The Centre d'Histoire et de Sociologie des Gauches is organizing a conference on "Solidarités internationales", which is to take place in Brussels in March 2001. The meeting is to examine different international organizations, from International Red Aid to Amnesty International, that operate as instruments of solidarity with the victims of repression and war.
Proposals for papers have to be adressed before June 30, 2000, to:
The Verlag Gegenseitige Hilfe / Editions Entraide (Postfach 526, CH-1001 Lausanne, Switzerland) has published Hommage à la Non-Violence: ein großer freiheitlicher Erzieher: Pierre Ramus (1882-1942), 130 pp, 'Les Nouveaux Humanistes", 4, price SFr 20.
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The Web site of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives (Cornell University) presents UNITE! And Its Predecessor Unions: A Selected Scholarly Bibliography compiled in February 2000 by Reference Archivist Patrizia Sione and two student assistants, Brian W. McCarthy and Tatjana Starkeova.
Amy Dru Stanley. From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Era of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 277 pp. Index, Bibliography. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-41470-9; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-521-63526-8.
Reviewed by Daniel Hamilton, Harvard University.
Published by H-SHEAR (February, 2000)
Jeno Gyorkei and Miklos Horvath, eds. Soviet Military Intervention in Hungary, 1956. Trans Emma Roper Evans. Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999. xv + 318 pp. Tables, photographs, maps, endnotes, biographical notes. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9116-36-X; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 963-9116-35-1.
Reviewed by Johanna Granville, Clemson University.
Published by Habsburg (January, 2000)
New Insights on the 1956 Crisis
International conference on comparative communist biography and prosopography
University of Manchester
6-8 April 2001
Call for Papers
"Negotiating Cultural Upheavals: Icons, Myths, and Other Institutions of Cultural Memory in Modern Russia, 1900-2000"
An Interdisciplinary Russian Culture Conference
April 13-15, 2000
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Project 2000: Significant Works in Twentieth-Century Economic History
Ivy Pinchbeck. Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. London: George Routledge, 1930. x + 342 pp.
Review Essay by Joyce Burnette, Department of Economics, Wabash College.
Published by EH.Net (February, 2000)
A Pioneer in Women's History: Ivy Pinchbeck's Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
ESTER, the European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research, is an international postgraduate network incorporating more than 60 European universities. The network organizes research training in the form of annual series of Advanced Seminars on specialized themes within Economic and Social History. Each seminar can host a maximum of 15 postgraduates from European universities who are given the opportunity to discuss their work with a number of renowned senior scholars in their field of research. The network language is English.
At the latest update (February 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,584.
