Recent Scholarship
Labor and Working Class
Hoffman, Steven J., “Looking North: A Mid-South Perspective on the Great Strike,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 105–35. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07477-6.)
Holmes, John, “American Jewish Communism and Garment Unionism in the 1920s,” American Communist History, 6 (Dec. 2007), 171–95.
Kazin, Michael, “The July Days in San Francisco, 1877: Prelude to Kearneyism,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 136–63. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07477-6.)
Lloyd, John P., “Labor’s Rebellion: Albert Parsons, Joseph Medill, and the Legacy of the Civil War in the Strike of 1877 in Chicago,” Journal of Illinois History, 10 (Autumn 2007), 166–90.
Martin, Louis C., “Tin Plate Towns, 1890–1910: Local Labor Movements and Workers’ Responses to the Crisis in the Steelworkers’ Union,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Autumn 2007), 492–528.
Miller, David, “California’s Changing Society and Mexican American Conceptions of the Great Strike,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 164–87. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07477-6.)
Reynolds, Terry S., “Calm or Conflicted? Labor-Management Relations on Michigan’s Iron Ranges in the Nineteenth Century,” Michigan Historical Review, 33 (Fall 2007), 1–45.
Rohan, Liz, “‘The Worker Must Have Bread, but She Must Have Roses, Too’: The Education Programs of the Women’s Trade Union League, 1908–26,” in The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960, ed. Anne Meis Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, 121–40. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. viii, 260 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-2306-0007-2.)
Schneirov, Richard, “Chicago’s Great Upheaval of 1877: Class Polarization and Democratic Politics,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 76–104. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07477-6.)
Stromquist, Shelton, “‘Our Rights as Workingmen’: Class Traditions and Collective Action in a Nineteenth-Century Railroad Town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869–82,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, ed. David O. Stowell, 55–75. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 197 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03241-7. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07477-6.)
Arazia, Lauren Ashley, “For Freedom of Other Men: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the United Farm Workers, 1965–1973” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253754.
Dorn, Richard D., “Investing in Human Capital: The Origins of Federal Job Training Programs, 1900 to 1945” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3263765.
Gray, LaGuana K., “‘They just keep running the line’: Southern Black Women in the Poultry Processing Industry, 1960–2006” (University of Houston, 2007). Order No. DA3261571.
Maloney, Courtney, “Images of Steel: Labor, Memory, and the Cultural Work of Corporate Photography” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2006). Order No. DA3253577.
Poblete-Cross, JoAnna Uy, “Intra-colonial Lives: Puerto Rican and Filipino Sugar Plantation Labor Recruits to Hawai‘i, 1900 to 1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3251524.
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