Jim Allen

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).

Fraternal Societies

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.

Ladies of Labour

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.

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