Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Anderson, David M., “‘Things Are Different Down Here’: The 1955 Perfect Circle Strike, Conservative Civic Identity, and the Roots of the New Right in the 1950s Industrial Heartland,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 101–23.
Cohen, Sheila, “The 1968–1974 Labor Upsurge in Britain and America: A Critical History, and a Look at What Might Have Been,” Labor History, 49 (Nov. 2008), 395–416.
Delfino, Susanna, “Acquiescence and Defiance in Antebellum Southern Manufactories,” in Conformism, Non-conformism, and Anti-conformism in the Culture of the Unites States, ed. Antones Mpalasopulos, 67–79. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2008. x, 330 pp. isbn 978-3-8253-5479-4.)
Derickson, Alan, “‘Asleep and Awake at the Same Time’: Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Fall 2008), 13–44.
Dickey, Susan Karina, “Bishop James A. Griffin and the Coal Miners’ War,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Spring 2008), 22–34.
Dredge, Bart, “Contradictions of Corporate Benevolence: Industrial Libraries in the Southern Textile Industry, 1920–1945,” Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43 (no. 3, 2008), 308–26.
Geraghty, Thomas M., and Thomas Wiseman, “Wage Strikes in 1880s America: A Test of the War of Attrition Model,” Explorations in Economic History, 45 (Sept. 2008), 303–26.
Hillard, Michael, and Jonathan P. Goldstein, “Cutting Off the Canadians: Nativism and the Fate of the Maine Woodman’s Association, 1970–1981,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Fall 2008), 67–89.
Krashinsky, Harry, “The Effect of Labor Market Institutions on Salaried and Self-Employed Less-Educated Men in the 1980s,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 62 (Oct. 2008), 73–91.
Logan, John, “Permanent Replacements and the End of Labor’s ‘Only True Weapon,’” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 171–92.
Olszowka, John, “The uaw and the Struggle to Organize Aircraft, 1937–1942,” Labor History, 49 (Aug. 2008), 297–317.
Seigel, Peggy, “Pushing the Color Line: Race and Employment in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1933–1963,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (Sept. 2008), 241–76.
Shelton, Robert S., “‘Built by the Irishman, the Negro, and the Mule’: Labor Militancy across the Color Line in Post-Reconstruction Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 15–26.
Stabile, Donald, “Automation, Workers, and Union Decline: Ben Seligman’s Contribution to the Institutional Economics of Labor,” Labor History, 49 (Aug. 2008), 275–95.
Witwer, David, “The Racketeer Menace and Antiunionism in the Mid-Twentieth Century U.S.,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 74 (Fall 2008), 124–47.
Almalki, Ali Hassan, “Labor Market Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality of Arab Immigrants in the United States: 1980–2000” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301519.
Nystrom, Eric Charles, “Learning to See: Visual Tools in American Mining Engineering, 1860–1920” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3295796.
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