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...Rosemary Feurer Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011 How and Where to Look for Corruption? Rosemary Feurer David Witwer asks us to join him in studying the dimensions and meaning of cor- ruption in labor history. He argues that through focus on the social...

...Shelton Stromquist Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets during Industrialization Joshua L. Rosenbloom New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 208 pp., $60.00 (hardcover); $22.99 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 BOOK REVIEWS...

...: Looking Forward from New York Shelton Stromquist The New York conference in June marked an important threshold for LAWCHA. The programmatic diversity and stimulus to membership the conference created invites some rethinking of LAWCHA’s identity as an organization and future direc- tions...

... History Association 2014 Marshall’s Principle: A Former Labor Secretary Looks Back (and Ahead) Joseph E. Hower and Joseph A. McCartin Ray Marshall is undoubtedly the most significant scholar ever to have held the post of US secretary of labor. He was born on August 22, 1928, in Oak Grove...

... sustainability ethnography Looking for Work: Placing Labor in Food Studies Sarah Besky and Sandy Brown Michael Pollan tells us to do a lot of things. He tells us to cook, to eat more plants, to embody our grandmothers in our food choices, to care about where our food comes from. Though lesser...

...: Looking Ahead from Washington, DC Nancy MacLean The LAWCHA conference held in Washington, DC, in May 2015, “Fighting Inequality: Class, Race, and Power,” carried forward the momentum from our large gatherings in Chicago and New York. Held in partnership with the Working-Class Studies...

... Lawcha LAWCHA/OAH Meeting in Milwaukee: Looking Ahead Cecelia Bucki, LAWCHA National Secretary The Labor and Working-­Class History Association (LAWCHA) held our 2012 annual membership meeting, as well as the board of directors meeting, at the Orga- nization of Historians (OAH...

...Jacqueline Jones Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization . Frederickson Mary E. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida xxiii + 302 pp. , $69.95 (cloth) © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013...

... threat to the discipline of industrial relations. In the event, as four experts attest, the “mother field” or industrial relations – labor economics is now looking to its labor history offspring as one source of re-inspiration. Following Michael Hillard's introductory overview, Thomas A. Kochan, Rosemary...

...David Brody The questions posed by this symposium are ones that, up to now, I have put out of my mind. What was the point, in the midst of the EFCA campaign, of looking back and apportioning blame for labor's decline? Or of looking forward and wondering whether EFCA really was worth the trouble...

... prisoners. It suggests that medical records from this period demonstrate how penitentiaries reconciled nonworking prisoners with the prevailing model of reform constructed around labor. The article looks at two such groups. The first is sick prisoners, including physical and mental ailments. Mental illness...

...Richard Wells This article examines a reality television show about crab fishing on the Bering Sea, “The Deadliest Catch,” from three angles. First, it looks at how the content of the show, the story it tells, fits in with broader ideological patterns associated with neoliberalism. The other two...

... and factories. Tens of thousands joined his EPIC movement as he swept to victory in the primary and then watched in disbelief as he lost the general election. This article looks at the composition and dynamics of the EPIC movement, using new data to understand the class, ethnic, and gender profiles of activists...

...Alex Lichtenstein This essay suggests what a labor-based history of the U.S. carceral state in the twentieth century might look like. In particular, it argues that the bifurcation of prison studies into examinations of life “behind the walls” and the place of incarceration in the society at large...

.... No truly global history of the Knights of Labor yet exists. This article brings together what historians have so far uncovered of their activities outside Canada and the United States, provides an outline of what their global history might look like, and shows how that history enriches our understanding...

...Michael Goldfield; Cody R. Melcher In this article, the authors look at the supposed causal role of progressive labor legislation on union organizing. As an extension of the Wagner Act debates of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the authors argue—contrary to the accepted wisdom of virtually all...

...Jefferson Cowie Beginning with labor historians’ efforts to create a synthesis of the field in the 1980s, this essay explores the problem of working-class political fragmentation and the intellectual problems that posed for the generation of “new” labor historians. Looking to culture, class...

...Minju Bae This essay looks at the content of the Tenement Museum’s newest exhibit, the museum as an employer, and the position of the museum in a rapidly changing neighborhood in Manhattan. The museum’s new tour at their newest exhibition space in 103 Orchard Street– Under One Roof –revealed some...

..., looking at how scientists, acting as managers and bureaucrats, organized, categorized, and administered different kinds of scientific work and labor. In particular, the article discusses how the bureau's scientists grappled with “routine,” a category of work classified as important to the bureau's...

...Naomi R Williams Abstract This article explores the shifting politics of the Racine, Wisconsin, working-class community from World War II to the 1980s. It looks at the ways Black workers’ activism influenced local politics and how their efforts played out in the 1970s and 1980s. Case studies show...