Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons
Call for papers for the symposium in Amsterdam and Leiden, 23-24 May 2002

Convenors: International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam and the National Collection of Coins and Medals (KPK:Koninklijk Penningkabinet), Leiden (in cooperation with ALabour 1500-2000)

Money in the form of coins can be used for many purposes. The literature tends to concentrate on their use in trade. But there are good reasons to assume that coins have been essential for wage payments for thousands of years.

Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee, The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv + 434 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65229-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by James Oberly, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

Michael Ellman and Vladimir Kontorovich, editors, The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insiders' History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. xxiv + 327 pp. $87.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7656-0263-6; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0264-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Perry L. Patterson, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

History and Society
European Journal of Social History

‘Work’ Section

Sylvie Contrepois, Martin Petitclerc, Patricia Toucas

Echoing contemporary debates on the importance (or the end?) of work, this section aims both to provide an attempt at a historiography of work and to focus on the debates about how best to locate the place of work within a holistic social history.

Labor in the Southwest, 1943-46: A Symposium
Las Cruces, NM, 24-25 January 2002

Call for Papers

The Department of History at New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum are co-sponsoring a World War II home front symposium on the wartime labor emergency and its resolution. Expected topics to be covered include:

Shagdariin Sandag and Harry H Kendall, Poisoned Arrows: The Stalin-Choibalsan Mongolian Massacres, 1921-1941. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000. xvii + 228 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliograpy, and index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8133-3710-0.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Timothy May, Department of History, University of Wisconsin.
Published by H-Russia, July 2001.

A Forgotten Purge

Leonard N. Rosenband, Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France: Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xv + 210 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8018-6392-9.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Michael Huberman, Department of History, University of Montreal.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

Donna J. Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Master Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 261 pp. $45 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8122-3580-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by James B. McSwain, Department of History, Tuskegee University.
Published by EH.NET, July 2001.

This is to notify you of the publication of

A Hubert Harrison Reader, edited with introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry, Wesleyan University Press, 505 pp., 4 illus., 7 x 10, June 2001, paperback ISBN 0-8195-6470-2 $24.95, cloth ISBN 0-8195-6469-9 $70.00.

Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians and Delinquents. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. x + 274 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-33766-6.

Reviewed for H-Russia by Sandra Pujals, Department of History, University of Puerto Rico.
Published by H-Russia, July 2001.