Encyclopedia of American Labor

Professors James Hanlan of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Robert Weir at Bay Path College are in the process of compiling an encyclopedia of American labor for Greenwood Press. We invite contributors for this venture.

The encyclopedia is designed for public libraries and novices, not labor history scholars. We seek writers who can:

Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre
Media Release
21 November 2000

ANU Thumbs Its Nose at Senate and Australian People As It Proceeds with Destruction of Archives

Staff of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre were yesterday informed that the ANU Executive had approved the cuts to the Archives proposed by University Librarian Colin Steele. Two of the four permanent staff will lose their jobs.

Labour and Working-Class History

Call for papers

Labor/working-class history
SSHA, Social Science History Association, Chicago (Nov 15-18, 2001)
Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-01-20

From: H-NET Announcements Editor

The Labor network of the Social Science History Association invites panel or paper submissions for the 2001 annual conference (November 15-18, Chicago). Interdisciplinary and nonwestern work related to labor history is especially encouraged.

Militants

Vient de paraître:

Militantisme et militants, coordonné par José Gotovitch et Anne Morelli

Actes du colloque organisé par le Groupe d'histoire et de sociologie des Gauches - U.L.B.
Un volume de 230 pages
EVO Couleurs Savoir

Dans un monde qu'on dit dominé par l'immobilisme et l'individualisme, qu'est-ce qui les fait donc s'agiter ainsi?

Chinese Labour

Le Centre d'Etude sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (EHESS)et la Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest (CNRS) organisent une journée d'étude sur le thème:

Récompositions chinoises
La question du travail et la construction de l'Etat (Quelques aspects)

le 6 décembre, au Collège de France, amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris

Programme:

Steam Laundries

Arwen Mohun, Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. x + 348 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6002-4 (cloth, $19.95).

Reviewed for H-Business and EH.NET by Jeffrey M. Hornstein, PhD candidate in the Department of History, University of Maryland.
Published by EH.NET, November 2000.