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October 2011, Volume 80, Issue 1
- 3-5 Labor and the Military: Introduction
by Freeman, Joshua B. & Field, Geoffrey - 6-28 Constructing Roads, Washing Feet, and Cutting Cane for the Patria: Building Bolivia with Military Labor, 1900–1975
by Shesko, Elizabeth - 29-52 “The Army is a Service, Not a Job”: Unionization, Employment, and the Meaning of Military Service in the Late-Twentieth Century United States
by Mittelstadt, Jennifer - 53-76 Making the Household, Making the State: Colonial Military Communities and Labor in German East Africa
by Moyd, Michelle - 77-102 Wars of Civilization: The US Army Contemplates Wounded Knee, the Pullman Strike, and the Philippine Insurrection
by Murolo, Priscilla - 103-120 Militarism, Empire, and Labor Relations: The Case of Brice P. Disque
by Freeman, Joshua B. - 121-147 “Civilians in Uniform”: Class and Politics in the British Armed Forces, 1939–19451
by Field, Geoffrey - 148-160 Probing the Limits of Rights Discourse in the Obama Era: A Crossroads for Labor and Liberalism
by McCartin, Joseph A. - 161-168 Solidarity and Rights: Two to Tango-A Response to Joseph A. McCartin
by Compa, Lance - 169-175 Workers' Rights, Human Rights, and Solidarity Across Borders
by Seidman, Gay - 176-183 From Workers' Rights to Worker Appropriation A Response to Joseph A. McCartin
by McIntyre, Richard - 184-188 Joseph McCartin Responds to Lance Compa, Gay Seidman, and Richard McIntyre
by McCartin, Joseph - 189-196 Workers and Egypt's January 25 Revolution
by Beinin, Joel - 197-202 Chants Democratic in Wisconsin
by Goldberg, Chad Alan - 203-214 A Revival of Labor and Social Protest Research in France: Recent Scholarship on May 1968
by Mann, Keith - 215-240 From Geneva to the Americas: The International Labor Organization and Inter-American Social Security Standards, 1936–1948
by Jensen, Jill
April 2011, Volume 79, Issue 1
- 4-6 Migrant Workers in the Middle East: Introduction
by Parthasarathi, Prasannan & Quataert, Donald - 7-27 The Turn of the Gulf Tide: Empire, Nationalism, and South Asian Labor Migration to Iraq, c. 1900–1935
by Tetzlaff, Stefan - 28-47 Migration and Popular Protest in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf in the 1950s and 1960s
by Chalcraft, John - 48-61 Philippine Migrant Workers' Transnationalism in the Middle East
by Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit - 62-80 Project-Tied Labor Migration from Turkey to the MENA Region: Past, Present, and Future
by İçduygu, Ahmet & Sert, Deniz - 81-102 Where Governmentality Ends: Border Control Officers and Deportations of Sojourners in Israel
by Korczyn, Oded - 103-121 Migration as Diplomacy: Labor Migrants, Refugees, and Arab Regional Politics in the Oil-Rich Countries
by Thiollet, Helene - 122-139 Unofficial Citizens: Indian Entrepreneurs and the State-Effect in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
by Vora, Neha - 140-160 Migration, Neoliberal Capitalism, and Islamic Reform in Kozhikode (Calicut), South India
by Osella, Filippo & Osella, Caroline - 161-174 Emptiness in the Colonial Gaze: Labor, Property, and Nature
by Nelson, Robert L. - 175-194 Differences in Workers' Narratives of Contention in Two Central Indian Towns
by Nair, Manjusha
October 2010, Volume 78, Issue 1
- 4-11 Shifting Boundaries between Free and Unfree Labor: Introduction
by Brown, Carolyn & van der Linden, Marcel - 12-27 Revisiting Russian Serfdom: Bonded Peasants and Market Dynamics, 1600s–1800s
by Stanziani, Alessandro - 28-47 Transformations in the Feminization of Unfree Domestic Labor: A Study of Abaawa or Prepubescent Female Servitude in Modern Ghana
by Akurang-Parry, Kwabena O. - 48-62 Neo-Bondage: A Fieldwork-Based Account
by Breman, Jan - 63-88 From Child Labor “Problem” to Human Trafficking “Crisis”: Child Advocacy and Anti-Trafficking Legislation in Ghana
by Lawrance, Benjamin N. - 89-92 Fixing America's Broken Immigration System: Introduction
by Ngai, Mae M. - 93-99 The Civil Rights Origins of Illegal Immigration
by Ngai, Mae M. - 100-109 Not Every Family: Selective Reunification in Contemporary US Immigration Laws
by Hwang, Maria Cecilia & Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar - 110-117 Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation: The American Experience
by Gerstle, Gary - 118-122 The “New Normal”? Reflections on the Shifting Politics of the Immigration Debate
by Gutiérrez, David G. - 123-128 America, Germany, Israel: Three Modes of Citizenship and Incorporation
by Abraham, David - 129-131 What Can the United States Learn from Europe?
