Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 2(3): 1-3 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-1 [PDF]  

Dan Letwin

The LAWCHA Watch
Labor 2(3): 5-7 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-5 [PDF]  

Joshua Brown

Cartoon
Labor 2(3): 8-9 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-8 [PDF]  

The Common Verse

Peter Blair

Accident at Carrie Furnace, Pittsburgh
Labor 2(3): 11-12 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-11 [PDF]  

Contemporary Affairs

John D. French and Alexandre Fortes

Another World Is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers' Party and the Prospects for Lula's Government
Labor 2(3): 13-31 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-13 [PDF]  

Up for Debate

Vivyan Adair

The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty Class in Academe
Labor 2(3): 33-46 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-33 [PDF]  

Articles

David M. Anderson

Levittown Is Burning! The 1979 Levittown, Pennsylvania, Gas Line Riot and the Decline of the Blue-Collar American Dream
Labor 2(3): 47-66 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-47 [PDF]  

Joseph A. McCartin

"Fire the Hell out of Them": Sanitation Workers' Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s
Labor 2(3): 67-92 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-67 [PDF]  

Jefferson Cowie

Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies
Labor 2(3): 93-102 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-93 [PDF]  

Dorothy Sue Cobble

A "Tiger by the Toenail": The 1970s Origins of the New Working-Class Majority
Labor 2(3): 103-114 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-103 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Lucy Salyer

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae M. Ngai Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004 xx + 377 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 115-117 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-115 [PDF]  

Amy Dru Stanley

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law
John Fabian Witt Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004 311 pp., $49.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 117-119 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-117 [PDF]  

Philip Girard

Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J. L. Cohen
Laurel Sefton MacDowell Toronto: University of Toronto Press (for the Osgoode Society), 2001 xvi + 385 pp., $63.00 (cloth); $38.00 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 120-121 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-120 [PDF]  

James P. Brennan

Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture
John D. French Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004 xviii + 233 pp., $24.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 122-123 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-122 [PDF]  

Christopher R. Boyer

The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848-1910
Juan Mora-Torres Austin: University of Texas Press xi + 346 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 124-125 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-124 [PDF]  

Susan Levine

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism
Ileen A. DeVault Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004 xi + 244 pp., $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 126-128 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-126 [PDF]  

William P. Jones

New Working-Class Studies
John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon, eds. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2005 320 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 128-130 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-128 [PDF]  

Daniel Clark

The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
Lisa M. Fine Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004 xii + 239 pp., $69.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 130-133 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-130 [PDF]  

Ferdinando Fasce

Are Italians White? How Race Is Made in America
Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno, eds. New York: Routledge, 2003 xiii+ 328 pp., $90.95 (cloth); $21.05 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 133-135 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-133 [PDF]  

Susannah Walker

We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954
Megan Taylor Shockley Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004 viii + 256 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 135-138 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-135 [PDF]  

Alex Lubin

No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Chris Rhomberg Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 xiii + 315 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 138-140 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-138 [PDF]  

Joshua B. Freeman

American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture
Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor, eds. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004 xi + 297 pp., $62.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 141-143 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-141 [PDF]  

Seth Wigderson

Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union
David Witwer Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003 viii + 298 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 2(3): 143-145 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-143 [PDF]  

Kevin Boyle

Managing the Mills: Labor Policy in the American Steel Industry during the Nonunion Era
Jonathan Rees Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004 xxvi + 298 pp., $74.00 (cloth); $43.00 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 145-147 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-145 [PDF]  

Michael O. Smith

Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
Douglas Brinkley New York: Viking, 2003. Paperback: Penguin Books, 2004 xxii + 858 pp., $18.00 (paper)
Labor 2(3): 147-149 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-147 [PDF]  

Contributors

Contributors
Labor 2(3): 150-151 (2005); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2-3-150 [PDF]  

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