Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Anderson, James R., “The Lemont Quarry Strike of 1885,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Autumn 2009), 166–94.
Bird, Robert C., and Donald J. Smythe, “The Structure of American Legal Institutions and the Diffusion of Wrongful-Discharge Laws, 1978–1999,” Law & Society Review, 42 (Dec. 2008), 833–64.
Blackburn, Robin, “State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution,” New Left Review (London), 61 (Jan.–Feb. 2010), 153–74.
Breitzer, Susan Roth, “Uneasy Alliances: Hull House, the Garment Workers Strikes, and the Jews of Chicago,” Indiana Magazine of History, 106 (March 2010), 40–70.
Dorrance, Thomas F., “Remaking an Older Deal: Chicago Employment Politics, 1932–1936,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7 (Spring 2010), 67–91.
Fernández, Lilia, “Of Immigrants and Migrants: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration in Comparative Perspective, 1942–1964,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Spring 2010), 6–39.
Giesen, James C., “‘The Truth about the Boll Weevil’: The Nature of Planter Power in the Mississippi Delta,” Environmental History, 14 (Oct. 2009), 683–704.
Green, George Norris, “Texas . . . Unions . . . Time: Unions in Texas from the Time of the Republic through the Great War, 1838–1919,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 92–111. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Green, George Norris, and Michael R. Botson Jr., “Looking for Lefty: Liberal/Left Activism and Texas Labor, 1920s–1960s,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 112–32. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Hoffert, Sylvia, “Private Secretaries in Early-Twentieth-Century America,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 7 (Spring 2010), 45–65.
Kim, Jin Hee, “New Deal jayoojueui wa Miguk nodong” (New Deal liberalism and labor in the United States), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 93–115. In Korean.
Koriakova, I. K., “Profsoiuzy i bor’ba vokrug zakona o ‘Spravedlivykh usloviiakh truda’ v SShA v 1946–1947” (Trade unions, labor relations, and the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 1946–1947), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 182–90. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.
De León, Arnoldo, “More than a Somnolent Type: Tejanos Resist the Rule of Dominance,” in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, ed. David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, 191–208. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010. x, 243 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-1-60344-175-9. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-1-60344-189-6.)
Roberts, Michael, “A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be: The American Musicians’ Union’s Attempt to Ban the Beatles, 1964,” Popular Music (Cambridge), 29 (Jan. 2010), 1–16.
Roiphe, Rebecca, “Lawyering at the Extremes: The Representation of Tom Mooney, 1916–1939,” Fordham Law Review, 77 (March 2009), 1731–62.
Safonov, B. N., “Gosudarstvennoe regulirovanie trudovykh ontoshenii vo vtoroi polovine XX stoletiia v SShA” (U.S. regulation of labor relations in the second half of the 20th century), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 191–206. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.
Sakamoto, Arthur, “Is Rising Earnings Inequality Associated with Increased Exploitation? Evidence for U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1971–1996,” Sociological Perspectives, 53 (Spring 2010), 19–44.
Sangster, Joan, “Radical Ruptures: Feminism, Labor, and the Left in the Long Sixties in Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 40 (Spring 2010), 1–21.
Stapleford, Thomas A., “Shaping Knowledge about American Labor: External Advising at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Twentieth Century,” Science in Context (Cambridge), 23 (June 2010), 151–86.
Sutrina, Katie, “The ‘Rosies’ of Rockford: Working Women in Two Rockford Companies in the Depression and World War II Eras,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 402–28.
Zackin, Emily, “‘To Change the Fundamental Law of the State’: Protective Labor Provisions in U.S. Constitutions,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 1–23.
Miceli, Stephen R., “Industrialization and Immigration: Labor at the River’s Bend” (University of Toledo, 2009). Order No. DA3361954.
Urban, Andrew Theodore, “An Intimate World: Race, Migration, and Chinese and Irish Domestic Servants in the United States, 1850–1920” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360403.
Cordery, Simon, Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. x, 213 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4810-4.)
Lowenfish, Lee, The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball’s Labor Wars. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xviii, 327 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8032-3360-7.) Orignially published in 1980.
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