Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 4(4): 1-3 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-022 [PDF]  

ARTS AND MEDIA

Joshua Brown

Cartoon
Labor 4(4): 4-5 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-023 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Jim Daniels and Charlee Brodsky

Homestead—From Mill Town to Mall Town
Labor 4(4): 7-21 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-032 [PDF]  

READING ROUNDTABLE

My Favorite Labor Novel
Labor 4(4): 23-32 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-024 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Michael Roberts

You Say You Want a (Counter) Revolution? Attempts by the Musicians' Union to Jam Up Rock and Roll
Labor 4(4): 33-54 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-033 [PDF]  

Audra Jennings

"The greatest numbers... will be wage earners": Organized Labor and Disability Activism, 1945-1953
Labor 4(4): 55-82 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-034 [PDF]  

Theresa Case

The Radical Potential of the Knights' Biracialism: The 1885-1886 Gould System Strikes and Their Aftermath
Labor 4(4): 83-107 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-035 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Paula Rabinowitz

A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Bastard Son
Clancy Sigal New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006 xii + 289 pp., $26.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 108-110 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-036 [PDF]  

Thomas E. Conroy

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier
Alfred F. Young New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 x + 417 p.: ill., maps, $26.95 (cloth); $16.00 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 111-112 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-037 [PDF]  

Karin Shapiro

Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry; The Untold Story of an American Legend
Scott Reynolds Nelson New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 214 pp., $25.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 113-115 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-038 [PDF]  

Sara M. Gregg

Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History
Melissa Walker Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006 324 pp., $45.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 115-117 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-039 [PDF]  

Gary Gerstle

Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White; The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David R. Roediger New York: Basic Books, 2005 vii + 339 pp., $17.00 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 118-120 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-040 [PDF]  

Donna R. Gabaccia

A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America
Aristide R. Zolberg New York and Cambridge, MA: Russell Sage Foundation and Harvard University Press, 2006 viii + 658 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 120-123 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-041 [PDF]  

Peter S. McInnis

The Workers' Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada
Craig Heron and Steve Penfold Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005 xviii + 340 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 123-125 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-042 [PDF]  

Daniel E. Bender

Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006 xviii + 307 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 125-127 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-043 [PDF]  

Tami J. Friedman

A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry
Beth English Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006 x + 236 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 127-130 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-044 [PDF]  

Brian DeLay

Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Samuel Truett New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006 xii + 259 pp., $40.00 (cloth)
Labor 4(4): 130-132 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-045 [PDF]  

Daniela Spenser

The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910-1945
Stephen E. Lewis Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 xii + 283 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 133-135 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-046 [PDF]  

Melvyn Dubofsky

Forgotten Radicals: Communists in the Pennsylvania Anthracite, 1919-1950
Walter T. Howard Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005 xiv + 268 pp., $63.95 (cloth); $42.00 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 135-136 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-047 [PDF]  

Nancy Gabin

On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression
Mary E. Triece Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007 viii + 179 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 4(4): 137-139 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-048 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 4(4): 140 (2007); DOI:10.1215/15476715-4-4-140 [PDF]  

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