Bogdanov and His Work

John Biggart, Georgii Glovelli, and Avraham Yassour, Bogdanov and His Work: A Guide to the Published and Unpublished Works of Alexander A. Bogdanov (Malinovsky) 1873-1928. Aldershot,England and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998. vii + 495 pp. Notes and appendices. $85.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-85972-623-2.

May Day

The Cuban Workers Confederation (CTC) and the Instituto de Historia de Cuba are pleased to invite researchers, scholars, journalists, trade unionists, information specialists, institutions, and organizations to participate in the Fourth International Scholarly Conference on May Day, to be held in La Habana, on April 25, 26 and 27, 2001.

The purpose of the conference will be to provide analyses and debates on workers' roles, their past and challenges at present in this early century, full of enormous challenges and difficulties to overcome.

English Poor Laws

Lynn Hollen Lees, The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 373 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-57261-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by George R. Boyer Department of Labor Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
Published by EH.Net, May 2000.

North West Labour History Journal

The North West Labour History Journal (England) would like to appeal for contributions to two forthcoming issues. We hope to do special issues on the 1960s (to appear in 2001) and the 1970s (to appear in 2002). We would like to have contributions from researchers and also from those active in the radical and labour movements of those years. Surveys of these decades have largely focused on national movements (ie London) and we in the north west think it is high time that we redressed the balance.

Women's History Bibliography

ViVa Women's History Database now available on the Web

ViVa is a current bibliography of articles about women's and gender history. Articles published in English, French, German and Dutch are selected from more than hundred European, American and Indian journals. The ViVa database now contains bibliographic records describing about 4700 articles published between 1975 and 2000 in 107 historical and women's studies journals.

General Electric History

In recent decades labor and business historians have begun to transform how we view and study the evolution of the modern corporation. We are editing a collection of essays drawing on the insights of new scholarship to illuminate the history of the General Electric Corporation (GE), a corporation that has had a unique and profound impact on our society, and, indeed, the world.