The winners of the 2005 Labor History Prizes have been announced. For each prize there was a large and talented pool of entrants this year, reflecting the continued strength and quality of scholarship in the field. This year's winners are listed below, and you can judge the quality of work within the Essay Prizes category by viewing the articles free online. Find out how you can enter for 2006 by following the link below:
[url]http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/announcements/clah_06.pdf[/url]

DELOS - Summer School 2006
Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Emerging Approaches
San Miniato, Italy, Centro Studi "I Cappuccini" from 4-9 June 2006.

For more information, go to the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli website at:
[url]http://www.feltrinelli.it/fondazione[/url]

La prochaine séance des Lundis de la BDIC se tiendra le 12 juin 2006, de 17h à 19h

Alan McDougall. Youth Politics in East Germany: The Free German Youth Movement, 1946-1968. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 261 pp. Figure, map. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-927627-7.

Reviewed by: Benita Blessing, Department of History, Ohio University.
Published by: H-German (February, 2006)

Sabine Hering and Kurt Schilde, eds. Die Rote Hilfe: Die Geschichte der internationalen kommunistischen "Wohlfahrtsorganisation" und ihrer sozialen Aktivitäten in Deutschland (1921-1941). Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 2003. 326 pp. Photos, illustrations, charts, documents, bibliography. EUR 24.90 (paper), ISBN 3-8100-3634-X.

Reviewed by: Gary Roth, Rutgers University at Newark.
Published by: H-German (February, 2006)

Kevin Murphy. Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory. International Studies in Social History Series. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. xi + 234 pp. Glossary, notes, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57181-429-9.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Barbara C. Allen, History Department, La Salle University

Anke Ortlepp. "Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!": Deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914. Transatlantische Historische Studien, 17. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. 309 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. EUR 37.00 (cloth), ISBN 3-5150-8405-3.

Reviewed by: Janet M. C. Walmsley, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University.
Published by: H-German (September, 2005)

History and Critical Pedagogies: Transforming Consciousness, Classrooms, and Communities

Call for Papers: Issue #102, Radical History Review

This is a short reminder to instructors and authors in history, labour studies and related fields about the Eugene Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, awarded each year by the Canadian Commitee on Labour History. There is a graduate thesis award and also an undergraduate essay award. The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2006. Details are available at the following site address:

[url]http://www.mun.ca/cclh/Forsey.html[/url]

The Third Rethinking Social Democracy Conference University of Sheffield, UK, 28-30 June 2006

Social Democracy in the Post-Bipolar World: Challenges in the Developed World, Opportunities in the Developing World

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