A celebration of the life and work of the Socialist writer Jim Allen will take place on Saturday 7th October in Manchester at the Cornerhouse cinema. Starting his writing career on Coronation Street in the mid-60s Jim went on to write such influential TV drama as The Big Flame, The Lump, The Spongers, Days of Hope and United Kingdom. Working with Ken Loach in the cinema in the 1980s and 1990s he wrote important films such as Raining Stones (on unemployment), Hidden Agenda (on Ireland) and Land and Freedom (on the Spanish Civil War).

Actes du Colloque "Militantisme et militants"
Groupe d'histoire et de sociologie des Gauches - U.L.B.

Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. xii + 343 pp. $47.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-262-15049-2.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Marvin McInnis, Department of Economics, Queen's University, Canada.
Published by EH.Net, August 2000.

David T. Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xv + 320 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8078-2531-x; $24.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8078-4841-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by J.C. Herbert Emery, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Published by EH.Net, August 2000.

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. x + 266 pp. Notes and index. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-231-11102-9; $17.50 (paper), ISBN 0-231-11103-7.

UK Political Studies Association Labour Movements Specialist Group Conference
Advance notice and call for papers

Interpretations of Labour

Mechanics Institute, Manchester
Friday, 6 July 2001

Amsab - Institute of Social History (Ghent)

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii + 286 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-820453-1.

Reviewed for EH.NET by John Singleton, School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

A new book by Bert Hogenkamp, author of "Deadly Parallels: Film and the Left in Britain, 1929-39" (1986, reprint 2000), has been published last week by Lawrence & Wishart, London. "Film, Television and the Left in Britain, 1950 to 1970" is a comprehensive survey of the left's approach to films and television from the period after the second world war until the beginnings of the growth of independent cinema in the late 1960's.

Robert A. Margo, Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xii + 200 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-226-50507-3.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Department of Economics, University of Kansas.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.