Call for Papers

Visual Culture and the Factory: Artistic Practice, Artistic Production, and Industry in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union ca 1800 to the Present

A conference organized by the National Museum of Labour History, the Society for the Study of Labour History and Manchester University, Social History Curators Group
Monday 3rd April 2000, 10.30-5.00
Pump House: People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester M3 3ER

The archive and library of the Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, which holds the records of the Unión General de Trabajadores, among others, have moved. The new address is:

Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
Archivo y Biblioteca
C/Antonio Grilo, 10
28015 MADRID
Telephone: ++34-915477990
Fax: ++34-915423140
E-mail: [MAILTO]archfflc@ugt.es[/MAILTO]
Contact: Ester Ramos, Nuria Franco

Posted: 11 February 2000

In the face of capitalist triumphalism, with its seemingly endless vistas of polarization, poverty, alienation, crisis and ecological catastrophe, the classical Marxist theory of socialismand communism remains the only credible alternative vision for human development. Yet the experience of the post-capitalist societies of the 20th century, inspired by Marxism, was clouded by the narrow technical, political and cultural foundations on which they were built.

Calvin Winslow, ed. Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class. The Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. 204 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-252-02392-7; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-252-06691-X.

Reviewed by [MAILTO]pcole@boisestate.edu Peter Cole[/MAILTO], Department of History, Boise State University.
Published by H-Labor (October, 1999)

Carlotta R. Anderson. All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. Great Lakes Books. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 324 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8143-2707-9.

Reviewed by [MAILTO]andrew.lee@nyu.edu Andrew H. Lee[/MAILTO], Tamiment Library, New York University.
Published by H-Labor (January, 2000)

During the last few months the following members of IALHI opened their Web site:

• European Trade Union Institute (Brussels)
• Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
• Ústav pro Soudobé Dejiny AV CR (Prague)

• Fritz-Hüser-Institut für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur (Dortmund)

Posted: 9 February 2000

There will be a conference on 'Images of Labour: films and the
working class in Britain, 1957-1997' on 14th and 15th March, 1997, at
the University of Manchester. The conference includes video
screenings of films, speakers (eg Huw Beynon, Sheila Rowbotham,
Trevor Griffiths), and speakers from trade unions at Ford Halewood
and Liverpool Docks.

Cost will be stlg15 (stlg5 for unwaged)

Further details can be obtained from Anne.Morrow@man.ac.uk

Mike Savage

Please forward this message to colleagues who might be
interested in Labnet.

Dear colleague,

Proceedings of the founding meeting of Labnet, Amsterdam, 18
February 1997.