...Benjamin L. Carp Riot and Revelry in Early America William Pencak, Matthew Dennis,and Simon P. Newman, eds. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002 viii + 316 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Alfred F. Young Down and Out in Early America Billy G. Smith, ed. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004 xx + 328 pp., $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Gary B. Nash © 2004 by Gary B. Nash 2004 ARTICLES Class in Early American History: A Personal Journey Gary B. Nash Growing up in Philadelphia, I never thought much about class or class consciousness. Staughton Lynd had Quaker...

...Staughton Lynd © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 Revisiting Class in Early America: Personal Refl ections Staughton Lynd I feel like Rip Van Winkle. After a thirty-fi ve-year absence, I return to the world of manuscript tax returns, the practice of deference...

...Seth Rockman © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 The Contours of Class in the Early Republic City Seth Rockman Scholars interested in class as a vital explanatory category face problems both within and beyond the academy. During the past few decades, several...

..., space, and class. As elites in New Haven, Connecticut, sought to dislocate a black neighborhood that by 1825 also included white laboring poor and transients from the center of a district that early manufacturing was rapidly transforming, they evinced this new racialized hostility. This essay probes...

...Leon Fink; Julie Greene; James P. Kraft Work, Class, and Power in the Borderlands of the Early American Pacific: The Labors of Empire , Lampe Evan , New York : Lexington Books , ix + 211 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $84.99 (e-book) Copyright © 2016 Labor and Working-Class History...

...Myrna Santiago Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City , Early Steve , Boston : Beacon Press , 2016 , ix + 244 pp., $36.99 (hardcover); $27.95 (paperback) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2017 A friend and I...

...S. Sándor John “I Sweat the Flavor of Tin”: Labor Activism in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Robert L. Smale. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2010 x + 243 pp. , $60.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper) © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012...

...Stephen Brier; Ferdinando Fasce This article explores the largely unknown world of militant Italian labor organizers and the rank-and-file Italian immigrants they led in labor struggles in the western coalfields of the United States in the early twentieth century. Building on the recent...

... leaders. Reconsidering CIO Political Culture: Briggs Local 212 and the Sources of Militancy in the Early UAW Charles Williams In recent years, a consensus has emerged regarding the cultural underpinnings of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). This perspective emphasizes labor’s...

.... Greene provides dead-­on biographical portraits of the principal architects of the canal, placing their thoughts and actions in the context of early-­twentieth-­century America, but the Isthmus of Panama itself is a lead character in this story. At times, the reader can almost smell the jungle...

... that the work of women such as these was critical on both a practical and emotional level to the ability of society matrons to carry out their public lives. Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 Private Secretaries in Early-Twentieth-Century America Sylvia D. Hoffert There are few...

...Bryan D. Palmer Craft Capitalism: Craftworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840-1872 Robert B. Kristofferson Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007 x + 326 pp., $70.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2009...

...M. Alison Kibler Weavers of Dreams, Unite! Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth–Century America . Holmes Sean P. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2013 x + 222 pp. , $60.00 (cloth) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016...

...Marjoleine Kars Desertion in the Early Modern World: A Comparative History , van Rossum Matthias Kamp Jeannette , eds., New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2016 , x + 213 pp., $26.96 (paper); $21.56 (e-book) Copyright © 2018 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2018...

...Amy M. Froide The book ends with a look at the understudied relationship between gender, work, and the fiscal-military state. Sweden was one of the major military powers of the early modern era, but unlike other countries many of its soldiers were married. The researchers posit that “the Swedish...

...Hasia Diner Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century , Rabinowitz Matilda , with commentary and original drawings by Robbin Légère Henderson, Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2017 , vii + 279 pp., index, $29.95 (paper) Copyright © 2019 Labor...

...Laura Hapke Rehearsing Revolutions: The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century , McAvoy Mary , Iowa, City : University of Iowa Press , 2019 , ix + 260 pp., illus., $90.00 (paper) © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2021...