by Joppke, Christian - 132-136 Iraqi Unions and Their American Labor Allies
by Zweig, Michael - 137-144 The Forsaken: The Unfinished Business of Making Plutonium in Russia
by Brown, Kate - 145-148 Higher Education and Class Mobility in the State of California: “What Is to Be Done?”1
by Chatterjee, Choi - 149-163 Commonwealth and “Commonism”
by Merrill, Michael - 164-180 Nationalism and Sectarian Violence in Liverpool and Belfast, 1880s–1920s
by Jenkins, Gareth - 181-183 Letter to the Editors
by Anonymous
April 2010, Volume 77, Issue 1
- 3-7 Gendered Activism and the Politics of Women's Work: Introduction
by Neunsinger, Silke - 8-26 The Politics of Food and Women's Neighborhood Activism in First World War Britain
by Hunt, Karen - 27-47 A Mighty Power against the Cost of Living: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s
by Guard, Julie - 48-68 The Politics of the Small Purse: The Mobilization of Housewives in Interwar Australia
by Smart, Judith - 69-88 Women as Paid Organizers and Propagandists for the British Labour Party Between the Wars
by Hannam, June - 89-108 Incorporating Sex Workers into the Argentine Labor Movement
by Hardy, Kate - 109-114 Frank Tannenbaum Reconsidered: Introduction
by Winn, Peter - 115-133 Even Conservative Unions Have Revolutionary Effects: Frank Tannenbaum on the Labor Movement
by Merrill, Michael - 134-153 Frank Tannenbaum and the Mexican Revolution
by Knight, Alan - 154-173 From Slaves to Citizens? Tannenbaum and the Debates on Slavery, Emancipation, and Race Relations in Latin America
by de la Fuente, Alejandro - 174-189 A Path to Modernization: A Review of Documentaries on Migration and Migrant Labor in China - Manufactured Landscapes (2007) 90 minutes. Director: Jennifer Baichwal. Director of photography: Peter Mettler. Produced by Nick de Pencier, Daniel Iron, and Jennifer Baichwal. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Bing Ai (2007) 114 minutes. Director, writer, and producer: Feng Yan. http://www.cidfa.com/modules/index.php - Up the Yangtze (2008) 94 minutes. Writer and director: Yung Chang. Director of photography: Wang Shi Qing. Producers: Mila Aung-Thwin, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong, and John Christou. Released by Zeitgeist Films. - Losers and Winners (2007) 96 minutes. Directors: Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken. Released by Icarus Films. - China Blue (2005) 86 minutes. Producer and director: Micha X. Peled. Released by Bullfrog Films. - Mardi Gras (2007) 74 minutes. Producer, director, and editor: David Redmon. Directors of photography: David Redmon and Kathleen Rivera. Released by Carnivalesque Films. - A Decent Factory (2005) 79 minutes. Directed, written, and produced by Thomas Balmès for Margot Films/BBC, and Kaarle Aho for Making Movies. Released by First Run/Icarus Films
by Zhang, Xiaodan - 190-193 Introduction: Good Things Come to Those Who Negotiate
by Cobble, Dorothy Sue - 194-196 We Are All Learners
by Rondeau, Kris - 197-201 Song Lyrics From the Pipets
by Gelband, Joie & Jaeger, Bill & Reiffel, David & Rigoglioso, Marguerite
October 2009, Volume 76, Issue 1
- 2-5 Labor History and Public History: Introduction
by Klubock, Thomas Miller & Fontes, Paulo - 6-25 Marking Labor History on the National Landscape: The Restored Ludlow Memorial and its Significance
by Green, James & Jameson, Elizabeth - 26-35 The Development of Labor History in UK Museums and the People's History Museum
by Burgess, Chris - 36-43 A Balancing Act between Universities and Trade Union Headquarters: The Swedish Labour History Project at the Labour Movement Archives and Library in Stockholm
by Misgeld, Klaus & Neunsinger, Silke - 44-53 History of the Workers' Museum in Denmark
by Ludvigsen, Peter - 54-59 Union History Online: Digitization Projects in the Trades Union Congress Library Collections
by Coates, Chris - 60-64 Chicago's Labor Trail: Labor History as Collaborative Public History
by Helgeson, Jeffrey - 65-81 Public History and Militant Identities: Brazilian Unions and the Quest for Memory
by Santana, Marco Aurélio & Pimenta, Ricardo Medeiros - 82-104 Labor1 History and Public History in Australia: Allies or Uneasy Bedfellows?
