Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 4(2): 1-3 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-057 [PDF]  

ARTS AND MEDIA

Joshua Brown

Cartoon
Labor 4(2): 4-5 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-058 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Will Watson

grievance procedure
Labor 4(2): 7-8 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-059 [PDF]  

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

Philip Samponaro

Painting a Nightmare: Women and Radium Work at the E. Ingraham Company, 1923-1935
Labor 4(2): 9-22 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-060 [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Ava Baron and Eileen Boris

"The Body" as a Useful Category for History Working-Class History
Labor 4(2): 23-43 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-061 [PDF]  

John F. Kasson

Follow the Bodies: Commentary on " `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History"
Labor 4(2): 45-48 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-062 [PDF]  

Susan A. Glenn

Reflections on "The Body" in Labor History
Labor 4(2): 49-53 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-063 [PDF]  

Valerie Burton

A Seafaring Historian's Commentary on " `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History"
Labor 4(2): 55-59 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-064 [PDF]  

Ava Baron and Eileen Boris

In Response: Dichotomous Thinking and the Objects of History; or, Why Bodies Matter, Again
Labor 4(2): 61-63 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-065 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

James Wolfinger

"An Equal Opportunity to Make a Living—and a Life": The FEPC and Postwar Black Politics
Labor 4(2): 65-94 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-066 [PDF]  

John D. French and Daniel James

The Travails of Doing Labor History: The Restless Wanderings of John Womack Jr.
Labor 4(2): 95-116 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-067 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Joe W. Trotter

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
William P. Jones Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005 256 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper)
Labor 4(2): 117-118 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-068 [PDF]  

Michael Honey

Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina; Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Annelise Orleck Boston: Beacon, 2005 352 pp., $29.95 (cloth); $20.00 (paper)
Labor 4(2): 119-121 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-069 [PDF]  

Beth T. Bates

A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey of an African American Labor Leader
Cynthia Taylor New York: New York University Press, 2006 xii + 290 pp., $39.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 121-123 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-070 [PDF]  

Niklas Frykman

Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807
Emma Christopher New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 xviii + 241 pp., $21.99 (paper); $65.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 124-126 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-071 [PDF]  

John Grider

Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
Daniel Vickers with Vince Walsh New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005 352 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 126-128 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-072 [PDF]  

Mark Power Robison

Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America
Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 vi + 386 pp., $50.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 128-130 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-073 [PDF]  

David Brundage

Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community
Mark A. Lause Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005 viii + 240 pp., $20.00 (paper); $42.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 130-132 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-074 [PDF]  

Kriste Lindenmeyer

Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest; Labors of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919
Karin L. Zipf Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005 xi + 207 pp., $42.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 133-136 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-075 [PDF]  

Thomas A. Krainz

The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City
Sharon E. Wood Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 xiii + 321 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper)
Labor 4(2): 137-139 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-076 [PDF]  

Lee Bernstein

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
James B. Jacobs New York: New York University Press, 2006 xxxvi + 319 pp., $32.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 139-141 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-077 [PDF]  

Kevin Boyle

Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century
Martin Halpern Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003 xxi + 261 pp.
Labor 4(2): 141-143 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-078 [PDF]  

Kathleen G. Donohue

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism; The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
Matthew D. Lassiter Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 xv + 376 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(2): 143-146 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-079 [PDF]  

Magda Fahrni

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997; From UI to EI: Waging War on the Welfare State
Georges Campeau Trans. Richard Howard Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005 288 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper)
Labor 4(2): 146-148 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2006-080 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 4(2): 149-150 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-4-2-149 [PDF]  

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