Edward C. Lorenz, Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. x + 318 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-268-02550-09; $27.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-268-02551-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Mark Perlman, Department of Economics, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.
We are pleased to announce that ViVa now includes historical citations on women in African history.
New website of the history journals Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (Yearbook for historical Studies on Communism) and The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, published by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.
An editorial homepage of both journals has recently been published in the Internet containing some basic information and links. You may have a look at:
Call for Papers
The Information Revolution is considered by many to be an epochal shift in contemporary global economic, social, political and cultural history, comparable with the previous major shift of the Industrial Revolution. Scholars continue to explore and analyze the unparalleled rapid development of information and communication network technologies – most recently that of the Internet and World Wide Web.
The Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" (Florence, Italy) would like to inform about some of the latest volumes published in the Series Società e Cultura (Lacaita Publishing House):
In the series Strumenti e Fonti (Lacaita Publishing House) the following volumes:
Over the past few years the International Institute of Social History has digitized part of the finding aids to its archival collections. Over 400 of them are now online, in HTML or SGML format, or both. They cover the collections of Wolfgang Abendroth, Friedrich and Kathia Adler, Fritz Brupbacher, the Bureau Socialiste International, the Communist Parties of Bangladesh and Egypt, Fedor Dan, the European Trade Union Confederation, Jeanne Humbert, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the Labour and Socialist International, G.P.
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Kenneth Morgan, Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 120 pp. $11.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-58814-6; $39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-58213-X.
Reviewed for EH.NET by David Eltis, Department of History, Queen's University.
Published by EH.NET, October 2001.
Pacific Northwest Labour History Association
34th Annual Conference
Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 6-9, 2002
Advance Call for Presentations
YOUTH AND LABOUR
The Pacific Northwest Labour History Association's annual conference…events offer a unique opportunity for trade unionists, workers, activists, students, educators and others interested in the rich heritage of the working class. Participants examine labour history, and about how this history links to todays struggles and circumstances.
Bien présente dans la mémoire collective suisse, la figure du volontaire de la guerre d'Espagne demeure peu explorée dans l'historiographie helvétique. Spontanément, puis de manière organisée, huit cents personnes ont quitté le pays pour s'engager dans la défense de l'Espagne du Front populaire. Si l'on rapporte ce chiffre à la population nationale, on obtient ce résultat surprenant: en dépit d'un cadre politique et légal particulièrement défavorable, la Suisse se place parmi les pays qui ont le plus participé à la guerre!
