Leon Fink

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

Dan Letwin

The LAWCHA Watch
Labor 2(2): 5-8 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-5 [PDF]  

Arts and Media

Ellen Wiley Todd

Photojournalism, Visual Culture, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Labor 2(2): 9-28 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-9 [PDF]  

The Common Verse

Fred Voss

Gravel Miracle
Labor 2(2): 29-30 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-29 [PDF]  

Contemporary Affairs

Lara Kelland

Putting Haymarket to Rest?
Labor 2(2): 31-38 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-31 [PDF]  

Notes and Documents

Timothy Messer-Kruse, James O. Eckert, Jr., Pannee Burckel, and Jeffrey Dunn

The Haymarket Bomb: Reassessing the Evidence
Labor 2(2): 39-52 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-39 [PDF]  

Articles

Scott Nelson

Who Was John Henry? Railroad Construction, Southern Folklore, and the Birth of Rock and Roll
Labor 2(2): 53-80 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-53 [PDF]  

Erik S. Gellman

"Carthage Must Be Destroyed": Race, City Politics, and the Campaign to Integrate Chicago Transportation Work, 1929–1943
Labor 2(2): 81-114 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-81 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Bryan D. Palmer

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Marcus Rediker Boston: Beacon, 2004 240 pp., $24.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 115-117 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-115 [PDF]  

Bruce Nelson

Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946–61
Colin J. Davis Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003 x + 246 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 117-119 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-117 [PDF]  

Jeffrey L. Gould

The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South
Leon Fink Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 xiii + 254 pp., $37.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 119-122 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-119 [PDF]  

Dana Frank

Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas
Steve Striffler and Mark Moberg, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003 viii + 364 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 122-124 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-122 [PDF]  

Cliff Welch

The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution
Cindy Forster Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 xi + 287 pp., $34.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 125-127 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-125 [PDF]  

Eileen Boris

Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
Jane L. Collins Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 xiv + 207 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 127-129 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-127 [PDF]  

Lawrence Glickman

Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760–1860
Michael Zakim Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 ix + 296 pp., $30.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 130-132 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-130 [PDF]  

Dennis Deslippe

Labouring the Canadian Millennium: Writings on Work and Workers, History and Historiography
Bryan D. Palmer, ed. St. John's, Newfoundland: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000 483 pp., $20.00 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 132-134 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-132 [PDF]  

Melvyn Dubofsky

After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
Susan Eleanor Hirsch Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003 x + 292 pp., $44.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 134-136 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-134 [PDF]  

Lisa M. Fine

American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935–1970
John Barnard Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004 xiv + 607 pp., $34.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 136-138 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-136 [PDF]  

Robert O. Self

Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
Andrew Wiese Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 ix + 411 pp., $37.50 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 138-141 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-138 [PDF]  

Steven A. Reich

Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890–1940; The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930
Elna C. Green, ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003 xix + 275 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 141-146 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-141 [PDF]  

Eric Arnesen

Stories of Freedom in Black New York; In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
Leslie M. Harris Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 xii + 380 pp., $42.50 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 2(2): 146-149 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-146 [PDF]  

Alex Lichtenstein

American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003 282 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(2): 150-152 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-150 [PDF]  

Announcement

The California Labor History Map and Web Site
Labor 2(2): 153 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-153 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Labor 2(2): 154-156 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-2-154 [PDF]  

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