by Taksa, Lucy - 105-126 Subverting the Master's Narrative: Public Histories of Slavery in Plantation America
by Giovannetti, Jorge L. - 127-146 One Neighborhood, Two Communities: The Public Archaeology of Class in a Gentrifying Urban Neighborhood
by Chidester, Robert C. & Gadsby, David A. - 147-163 The Place of Imagery in the Transmission of Culture: The Banners of the Durham Coalfield
by Wray, David - 164-179 Going Public: Archie Green's Lifelong Commitment to Laboring Culture
by Burns, Sean - 180-182 The Big Red Song Book
by Levesque, Faron - 194-216 The Labor Question in Colonial Cyprus, 1936–1941: Political Stakes in a Battle of Denominations
by Rappas, Alexis
April 2009, Volume 75, Issue 1
- 3-12 Rethinking the Left in Victory and Defeat: Introduction
by Hanagan, Michael - 13-29 Back to the Future: Today's and Tomorrow's Politics of Degrowth Economics (Décroissance) in Light of the Debate over Luxury among Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Utopists
by Sippel, Alexandra - 30-48 Rethinking a Socialist Foreign Policy: The British Labour Party and International Relations Experts, 1918 to 1931
by Ashworth, Lucian M. - 49-67 The Beginning of Labor's End? Britain's “Winter of Discontent” and Working-Class Women's Activism
by Martin, Tara - 68-84 “Side by Side With Our Men?”1 Women's Activism, Community, and Gender in the 1984–1985 British Miners’ Strike
by Spence, Jean & Stephenson, Carol - 85-108 Class, Nation, and Political Organization: The Anti-Zionist Left in Israel/Palestine
by Greenstein, Ran - 109-125 In Search of a Post-Neoliberal Paradigm: The Brazilian Left and Lula's Government1
by Fortes, Alexandre - 126-144 Is Labor Dead?1
by Friedman, Gerald - 145-168 Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
by French, John D. & Wintersteen, Kristin - 169-183 Emancipations and Reversals: Labor, Race, and the Boundaries of American Freedom in the Age of Capital
by Kelly, Brian - 189-192 “Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods”
by Brown, Carolyn - 193-196 “Continuities and Changes”: Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
by Iacovetta, Franca & Cooke, Krista & Helps, Lisa & Hinther, Rhonda
October 2008, Volume 74, Issue 1
- 3-32 The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
by Cowie, Jefferson & Salvatore, Nick - 33-37 Why Is There No Social Democracy in America?
by Boyle, Kevin - 38-41 A Liberal Nation In Spite of Itself
by Kazin, Michael - 42-48 A New Deal Restoration: Individuals, Communities, and the Long Struggle for the Collective Good
by Klein, Jennifer - 49-55 Getting New Deal History Wrong
by MacLean, Nancy - 56-62 The Mythical Man
by Montgomery, David - 63-69 History, Complexity, and Politics: Further Thoughts
by Cowie, Jefferson & Salvatore, Nick - 70-75 Introduction: The Conservative Turn in Postwar United States Working-Class History
by Cowie, Jefferson - 76-100 Christ and the CIO: Blue-Collar Evangelicalism's Crisis of Conscience and Political Turn in Early Cold-War California
by Dochuk, Darren - 101-123 “Things Are Different Down Here”: The 1955 Perfect Circle Strike, Conservative Civic Identity, and the Roots of the New Right in the 1950s Industrial Heartland
by Anderson, David M. - 124-147 The Racketeer Menace and Antiunionism in the Mid-Twentieth Century US
by Witwer, David - 148-170 “We Must Bring Together a New Coalition”: The Challenge of Working-Class White Ethnics to Color-Blind Conservatism in the 1970s
by Deslippe, Dennis - 171-192 Permanent Replacements and the End of Labor's “Only True Weapon”
by Logan, John - 193-211 Consuming Lattes and Labor, or Working at Starbucks
by Simon, Bryant - 212-224 “Nothing Special to Offer the Negro”: Revisiting the “‘Debsian View’ of the Negro Question”
by Jones, William P. - 225-227 The International Labor Organization: Past and Present
by García, Magaly Rodríguez - 228-230 Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migrations, 1830s to 1930s
by Mettele, Gisela
April 2008, Volume 73, Issue 1
- 1-6 Introduction: Labor in a Changing China
by Yu, Renqiu - 7-23 Hidden Forms of Bargaining on China's Shop Floor
by Zhang, Xiaodan - 24-44 Lean Production and Labor Controls in the Chinese Automobile Industry in An Age of Globalization1
by Zhang, Lu - 45-64 The Changes of Chinese Labor Policy and Labor Legislation in the Context of Market Transition
