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...Andrew Zimmerman The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order , Fink Leon , Series: American Business, Politics, and Society , Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2015 , 206 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $45.00 (e-book) Copyright © 2017...

...Leon Fink; Shelton Stromquist [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2024 Shelton Stromquist, emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa and past president of LAWCHA, is the author or editor...

...Luis Feliz Leon [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2022 In late May 2013, I was one of twelve interns who completed a five-month editorial internship at The Nation . In a parting open letter to the magazine's editors and funders, we...

...Leon Fink Inaugurating a new section, Whither Labor History? Editor Leon Fink takes note of a curious paradox: labor history appears to be thriving even as the labor movement (at least in the U.S.) is withering at the vine. How can that be? A speculative short essay focuses on how the historians...

...Leon Fink; Jennifer Luff Labor editors Leon Fink and Jennifer Luff interviewed Andy Stern—for fifteen years the most influential labor leader in the United States—two months after he stepped down from the presidency of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in May 2010. Here Stern ranges...

..., DC; Texas; Tamaulipas; and Nuevo León and by engaging in transnational methodological and historiographical approaches, this article takes two distinct but related cases of labor solidarities from the early twentieth century to reveal the class and gendered complexities of transnational labor...

...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...

...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 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 Turbulent Waters Written and directed by Malcolm Guy and Michelle Smith Produced by Malcolm Guy and Germaine Wong National Film Board of Canada and Production Multi-Monde, 2004 53 min...

...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 © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 Ten Theses on The Making Leon Fink The Making was the book that first fired my interests as an undergraduate, the book that led me to Warwick University to study with Thompson in 1968 – ​69, the book...

...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 In this section, four accomplished historians revisit Herbert Gutman's famous essay, “Protestantism and the American Labor Movement.” While paying tribute to Gutman's path-breaking insights, each contributor also highlights recent work that has effectively transformed the borderlands...

...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...