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Announces that records of the Laurentian University Faculty Association's 1989 strike have been deposited at the university's archives. Also announces a 60-page bibliography of British Columbia's labour history is available that was compiled by graduate students at Simon Fraser University. Briefly reported are recent conferences of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association on labour and the environment (University of Oregon) and at the University of Northern British Columbia on new directions in BC history.
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The Ontario Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Recreation has provided funds for research, documentation, and publication of Ontario workplace heritage. In 1994, grants were disbursed for four projects, including a video production on the thirtieth anniversary of the postal workers' strike, a video and booklet focused on preserving workers' heritage in Ottawa, a video tour guide (entitled Mapping the Workers' City) on Hamilton, and a audio documentary on the history of the Northern Ontario labour movement. Takes note of a forthcoming labour conference at the University of Oregon.
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Reports forthcoming conferences and new publications. The Reuther Archives of Labour and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is to be added to the National Bibliographic System. The Steel Project at University College of Cape Breton has a wide variety of archival resources on steelmaking technology and workers. The files of the Detroit Red Squad have been deposited at the Detroit Public Library, but will remain closed until 2018.
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Discusses Rudyard Kipling's poems, "The Cry of Toil," "The Song of the Dead," and "Tommy," which were lampooned by the Industrial Workers of the World. Concludes that, although Kipling was the bard of the British empire, his sympathy for the common soldier influenced the parodies. Both the Kipling and IWW texts are included in the article.
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Reports on the Randall B. Smith Collection on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) at the New York Public Library. Smith (1916-1989) was a civil war veteran who, in addition to collecting a variety of resources, tape-recorded interviews with other veterans. Takes note of forthcoming conferences.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences and the continuation of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe with the signing of an agreement between the Amsterdam-based International Marx-Engels Foundation and the Conference of German Academies of the Sciences.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, calls for papers, and a query regarding BC labour activist Robert Raglan Gosden.
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Andre Leblanc is acknowledged, whose idea it was to have this new section of the journal. Several forthcoming conferences are noted, as are two journal publications of interest. Also reported is a new masters and diploma program in gender and social policy at the University of Bristol. The editor is compiling a list of publications that mistakenly render the Industrial Workers of the World as the International Workers of the World.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences and calls for papers. Reports that Elaine Bernard has left Simon Fraser University for a position at Harvard. Also reports on the Labour Archives Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Archivists, the deposit of records of the Trades Union Congress at the University of Warwick library, a United Farmworkers' boycott, and ways to support for the strike for a first collective agreement at Oxford University Press in Toronto. The editor re-issues a query for information (first published in the previous volume) regarding Robert Raglan Gosden (1881-1961), a BC labour activist who during the early 20th century was also a police spy.
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Opens with a "labour quote" drawn from Jack London's "War of the Classes" (1905) and promises that this will be a "new and irregular" feature. Reports on varioius forthcoming conferences with labour/work themes.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, the Arkansas History Quarterly, and the annual summer course on comparative labour history taught at the University of Washington.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, a call for papers, and international research projects on European social democracy in World War I, the Communist International, and the complete works of Mikhail Bakunin.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences and a San Diego exhibit entitled Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, a contest, and a database on Canadian industry in 1871 that is based on the census data for that year.
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, research grants, and the 75th anniversary commemoration of Joe Hill. Reports that National Archives has received from the National Labour Relations Board records pertaining to the certification of unions from 1944 to 1947.
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Takes note of calls for papers and a forthcoming conference. Reports on an addition to Wayne State University's Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the effort to set up an international research network on coal miners and coal mines, and the Women's Labour History Project documentary entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The spring 1989 edition of Archivaria will have a labour theme.
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The call for papers at several conferences is reported, as are other forthcoming conferences of interest. The spring issue (no. 27) of Archivaria will be on documenting labour. A new program in social history at Carnegie Mellon University is noted. The John Dryer Collection at Wayne State University has opened; it has one of the premier archival collections on American Trotskyism.
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Partial contents note: Introduction / Mark Leier -- Teaching labour history and organizing skills with movement activists / Mark Leier -- Teaching the present to learn the past / John-Henry Harter -- Teaching labour history to international students / Dale M. McCartney -- Scripted celebration: issues in commemorating modern labour history / Andrea Samoil.
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