment

Announcement: 2005 Kenny Prize Lecture, Thursday, May 5, 4pm

This year the Robert S. Kenny prize for outstanding work in the field of Marxist and labour/left studies has been awarded to Ann Porter for her book Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945, published by University of Toronto Press.

Workers Movements and Imperialism

The next meeting of the Tamiment Seminar will be on April 13 (6:30 -8:30 PM). David Montgomery (Yale University) will be presenting a paper "Workers Movements and Imperialism: From Berlin (1884) to Baku (1920) to Bandung (1955). Herrick Chapman (NYU) will comment.

The Tamiment Seminar is co-sponsored by the Labor and Working Class History Association

The Tamiment Library is located on 70 Washington Square South, 10th floor

To get a copy of David Montgomery's paper and rsvp for the seminar please contact , 212-998-2428

Radical History Review

Radical History Review invites submissions of abstracts for a forthcoming thematic issue exploring the subject of religion and its historical relations to politics, culture and society. We especially encourage proposals for articles with interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives.

One Big Union

One Big Union: the Dream, the Reality, the History
The IWW and a Century of Radical Labor Activism, 1905-2005
A Conference and a Celebration
Saturday, May 7, 2005

Paul Robeson Campus Center
Rutgers University, Newark Campus
350 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, New Jersey

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