...Calvin White, Jr. The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America . Gellman Erik S. and Roll Jarod . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2011 xiv + 221 pp. , $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper) © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History...

...Susan Eva O'Donovan © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015 Slaves: America’s Working Class Susan Eva O’Donovan Black Reconstruction is, to paraphrase a student, a very large book. Planting “black folk” squarely in the middle of what was, even in 1935, a long...

...James Michael Buckley Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities by Dinius Oliver J. and Vergara Angela , eds. Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 xiv + 236 pp. , $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class...

...Gary Gerstle Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White; The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs David R. Roediger New York: Basic Books, 2005 vii + 339 pp., $17.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 BOOK REVIEWS A Woman...

...Fred Carroll Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class . Quirke Carol . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 xi + 358 pp. , $105.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016...

...Eric Rauchway People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan , Attewell Steven , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 , viii + 323 pp., $75.00 (cloth) Copyright © 2019 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2019...

...Erika Kuhlman Women’s Work and Politics in WWI America: The Munsingwear Family of Minneapolis . Olsson Lars . Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2018 . xiii + 301 pp., $89.99 (cloth); $84.99 (paper); $64.99 (ebook) Copyright © 2020 Labor and Working-Class History...

... office workers' group, and now directs Working America, a community-based AFL-CIO group for working people who do not have a union, founded in 2003. Windham paints Nussbaum as a foremother of contemporary “alt-labor,” labor groups like Working America that are not based in traditional collective...

... broader career in academia and politics, and the state and future of working America, addressing topics that include contemporary politics, economic and fiscal policy, labor law, education and immigration reform, and the role of organized labor in American society. © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class...

...Liesl Orenic This issue's Bookmark section focuses on Joseph A. McCartin's Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America . While drawing raves for the power of its narrative and depth of research, McCartin's work also attracts questions...

..., “America’s Two Cultures” ; Moynihan, “Presidency and the Press” ; Novak, “Why the Working Man Hates the Media” ; Harwood, “Is the Press An Adversary Culture of Elitists?” ; Witcover, “The Press and Chicago.” 56 Kraft, “Vietnam as an Issue” ; Kraft, “Daley and Police Have a Point.” This summary...

... of a town. It is hard to know whether people identified themselves aloud in these terms or the labels were added by the Spanish notaries. Nevertheless, people who testified in Spanish would have recognized the term india/indio. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Volume 6, Issue...

... obligation, and the program lacked surgical coverage—it nevertheless marked a turning point in the history of welfare security in America. The steelworkers’ victory worked to improve the lives of older steelworkers who had been forced to retire or who were on the verge of retirement, but, more important...

...Susan Dewey Drawing upon labor-oriented historical and social science research on sex work in the Americas throughout the past twenty years, this article discusses key themes that have emerged in this work: (1) sex work's close resemblance to many other forms of feminized labor; (2...

... competition and to recognize that its destiny is tied in subtle but important ways to the ability of inmates as well as prison guards to demand fair pay as well as safe working conditions. Similarly, it is time for scholars to probe this historical relationship more carefully. America's inmate population...

... as a military strategy. People used food to communicate with each other in ways that ultimately solidified the gap between Native and non-Native in colonial America. © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015 captivity gender Native Americans taste war “Their Filthy Trash...

... history, and how it continues to shape his research agenda as a scholar of postwar America. © 2020 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2020 September 11 white working class conservatism hillbilly postwar America On September 14, 2001, George W. Bush made his first visit...

..., that the worldview of Israel Hill's free blacks had much in common with that of other propertied persons in antebellum America. Focusing on the latter point, Stanley argues that Ely's work disrupts assumptions about the stark dualities of the Old South and the Yankee North. Accordingly, she suggests that questions...

... for the Socialist Party of America. In conclusion, Edward Blum ponders the questions of how the labor movement reinterpreted a classic biblical curse and why historians failed to notice. © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 UP FOR DEBATE...