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Labor and Working Class

Baron, Ava, “Masculinity, the Embodied Male Worker, and the Historian’s Gaze,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 69 (Spring 2006), 143–60.

Barry, Kathleen M., “‘Too Glamorous to Be Considered Workers’: Flight Attendants and Pink-Collar Activism in Mid-Twentieth-Century America,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Fall 2006), 119–38.

Bender, Keith A., Rebecca M. Neumann, and John Douglas Skåtun, “Umemployment and Other Measures of Labor Market Inefficiency: A Comparison of U.K. and U.S. Labor Markets, 1931–96,” Economic Inquiry, 44 (Oct. 2006), 629–43.

Beyer-Sherwood, Teresa, “From Farm to Factory: Transitions in Work, Gender, and Leisure at Banning Mill, 1910–1930s,” Oral History Review, 33 (Summer–Fall 2006), 65–94.

Boal, William M., “New Estimates of Paid-up Membership in the United Mine Workers, 1902–29, by State and Province,” Labor History, 47 (Nov. 2006), 537–46.

Boris, Eileen, et al., eds., “The New Women’s Labor History,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Fall 2006), 1–146. Special issue.

Cohen, Deborah, “From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 69 (Spring 2006), 81–103.

Green, Laurie B., “‘Where Would the Negro Women Apply for Work?’: Gender, Race, and Labor in Wartime Memphis,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Fall 2006), 95–117.

Kessler-Harris, Alice, “The Wages of Patriarchy: Some Thoughts about the Continuing Relevance of Class and Gender,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Fall 2006), 7–21.

McCoyer, Michael, “‘Rough Mens’ in ‘the Toughest Places I Ever Seen’: The Construction and Ramifications of Black Masculine Identity in the Mississippi Delta’s Levee Camps, 1900–1935,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 69 (Spring 2006), 57–80.

Mihm, Stephen, “Clerks, Classes, and Conflicts: A Response to Michael Zakim’s ‘The Business Clerk as Social Revolutionary,’” Journal of the Early Republic, 26 (Winter 2006), 605–15.

Raibmon, Paige, “The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 3 (Fall 2006), 23–56.

Zakim, Michael, “The Business Clerk as Social Revolutionary; or, A Labor History of the Nonproducing Classes,” Journal of the Early Republic, 26 (Winter 2006), 563–603.

 

Compton, Cynthia D. Woolley, “The Making of the Ahupua’a of La ie into a Gathering Place and Plantation: The Creation of an Alternative Space to Capitalism” (Brigham Young University, 2006). Order No. DA3198449.

Montes, Rebecca Anne, “Working for American Rights: Black, White, and Mexican American Dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3204224.

 

Archibald, Katherine, Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. lxxxiv, 244 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07386-1.) Originally published in 1947.

Hudelson, Richard, and Carl Ross, By the Ore Docks: A Working People’s History of Duluth. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxii, 336 pp. Cloth, $57.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4636-4. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8166-4637-1.)

Sito, Tom, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 425 pp. $32.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2407-0.)

 

Ahllund, T., “From the Memoirs of a Finnish Workman,” trans. Panu Hallamaa, ed. Richard Pierce, Alaska History, 21 (Fall 2006), 1–25.

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