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...Leon Fink © 2006 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink This issue nicely refl ects the full range of Labor’s geographic as well as intellectual reach. To begin with, we feature an insightful self-refl ection by one of the fi eld’s lead...

...Leon Fink Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink This issue inaugurates a revised and upgraded “Up for Debate” section, to be coor- dinated twice yearly by Eric Arnesen. The format will allow for a focused argument by several scholars...

...Leon Fink Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Eric Arnesen generally coordinates our Up for Debate section, but in this issue we turn the tables and put him on the hot seat. Arnesen opens the forum with a pro- vocative essay...

...Leon Fink Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Wal-Mart has become a worldwide icon of the new consumer economy and equally a poster child of antiunionism and the downward pressure on worker wages and welfare. However well trod...

...Leon Fink © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink This issue offers pleasures old and new. Chief among the former is the chance to revisit E. P. Thompson’s path-­breaking The Making of the English Working Class in the company...

...Leon Fink Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink In keeping with Ava Baron and Eileen Boris’s call for a wider treatment of “ ‘the body’ as a useful category for analysis in working-­class history [Labor 2007 we here offer Christopher Phelps’s pioneering study of homosexuality on the 1960s...

...Leon Fink © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink A specter is haunting labor history — ​the specter of a new history of capitalism. Or, to spoil another famous line, it is the best of times and the worst of times. One ben- efit...

...Leon Fink © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Four accomplished historians revisit Herbert Gutman’s famous essay, “Protestantism and the American Labor Movement,” in our Up for Debate section. While paying tribute...

...Leon Fink © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Readers will enjoy the variety and intellectual stimulus in this wide-ranging issue. Poetry editor Jim Daniels, who regularly selects an engaging, original treatment of working...

...Leon Fink © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Continuing a tradition of dialogue with significant labor-related actors, this issue features an extended exchange with former secretary of labor Ray Marshall (in office 1977–81...

...Leon Fink © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Three features in this issue nicely highlight the challenge of working-class orga- nizing in a postindustrial and generally adverse environment. First, in an extended exchange...

...Leon Fink © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Amid renewed general interest in the relations of slavery and free labor systems, Eric Arnesen convenes a lively Up for Debate with four distinguished historians around issues...

...Leon Fink © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Three articles offer new twists to venerable themes of labor and social history. As his- torian Gregory Wood discovers, the famous “control” strikes that erupted in World War II...

...Leon Fink © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016 Reference Thompson E. P. 1963 . The Making of the English Working Class . New York : Knopf , 1963 . Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Industrial relations systems connected to southern European...

...Leon Fink © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink You will find in these pages a stimulating mixture of historical research and con- temporary commentary as well as a dash of poetry. In “Contemporary Affairs,” former AFL-CIO...

... appropriate fare for the new journal Labor: Studies in Working- Class History of the Americas. The editors are honored to offer our readers a sample. I use the word sample advisedly; it is not possible to produce the conference in its entirety in a forum of this kind. So a taste will have to do. I...

...Leon Fink © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink This issue offers a range of treats. Reemergent feminism, we are reminded in the issue’s Seventies Jamboree — a four-part forum — was only one current of that tur- bulent decade...

...Leon Fink © 2011 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink Inspired by a panel at the 2009 Chicago LAWCHA conference...

...Leon Fink © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012 Editor’s Introduction Leon Fink In the Contemporary Affairs section, we are pleased to feature a roundtable discus- sion on the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was originally held in Washington, DC...