Alternative Futures

Between 1995 and 2002 Manchester Metropolitan University hosted eight very successful international conferences on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. A Ninth conference will be held from 22nd-24th April 2003.

The Conference aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their leaders and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate.

Women in the Labour Force

Panel Proposal:
Comparative Perspectives on Women's Labor Force Participation in the Twentieth Century
Submission Deadline: 1 April 2003

We seek proposals for papers to submit as a session to the Fifth European Social Science History Conference, to be held at Humboldt University in Berlin from 24-27 March 2004.

We are also seeking someone to serve as a chair and commentator for the session.

Two papers have already been proposed for the session:

Lost Labour

Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980 is a selection of 160 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures documenting America's business and corporate industrial history.

See www.lostlabor.comand forward this site to a friend.

 

Raymon Elozua
Elozua Studios
292 Elizabeth St. NYC, NY 10012
212-260-1239/ 212-260-0909 fax
raymon@elozua.com

Writing with the Left

Scrivere con la Sinistra: dalla carta intestata a Internet
a cura di Stefano Caretti, Maurizio Degl'Innocenti, Gianni Silei
Piero Lacaita Editore
Collana "Immagini e Parole"
promossa dall'Associazione Nazionale "Sandro Pertini"
diretta da S. Caretti e M. Degl'Innocenti
dicembre 2002
pp. 170 - prezzo di copertina Euro 20,00

Romania and the Warsaw Pact

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) is pleased to announce the publication of CWIHP e-Dossier No. 6, "New Evidence on Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989," by Dennis Deletant, Professor of Romanian Studies at University College, London (UK) and CWIHP Senior Scholar.

Social Inequality

Sessions of the ESSHC
Call for Papers
Deadline for sending in a pre-registration form and abstract is 1 April 2003

On 24-27 March 2004 the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) will meet in Berlin. We would like to ask you to contribute a single paper or to organize a session of four papers on the theme of social inequality. Below are some of the sessions that have been suggested, but you may very well propose something different.

Transnational Labour History

International Labor and Working-Class History is looking for essays on the theme of new approaches to transnational labor history. The collection will be edited by Michael Hanagan and Marcel van der Linden. We're interested in case studies that illustrate new approaches or in general expositions of transnational processes or mechanisms of interest to labor historians. Drafts are due on September, 2003 and a short page or two precis within the next month or so.

UK-Australian Labour History

UK-Australian Labour History Conference
July 16th, 17th and 18th, 2003
Provisional programme

The Society for the Study of Labour History is organising a joint conference with the Australian Society on Anglo-Australian Labour History. The conference will be held in Manchester, England, in July 2003.

The conference consists of three strands.