Pioneering Struggles of Public Worker Union
Featured at Labor History Conference, April 27

The Wisconsin Labor History Society¹s 21st Annual Conference will look at the dramatic, pioneering struggles of the state¹s public employees to gain strong union contracts.

The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 27, 2002 at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin - Madison Campus, at 702 Langdon St.

Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography

Call for article proposals for an International Labor and Working-Class History (ILWCH) thematic issue on Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography

Donald Holley, The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. xvi + 284 pp. $36 (cloth), ISBN: 1-55728-606-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Craig Heinicke, Department of Economics, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. March 2002.

Acta: International Conference: The Past and Future of International Trade Unionism
edited by Amsab-Institute of Social History and IALHI

IALHI's XXXIII Annual Conference will be organized by the Labour Movement Archives and Library (Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek) and take place in Stockholm on September 4-7, 2002.

The preliminary program is now available at www.ialhi.org/iconf.php. Please note that the meeting is intended primarily for IALHI members.

HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations
Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas, Andrew Miles

HISCO addresses a long-standing problem faced by researchers using occupational information from historical sources in different countries: how to make effective comparisons between nations and across regional boundaries.

A 100th Anniversary Commemoration of the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
October 25 and 26, 2002

Anne Gorsuch is the author of Youth in Revolutionary Russia. A review of her book for H-Russia was reprinted in IALHI's News Service. We therefore also publish her reply to the list:

Dear Editor:

I am writing in reference to a recent review by Sandra Pujals of my book Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

ANNOUNCING H-LABOR-ARTS: H-Net Network on the Cultural and Artistic Heritages of Working People
Sponsored by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State University

ABOUT H-LABOR-ARTS

We are organising a conference in the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University on the theme of 'Women and Work Culture 1850-1950', to take place 2-3 November 2002.

Confirmed speakers: Gisela Bock, Mary Eagleton, Judy Giles, Philippa Levine, Jim McMillan, Rosemary O’Day, Pat Thane, Deborah Thom, Daniel Walkowitz, Maggie Walsh.