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Labor and Working Class

 

Burns, Sean, “Going Public: Archie Green’s Lifelong Commitment to Laboring Culture,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 76 (Sept. 2009), 164–79.

Fleege, Anthony, “The 1947 Centralia Mine Disaster,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Summer 2009), 163–76.

Greenhill, Brian, Layna Mosley, and Aseem Prakash, “Trade-Based Diffusion of Labor Rights: A Panel Study, 1986–2002,” American Political Science Review, 103 (Nov. 2009), 1–22.

Hahner, Leslie A., “Working Girls and the Temporality of Efficiency,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Aug. 2009), 289–310.

Hughes, Quenby Olmsted, “Red Flame Burning Bright: Communist Labor Organizer Ann Burlak, Rhode Island Workers, and the New Deal,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Summer–Fall 2009), 43–60. Heavily illustrated.

Martens, Allison M., “Working Women or Women Workers? The Women’s Trade Union League and the Transformation of the American Constitutional Order,” Studies in American Political Development, 23 (Oct. 2009), 143–70.

Matsuda, Hiroyuki, “Amerika ni okeru denshinshi no shakaishi” (A social history of the Morse-telegrapher in the United States: On the formation of the information-communication technology work), Joho-Tsushin Gakkai-shi (Tokyo), 85 (Jan. 2008), 59–68. In Italian.

Mettler, Matthew M., “A Workers’ Cold War in the Quad Cities: The Fate of Labor Militancy in the Farm Equipment Industry, 1949–1955,” Annals of Iowa, 68 (Fall 2009), 359–94.

Minami, Shûhei, “Burukkurin kaigunzôsenjo no heisa to Nyûyôku toshirôdôsha no seikatsusekai” (The closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the life and labor of workers in New York City), Hitotsubashi Shakaikagaku (Tokyo), 5 (2008), 113–40. In Japanese.

Minami, Shûhei, “Hâdohatto no aikokushatachi: Nyûyôku kensetsurôdôsha no nichijôsekai to sono yuragi” (Hardhat patriots: Construction workers in New York City and the change of their lives), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 155–73. In Japanese.

Percy, Ruth, “Death at the Machine: Critiques of Industrial Capitalism in the Fiction of Labor Activist Lizzie M. Holmes,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Fall 2009), 65–88.

 

Patnode, Stephen Raymond, “Labor’s Love Lost: The Influence of Gender, Race, and Class on the Workplace in Post-war America” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338243.

Rosenow, Michael K., “Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death among United States Workers, 1877–1910” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3337899.

Ryzewski, Krysta, “Archaeology of a Colonial Industry: Domestic Ironworking and Industrial Evolution in Rhode Island, 1642–1800” (Brown University, 2008). Order No. DA3335690.

Weber, John William, III, “The Shadow of the Revolution: South Texas, the Mexican Revolution, and the Evolution of Modern American Labor Relations” (College of William and Mary, 2008). Order No. DA3340957.

Yaudes, Cynthia Gwynne, “Working an Image: Radical Labor Newspapers and the American Tabloid Press, 1919–1922” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331245.

 

Cope, Tony, On the Swing Shift: Building Liberty Ships in Savannah. (Annapolis: Naval Institute, 2009. xiv, 235 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-59114-123-5.)

Martinelli, Phylis Cancilla, Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880–1920. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. xii, 225 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-0-8165-2745-8.)

Rasmussen, Thomas, Ox Cart to Automobile: Social Change in Western New York. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. viii, 195 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7618-4588-1.)

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