David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvii + 353 pp., $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-521-65231-6.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Jan Hogendorn, Department of Economics, Colby College.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

Ben S. Bernanke, Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. vii + 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-01698-4.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert A. Margo, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

Labor and Working Class History Association Update, July 2000

Since last October, when the first officers of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) began serving their terms, a lot has been accomplished. With an eye both to filling you in and encouraging your thoughts and feedback, we provide information here about LAWCHA's main activities in the recent past and future.

Mark M. Smith, Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the AntebellumAmerican South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii + 117 pp. $39.95 (hardback), 0-521-57158-8; $11.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-521-57158-8.

Reviewed for EH.NET by James R. Irwin, Department of Economics, Central Michigan University.
Published by EH.Net, July 2000.

At the latest update (July 2000) the following sites were added to the WWW Virtual Library: Labour and Business History, bringing the total number to 1,641.

Workshop at the International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, 6 October 2000
Second session in a series of workshops on Socialism and Sexuality.

For the preliminary program and abstracts of (part of) the papers see:

www.iisg.nl/~womhist/freelove.html

For registration, please send an e-mail message to Jenneke Quast:
The registration fee (NLG 25) covers lunch, coffee and drinks at the IISH. Payment of the registration fee at the IISH on Friday morning.

Two new CLARA Working Papers have been released:

• Shigeru Sato, Labour Relations in Japanese Occupied Indonesia, Amsterdam, 2000. (CLARA Working Paper, No. 8)
• Babette P. Resureccion, From Erosion Control to Food Crisis Management - Changing gender divisions of labor in a Philippine upland village, Amsterdam, 2000. (CLARA Working Paper, No. 10)

These (and other) Working Papers are downloadable from the CLARA website (in .doc format): www.iisg.nl/~clara/clarawp.htm.

Craig Phelan, Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. 304 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-313-30948-5.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Robert E. Weir, Department of Liberal Studies, Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA.
Published by EH.Net, June 2000.

The University of North London has been awarded an £80,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to improve and extend access to British Trade Union publications in the TUC Library Collections held at the University.

The grant will enable the University to:

Charles DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History
Prize Date: 2001-02-01