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WWW VL Update

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.

• ALSnet at the International Institute of Social History. The Asian Labour Studies network.
• American Printing History Association. Newsletter, journal.
• Anarchist Studies. Publisher's page. Tables of contents of back issues.
• Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung (Oer-Erkenschwick). Overview of the collections.
• Archives d'Histoire contemporaine at the Ecole des Sciences politiques (Paris). Overview of the collections, the papers of Léon Blum among them.
• Archivi d'impresa in Italia at the Centro sulla storia dell'impresa e dell'innovazione (Milan). List of major business archives in Italy.
• Archivo Guerra y Exilio. Circulars of the association, online documents.
• Archiwum Partii Politycznych at the Instytut Studiów Politycznych of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). Online documents, 1989-1991.
• Associação 25 Abril. General information.
• Bank of Canada Archives (Ottawa). Overview of the collections.
• Bibliografia di storia della finanza italiana at the University of Milan. Over 3,500 titles in a file of over 650 Kb.
• Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte - Dokumentationsstelle für unkonventionelle Literatur at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Stuttgart). Overview of the collections.
• Boston Gas Company Photographs at Boston College. A searchable database of 400 photographs.
• Brunel University Library - Transport History Collection (London). Brief guide.
• Cambridge University Library - Business Archives. Brief description of the records of Jardine, Matheson & Co, Vickers Plc, Phoenix Assurance, and the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company.
• Chronologie der deutschen Gewerkschaftsbewegung at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Covers the period till 1918; by Dieter Schuster, with an index by Hubert Woltering and a bibliography.
• Closing: photographs by Bill Bamberger documenting the life and death of the White Furniture Company (Mebane, NC), closed in 1993.
• Communalism at the Bureau of Public Secrets. Online edition of Kenneth Rexroth's history (1974).
• Conference of Socialist Economists. Conferences, journal, links.
• Crosby-Steam maintained by Craig Bliss (Taunton, MA). Online historical catalogues, photographs and other documents from and on the Ashton Valve Company and the Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Co, both in Boston, MA.
• Design History Society. Newsletter, journal, discussion list, links.
• Elisée Reclus at RA Forum (Montpellier). An extensive bibliography.
• Historiography of Business History. An article by Daryl B. Williams.
• History of the Farmer-Labor Movement. Text of a thesis by Thomas Gerald O'Connell on Toward the Cooperative Commonwealth: an introductory history of the farmer-labor movement in Minnesota (1917-1948) (1979).
• Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Arquivo de História Social (Lisbon). Overview of the collections.
• International Centre for Labour Studies (Manchester). General information.
• Invitation to Accounting History. Essays by David A.R Forrester (2000).
• Labor-Management Conflict in American History. Results of a series of projects by students at Ohio State University on conflicts ranging from Haymarket to the Chicago strike of 1905.
• Kraków Salt-Works Museum (Wieliczka). General information.
• Labour Left Briefing Links. UK-based meta-index of labour and green organizations, academic sites, bookshops, radical media etc.
• Links zu Seiten mit Arbeiterliedern maintained by Bobby Dunker. Links to German-language sites.
• National Building Museum (Washington, DC). Overview of the collections including the records of the Kress Five-and-Dimes company.
• National Railway Historical Society. Directory, newsletter, links, brief information on the library in Philadelphia, PA.
• Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging. General information, links.
• Nestor Makhno et la Makhnovstchina maintained by the Groupe Colargol liquide. Translated texts and a bibliography, among other things.
• New Zealand Labour History. Articles by Kath Clark and David Verran on New Zealand trade unions and their leaders.
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon maintained by Jean-Pierre Proudhon. Bio- and bibliographical materials, full text of Qu'est-ce que la propriété and Système des contradictions économiques.
• Pirate (Projet d'Indexation et de Recherche pour Assister le Travail de l'Ecrit). Meta-index of historical journals.
• Powerhouse Museum (Sydney). Brief overview of the collections of Australia's largest science and technology museum.
• Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum (Cambridgeshire). General information on the pumps that drained the Fens.
• Rear View Mirror at the UCR California Museum of Photography (Riverside): over 100 photographs illustrating "the American relationship with the automobile and the constructs and cultures that evolved from it".
• Red Shadows maintained by Michelle Abernathy-Tabor (Bellingham, WA). Meta-index on the Cultural Revolution, with a special section on children.
• Scottish Economic and Social History. Publisher's page.
• Scottish Labour History Society. Conferences, essays, links.
• Sheer Realities at the New York University Grey Art Gallery: clothing and power in 19th century Philippines.
• Sibir' Sovetskaia at Novosibirsk State University. Articles by various authors on Siberia in Soviet times. Cyrillic characters.
• Singapore Malays Social History at the Singapore History Museum: brief presentation of an exhibition.
• Sophia Smith Collection - Labor in the US at Smith College (Northampton, MA). Overview of related archival holdings.
• Unite! at Cornell's Kheel Center. A selective bibliography on Unite! and its predecessor unions.
• Vlast' i Narod at Novosibirsk State University. A study by G.L. Olekh on the Russian Communist Party and its political police in the early 1920s. Cyrillic characters.
• Wirtz Labor Library at the Department of Labor (Washington, DC). Overview of the collections, bibliographies, online catalog (Web).
• Women and Social Movements in the United States (1830-1930) at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Results of a series of student projects.