The Labour Party in North-West England
Saturday March 1st 2003 10.30AM
The Education Room, People's History Museum, Bridge Street, Manchester

Speakers:

Seminar announcements for Sources of Radicalism

The programme is as follows:

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Nigel Fountain: Women in the First and Second World Wars: An Oral History based on the Imperial War Museum Archive

Thursday, December 5th, 2002
Tariq Ali: History is Fiction – Fiction is History (Reading from novels on Islam)

The above seminars will take place at the Britons Protection Pub, 50, Gt. Bridgwater Street, Manchester 1

We're pleased to announce an International Symposium on Proletarian Literature in East Asia to be held November 1-2, 2002, at the University of Chicago.

A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000

Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 208 pp. $55 (hardback), ISBN: 0-521-80780-8; $20 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-00287-7.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Warren C. Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Marco H.D. van Leeuwen, Ineke Maas and Andrew Miles, HISCO: Historical International Standard Classification of Occupations. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. 441 pp. $79.50 (cloth), ISBN: 90-5867-196-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Hamish James, Collections Manager, History Data Service, University of Essex.

The Right to Organize: Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Labor Movement
Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2003

Call for Papers

"The Freeborn Englishman" Forty Years On
E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class revisited

Call for Papers

2003 marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of one of the classics of socialist history, Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.

Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Historical and Current Perspectives
Southwest Labor Studies Association Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored by Labor Center for Education and Research, UCB
May 8-10, 2003
International House
University of California, Berkeley

Conference Call For Papers, Exhibits and Performances

Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive (of California State University, Long Beach)
www.csulb.edu/voaha