Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 1(3): 1-3 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-1 [PDF]  

Joshua Brown

Cartoon
Labor 1(3): 4-6 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-4 [PDF]  

Dan Letwin

Introducing "The LAWCHA Watch"
Labor 1(3): 7-10 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-7 [PDF]  

The Common Verse

Arlitia Jones

Poem for a Small Meat Shop
Labor 1(3): 11-12 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-11 [PDF]  

Contemporary Affairs

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Labor's Renewal? Listening to the 1920s and the 1930s
Labor 1(3): 13-18 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-13 [PDF]  

Articles

Randi Storch

"The Realities of the Situation": Revolutionary Discipline and Everyday Political Life in Chicago's Communist Party, 1928-1935
Labor 1(3): 19-44 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-19 [PDF]  

John P. Enyeart

"The Exercise of the Intelligent Ballot": Rocky Mountain Workers, Urban Politics, and Shorter Hours, 1886-1911
Labor 1(3): 45-70 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-45 [PDF]  

Philip Dreyfus

Nature, Militancy, and the Western Worker: Socialist Shingles, Syndicalist Spruce
Labor 1(3): 71-96 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-71 [PDF]  

Up for Debate

Ardis Cameron

Boys Do Cry: The Rhetorical Power of the "New" Labor History
Labor 1(3): 97-108 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-97 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Nelson Lichtenstein

Class, Collars, and the Continuing Relevance of C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills. Afterword by Russell Jacoby New York: Oxford University Press, 1951; reprint, 2002 xx + 394 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 109-123 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-109 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Susan Levine

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Lizabeth Cohen New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 567 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 124-126 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-124 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf

For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State
Jennifer Klein Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003 xi + 354 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 126-129 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-126 [PDF]  

Joseph A. McCartin

Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003 xiii + 372 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 130-132 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-130 [PDF]  

James R. Barrett

Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown
Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002 viii + 288 pp., $34.95 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 132-134 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-132 [PDF]  

Alice Kessler-Harri

Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace
Lois Kathryn Herr Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003 xxii + 200 pp., $47.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 134-136 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-134 [PDF]  

Ann Schofield

Writing the Wrongs: Eva Valesh and the Rise of Labor Journalism
Elizabeth Faue Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002 xi + 249 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 136-138 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-136 [PDF]  

John F. Lyons

Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960
Ronald D. Cohen New York: Routledge, 2002 xviii + 280 pp., $25.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 138-140 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-138 [PDF]  

William Millikan

From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States
Robert Michael Smith Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003 xviii + 179 pp., $44.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 140-143 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-140 [PDF]  

Daniel E. Bend

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Todd DePastino Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 xxv + 325 pp., $32.50 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 143-144 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-143 [PDF]  

Brian Kelly

A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South, from Slavery to the Great Migration
Steven Hahn Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 viii + 610 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 145-147 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-145 [PDF]  

Michael Honey

Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Robert Rodgers Korstad Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xii, 556 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 148-150 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-148 [PDF]  

Mae M. Ng

Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890-1930
Frank Van Nuys Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002 xv + 294 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 150-152 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-150 [PDF]  

Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes

Blood and Fire: La Violenciaa in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953
Mary Roldán Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003 xiii + 392 pp., $74.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 152-155 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-152 [PDF]  

Susie S. Porter

Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacán, 1920-1935
Christopher R. Boyer Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003 xii + 320 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 1(3): 155-157 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-155 [PDF]  

Robert E. Weir

Comrades and Cousins: Globalization, Workers, and Labour Movements in Britain, the USA, and Australia from the 1880s to 1914
Neville Kirk London: Merlin Press, 2003 x + 230 pp., $29.95
Labor 1(3): 157-160 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-157 [PDF]  

Bruno Ramirez

How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
Stanley Aronowitz New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003 vii + 263 pp., $29.95 (cloth)
Labor 1(3): 160-162 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-160 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Labor 1(3): 163-164 (2004); DOI:10.1215/15476715-1-3-163 [PDF]  

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