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Labor and Working Class

 

Cain, Timothy Reese, “For Education and Employment: The American Federation of Teachers and Academic Freedom, 1926–1941,” History of Higher Education Annual, 26 (2007), 67–102.

Currarino, Rosanne, “The ‘Revolution Now in Progress’: Social Economics and the Labor Question,” Labor History, 50 (Feb. 2009), 1–17.

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, and Ken Fones-Wolf, “Sanctifying the Southern Organizing Campaign: Protestant Activists in the cio’s Operation Dixie,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Spring 2009), 5–32.

Murphy, Laura, “An ‘Indestructible Right’: John Ryan and the Catholic Origins of the U.S. Living Wage Movement, 1906–1938,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Spring 2009), 57–86.

Takai, Yukari, “‘These Japanese Continuously Violated the Alien-Contract Labour Laws’: The Gendered Paths of Labourers, Farmers, and Housewives from Japan Traversing the Canada-U.S. Border in the Early Twentieth Century,” Social History (Toronto), 40 (Nov. 2007), 297–322.

Tracy, James F., “Strikebusting in St. Petersburg: Nelson Poynter’s Postwar Assault on Union Printers,” American Journalism, 25 (Fall 2008), 37–63.

 

Conrad, William Charles, “Development in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850–1914” (University of Pittsburgh, 2008). Order No. DA3323251.

Dietz, Angela Kathleen, “Spectacles of Labor: Visualizing a Nation at Work, 1850–1920” (Saint Louis University, 2008). Order No. DA3324244.

Loomis, Erik, “The Battle for the Body: Work and Environment in the Pacific Northwest Lumber Industry, 1800–1940” (University of New Mexico, 2008). Order No. DA3318101.

Peterson, Helen Palmer, “Landscapes of Capital: Culture in Industrial Western Company Town, Clarkdale, Arizona, 1914–1929” (Northern Arizona University, 2008). Order No. DA3318491.

Stansbury, Jeffrey D., “Organized Workers and the Making of Los Angeles, 1890–1915” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3316997.

 

Ashby, Steven K., and C. J. Hawking, Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 358 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03437-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07640-4.)

Brenner, Aaron, Benjamin Day, and Immanuel Ness, eds., The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. (Armonk: Sharpe, 2009. xl, 750 pp. $175.00, isbn 978-0-7656-1330-1.)

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