The Reuther Brothers-Walter, Roy, and Victor
by Mike and Pam Smith

The story of three brothers who were instrumental in creating the UAW, one of America's great unions.

WILL SUCCESS

A Friend in Berlin has informed us that "a will has been made in our favour". We are grateful to all who have considered us and hope that more will in the future.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Volunteers are needed to help us compile mailing lists to send out invitations to our 'Student' Day at the Library. The event is to take place on Sunday, 4th November, 2001 and starts at 2pm until 5pm. Please contact the Library if you can help with the above.

WCML OPEN DAY

Pit Women: Coal Communities in Northern England in the Early Twentieth Century
By Griselda Carr

Griselda Carr lives in Sheffield and was formerly a Lecturer in Social Studies at Leeds University

Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiii + 549 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-77233-8; $24.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-521-77604-X.

Reviewed for EH.NET by David L. Carlton, Department of History, Vanderbilt University.
Published by EH.NET, August 2001.

Economics, Politics, and Region in the Making of Modern America

Derek H. Aldcroft and Michael J. Oliver, Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2000. xiii + 222 pp. $79.95 (hardback), ISBN: 1-85928-370-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Sharon Otoo, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Published by EH.NET, August 2001.

Karen Offen, European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. xviii + 554 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-3419-4; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-3420-8.

Reviewed for H-IDEAS by Douglas J. Cremer, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, Woodbury University.
Published by H-IDEAS, May 2001.

A Political Rejoinder to Postmodern Gender History

Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Call for papers for the symposium in Amsterdam and Leiden, 23-24 May 2002

Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam and the National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK:Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with ALabour 1500-2000)

Money in the form of coins can be used for many purposes. The literature tends to concentrate on their use in trade. But there are good reasons to assume that coins have been essential for wage payments for thousands of years.

Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv + 434 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65229-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by James Oberly, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich, editors, The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. xxiv + 327 pp. $87.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0263-6; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0264-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Perry L. Patterson, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

History and Society
European Journal of Social History

‘Work’ Section

Sylvie Contrepois, Martin Petitclerc, Patricia Toucas

Echoing contemporary debates on the importance (or the end?) of work, this section aims both to provide an attempt at a historiography of work and to focus on the debates about how best to locate the place of work within a holistic social history.