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Labor (2020) 17 (4): 132–133.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jacob A. C. Remes Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History , Heron Craig , Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2018 , xxiv + 640 pp., Can $51.00 (paper or e-book) © 2020 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2020 In the late 1970s, Dalhousie...
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Labor (2023) 20 (1): 85–111.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Steven C. Beda Abstract This article focusing on Oregon's timber industry contributes to recent efforts to chart the longer history of working‐class conservativism, while also arguing that environmental change and conflict played a central role in shaping the political leanings and class identities...
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Labor (2018) 15 (4): 37–58.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Robyn Muncy This article explores the use of the term working class in US political culture since the 1950s. Studying the trajectory of the phrase in the New York Times , the essay finds that the term fell from grace in the 1950s and early 1960s but reemerged thereafter and that the reasons...
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Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 1 Laborers’ union member Virginia Powell working on a commercial construction site in downtown Washington, DC, in 1980. Photograph by Martha Tabor, © University of Maryland (courtesy of Martha Tabor Collection, University of Maryland Libraries)
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Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 1 Proposal for the Working Class in America series. Image courtesy of the University of Illinois Press.
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Labor (2013) 10 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michael Honey 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...
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Labor (2013) 10 (1): 142–145.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Emily E. LaBarbera Twarog Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression . Campbell Lara . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 304 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper) Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depression...
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Labor (2013) 10 (1): 168–170.
Published: 01 March 2013
...R. Todd Laugen Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Boston . Zonderman David A. . Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press , 2011 328 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper) © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 BOOK...
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Labor (2013) 10 (3): 27–29.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Eric Arnesen This issue's Bookmark section revisits E. P. Thompson's path-breaking The Making of the English Working Class upon its fiftieth anniversary. Their commentaries, introduced by Eric Arnesen, signal a variety of appreciations and critical reevaluations of the original text...
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Labor (2013) 10 (3): 35–39.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Geoff Eley © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 Working-Class Agency: Past and Present
Geoff Eley
No less than any other major work of history, Edward Thompson’s great book was
laden with its own moment.1 It was written in a time of political retreat...
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Labor (2013) 10 (3): 45–47.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Jonathan Rose © 2013 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2013 On Reading (Eventually)
The Making of the English Working Class
Jonathan Rose
It was 1974, I was about to begin graduate studies in history, and I was meeting my
faculty advisor for the first time. She...
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Labor (2014) 11 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Lara Vapnek Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages . Ramey Jessie B. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2012 xii + 271 pp. , $55.00 (cloth) © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 BOOK REVIEWS
Bengali Harlem...
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 121–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Tim Henderson Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution: The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz . Fowler-Salamini Heather . Lincoln and London : University of Nebraska Press xv + 418 pp. , $45.00 (paper) © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014...
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 125–126.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Thomas Jessen Adams Labor Rising: The Past and Present of Working People in the United States . Katz Daniel and Greenwald Richard , eds. New York : New Press , 2012 xiv + 318 pp. , $20.95 (paper) © 2014 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2014 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 140–142.
Published: 01 September 2014
...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...
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Labor (2015) 12 (3): 7–8.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Naomi R. Williams LAWCHA WATCH
Working Together for Economic Justice
Naomi R. Williams
The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a community of union mem-
bers, labor organizers, academics, and workers’ rights organizers who...
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Labor (2007) 4 (4): 118–120.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Sigal’s episodic memoir, sometime in the mid-1920s, a sexy and rebel-
lious working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn — single, attracted to Bohemians and
radical politics — gave birth to a son, perhaps in Chicago, perhaps in Kings County Hospital
in Brooklyn. This son — Kalman, aka Clancy Sigal...
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Labor (2008) 5 (1): 75–99.
Published: 01 March 2008
...David Van Arsdale This article derives from participant observation research of temporary help work—a kind of work that has grown exponentially in recent decades and now employs millions of workers both in the United States and globally. More specifically, between 1999 and 2003, I spent...
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Labor (2008) 5 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2008
...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...
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Labor (2007) 4 (4): 137–139.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Sigal’s episodic memoir, sometime in the mid-1920s, a sexy and rebel-
lious working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn — single, attracted to Bohemians and
radical politics — gave birth to a son, perhaps in Chicago, perhaps in Kings County Hospital
in Brooklyn. This son — Kalman, aka Clancy Sigal...
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