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Table of Contents

  1. Editor’s Introduction
  2. Leon Fink
  3. pp. 1-3
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The Common Verse

  1. Claiming Dependents
  2. Brooke Boulton
  3. p. 5
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Lawcha Watch

  1. The Iowa Labor History Oral Project
  2. John W. McKerley, Jennifer Sherer
  3. pp. 7-9
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Articles

  1. “The Justice of a Rule That Forbids the Men Smoking on Their Jobs”: Workers, Managers, and Cigarettes in World War II America
  2. Gregory Wood
  3. pp. 11-39
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  1. “A Woman’s Place Is in the UMWA”: Women Miners and the Struggle for a Democratic Union in Western Pennsylvania, 1973–1979
  2. Trish Kahle
  3. pp. 41-63
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  1. “This Beautiful and Rapidly Improving Section of Our City”: Race, Labor, and Colonizationists in Early Industrializing New Haven, 1800–1830
  2. Peter Hinks
  3. pp. 65-91
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Book Reviews

  1. The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers Movement by Stanley Aronowitz, and: Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement by Thomas Geoghegan (review)
  2. Joseph A. McCartin
  3. pp. 92-97
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  1. Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons by Ethan Blue (review)
  2. Karin Shapiro
  3. pp. 97-99
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  1. American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond: The U.S. “Peculiar Institution” in International Perspective by Enrico Dal Lago (review)
  2. Daniel Kilbride
  3. pp. 99-101
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  1. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness by Alan Derickson, and: Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana’s World War II Home Front by Matthew L. Basso (review)
  2. Steven Maynard
  3. pp. 102-106
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  1. Henry Wallace’s 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism by Thomas W. Devine (review)
  2. Jacqueline Castledine
  3. pp. 106-108
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  1. Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises ed. by Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin, Joan Sangster (review)
  2. Kim Phillips-Fein
  3. pp. 108-111
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  1. Demanding Child Care: Women’s Activism and the Politics of Welfare, 1940–1971 by Natalie M. Fousekis (review)
  2. Vanessa May
  3. pp. 111-113
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  1. Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America by Miriam Frank (review)
  2. Alice Kessler-Harris
  3. pp. 114-115
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  1. Traqueros: Mexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870–1930 by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo, and: Railroad Radicals: Gender, Class, and Memory in Cold War Mexico by Robert F. Alegre (review)
  2. Michael Snodgrass
  3. pp. 115-120
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  1. Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago’s Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington by Jeffrey Helgeson (review)
  2. Amanda I. Seligman
  3. pp. 120-123
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  1. Weavers of Dreams, Unite! Actors’ Unionism in Early Twentieth–Century America by Sean P. Holmes (review)
  2. M. Alison Kibler
  3. pp. 123-124
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  1. Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville: A Teacher’s Education, 1968–69 by Charles S. Isaacs (review)
  2. Jonna Perrillo
  3. pp. 125-127
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  1. Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England by David Koistinen (review)
  2. Beth English
  3. pp. 127-130
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  1. Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880–2010 by John H. M. Laslett (review)
  2. Eileen V. Wallis
  3. pp. 130-131
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  1. Hard Labor and Hard Time: Florida’s “Sunshine Prison” and Chain Gangs by Vivien M. L. Miller (review)
  2. Talitha LeFlouria
  3. pp. 131-133
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  1. Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)
  2. Jim Piecuch
  3. pp. 133-136
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  1. Entertaining Elephants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Circus by Susan Nance (review)
  2. Ann Norton Greene
  3. pp. 136-138
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  1. Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914–1947 by Don Nerbas (review)
  2. Eric Strikwerda
  3. pp. 139-140
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  1. America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye (review)
  2. Louis Rodriquez
  3. pp. 141-143
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  1. Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism by Edward H. Peeples, Nancy MacLean (review)
  2. Susan M. Glisson
  3. pp. 143-145
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  1. Uncivil Rights: Teachers, Unions, and Race in the Battle for School Equity by Jonna Perrillo (review)
  2. Jerald Podair
  3. pp. 146-148
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  1. Class Unknown: Undercover Investigators of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present by Mark Pittenger (review)
  2. Tobias Higbie
  3. pp. 148-151
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  1. Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America’s Working Class by Carol Quirke (review)
  2. Fred Carroll
  3. pp. 151-153
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  1. Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail by Marcus Rediker (review)
  2. Emma Christopher
  3. pp. 154-156
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  1. A Working People: A History of African American Workers since Emancipation by Steven A. Reich (review)
  2. Bruce E. Baker
  3. pp. 156-158
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  1. Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City’s Public Employee Unions by Richard Steier (review)
  2. Ruth Milkman
  3. pp. 158-160
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  1. Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865–1920 by Lara Vapnek (review)
  2. Linda Kealey
  3. pp. 160-163
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  1. The Employee: A Political History by Jean-Christian Vinel (review)
  2. Thomas A. Castillo
  3. pp. 163-166
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  1. E. P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics ed. by Cal Winslow (review)
  2. Michael Merrill
  3. pp. 166-170
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  1. Contributors
  3. p. 171
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