Housework Day

Carola Sachse. Der Hausarbeitstag: Gerechtigkeit und Gleichberechtigung in Ost und West, 1939-1994. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002. 504 pp. Index. EUR 32.00 (paper), ISBN 3-89244-508-7.

Reviewed by Jennifer Loehlin, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Published by H-German (January, 2004)

Dusting off the Housework Day

East Germany under Ulbricht

Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds. The Workers' and Peasants' State: Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945-71. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. xv + 304 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $74.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.

Labor History Network

The Labor History Network of the Social Science History Association encourages H-Labor subscribers interested in participating in this Fall's annual meeting to submit proposals for panels and/or individual papers www.ssha.org. The 29th Annual Meeting will be held from November 18-21, 2004, at the Palmer House in Chicago.

Occasio

Occasio Digital Social History Archive: The Internet archive of the International Institute of Social History (IISH)

Occasio is an archive of newsgroup messages on social, political and ecological issues distributed on the internet.

Slavery without Sugar

Verene A. Shepherd, ed. Slavery without Sugar: Diversity in Caribbean Economy and Society since the 17th Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. x + 296 pp. Tables, notes, index. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-2552-4.

Reviewed for H-LatAm by William Van Norman, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October 2003)

Breaking the Sugar Mold

H-Slavery

Announcing H-Slavery: H-Net Network on the History of Slavery
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

About H-Slavery

H-Slavery seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation. It is dedicated to the dissemination of information about the history of slavery and antislavery in all time periods and parts of the world.