Fraternal Societies

David T. Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xv + 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2531-x; $24.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4841-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by J.C. Herbert Emery, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Published by EH.Net, August 2000.

Ladies of Labour

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x + 266 pp. Notes and index. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-11102-9; $17.50 (paper), ISBN 0-231-11103-7.

Austerity in Britain

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii + 286 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-820453-1.

Reviewed for EH.NET by John Singleton, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

Film, Television and the Left in Britain

A new book by Bert Hogenkamp, author of "Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain, 1929-39" (1986, reprint 2000), has been published last week by Lawrence & Wishart, London. "Film, Television and the Left in Britain, 1950 to 1970" is a comprehensive survey of the left's approach to films and television from the period after the second world war until the beginnings of the growth of independent cinema in the late 1960's.