The Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature call for papers for sessions at the 2003 American Literature AssociationConference May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.

The newly-formed Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature welcomes proposals for papers and panels at the 2003 ALA Association addressing any aspect of working-class literature.

For more information, and to join the Society's electronic mailing list, go to: groups.yahoo.com/group/workingclasslit.

The Praxis Research and Education Centre
International research-practical conference
The anti-totalitarian left, past and future
Moscow, 21-22 June 2003

This conference is being organised to coincide with the re-opening of Moscow’s library of democratic and libertarian socialism, the Victor Serge Library.

The purpose of the conference is to discuss the historical experience of, and perspectives for development of, the social, political and intellectual tendencies comprising the anti-totalitarian left in Russia and internationally.

The Immigrant Tourist Industry
An ESF Exploratory Workshop on the Commodification of Cultural Resources in Cosmopolitan Cities
University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 7-9, 2003

The Workshop is sponsored by the European Science Foundation.

Purpose of the Workshop:

On February 12, 2003 from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M., The Tamiment Library at New York University will be hosting a book talk by Steven Norwood. Professor Norwood will be discussing his new book. This study is a pioneering work on the culture, ideology, and practice of strikebreaking during the early years of the last century. Unfortunately, this is a story that has become very familiar today.

The Tamiment Library is located on the 10th floor of NYU's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New YorkCity.

For further information please contact:

The first five volumes of the eight-volume Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland (BWSA, Biographical Dictionary of Socialism and the Labour Movement in the Netherlands) are now available on line at www.iisg.nl/bwsa/index.html. The entries can be browsed and searched. The text is in Dutch.

David Johnson, World War II and the Scramble for Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1939-1948. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2000. iv + 179 pp. ISBN: 0-908307-85-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Laird Jones, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (December 2002).

The 'Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion' strand of the Social History Conference (UK) would like to invite proposals for single papers and entire panels for the 2004 Social History Society Annual Conference, Rouen, 7-9 January 2004, (with the University of Rouen).

This meeting will also mark the launch of Cultural and Social History: the Journal of the Social History Society.

Papers from scholars working the areas outlined below are welcome and a founding principle of the strand is to encourage the work of both new and established scholars.

New Historical Materialism Book Series

Editorial board: Sebastian Budgen, Paul Blackledge, Vivek Chibber, Stathis Kouvelakis, Marcel van der Linden, China Mieville, Tony Smith.

Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2002. viii + 361 pp. $39.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-8139-2115-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. December 2002.

The December 2002 issue of the National Library of Australia News features an article by Dr Stephen Holt on the Australian Labor Party politician William Slater (1890-1960). The article focuses on Slater's political career during World War One and his experience as Australia's first diplomatic representative to the USSR during the Second World War.

It may be consulted at

www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2002/dec02/article4.html