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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Dana Frank © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 Chain of Love Directed by Marije Meerman First Run/Icarus Films,2002 50 mins; Working Women of the World Directed by Marie France Collard First Run/Icarus Films, 2002 53 mins...

...Jefferson Cowie © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies Jefferson Cowie The 1970s are the most important — and least explored — years in postwar working- class history. The older...

...Dorothy Sue Cobble © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 A “Tiger by the Toenail”: The 1970s Origins of the New Working-Class Majority Dorothy Sue Cobble It is not surprising that the economist and working-class studies scholar Michael Zweig harkened back...

...William P. Jones New Working-Class Studies John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon, eds. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2005 320 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper) © 2005 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2005 BOOK REVIEWS Impossible...

...David A. Zonderman American Labor: A Documentary Collection Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 vii + 320 pp., $26.95 (paper); The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working-Class Culture...

...Rosemary Feurer The Labor Trail: Chicago's History of Working-Class Life and Struggle Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies; Leon Fink, project director, 2004 to order; no price listed; California Labor History: A History of Labor's Contributions to California's Development, 1769-2003...

...James P. McCartin; Joseph A. McCartin James P. McCartin and Joseph A. McCartin 2007 Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal James P. McCartin and Joseph A. McCartin Catholicism has been a major force in American working-class life...

...Jerald Podair Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley Kate Rousmaniere Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005 xi + 271 pp., $81.50 (cloth) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's...

...Fred Carroll Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class . Quirke Carol . New York : Oxford University Press , 2012 xi + 358 pp. , $105.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016...

...Bruce E. Baker A Working People: A History of African American Workers since Emancipation . Reich Steven A. . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2013 xi + 231 pp. , $35.00 (cloth); $34.99 (e-book) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016   156...

...Linda Kealey Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920 . Vapnek Lara . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2009 xi + 216 pp. , $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) © 2016 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2016   160 13.1 LABOR...

...Ava Baron; Eileen Boris Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 UP FOR DEBATE ““TheThe Body” Body” as as a a Useful Useful Category Category for for Working-Class HistoryWorking-Class History Ava Baron...

...John F. Kasson Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ ‘The Body’ as a Useful Category for Working-Class History” John F. Kasson “I’ve never read Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of Capital all over me.” William D. “Big...

...Valerie Burton Valerie Burton 2007 A Seafaring Historian’s Commentary on “ ‘The Body’ as a Useful Category for Working-Class History” Valerie Burton I join this discussion as a specialist on the men who worked in the nineteenth-century British merchant marine. Just a few years...

...Gary Gerstle Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White; The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs David R. Roediger New York: Basic Books, 2005 vii + 339 pp., $17.00 (paper) Labor and Working-Class History Association 2007 BOOK REVIEWS A Woman...

...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...