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Labor and Working Class

Andrews, Gregg, “Unionizing the Trinity Portland Cement Company in Dallas, Texas, 1934–1939,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 111 (July 2007), 31–49.

Blake, Ben, “The New Archives for American Labor: From Attic to Digital Shop Floor,” American Archivist, 70 (Spring–-Summer 2007), 130–50.

Case, Theresa, “The Radical Potential of the Knights’ Biracialism: The 1885–1886 Gould System Strikes and Their Aftermath,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Winter 2007), 83–107.

Cole, Peter, “Philadelphia’s Lords of the Docks: Interracial Unionism Wobbly-Style,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (July 2007), 311–38.

Dennis, Michael, “Labor against the Law: Unions Confront the Courts in the New Economy South,” Labor History, 48 (Nov. 2007), 403–27.

Dixon, Marc, “Limiting Labor: Business Political Mobilization and Union Setback in the States,” Journal of Policy History, 19 (no. 3, 2007), 313–44.

Jennings, Audra, “‘The greatest numbers . . . will be wage earners’: Organized Labor and Disability Activism, 1945–1953,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Winter 2007), 55–82.

Milkman, Ruth, “Labor Organizing among Mexican-Born Workers in the United States,” Labor Studies Journal, 32 (March 2007), 96–112.

Park, David J., “Giving Labor the Business?,” Labor Studies Journal, 32 (March 2007), 60–81.

Rees, Jonathan, “What If a Company Union Wasn’t a ‘Sham’? The Rockefeller Plan in Action,” Labor History, 48 (Nov. 2007), 457–75.

Roberts, Michael, “You Say You Want a (Counter) Revolution? Attempts by the Musicians’ Union to Jam Up Rock and Roll,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Winter 2007), 33–54.

Taylor, Kieran, “Shipwrights and Salmonbellies: How Archie Green Discovered Laborlore,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Fall 2007), 33–58.

Worley, Jennifer L., “Fighting for Our Share of the American Pie,” Labor Studies Journal, 32 (March 2007), 82–95.

 

Chicone, Sarah Jane, “Feeding, Clothing, and Sheltering Southern Colorado’s Working Class: Towards an Archaeological Analysis of Poverty” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3241633.

Halasz, Judith Rachel, “Questioning Work, Making a Scene: Bohemian Life on the Lower East Side of New York City” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3245052.

Helwig, Timothy Wade, “Race, Nativism, and the Making of Class in Antebellum City-Mysteries” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3241511.

Lipman, Jana K., “Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution, 1939–1979” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243663.

Percy, Ruth, “Women or Workers? The Construction of Labour Feminism in London and Chicago, 1880s–1920s” (University of Toronto, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR21889.

Pinto, Katy Maribel, “Persisting Inequalities: Household Labor among Latinos, Blacks, and Whites” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3240913.

Sabatini, Thomas Joseph, “A Nation Made of Steel: The Remaking of the White Republic in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, 1915–1942” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3240486.

 

Moody, Kim, us Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below. (New York: Verso, 2007. xiv, 289 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-1-84467-155-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-84467-154-0.)

 

Haverty-Stacke, Donna T., “Creative Opposition to Radical America: 1920s’ Anti-May Day Demonstrations,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 4 (Fall 2007), 59–80.

Levy, Jacques E., Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxxii, 556 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5049-1.)

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