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...Michael C. Pierce Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement Joseph Gerteis Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 x + 274 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Julie Greene Abstract This article examines how the field of labor and working-class history has conceptualized class and assesses theories of class that can help us develop maximally illuminating concepts. Labor historians, particularly those whose work employs a transnational, gender, or racial...

...Jennifer Klein © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 Class Power, Democracy, and the Market: Reflections on David Montgomery Jennifer Klein On November 17, 2011, thousands converged on New York for a day-­long series of protest actions linked to the Occupy...

... literature on sex work examines the critical intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality, focusing in particular on urban space and its regulation by city planners and government officials. The experiences of women of color constitute a particularly glaring lacuna in the historical...

... literature on sex work examines the critical intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality, focusing in particular on urban space and its regulation by city planners and government officials. The experiences of women of color constitute a particularly glaring lacuna in the historical...

...Eric Arnesen This issue's Bookmark section revisits E. P. Thompson's path-breaking The Making of the English Working Class upon its fiftieth anniversary. Their commentaries, introduced by Eric Arnesen, signal a variety of appreciations and critical reevaluations of the original text...

...Geoff Eley © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 Working-­Class Agency: Past and Present Geoff Eley No less than any other major work of history, Edward Thompson’s great book was laden with its own moment.1 It was written in a time of political retreat...

...Premilla Nadasen The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007 vii + 327 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS The Slave Ship: A Human History Marcus...

...Lynne Marks This essay argues that while historians of working-class women have generally developed a complex and multi-faceted approach to studying their subjects, that religion has remained largely invisible in such studies. This essay argues for the value of incorporating religion as a category...

...Beth English Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class Aviva Chomsky Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008 416 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) © 2009 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2009...

...Susan Levine Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States Susan Porter Benson Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008 xiii + 233 pp., $45.00 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010...

... flash in the pan and the underestimation of strikers’ capacity for action implicit in the popular rendering fits too conspicuously with a narrative of progress that consigns class conflict to the “bad old days” and enshrines the dubious “premise of twentieth-century politics: that working people...

...Georg Leidenberger Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle John C. Putnam Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008 xi + 296 pp., $39.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 BOOK REVIEWS Killing for Coal...

...Bryan D. Palmer Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 ew intervi A City Kid’s View of Working-­Class History: An Interview with Melvyn Dubofsky Bryan D. Palmer...

...Steven Noll Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration Edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009 xii + 286 pp., $69.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class...

.... © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012 R E V I E W ESSAY Working- Class Themes in the New Environmental History Jonathan S. Franklin The recent publication of Thomas Andrews’s Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest...

...Liesl Miller Orenic Fighting for Total Person Unionism: Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship , Bussel Robert , Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2015 , 272 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $32.00 (paper) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History...

...Matthew Avery Sutton The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class , Cantwell Christopher D. Carter Heath W. Drake Janine Giordano , eds., Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2016 , 272 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper) Copyright © 2017...

...Elizabeth Shermer Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism , Schiller Reuel , New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 , xv + 343 pp., $29.99 (paper) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2017 “Labor rights...

...Myrna Santiago Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice , Robertson Christina Westerman Jennifer , eds., Reno : University of Nevada Press , 2015 , xii +281 pp., $29.95 (paper) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2017 This collection...