At the latest update (July 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,641.

Workshop at the International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, 6 October 2000
Second session in a series of workshops on Socialism and Sexuality.

For the preliminary program and abstracts of (part of) the papers see:

www.iisg.nl/~womhist/freelove.html

For registration, please send an e-mail message to Jenneke Quast:
The registration fee (NLG 25) covers lunch, coffee and drinks at the IISH. Payment of the registration fee at the IISH on Friday morning.

Two new CLARA Working Papers have been released:

• Shigeru Sato, Labour Relations in Japanese Occupied Indonesia, Amsterdam, 2000. (CLARA Working Paper, No. 8)
• Babette P. Resureccion, From Erosion Control to Food Crisis Management - Changing gender divisions of labor in a Philippine upland village, Amsterdam, 2000. (CLARA Working Paper, No. 10)

These (and other) Working Papers are downloadable from the CLARA website (in .doc format): www.iisg.nl/~clara/clarawp.htm.

Craig Phelan, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. 304 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-313-30948-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert E. Weir, Department of Liberal Studies, Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA.
Published by EH.Net, June 2000.

The University of North London has been awarded an £80,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve and extend access to British Trade Union publications in the TUC Library Collections held at the University.

The grant will enable the University to:

Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History
Prize Date: 2001-02-01

Richard Grassby, The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. ix + 145 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $14.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-847-69362-1 (cloth), 0-8476-9633-2 (paper).

Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Murphy Institute of Political Economy and Department of History, Tulane University.
Published by EH.Net, June 2000.

The complete text of Kenneth Rexroth’s Communalism: From its Origins to the Twentieth Century is now online at

www.slip.net/~knabb/rexroth/communalism.htm

Elena Zubkova, Russia after the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945-1957. Trans. Hugh Ragsdale. "The New Russian History" series. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. x + 239 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0227-X; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0228-8.

Reviewed by Andrew Day, New York City.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).

Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Women. New York and Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, tables, footnotes, appendix, select bibliography and index. $65.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-45403-4; $25.95 (paper), 0-521-59920-2.

Reviewed by Mark Baker, Harvard University.
Published by H-Russia (June, 2000).

A Social History of Bolshevik Women