The Newberry Library Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture
Co-Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University
2003-2004 Schedule
Fridays, 3:30-5:00 P.M., at The Newberry Library
French Left, Labour and Politics Seminar
Wednesday September 17, 2–5.30 pm
New Boardroom, Technology Tower, 166 Holloway Road, London N7
Sandwiches will be available at 1.30 pm.
H-Net Announcement
73rd Anglo-American Conference of Historians
Wealth and Poverty
7-9 July 2004 at the University of London Senate House
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Deadline: 2003-11-03
The conference "Ambiguities of Work: Knowledge, Power, and Culture" will take place Friday, November 7, 2003, at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Co-sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, the conference explores the intersections, struggles, and interrelationships over knowledge, work and the workplace.
The University of Illinois Press proudly announces the publication of two new titles in the series The Working Class in American History:
Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 by Frank Tobias Higbie
On December 12, 2003, Amsab-Institute for Social History organizes a conference on Hendrik de Man (1885-1953), one of the most influential thinkers of 20th-century socialism. For more information (in Dutch) see www.amsab.be/hd/deman.htm.
John A. Salmond, The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. xii + 295 pp. $37.50 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8262-1395-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Clete Daniel, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).
Hugh D. Hindman, Child Labor: An American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. xi + 431 pp. $83.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-7656-0935-5; $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7656-0936-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Carolyn Tuttle, Department of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College.
Published by EH.NET (July 2003).
Stephen J. Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 320 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-09287-7.
Reviewed for H-California by Robert I. Cruickshank, Department of History, University of Washington
Published by H-California (June 2003).
Stefan Berger. Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany. Themes in Modern German History. London and New York: Longman, 2000. xiii + 280 pp. Notes, bibliographical essay, maps, index. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-582-29814-8.
Reviewed by William Patch, Department of History, Grinnell College.
Published by H-German (July, 2003).
