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.
New publications of the Archive of Social Democracy and the Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Recently the archive and library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung have published two titles concerning the international labour movement:
Robert J. Steinfeld, Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xi + 329 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-77360-1; $22.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77400-4.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Gillian Hamilton, Department of Economics, University of Toronto. March 2002
David Brian Robertson, Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xxii + 297 pp. $75 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8476-9728-2; $22.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8476-9729-0.
Reviewed for EH.NET by William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University. January 2002
Vient de paraître aux éditions de l'Atelier: Le roman social - Histoire, littérature et mouvement ouvrier (sous la direction de Sophie Béroud et Tania Régin)
Cet ouvrage analyse les rapports multiples qui se sont noués entre le monde des lettres et le mouvement ouvrier sur plus d'un siècle.
The Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) is pleased to announce the web publication of three new CWIHP Working Papers.
Second Call for Papers
Making Social Movements: The British Marxist Historians and the study of Social Movements
June 26-28, 2002
Edge Hill College of Higher Education, England
Conference Sponsors: The Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, The London Socialist Historians Group, The Socialist History Society, Historical Materialism
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Confirmed Speakers
Hans-Joachim Voth, Time and Work in England 1750-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. viii + 304 pp. $65 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-19-924194-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Jane Humphries, All Souls College, Oxford. February 2002.
Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Jeff Hill and Judith Rowbotham, editors, The Golden Age: Essays in British Social and Economic History, 1850-1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. xix + 284 pp. £44.00, $79.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7546-0114-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Giorgio Riello, Department of History, Open University and Department of History, University College London. February 2002.
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