Labor, War, and Imperialism
Twenty-Fifth Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 16-18, 2003
Call for Papers
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Labor, War and Imperialism, for our twenty-fifth annual meeting to be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Deutsche Arbeiter und Handwerker in Paris
Migration im 19. Jh. in vergleichender Perspektive
Zweisprachiges Atelier am 21. Juni 2002 im Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris
organisiert von Dr. Mareike König (DHI, Paris)
Präsident: Michel Espagne (ENS, Paris)
Programm
Gunther Peck, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii + 293 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-64160-8; $20.00 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77819-0.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, University of Kansas, Department of Economics. May 2002.
Priamukhino Readings
July 27-28, 2002
Priamukhino, Tver region, Russia
On July 27-28, in the village of Priamukhino, at the estate of the Bakunin family, the second Priamukhino readings will be held. The organizers of the Priamukhino readings consider them to be a continuation of the cause, as well as a tribute to Natalya Pirumova, the well-known Russian historian, who organized the Bakunin readings in 1994 (and numerous other events devoted to the Russian anarchist and revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin).
The Economic and Social History Society of Ireland's annual conference will be held 8-9 November 2002, at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Papers are invited on the theme of "Popular cultures in Ireland."
Papers should be on any aspect of the subject, and presentations will be approximately 30 minutes in length. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent to:
Dr. Maura Cronin
History Department
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Road
LIMERICK
Republic of Ireland
The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2002.
ILWCH at the AHA: Proposals for Seminar on Recent Research in Labor History
The Labor Roundtable of the Society of American Archivist has updated the Labor Archives Directory originally prepared by Debra Bernhardt and Brenda Parnes. The directory is mounted on the SAA site:
www.archivists.org/saagroups/labor/labor_archives_directory.asp
The site covers the United States and Canada.
For comments, corrections, and additions please write to Patrizia Sione, kheel_center@cornell.edu.
The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements has four remaining essays on labor history covering the following chronological periods:
The Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social -- APHES) has approximately 160 members, for the most part teachers of economic and social history in Portuguese universities.
The Association holds its XXII Meeting in Aveiro, on 15-16 November 2002.
The Organizing Committee:
Joaquim da Costa Leite, chairman
Manuel Ferreira Rodrigues
António Ferreira Gomes
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