... of the business world. His study shows the interconnected yet drastically disparate ways flexibility and temp work shape modern business practices. The story of workers, their organizations, and how changes in corporate America have affected them are well known by readers of this journal, and Hyman covers...

...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...

... 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...

...Susan Dewey BOOK REVIEWS “I’ve Got to Make My Livin’ ”: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-­of-­the-­Century Chicago Cynthia Blair Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2010 344 pp., $40.00 (cloth); $7.00   – ​$32.00 (e-­book) The burgeoning historical and ethnographic...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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. Food as a Civil Right: Hunger, Work...

...Kriste Lindenmeyer Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2005 xi + 300 pp., $34.95 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 Labors of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North...

...Thomas A. Krainz The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City Sharon E. Wood Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 xiii + 321 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007...

...Alice Kessler-Harris BOOK REVIEWS From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work Susan Thistle Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xiv + 296 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) When I picked up this book for the first time, I treated...

...Gerald Ronning BOOK REVIEWS From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women’s Lives and Work Susan Thistle Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xiv + 296 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) When I picked up this book for the first time, I treated it with suspicion...

...Mary H. Blewett The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Marla R. Miller Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 xiv + 302 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2008 BOOK REVIEWS The Slave Ship: A Human History Marcus...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...