by Ngok, Kinglun - 65-84 Ziyou (Freedom)1, Occupational Choice, and Labor: Bangbang in Chongqing, People's Republic of China2
by Zhang, Xia - 85-103 Local Strategies of Labor Control: A Case Study of Three Electronics Factories in China
by Xue, Hong - 104-105 Introduction
by Brown, Kate - 106-136 Solidarność in Łódź: An Interview with Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski
by Phelps, Christopher - 137-151 Kneeling at the Altar of (Il)-Liberalism: The Politics of Ideas, Job Loss, and Union Weakness in East Central Europe
by Vanhuysse, Pieter
October 2007, Volume 72, Issue 1
- 2-17 Introduction: New Studies/New Organizations; Labor Organization in Latin America and Beyond
by Stillerman, Joel & Winn, Peter - 18-41 Forging New Labor Activism in Global Commodity Chains in Latin America
by Anner, Mark - 42-62 Brazil's Telecom Unions Confront the Future: Privatization, Technological Change, and Globalization1
by Guimarães, Sonia M.K. - 63-89 Alternative Forms of Working-Class Organization and the Mobilization of Informal-Sector Workers in Brazil in the Era of Neoliberalism
by Sandoval, Salvador A.M. - 90-115 Globalization, Labor, and Violence in Colombia's Banana Zone
by Chomsky, Aviva - 116-133 The Crisis of Labor Politics in Latin America: Parties and Labor Movements during the Transition to Neoliberalism
by Roberts, Kenneth M. - 134-160 What Has Happened to Organized Labor in Southern Africa?1
by Pitcher, M. Anne - 161-163 Organized Labor's Global Problems and Local Responses
by Drake, Paul W. - 164-172 Globalization and Labor: Reflections on Contemporary Latin America
by Hershberg, Eric - 173-191 Tea and Sympathy: A Study of Diversity among Women Activists in the National Federation of Women Workers in Coventry, England, 1907–14
by Hunt, Cathy - 192-215 “If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:” The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964
by Phillips-Fein, Kim
April 2007, Volume 71, Issue 1
- 1-7 Introduction: The Class Politics of Privatization: Global Perspectives on the Privatization of Public Workers, Land, and Services
by Klein, Jennifer - 8-28 Roots of Resistance to Urban Water Privatization in Bolivia: The “New Working Class,” the Crisis of Neoliberalism, and Public Services1
by Spronk, Susan - 29-49 “There is tragedy on both sides of the layoffs:” Privatization and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore
by Berger, Jane - 50-69 Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of “Social Movement Unionism”: A Case Study of Municipal Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa
by Barchiesi, Franco - 70-90 The Two Faces of Petr Arkad'evich: Land and Dispossession in Russia's Southwest, ca. 2000
by Allina-Pisano, Jessica - 91-111 The Hospital Employees' Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada
by Isitt, Benjamin & Moroz, Melissa - 112-132 A Class Approach to Municipal Privatization: The Privatization of New York City's Central Park
by Cooke, Oliver - 133-153 Workforce Responses to the Creeping Privatization of the UK National Health Service1
by Givan, Rebecca Kolins & Bach, Stephen - 154-161 The Politics of Ports: Privatization and the World's Ports
by Davis, Colin - 162-184 “Blame the System, Not the Victim!” Organizing the Unemployed in New Zealand, 1983–1992
by Locke, Cybèle - 185-203 Racism in a “Raceless” Society: The Soviet Press and Representations of American Racial Violence at Stalingrad in 1930
by Roman, Meredith - 204-208 Andrew Sayer, The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 256 pp. $29.95 cloth
by McGrath, Siobhán - 208-210 Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895–1932. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 209 pp. $35.00 cloth
by Hessler, Julie - 210-212 Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. xi+341 pp. $23.95 paper; $84.95 cloth
by Pérotin-Dumon, Anne - 213-214 Patrick Frank, Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers’ Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917–1935. Albequerque: University of Mexico Press, 2006. 322 pp. $32.95 cloth
by Chamosa, Oscar - 214-217 Jane E. Mangan, Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí. Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2005. xiii+277 pp. $22.95 paper
by Zulawski, Ann - 217-220 Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaraugua. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 272 pp. $74.95 Cloth; 21.95 paper
