Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History

Ludden, David. Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalization of South Asia. London: Anthem South Asian Studies 2002. 429pp+Appendix I, 6pp.+Appendix II, 7pp. (paperback) ISBN 1843310597.

Reviewed for H-ASIA by Anupama Rao, Barnard College.

The 25th Annual North American Labor History Conference, "Labor, War and Imperialism," will be held October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

The 2003 Program is now on the web at:

www.cla.wayne.edu/History/conferences/nalhc.htm

The NALHC program web page offers a pdf file of the conference program, information about hotels and parking and the 2004 call for papers.

Call for Papers for a Panel at the 18th European Association of Modern South Asian Studies Conference in Lund, Sweden, July 6-9 2004

Empires, Nationalisms and the Containment of Labour in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Convenors: Ravi Ahuja (Heidelberg University) and Benjamin Zachariah (Sheffield University)

Avram Taylor, Working Class Credit and Community since 1918. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2002. x + 218 pp. £45.00 (hardback), ISBN: 0-333-96232-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Peter Scott, Department of Management, University of Reading.
Published by EH.NET, August 2003.

Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics
Fourth International Research Seminar on Socialism and Sexuality
Amsterdam, October 3-4 2003

Preliminary Program

The sequence of the papers is based on a more or less chronological order.

Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii + 328 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2705-3; $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-5373-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by William A. Sundstrom, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University.
Published by EH.NET (August 2003).

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington is pleased to announce a new set of web resources. No part of the United States claims a labor heritage quite like the Pacific Northwest. Working men and women and their labor movements have been central to the region's history and remain a powerful force in contemporary society and politics.

RETHINKING BRITAIN 1918-1959
Institute of Historical Research, London, 18-19 March 2004

New Collections, Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University

Now processed and open for research: