WWW Virtual Library Labour History

WWW Virtual Library
Labour History

New Archivio Biografico del Movimento Operaio (ABMO): Biographical Archives of the Workers' Movement published in 2012 by the Istituto "Sergio Motosi" per lo Studio del Movimento Operaio Internazionale and the Istituto di Studi sul Capitalismo. When complete, the database will contain biographies of thousands of well and lesser known figures from the Italian labour movement.
New Centro Studi Francesco Saverio Merlino Website devoted to the Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930), an Italian lawyer.
New Centro Studi Francesco Saverio Merlino Website devoted to the Italian lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism, Francesco Saverio Merlino (1856-1930).
New Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict Aims to stimulate global studies on labour and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective. Published by Srikes and Social Conflicts International Association.
New International Association Strikes and Social Conflicts An Association of institutional and individual members, aiming to promote and disseminates studies on labour and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non Eurocentric perspective.
New Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army Cantinières and vivandières were women who served as official auxiliary personnel to French (and other) army combat units from early modern times until about the time of World War One. Their official task was to sell food and drink to the soldiers of their regiment to supplement the always inadequate army rations. On this site Thomas Cardoza provides information about cantinières and vivandières focusing specifically on cantinières and vivandières of the French army, but also on cantinières and vivandières from other countries and cantinières serving such non-military entities as the sapeurs-pompiers (firefighters).
New bab.la This language portal includes 29 dictionaries, a phrasebook with sample sentences and vocabulary lessons.
New Archivio-Biblioteca Enrico Travaglini per gli studi sociali e il libero pensiero (Fano). This library specializes in anarchism and anticlericalism. The website gives access to digitized documents related to the libertarian educator Francisco Ferrer and contains a section about the history of social and political movements in the Pesaro province.
New WordReference.com Online Dictionaries WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries.
New Grupo de Estudios sobre la Historia Contemporánea de Extremadura (GEHCEX)
New Memorial Italia L'associazione Memorial Italia is a society for studying the history of 20th century Russian History focusing on human rights then and now.
New A Short History of Labor Day Documents, graphics, and basic information about Labor Day and May Day parades and celebrations; from the Samuel Gompers Papers Project
New Révolution française.net Resources for students of the French Revolution
New Annales historiques de la Révolution française
New Misgeld, Klaus, A Complicated Solidarity. The Swedish Labour Movement and Solidarnosc IISH Research Paper no 45
New Labour History News News on labour history, labour history institutions and organizations; conference announcements, new publications, book reviews, etc.

About this Library
The Labour History section of the WWW Virtual Library, part of the WWW VL History Network, is maintained by the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since October 1996. Roughly, our guidelines are:

We seek to assist labour historians, broadly defined. There are excellent sites for general historical resources (we list some).
We seek to assist historians, political and social scientists, and others with a historical interest. We do not try systematically to cover sites mainly concerned with today's issues.
We concentrate on instruments for historians. So we do not include commercial or political statements, though we mention sites listing trade unions, political parties and the like.
We prefer content over mere listing. So we provide links to labour history institutions and collections, but do not try to enumerate all social history departments of each and every university on earth. Again, we mention sites that do.
We want to bring together scattered information, not to replicate what other people have done, and often done well.
We include only items and institutions that can somehow be reached electronically. An e-mail address will do, but it is a minimum.
So we are selective, within limits. Where little exists, we will indicate whatever is moderately interesting; where there is much on offer, however, we apply higher standards.
Finally, we aim at clarity and speed: we provide notes where useful, but keep graphics to a minimum.

Last updated 28 January 2014

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