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Labor (2019) 16 (4): 112–116.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Randi Storch The Poverty of Work: Selling Servant, Slave, and Temporary Labor on the Free Market , Van Arsdale David , Haymarket Books , Chicago ; Reprint edition, 2018 , 228 pp., $28.00 (paper) Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became...
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Labor (2020) 17 (2): 112–115.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Katie J. Wells Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work . Kessler Sarah . New York : St. Martin’s Press , 2018 . ix + 304 pp., $25.95 (cloth); $13.99 (ebook) Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work . Rosenblat Alex . Oakland : University...
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Labor (2021) 18 (3): 162–164.
Published: 01 September 2021
... analyzed the policies together with women's own strategies and perceptions of their work, and similar investigations of part-time, casual, or informal work of women, and especially migrant women, in Western Europe would have made research on women's global work more inclusive. Thanks to its...
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Labor (2005) 2 (3): 130–133.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Daniel Clark The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Lisa M. Fine Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004 xii + 239 pp., $69.50(cloth); $22.95 (paper) © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005...
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Labor (2006) 3 (1): 41–48.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Joan Sangster © 2006 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS Work and Society in Historical Perspective: Creating a New Labor-History Research Network Joan Sangster In response to a call from...
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Labor (2006) 3 (1): 149–154.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Jennifer Klein Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor Daniel E. Bender New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004 270 pp., $62.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper); Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective Daniel E. Bender...
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Labor (2005) 2 (4): 112–115.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Joseph Heathcott Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe Robert Lewis, ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004 viii+ 294 pp., $68.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper) © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 BOOK REVIEWS Labor Rights...
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Labor (2006) 3 (2): 91–120.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Gregory Wood Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 “Beyond the Age of Earning”: Masculinity, Work, and Age Discrimination in the Automobile Industry, 1916 – 1939 Gregory Wood During the 1920s and 1930s, aging working-class men in the auto industry were...
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Labor (2006) 3 (4): 85–87.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Geoff Mann Coalcracker Culture: Work and Values in Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1835-1935 Harold W. Aurand Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2003 158 pp., $37.50 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2006 BOOK REVIEWS The Creation of the British Atlantic World...
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Labor (2006) 3 (4): 87–89.
Published: 01 December 2006
...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...
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Labor (2014) 11 (1): 143–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
...John Dougan Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work . Stahl Matt . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2013 ix + 296 pp. , $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 BOOK REVIEWS Bengali Harlem...
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Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 19–43.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and theoretical framings dominant in the study of labor and agriculture in the Americas, tracing work from anthropological analyses of peasant and plantation agriculture, to cultural ecologies of smallholders, to American agrarianism, and finally to studies of commodity chains and the labor process...
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Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 45–70.
Published: 01 May 2015
... as an Englishwoman, and her inconsistent approach to work meant that she frequently went without food. Rowlandson's unwillingness to work illuminates different English and Indian attitudes regarding gender. Throughout the war, colonists and Natives toiled to maintain food supplies and targeted foodstuffs...
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Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 115–126.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Vanessa May In The Philadelphia Negro , published in 1899, W. E. B. Du Bois examined the problem African American workers faced in finding meaningful work. As the following essay and primary documents demonstrate, work with food was central to black labor. Du Bois lauded the success of a small...
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Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 135–158.
Published: 01 May 2015
... communities. Civil rights battles here were welfare rights battles, in the senses of helping individuals get and maintain public aid and of pressing at the limits of the welfare system to raise questions about the distribution of wealth throughout the society. © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History...
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Labor (2015) 12 (3): 137–138.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Neville Kirk Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-war Canada . Sangster Joan . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2010 x + 414 pp. , $78.00 (cloth); $35.95 (paper); $35.00 (e-book) © 2015 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2015...
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Labor (2004) 1 (2): 153–156.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Michael Innis-Jiménez El inmigrante mexicano: La historia de su vida: Entrevistas completas,1926–1927 Manuel Gamio, edited by Devra Weber, Roberto Melville, and Juan Vicente Palerm Mexico City: M. A. Porrúa, 2002 635 pp., $69.00(cloth); Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization...
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Labor (2004) 1 (3): 132–134.
Published: 01 September 2004
...James R. Barrett Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002 viii + 288 pp.,$34.95 (cloth) © 2004 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2004 BOOK REVIEWS A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics...
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Labor (2005) 2 (2): 81–114.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Erik S. Gellman © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 “Carthage Must Be Destroyed”: Race, City Politics, and the Campaign to Integrate Chicago Transportation Work, 1929 –1943 Erik S. Gellman I On his 1927 arrival in Chicago, Richard Wright...
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Labor (2005) 2 (2): 119–122.
Published: 01 May 2005
...Jeffrey L. Gould The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South Leon Fink Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xiii + 254 pp., $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper) © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005...