Professor John Higginson's new article, “The Spinning Jenny and the Sorting Table: E. P. Thompson and Workers in Industrializing Europe and Southern Africa,” will appear in the last issue of the Journal of African History for 2016. Professor Higginson gave a talk based on this paper on October 28 to the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies Workshop.