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Labor and Working Class

 

Guiler, Thomas A., and Lee M. Penyak, “Braceros and Bureaucracy: Mexican Guest Workers on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad during the 1940s,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Autumn 2009), 422–69.

Isaac, Larry, “Movements, Aesthetics, and Markets in Literary Change: Making the American Labor Problem Novel,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Dec. 2009), 938–65.

Koriakova, I. K., “Bor’ba profsoiuzov SShA za povyshenie zarabotnoi platu: Konets 1945–nachalo 1946 goda” (The U.S. trade unions’ struggle for higher wages: Late 1945–early 1946), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 321–31. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Koriakova, I. K., “Profsoiuznaia pechat’ Soedinennykh Shtatov o problemakh rekonversiii 1845–1848 gg.” (The U.S. trade union press and the reconversion problem, 1845–1848), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 2; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 2 of 3 vols.), 179–223. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2009. 260 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-276-0.) In Russian.

Manthorne, Jason, “The View from the Cotton: Reconsidering the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union,” Agricultural History, 84 (Winter 2010), 20–45.

McGuire, John Thomas, “Maintaining the Vitality of a Social Movement: Social Justice Femininism, Class Conflict, and the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921–1924,” Pennsylvania History, 76 (Autumn 2009), 393–421.

Murphy, Michael J., “Developing Communities: The uaw and Community Unions in Los Angeles, 1965–1974,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Winter 2009), 19–39.

Poulsen, Jane, “An Uneasy Stability: ‘Unpacking’ the Postwar Labor-Management Accord,” Labor Studies Journal, 34 (Dec. 2009), 543–58.

Rogulev, Y. N., “Istorii problemy ekonomicheskoi demokratii v SShA i ee znacheniia dlia Rossii” (The historical problem of industrial democracy in the United States and its meaning for Russia), in Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 2007 (American yearbook, 2007), ed. T. Y. Lavrent’eva, 162–77. (Moscow: Nauka, 2009. 461 pp. isbn 978-5-02-037000-5.) In Russian.

Rosenfeld, Jake, and Meredith Kleykamp, “Hispanics and Organized Labor in the United States, 1973 to 2007,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Dec. 2009), 916–37.

Specht, Joe W., “‘I’m a Tool Pusher from Snyder’: Slim Willet’s Oil Patch Songs,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (Jan. 2010), 293–309.

 

Ebel, Donald J, “The Sacred Enterprise: Religion and Attitudes toward Work and Retirement in the United States” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3347415.

Pehl, Matthew, “Power in the Blood: Class, Culture, and Christianity in Industrial Detroit, 1910–1969” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3352998.

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