Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Boal, William M., “The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in U.S. Coal Mining, 1897–1929,” Industrial Relations, 48 (Jan. 2009), 97–120.
Hendrickson, Mark, “Gender Research as Labor Activism: The Women’s Bureau in the New Era,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 4, 2008), 482–515.
Klug, Thomas A., “Residents by Day, Visitors by Night: The Origins of the Alien Commuter on the U.S.-Canadian Border during the 1920s,” Michigan Historical Review, 34 (Fall 2008), 75–98.
Laurie, Bruce, “Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Winter 2008), 17–55.
Nissen, Bruce, and Sherman Henry, “The Legacy of Racism: A Case Study of Continuing Racial Impediments to Union Effectiveness,” Labor Studies Journal, 33 (Dec. 2008), 349–70.
Pencavel, John, “How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 62 (Jan. 2009), 147–56.
Pierce, Michael, “The Mechanics of Little Rock: Free Labor Ideas in Antebellum Arkansas, 1845–1861,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Autumn 2008), 222–44.
Reed, Lesley-Anne, “Transitional Generations: African American Workers, Industrialization, and Education in the Northern Louisiana Lumber and Paper Industries, 1930–1950,” Louisiana History, 50 (Winter 2009), 25–56.
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy, “Counter-organizing the Sunbelt: Right-to-Work Campaigns and Anti-union Conservatism, 1943–1958,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Feb. 2009), 81–119.
Kille, J. Dee, “United by Gold and Glory: The Making of Mining Culture in Goldfield, Nevada, 1906–1908” (University of Nevada, Reno, 2008). Order No. DA3311916.
Leung, Therese Sook-Yan, “Add Oil and Water, Then Stir: The Incompatibility of Work and Family” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3312439.
Rhee, Nari, “Searching for Working Class Politics: Labor, Community, and Urban Power in Silicon Valley” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3306309.
Cassanello, Robert, and Melanie Shell-Weiss, eds., Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xiv, 286 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-0-8130-3283-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Fink, Leon, and Brian Greenberg, Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199seiu and the Politics of Health Care Unionism. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xx, 366 pp. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-252-07605-3.) Originally published in 1989.
Wyatt, Lee T., III, The Industrial Revolution. (Westport: Greenwood, 2009. xx, 263 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-313-33769-7.)
Collomp, Catherine, and Bruno Groppo, eds., An American in Hitler’s Berlin: Abraham Plotkin’s Diary, 1932–33. (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xlx, 206 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03361-2. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07559-9.)
García, Mario T., ed., A Dolores Huerta Reader. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xxx, 350 pp. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4513-4.)
Mitchell, H. L., Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of H. L. Mitchell, Co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xviii, 403 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3984-5.) Originally published in 1979.
For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.
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