The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is pleased to announce the continuing annual competition for the ALBA George Watt Memorial prizes for the best college student work about the Spanish Civil War, the anti-fascist political or cultural struggles of the 1920's and 1930's, or the lifetime histories and contributions of the Americans who served beside the Spanish Republic from 1937- 1938. This work may take the form of an essay, visual art, video or film, a dance, theatrical work or a musical composition.

Sweatshop U.S.A.: Essays in the New Social History

Edited by Richard A. Greenwald (United States Merchant Marine Academy) and Laura Hapke (Pace University). With a forward by Daniel Walkowitz (New York University).

On 10-11 May 2001 the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History (K.U.Leuven) and the Centre for Business History (UFSIA), in co-operation with the Antwerp Port Authority, will organise a "Conference on comparative Antwerp-Rotterdam port history (1870-2000)".

The Amadeo Bordiga Foundation gives notice that an election will be held to a Scholarship for an Essay on the topic:

The figure and activity of Amadeo Bordiga in the context of the International Socialist and Communist Movement

The Scholarship value amounts to LIT 4,000,000 (four million Italian Liras) or 2065.83 Euros (two thousand and sixty-five/ 83 cents), less applicable tax.

Rules:

The Essential E.P. Thompson
Edited and Introduced by Dorothy Thompson, Professor of History at the University of Birmingham, author of The Chartists and Queen Victoria: Gender and Power, partner and co-worker with E.P. Thompson over many years.

The most comprehensive collection of historical writings from the author of The Making of the English Working Class. A useful anthology for courses on class and history.

From David Ladipo (David.Ladipo@nottingham.ac.uk)

I am hoping you will be willing to publicize the upcoming Work, Employment and Society Conference which takes place at the University of Nottingham on September 11-13, 2001. Plenary papers - addressing the theme of "Winning and Losing in the New Economy" - will be given by Naomi Klein, Theo Nichols, Kate Purcell and Richard Sennett. Sub-themes will address issues relating to:

Call for papers on Labour and Working Class History
for the European Social Science History Conference
The Hague (Netherlands), 27 February-2 March 2002

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
7th Biennial National Conference
Australian National University
Canberra, 19-21 April 2001

The conference committee is now seeking informal presentations and work-in- progress papers from academics, postgraduates and others who would like a stimulating environment in which to discuss their work.

On Tuesday 6 February Leslie Moch will give a lecture on "The Men and Women of Brittany in Paris, 1875-1925: Gender, Ethnicity, and Migration".

Leslie Moch is Professor of History at Michigan State University and the author of numerous books and articles on migration, including Moving Europeans. Migration in Western Europe since 1650 (Indiana UP 1992).

The "Vera Nocentini" Cultural Foundation (www.arpnet.it/veranoce) was set up in Turin in 1978 by a group of union leaders - some coming from the inside, some from the outside of the Turin Cisl (Confederation of Italian Trade Unions) - and by some university professors. It carries out research studies of the workers' and trade-union movement and has archives containing material about the history of trade unions as well as a library, a newspaper library, photographic archives, archives of posters and placards and also a bank of oral testimonies.