Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Devinatz, Victor, “A Cold War at International Harvester: The Schachtmanites and the Farm Equipment Workers Union’s Demise, 1946–1955,” Science & Society, 72 (April 2008), 182–207.
Honey, Michael, “Forty Years since King: Labor Rights are Human Rights,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (April 2008), 18–21.
Horowitz, Roger, “‘That Was a Dirty Job!’ Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking over the Long Twentieth Century,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 13–25.
McCall, Phil, “‘We Had to Stick Together’: Individual Preferences, Collective Struggle, and the Formation of Social Consciousness,” Science & Society, 72 (April 2008), 147–81.
Quirke, Carol, “Reframing Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre, May 30, 1937,” American Quarterly, 60 (March 2008), 129–57.
Schultz, Kevin M., “The fepc and the Legacy of the Labor-Based Civil Rights Movement of the 1940s,” Labor History, 49 (Feb. 2008), 71–92.
Stapleford, Thomas A., “Defining a ‘Living Wage’ in America: Transformations in Union Wage Theories, 1870–1930,” Labor History, 49 (Feb. 2008), 1–22.
Uchimura, Kazuko, “Miners without Unions: Work and Labor Relations in West Virginia’s Smokeless Coalfields, 1873–1935” (Georgetown University, 2007). Order No. DA3271068.
Vaughan, Rob, “The Workers’ Paradise: Edward Bellamy and the ‘Labor Question,’ 1888–1898” (University of Hawai‘i, 2007). Order No. DA3264883.
Wilk, Daniel Levinson, “Cliff Dwellers: Modern Service in New York City, 1800–1945” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3269758.
Hapke, Laura, Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the wpa Art of the 1930s. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. xii, 301 pp. $69.99, isbn 978-1-84718-415-3.)
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, ed., Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 348 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9187-4.) Originally published in 1932. New introduction by John C. Hennen.
Van Arsdale, David, “The Recasualization of Blue-Collar Workers: Industrial Temporary Help Work’s Impact on the Working Class,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Spring 2008), 75–99.
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