Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Amberg, Stephen, “Varieties of Capitalist Development: Worker-Manager Relations in the Texas Apparel Industry, 1935–1975,” Social Science History, 30 (Summer 2006), 231–62.
Aurand, Harold W., ed., “The Lattimer Massacre of 1897,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 5–78. Special Issue.
Bader, Mary Christine, “‘Sisters in Toil’: St. Paul’s First Union of Garment Workers,” Minnesota History, 60 (Spring 2006), 26–39.
Bauer, William J., Jr., “‘We Were All Migrant Workers Here’: Round Valley Indian Labor in Northern California, 1850–1929,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Spring 2006), 43–63.
Beik, Mildred Allen, “The Significance of the Lattimer Massacre: Who Owns Its History?,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 58–70.
Blatz, Perry, “Reflections on Lattimer: A Complex and Significant Event,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 42–51.
Broadberry, Stephen N., and Douglas A. Irwin, “Labor Productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom during the Nineteenth Century,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), 257–79.
Ciani, Kyle E., “Hidden Laborers: Female Day Workers in Detroit, 1870–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Jan. 2005), 23–57.
Collomp, Catherine, “The Jewish Labor Committee, American Labor, and the Rescue of European Socialists, 1934–1941,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 68 (Oct. 2005), 112–33.
Dubofsky, Melvin, “The Lattimer Massacre and the Meaning of Citizenship,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 52–57.
Enyeart, John P., “Revolution or Evolution: The Socialist Party, Western Workers, and Law in the Progressive Era,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2 (Oct. 2003), 377–402.
Erdmans, Mary Patrice, “The Poles, the Dutch, and the Grand Rapids Furniture Strike of 1911,” Polish American Studies, 62 (Autumn 2005), 5–22.
Ferrari, Mary, “‘Obliged to Earn Subsistence for Themselves’: Women Artisans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1763–1808,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 106 (Oct. 2005), 235–55.
Frahm, Jill, “The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (July 2004), 271–93.
Gilbert, Stephanie Patterson, “Bakers and Confectioners of Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1890–1917,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 428–42.
Hurst, Julie Ann, “Barbershops in Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1890–1905,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 443–53.
Knowles, A. K., “‘The white lands “damn them . . . won’t stick”’: Labor Scarcity and Spatial Discipline in the Antebellum Iron Industry,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 32 (Jan. 2006), 57–73.
Laslett, John H. M., “Linking the Old World with the New: Recent Studies of Labor Migration, Race, and Political Protest in America and the British Empire,” Labor History, 46 (May 2005), 185–94.
Laugen, R. Todd, “Struggles for the Public Interest: Organized Labor and State Mediation in Postwar America,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (Jan. 2005), 69–82.
Maibor, Carolyn R., “Upstairs, Downstairs, and the In-Between: Louisa May Alcott on Domestic Service,” New England Quarterly, 79 (March 2006), 65–91.
McDonnell, Michael A., “Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (April 2006), 305–44.
McGuire, John Thomas, “Making the Case for Night Work Legislation in Progressive Era New York, 1911–1915,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (Jan. 2006), 47–70.
Minchin, Timothy J., “The Milledgeville Spy Case and the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Spring 2006), 96–122.
Myers, John D., “The Butcher Shops of Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1860–1916,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 454–62.
Osborne, Christopher M., “Invisible Hands: Slaves, Bound Laborers, and the Development of Western Pennsylvania, 1780–1820,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 77–89.
Pope, Jim, “Worker Lawmaking, Sit-Down Strikes, and the Shaping of American Industrial Relations, 1935–1958,” Law & History Review, 24 (Spring 2006), 45–113.
Short, Joanna, “Confederate Veteran Pensions, Occupation, and Men’s Retirement in the New South,” Social Science History, 30 (Spring 2006), 75–101.
Sidorick, Daniel, “The ‘Girl Army’: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike of 1909–1910,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Summer 2004), 323–69.
Slavishak, Edward, “Working-Class Muscle: Homestead and Bodily Disorder in the Gilded Age,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (Oct. 2004), 339–68.
Stolarik, M. Mark, “A Slovak Perspective on the Lattimer Massacre,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 31–41.
Sullivan, William F., Jr., “Battle for the Brass City: The Waterbury Strike of 1919,” Connecticut History, 45 (Spring 2006), 94–113.
Thompson, Peter, “The Thief, the Householder, and the Commons: Languages of Class in Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (April 2006), 253–80.
Turner, George A., “The Lattimer Massacre: A Perspective from the Ethnic Community,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Winter 2002), 11–30.
Versteegh, Pien, “Glück Auf: The Polish Labor Movement in the United States and Germany, 1890–1914,” Polish American Studies, 62 (Spring 2005), 53–66.
Woirol, Greg, “Peter Speek and Migratory Labor: An Estonian Revolutionary Finds the Real America,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 4 (July 2005), 293–313.
Duncan, James Bryan, “Literary Labor: Reform and Resistance in American Literature, 1936–1945” (University of Oregon, 2005). Order No. DA3181097.
Hungate, Adam B., “Let Them Eat Yellowcake: Navajo Uranium and American Marginalism” (University of California, Riverside, 2005). Order No. DA3179382.
Lihua, Liu, “Meiguo gongyehua shiq gongrende gongzuo he shenghui yanjiu” (On labor’s work and livelihood in the United States in the industrialization period) (Nankai University, China, 2003). In Chinese.
Rowley, Cathleen J., “Women’s Rights and Women’s Work: Politics and Professionalism in 19th Century American Fiction” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187422.
Chester, Eric Thomas, True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party Question in the U.S. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. xii, 260 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-7453-2215-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-7453-2214-X.)
Jung, Moon-Ho, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 275 pp. $48.95, isbn 0-8018-8281-8.)
Ninnemann, John L., and Duane A. Smith, San Juan Bonanza: Western Colorado’s Mining Legacy. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xvi, 85 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8263-3578-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Perez, Karni R., Fishing for Gold: The Story of Alabama’s Catfish Industry. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xvi, 263 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8173-5344-5.)
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