I am pleased to announce the beginning of this year's competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2000 relating to the history of United States labor. The award carries a $1000 prize. I invite your nomination of any and every eligible book for consideration.
Nominations must be submitted no later than May 1, 2001.
Work and the Image (vols I and II)
Edited by Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock
Paul Hollander, Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xi + 356 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 40.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-300-07620-7.
Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Henry Reichman, Department of History, California State University, Hayward.
Published by H-RUSSIA, December 2000.
Disillusion and the Soviet Demise
During the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Boston, 4-7 January 2001) International Labor and Working Class History will organize two sessions:
Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30, Sheraton, Beacon Room H: Session 1
Recent Work in Labor History: a Roundtable
University of North London Announcement: Seminars for Spring 2001
Political Economy, Labour and the Left in France
Wednesday, February 14
Images of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema
Call for Papers
The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) in co-sponsorship with the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) announce a joint session on the topic of Images of the Working Class and Labour in Canadian Cinema. The session will be part of the upcoming Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, May 26-28, 2001.
The Samuel Gompers Project proudly announces publication of Volume 8: Progress and Reaction in the Age of Reform, 1909-13 (Univ. of Illinois Press). Editors Peter Albert and Grace Palladino invite anyone interested in the history of trade unionism, progressive reform, labor radicalism, and early 20th century industrial and social change to visit our website
Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism
by John Belchem
The IISH has a unique and manifold collection of Yiddish material consisting of books, brochures, periodicals and pamphlets of the early Jewish socialist and anarchist movement in Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, the Institute has a large collection of Bundist (election) posters, photo's and prints, mainly from interbellum Poland. Next to this printed and visual material the IISH owns part of the Bund-archives viz. the incoming material from the Bund Foreign Committee in Geneva as well as material from the Central Office of the Bund in Geneva.
Concerned users of Hoover Library:
From the scores of email messages I received over the last few days, I gather there have been some extraordinarily misinformed messages about the future of the Hoover Library and Archives posted on various bulletin boards. Stanford has no plans to close Hoover Library or to reduce the funding for collections of either archival or non-archival materials.
The current situation:
