162 ILWCH, 50, Fall 1996 and the large-scale migration, indentured and informal, of labor to mines and plantations in South Asia and overseas are likewise vast and relatively unexplored territory for historians. The conference's exploration of these and other themes within the context of global and local linkages was an excellent idea. The theoretical focus blurred sometimes, but this was partly because three days was not long enough to discuss the wide range and dense texture of the contributions. The conference ended with a proposal to establish an Indian Labour Studies Association which would publish a newsletter and organize an ongoing series of workshops. The term "studies" rather than "history" was used in order to accommodate inquiries into contemporary movements and issues. Jan Lucassen, head of the IISG's Research Department, welcomed the proposal with an assurance of support and suggested that European labor studies would benefit greatly from an engagement with the meth- odological freshness and substantive empirical work which characterize South Asian labor studies. The founding meeting of this new organization will be held in India on December 15 and 16, 1996. Aftermath: The Transition from War to Peace in America After World War II Roger Horowitz Hagley Museum and Library World War Two was one of the great watershed events in American history, comparable only to the American Revolution and the Civil War. It was a formative experience for the sixteen million men and women who entered the armed forces and the far greater numbers who were touched by the wai experience on the home front. However, the legacy of the war in postwar America has been taken foi granted, rather than carefully analyzed and explained. To bring greatei attention to this critical transition, the Center for the History of Business. Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library sponsored £ conference, "Aftermath: The Transition from War to Peace in America After World War II," on October 26 and 27, 1995. A grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum provided partial funding for the event. The conference opened with a keynote address by Alan Brinkley "Legacies of World War II." Brinkley emphasized that the hopes inspirec by the war were circumscribed by the competing agendas of different sec- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547900013326 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core . IP address: 3.235.21.12, on 20 May 2020 at 15:48:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms .