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...Robert Shaffer Public Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962 Joseph E. Slater Ithaca, NY: ILR, 2004 260 pp., $39.95 (cloth) © 2006 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 BOOK REVIEWS Arc...

...Beth Bates Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present . Storch Randi . West Sussex, UK : John Wiley and Sons , 2013 x + 291 pp. , $81.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper) © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 BOOK...

...David Brody Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes a Movement . Getman Julius G. . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 xvii + 381 pp. , $55.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper) Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back . Yates Michael D. , ed. New York : Monthly Review...

...Rebecca Hill © 2011 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2011 “ The Common Enemy Is the Boss and the Inmate”: Police and Prison Guard Unions in New York in the 1970s  – 1980s Rebecca Hill Following the death of radical prisoner activist George Jackson in 1971, Bob...

...Joseph A. McCartin © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012 Details, Details: Unions, Affirmative Action, and the Deslippe Thesis Joseph A. McCartin As readers of this journal know, there are few subjects in recent American labor and social history...

...Jonathan Hagood © 2012 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2012 Unidad Médica: Physicians’ Unions and the Rise of Peronism in 1930s – 1950s Buenos Aires Jonathan Hagood Most Argentines and many outsiders know about the events that took place in Buenos Aires...

...Jerald Podair Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity . Perrillo Jonna . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 xi + 250 pp. , $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016   146...

...Ruth Milkman Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions . Steier Richard . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2014 xx + 281 pp. , $24.95 (paper); $24.95 (e-book) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016...

...Michael Snodgrass Michael Snodgrass 2007 “New Rules for the Unions”: Mexico’s Steelworkers Confront Privatization and the Neoliberal Challenge Michael Snodgrass On May 10, 1986, those who tuned in to Monterrey’s evening news learned that the rumors were indeed true...

...Lee Bernstein Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement James B. Jacobs New York: New York University Press, 2006 xxxvi + 319 pp., $32.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Kevin Boyle Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century Martin Halpern Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003 xxi + 261 pp. Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 BOOK REVIEWS The Tribe...

...William Jones For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 Daniel J. Opler Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007 270 pp., $49.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS The Slave...

...Michael J. Murphy This article examines the history of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) during the 1960s and early 1970s from a transnational perspective, exploring the ideological overlap between the union's domestic organizing efforts and its international affairs program. The UAW believed...

...Steve Striffler Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America Dana Frank Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005 xiii + 137 pp., $40.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2009 BOOK REVIEWS...

...David Palmer Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing , McCallum Jamie K. , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2013 , xv + 210 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2017...

... Era intellectuals who founded the discipline may have considered themselves advocates of “Christian economics,” for example, but their foundational work on the American labor movement excluded any reference to the faith of union members. For them, such concerns were supposedly too distant from...

...Sean T. Cadigan Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity , Ross Stephanie Savage Larry , eds. Halifax : Fernwood , 2013 , 159 pp., CAD $30.00 (paper) Copyright © 2017 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2017 This book is a fine addition to Fernwood Press’s...

...Jennifer Hill Agricultural guest workers have organized in recent years, but building viable unions to represent guest workers is challenging. To effectively represent guest workers, a union must address problems throughout the work cycle in both home and host countries. The Farm Labor Organizing...

...Bernard F. Dick Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue , Fisk Catherine L. , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2016 , x + 308 pp., $35.00 cloth Copyright © 2018 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2018 In her persuasively argued study...

...Kevin A. Young Where Are the Unions? Workers and Social Movements in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe , Lazar Sian , ed., London : Zed , 2017 , 296 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Copyright © 2018 Labor and Working-Class History Association 2018...