Working Class Movement Library News
January 2001

Ewan Mac Coll event postponed

As a mark of respect to Kirsty Mac Coll who was tragically killed before Christmas the Trustees took a decision to postpone the Ewan Mac Coll celebration. The event should have taken place in the Annexe of the Library on Sunday 7th January. Those of you who have tickets please hold on to them as there is every intention to hold the event at a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience that the timing of the postponement may have caused.

New Acquisitions

The following sites were added to the World Wide Web Virtual Library Labour and Busines History in November-December 2000, for a grand total of 1,682 sites.

Radical History Review Call for Submissions:
"The Uses of the Folk"
Call for Papers Date: 2001-06-15

The Journal of Women's History is soliciting articles for a special issue entitled "Revising the Experiences of Colonized Women." We seek manuscripts from individuals around the world that provide new perspectives on the experiences of colonized women during the colonial and neocolonial periods that incorporate research on such topics as gender, sexuality, national identity, political and social activisms, feminism, and pedagogy. This issue, guest edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Claire Robertson, will appear in early 2003. The deadline for submissions is 1 August 2001.

I am pleased to announce the beginning of this year's competition for the Philip Taft Labor History Award. The competition is open to any book (or books) published in 2000 relating to the history of United States labor. The award carries a $1000 prize. I invite your nomination of any and every eligible book for consideration.

Nominations must be submitted no later than May 1, 2001.

Work and the Image (vols I and II)
Edited by Valerie Mainz and Griselda Pollock

Paul Hollander, Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1999. xi + 356 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 40.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-300-07620-7.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Henry Reichman, Department of History, California State University, Hayward.
Published by H-RUSSIA, December 2000.

Disillusion and the Soviet Demise

During the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (Boston, 4-7 January 2001) International Labor and Working Class History will organize two sessions:

Friday, January 5, 2:30-4:30, Sheraton, Beacon Room H: Session 1

Recent Work in Labor History: a Roundtable

University of North London Announcement: Seminars for Spring 2001

Political Economy, Labour and the Left in France

Wednesday, February 14

Images of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema

Call for Papers

The Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC) in co-sponsorship with the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) announce a joint session on the topic of Images of the Working Class and Labour in Canadian Cinema. The session will be part of the upcoming Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, May 26-28, 2001.