by Schmidt, Arthur - 220-223 Colin A. Palmer, Eric Williams & The Making of the Modern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 352 pp. $34.95 cloth
by Vincent, Godfrey - 223-225 Nicholas De Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and Illegality in Mexican Chicago. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 352 pp. $79.95 Cloth, $22.95 paper
by Gritter, Matthew
October 2006, Volume 70, Issue 1
- 1-10 Introduction: Globalization and the Latin-American Workplace
by Stillerman, Joel & Winn, Peter - 11-34 Is Globalization Good for Workers? Definitions and Evidence from Latin America
by Reinecke, Gerhard - 35-60 Globalization and the Transformation of Work in Rural Brazil: Agribusiness, Rural Labor Unions, and Peasant Mobilization
by Welch, Cliff - 61-85 Lousy Jobs, Invisible Unions: The Mexican Retail Sector in the Age of Globalization
by Tilly, Chris & Galván, José Luis Álvarez - 86-105 Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women's Work and Gender Relations at Home and Abroad
by Menjívar, Cecilia - 106-125 A New World of Retail Supremacy: Supply Chains and Workers' Chains in the Age of Wal-Mart
by Appelbaum, Richard & Lichtenstein, Nelson - 126-142 Working for McDonald's, France: Resistance to the Americanization of Work
by Debouzy, Marianne - 143-154 Better than Barraclough? Putting Global Labor History on the Map1
by Hanagan, Michael & Nekola, Peter - 165-167 The Passeggiata and Popular Culture in an Italian Town
by Pine, Jason - 167-169 Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: the CPGB 1951–68
by Morgan, Kevin - 169-173 Imaazje! De verbeelding van Provo 1965–1967
by Horn, Gerd-Rainer - 173-175 Women and Work Culture: Britain c. 1850–1959
by Weiler, Peter - 175-178 Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britain
by Frankel, Oz - 178-183 A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
by Montgomery, David - 184-186 Current Research
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March 2006, Volume 69, Issue 1
- 1-5 Introduction
by Cobble, Dorothy Sue & Hattam, Victoria - 6-34 Boys Will Be Boys: Working-Class Masculinities in the Age of Mass Production
by Heron, Craig - 35-56 Race and the Construction of Working-Class Masculinity in the Nigerian Coal Industry: The Initial Phase, 1914–1930
by Brown, Carolyn - 57-80 “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
by McCoyer, Michael - 81-103 From Peasant to Worker: Migration, Masculinity, and the Making of Mexican Workers in the US
by Cohen, Deborah - 104-122 Bodies, Sexuality and the “Modernization” of the British Working Classes, 1920s to 1960s
by Brooke, Stephen - 123-142 Desirable Dress: Rosies, Sky Girls, and the Politics of Appearance
by Boris, Eileen - 143-160 Masculinity, the Embodied Male Worker, and the Historian’s Gaze
by Baron, Ava - 161-176 “They don't even look like women workers”: Femininity and Class in Twentieth-Century Latin America
by Weinstein, Barbara - 177-194 Spaces of Encounter: The Cultural Labor of Class Difference
by Cameron, Ardis - 195-200 Vera Shlakman, Economic History of a Factory Town, A Study of Chicopee, Massachusetts (1935)
by Kessler-Harris, Alice - 201-203 Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference
by Shepard, Todd - 204-206 The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France
by Rosenberg, Clifford - 206-209 Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929
by Burbank, Jane - 209-210 The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829–1914
by Allison, William Thomas - 210-213 For Workers' Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton
by Williams, Dana - 213-215 The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863–1914
by Moazami, Behrooz - 216-218 Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002
by Monteón, Michael - 218-221 Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History
by Newell, Dianne - 221-223 The Practical Utopians: American Workers and the Cooperative Movement in the Gilded Age
by Phelan, Craig - 224-225 United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
by Woods, Colleen - 226-228 Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture and Postwar Democracy, 1940–1960
by Bruno, Robert - 228-230 The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism: Politics, Labor and Culture
by Mello, William