Gregory J. Downey, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002. xiii + 242 pp. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-415-93108-8; $25.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-415-93109-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Tomas Nonnenmacher, Department of Economics, Allegheny College. Published by EH.NET (November 2004).

University of Leeds Centre for Heritage Research in collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum of England and YorkshireMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council

SEMINAR: COAL-MINING AND HERITAGE - TWENTY YEARS ON

Friday 26 November 2004
2.30 - 6.00pm
Venue: National Coal-mining Museum
New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH

The Program in Early American Economy and Society Jointly with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies invites you to its 2004-2005 seminar series:

Brian Luskey, PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow
Manliness and Respectability: White-Collar Workers in Antebellum America

Friday, November 19, 2004, 3 to 5 p.m.
Followed by a reception

Location:
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA

The 31st Annual Southwest Labor Studies Conference will meet together with the Labor and Working Class History Association at the University of California at Santa Barbara on May 5,6 and 7, 2005. This joint conference aims to bring together unions, universities and social justice groups around the general theme:

Labor in Protest: The Legacy of the 1960s for the U.S. Labor Movement

The IWW 100 Years
Call for Papers, Workshops, and Presentations
A Conference for Labour Activists, Organizers, Students, Educators and Scholars
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre - Vancouver, BC
June 10-12, 2005

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago in June 1905. Now 100 years later, the 2005 PNLHA conference will consider the Wobblies enduring contribution to the labour and social justice movements and their current influence.

The Labour History Archive and Study Centre in Manchester have organised a series of talks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Miners’ Strike 1984-85.

The lectures are open to anybody, whether they have a personal, academic, professional or general interest in the strike.

Changes in Class Structure and the New Tendencies: Non-traditional Class Movements and Experiences in Turkey and in the World
Symposium on Class Studies
Center for Class Studies in Turkey (TUSAM)
16-17 October 2004
Istanbul

'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies

Call for Papers

A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005. Keynote speakers Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.

Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xviii + 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8020-8753-1.

Reviewed by Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada.
Published by H-Canada (June, 2004)

Donald J Raleigh, Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov 1917-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 464 pp. 17 tables, 29 halftones, 2 maps. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-691-11320-3; $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-03533-8.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Francis King, School of History, University of East Anglia, UK
H-Net Book Review published by H-Russia © h-net.msu.edu (August 2004)

A welcome addition to the literature