Labour History number 101 is out now

The November 2011 issue contains 10 high-quality articles covering a wide variety of topics as well as a bumper crop of book reviews. Click here for more information.

Other News

• Editorial Trainees needed. Applications are invited from post-graduate students interested in labour and social history to join the Editorial Working Party of Labour History as Editorial Trainees. Trainees need to be based in/near Sydney and attend monthly meetings. Applications are due Monday 20th February, 2012 and should be sent to the Editor of Labour History, John Shields (john.shields@sydney.edu.au). For more information, click here.
• Eric Fry Research Grant. The Canberra Region Branch of ASSLH and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA) at the ANU invite honours and postgraduate students to apply for a $1,000 grant to do research at the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. For more information, click here.
• Is Social Democracy Exhausted? Pathways, Reflections, Dilemmas. Hosted by the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, this two-day conference will be held 17-18 February 2012. It will reflect on the future of social democratic politics and policy. For more information, click here.
• Labour Women’s Leadership, a special issue of Labour History, May 2013. ‘Leadership’ has attracted recent attention in the fields of management, sociology, and politics. But few existing studies of ‘leadership’ consider the relationship between ‘class’, ‘gender’, and ‘leadership’. Fewer still bring an historical consciousness to the changing relations between ‘leaders’ and ‘led’. This special issue of Labour History will grant the activity of labour women leaders greater historical prominence. The deadline for proposals has passed. Final papers of no more than 9,000 words including footnotes are due 1 January 2012 and will be sent out for peer-review. For more information, email Jackie Dickenson (jackied@unimelb.edu.au).
• Insurgency and Resistance. The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for sessions, papers, and roundtables on “Insurgency and Resistance” for its thirty-fourth annual meeting, 18-20 October 2012, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Papers and panel proposals must be submitted by 23 March 2012. Click here for more information. For details of possible financial assistance in attending the conference, click here.