This terrific collection, edited by two of the leading scholars of Australian and US labor history, respectively, contributes significantly to our understanding of labor and working-class conflicts in these two countries. Its release is consistent with the transnational trend in labor history, a body of scholarship that examines the international dimensions of working-class lives and struggles. The chapters, divided into six sections, teach us much about the histories of working-class radicalism, working-class municipal politics, relationships between immigration and organized labor, consumer movements, and political reforms. Many essays are attentive to the role of the state and the nature of repression in the context of labor-management relations. Repression was especially present during wartime, and several authors show important similarities in how authorities challenged unions in both countries. Editors Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist offer a convincing case for this collection, writing that the volume’s essays “contribute significantly to a more complex...

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