Pem Davidson Buck. Worked to the Bone: Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001. Viii + 279 pp. Notes index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-58367-047-5.
Reviewed by Penny Messinger, St. Bonaventure University. Published by H-Appalachia (August, 2002)
Whiteness Study Plumbs Kentucky
The Allan K. Wildman Group for the Study of Russian Workers and Society is pleased to announce the appearance of the article collection, New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918 (paperback, 248 pp., $25.99, ISBN: 0-89357-303-5). The volume, edited by Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate, is published by Slavica Publishers (www.slavica.com) and includes the following contributions by American and Russian scolars:
Donna J. Rilling. Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850. Series on Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xii + 261 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3580-0.
Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Joshua R. Greenberg, Department of History, American University, June 2002
House as a Life
UK Political Studies Association
Labour Movements Group Conference
University of Salford
Friday 4 July 2003
EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Centre for Contemporary History and Politics
University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT
Conference Organiser: Professor Steven Fielding
Call for Papers
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
University of Toronto Press 2002.
0802036112 Cloth $70.00
0802084621 Paper $29.95
Below are two advertisements that will be appearing in the Guardian on October 29 and the following week. They are the first big swathe of appointments in our new Working Lives Research Institute. The first ad is for 5 new posts. I should be grateful if you would publicize these as widely as possible through the movement and via your email lists.
Culture and the State: Past, Present, and Future
Edmonton, Alberta – Canada
May 2-5, 2003
www.arts.ualberta.ca/cms/cfp.htm
Call for Papers, Presentations, Panels and Participation
Labour Culture – Union Culture – and the Culture of Resistance
Tamiment Seminar in Labor and Social History
New York University's Tamiment Institute and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is launching a seminar in labor and social history that will begin in March of 2003. The seminar will take place at the Tamiment Institute which is on the 10th floor of New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South in New York City. We will meet on the second Wednesday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM during the academic year.
Howard W. Dick, Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000. Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2002. xxvii + 541 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 0-89680-221-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Heather Sutherland, Free University of Amsterdam.
Labour Heritage
Not Just Electoral Politics: Culture and London Labour
Conference
Saturday 23 November 2002, 10am - 4pm
London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Rd, London, EC1R OHB
(nr. Farringdon Rd BR & Underground Station)
Following the very successful Conference in January at the LMA, this 2nd London Conference on aspects of the history of the London Labour Party and labour movement history will focus on:
