The 2005 issue of the North West Labour History Journal (UK) has just been published. It includes articles on 100 years of the Bolton Socialist Club, the radical Stalybridge cleric Joseph Rayner Stephens, Mary Banniff's experiences working at sea in the 1960s, the Nelson Clarion clubhouse, Michael Davitt, health in the workplace plus news and reviews.
The journal is dedicated to exploring the rich labour history of the North West of England.
The Fondazione Turati (Florence) published two new titles:
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Labor History
Volume 46 Number 4
Table of Contents (Special Issue on the Building Trades)
Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the 21st Century
Jeff Grabelsky and Mark Erlich
The Contemporary Industrial Relations System in Construction: Analysis, Observations and Speculations
David Weil
From Craft to Qualified Building Labour in Britain: A Comparative ApproachLinda Clark
Sources for the History of the Building and Construction Industry Janet Wells Greene
From: Tracy E K'Meyer,
The organizers of the conference are particularly interested in papers related to labor activism in the modern period (any geographic area)
Call for Papers
2006 OHA Annual Meeting
October 25-29, 2006-Little Rock, Arkansas
Generational Links: Confronting the Past, Understanding the Present, Planning the Future
Capital & Class 87 Autumn 2005: Miners' Strike Special Issue
Contents
Introduction
'The past we inherit, the future we build'
Anne Suddick
In the preface to this special edition, Anne Suddick discusses the issues that came out of the women's forum at last year's Miners' Strike Twenty Years On: Challenges and Changes conference, which was attended by women activists from the Durham area, and by national officials from Women Against Pit Closures.
BEHIND THE NEWS
International Colloquium, Ghent, 2 December 2005
International Colloquium on trinity of Labour, Culture and the LabourMovement from a historical viewpoint.
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The integration of old and new migrants in Western Europe since 1850. University of Illinois Press 2005.
This book is the first volume of the new series Studies of World Migrations, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Leslie Page Moch.
Call for Papers for a proposed edited collection of essays on: Anarchism and Utopianism
We extend this call for papers to authors from all disciplines interested in exploring the relationship between anarchism and utopianism.
From: London Socialist Historians Group,
The Summer 2005 issue of the London Socialist Historians Group Newsletter has been published and can be downloaded from the LSHG web site.
It contains articles by Louis Raw discussing her new research on the 1888 Bryant & May strike, by Nik Howerd on the origins of Japanese imperialism, and by Pete Glatter on the 1905 centenary issue of Revolutionary History, together with a review by Neil Rogall of Ian Birchall's Sarte Against Stalinism.
From: Tapio Bergholm,
Making Global and Local Connections: Historical Perspectives on Port Economics
Call for Papers for a port history session of the XIV International Economic History Congress IEHC, Helsinki, Finland, 21-25 August 2006 and an attached-conference to be held in Kotka, Finland, 18-20 August 2006.
