...Rosemary Feurer The Labor Trail: Chicago's History of Working-Class Life and Struggle Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies; Leon Fink, project director, 2004 to order; no price listed; California Labor History: A History of Labor's Contributions to California's Development, 1769-2003...

...Peter Weiler Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives Allen Joan , Campbell Alan , and McIlroy John , editors Pontypool, Wales : Merlin Press , 2010 viii + 399 pp. , $80.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper) Making History: Organizations of Labour Historians in...

...Heather Wilpone-Welborn This article examines papers presented at the “Beyond ‘Free’ and ‘Unfree’ Labor” Conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in April 2016. It extracts salient themes and questions about the status of labor history in the growing field of the history of...

...David Frank © 2006 by David Frank 2006 Reconnecting with History: A Community-University Research Alliance on the History of Labor in New Brunswick David Frank This report is written early in the story, a few days after several of us returned from a local-history workshop at the...

...Ava Baron; Eileen Boris Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 UP FOR DEBATE ““TheThe Body” Body” as as a a Useful Useful Category Category for for Working-Class HistoryWorking-Class History Ava Baron and...

...John Womack, Jr. John Womack Jr. 2008 ARTICLE AFTERMATH On Labor History, Material Relations, Labor Movements, and Strategic Positions: A Reply to French and James (as Nice and Civil as I Can Make It) John Womack Jr. I knew...

...: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World Ian Gordon Verso published Wobblies in 2005 to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The volume collects numerous graphic presentations, or comics, of...

...Kitty Krupat Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants Kathleen M. Barry Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 xiii + 304 pp., $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants...

...Franca Iacovetta Gendering Labor History Alice Kessler-Harris Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007 352 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants Kathleen M. Barry...

...Jonathan Prude The Slave Ship: A Human History Marcus Rediker New York: Viking, 2007 434 pp., $27.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS The Slave Ship: A Human History Marcus Rediker New York: Viking, 2007 434 pp., $27.95 (cloth) Marcus...

...Robert D. Johnston Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005 vii + 384 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS Femininity in Flight...

...John P. Enyeart Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement Clayton Sinyai Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006 ix + 292 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS Femininity in Flight: A History...

...Thomas J. Sugrue Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 Toward a New Civil Rights History Thomas J. Sugrue For more than a decade as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, I pre- sented my students with a fairly conventional account of the history of civil...

...Paul Husbands Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s Laura Hapke Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 xi + 301 pp., $69.99 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 BOOK...

...Elizabeth Rose School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program Susan Levine Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008 272 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2010 BOOK...

...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...

...Thomas Dublin Thomas Dublin 2010 ew essay vi re The New Labor History, the New Media, and New Challenges Thomas Dublin For...

...Leon Fink This issue's Up for Debate section discusses Lawrence Glickman's new book, Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America . Introduced by Leon Fink's brief summary, the debate brings together three commentaries by Nan Enstad, Nancy MacLean, and Susan Levine. In a response...

...Peter Rachleff Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008 xxxii + 1073 pp., $85.00...

... its many prison guards have a very rich labor history. This “hidden” labor history helps us to better understand why this nation's penal institutions experienced so much upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s, and why the “free-world” working class has faced its increasingly uphill battle to secure and keep...