Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 2(1): 1-4 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-1 [PDF]  

The LAWCHA Watch

Dan Letwin

The LAWCHA Watch
Labor 2(1): 5-6 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-5 [PDF]  

Correspondence

Robert Shaffer

"Everybody's Town"
Labor 2(1): 7-10 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-7 [PDF]  

The Common Verse

Bruce Severy

The Giveaway Racks
Labor 2(1): 11-14 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-11 [PDF]  

Contemporary Affairs

Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss

New Unity for Labor?
Labor 2(1): 15-26 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-15 [PDF]  

Articles

Sarah F. Rose

"Crippled" Hands: Disability in Labor and Working-Class History
Labor 2(1): 27-54 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-27 [PDF]  

David Goutor

Drawing Different Lines of Color: The Mainstream English Canadian Labour Movement's Approach to Blacks and the Chinese, 1880-1914
Labor 2(1): 55-76 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-55 [PDF]  

Elizabeth McKillen

Hybrid Visions: Working-Class Internationalism in the Mexican Borderlands, Seattle, and Chicago, 1910-1920
Labor 2(1): 77-107 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-77 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

David Roediger

American Babylon: Race, Power, and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
Robert O. Self Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003 xiv + 386 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 108-109 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-108 [PDF]  

Caroline Waldron Merithew

White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945
Thomas A. Guglielmo New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 246 pp., $45.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 110-112 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-110 [PDF]  

Kevin P. Murphy

Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930; Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920
Thomas Winter Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 xi + 208 pp., $40.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 112-114 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-112 [PDF]  

Richard A. Greenwald

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003 350 pp., $29.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 114-116 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-114 [PDF]  

James R. Barrett

Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered
Jack Metzgar Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000 x + 264 pp., $69.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 116-118 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-116 [PDF]  

Brian Greenberg

Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir
Moe Foner with Dan North Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002 xv + 142 pp., $25.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 118-121 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-118 [PDF]  

Kevin Powers

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout
Timothy J. Minchin Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003 ix + 234 pp., $55.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 121-123 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-121 [PDF]  

Adam J. Hodges

An American Family: The Great War and Corporate Culture in America
Ferdinando Fasce, translated by Ian Harvey Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002 xvi + 190 pp., $59.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 123-125 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-123 [PDF]  

Mark Leier

When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island
John R. Hinde Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003 viii + 276 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 125-127 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-125 [PDF]  

Annelise Orleck

The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 388 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $9.95 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 127-130 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-127 [PDF]  

Howard Brick

Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression
Bryan D. Palmer New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000 xiii + 609 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 130-132 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-130 [PDF]  

Matthew B. Karush

Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires during the Rosas Era
Ricardo D. Salvatore Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003 xiv+ 563 pp., $59.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 133-135 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-133 [PDF]  

Bruno Ramirez

Yankees Don't Go Home: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950
Julio Moreno Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xi + 321 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper)
Labor 2(1): 135-137 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-135 [PDF]  

John D. French

Deference and Defi ance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950
Michael Snodgrass Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003 xii + 321 pp., $70.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(1): 137-139 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-137 [PDF]  

Film Reviews

Nelson Lichtenstein

Deadline for Action; Our Union; The Great Swindle
Union Films, 1948 30 mins.
Labor 2(1): 140-143 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-140 [PDF]  

Gerald Ronning

An Injury to One
Directed by Travis Wilkerson First Run/Icarus Films, 2002 53 mins.
Labor 2(1): 143-144 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-143 [PDF]  

Dana Frank

Chain of Love; Working Women of the World
Directed by Marie France Collard First Run/Icarus Films, 2002 53 mins.
Labor 2(1): 145-147 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-145 [PDF]  

Gregory Albo

The Corporation
Directed by Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar Big Picture Media, 2003 145 mins.
Labor 2(1): 147-149 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-147 [PDF]  

Aviva Chomsky

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain Irish Film Board and Power Pictures, 2003 74 mins.
Labor 2(1): 149-151 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-149 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Labor 2(1): 152 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-1-152 [PDF]  

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