Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 4(1): 1-5 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-030 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Karen J. Weyant

Bad Air
Labor 4(1): 7 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-031 [PDF]  

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

Mike Smith and Kevin Bragg

Labor Archives: Still Relevant?
Labor 4(1): 9-15 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-056 [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Nelson Lichtenstein

Supply Chains, Workers' Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy
Labor 4(1): 17-31 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-032 [PDF]  

John D. French

Wal-Mart, Retail Supremacy, and the Relevance of Political Economy: The Intermestic Challenge of Contemporary Research (Academic, Agitational, and Constructive)
Labor 4(1): 33-40 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-033 [PDF]  

Susan Strasser

Comments on Lichtenstein, "Supply Chains, Workers' Chains"
Labor 4(1): 41-44 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-034 [PDF]  

Sven Beckert

Comment on Nelson Lichtenstein, "Supply Chains, Workers' Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy"
Labor 4(1): 45-48 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-035 [PDF]  

Peter A. Coclanis

Model Change: Wal-Mart, General Motors, and the "New World" of Retail Supremacy
Labor 4(1): 49-58 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-036 [PDF]  

Nelson Lichtenstein

Response
Labor 4(1): 59-63 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-037 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Linda Upham-Bornstein

"Men of Families": The Intersection of Labor Conflict and Race in the Norfolk Dry Dock Affair, 1829-1831
Labor 4(1): 65-97 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-038 [PDF]  

James P. McCartin and Joseph A. McCartin

Working-Class Catholicism: A Call for New Investigations, Dialogue, and Reappraisal
Labor 4(1): 99-110 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-039 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Colleen O'Neill

Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Paige Raibmon Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005 xv + 307 pp., $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 111-112 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-040 [PDF]  

Bruce Levine

Beyond Garrison: Antislavery and Social Reform
Bruce Laurie New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005 xi + 364 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $23.99 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 113-115 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-041 [PDF]  

Jerald Podair

Citizen Teacher: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley; Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940
Stephen Lassonde New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005 xvi + 301 pp., $45.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(1): 115-118 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-042 [PDF]  

James R. Barrett

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
James Green New York: Pantheon, 2006 368 pp., illustrated, $26.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(1): 119-121 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-043 [PDF]  

Michael Kazin

Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
Shelton Stromquist University of Illinois Press, 2006 289 pp., $50 (cloth); $22 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 121-123 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-044 [PDF]  

Cecelia Bucki

Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
Evelyn Savidge Sterne Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003 xv + 294 pp., $34.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(1): 123-124 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-045 [PDF]  

R. Todd Laugen

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
Jeanette Keith Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004 272 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 125-127 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-046 [PDF]  

Robert H. Zieger

Labor, Loyalty, Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
Carl R. Weinberg Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005 xiii + 246 pp., $29.50 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 127-129 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-047 [PDF]  

Lawrence Glickman

A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class
Jeffrey M. Hornstein Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005 ix + 252 pp., $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 129-131 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-048 [PDF]  

Kathleen Barry

Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace
Nancy MacLean New York and Cambridge, MA: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2006 xii + 454 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(1): 131-134 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-049 [PDF]  

Christina Greene

I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
Steve Estes Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 vi + 239 pp., index, bibliography, $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 134-136 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-050 [PDF]  

Jefferson Cowie

Don't Sleep with Stevens! The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-1980
Timothy J. Minchin Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005 xvi + 239 pp., $59.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(1): 137-138 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-051 [PDF]  

Aviva Chomsky

The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War
Greg Grandin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004 336 pp., $22.00 (paperback)
Labor 4(1): 139-141 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-052 [PDF]  

John D. French

To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil
Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2003 365 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 141-143 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-053 [PDF]  

Colin Davis

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool
Jacqueline Nassy Brown Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005 ix + 306 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Labor 4(1): 144-145 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-054 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 4(1): 146-147 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-4-1-146 [PDF]  

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