Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 5(1): 1-3 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-049 [PDF]  

IN MEMORIAM

Steve Brier and Josh Brown

In Memoriam: Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007)
Labor 5(1): 5-6 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-050 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

my great great grandmother writes the perfect poem
Labor 5(1): 7-8 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-051 [PDF]  

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

James Lawson

Forty Years since King: The Memphis Sanitation Strike
Labor 5(1): 9-13 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-052 [PDF]  

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

Antonio Luigi Negro and Paulo Fontes

Using Police Records in Labor History: A Case Study of the Brazilian DOPS
Labor 5(1): 15-22 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-053 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Timothy Messer-Kruse

Technology and the Decline of Child Labor: The Impact of the Owens Bottle Machine Reconsidered
Labor 5(1): 23-45 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-054 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jennifer Luff

Surrogate Supervisors: Railway Spotters and the Origins of Workplace Surveillance
Labor 5(1): 47-74 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-055 [Abstract] [PDF]  

David Van Arsdale

The Recasualization of Blue-Collar Workers: Industrial Temporary Help Work's Impact on the Working Class
Labor 5(1): 75-99 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-056 [Abstract] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Alice Kessler-Harris

From Marriage to the Market: The Transformation of Women's Lives and Work
Susan Thistle Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xiv + 296 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 5(1): 100-102 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-057 [PDF]  

Gerald Ronning

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century; Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Jane E. Simonson Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006 xii + 266 pp., $22.50 (paper)
Labor 5(1): 102-106 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-058 [PDF]  

Anna R. Igra

Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
Thomas A. Krainz Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 xiv + 325 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(1): 106-108 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-059 [PDF]  

Greg Hall

Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
Lawrence M. Lipin Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007 xv + 213 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 5(1): 108-110 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-060 [PDF]  

Victor Silverman

Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War
Edmund F. Wehrle Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005 vii + 304 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 5(1): 110-113 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-061 [PDF]  

James Green

Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Tom Goyens Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007 312 pages, $40.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(1): 113-115 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-062 [PDF]  

Lucy E. Salyer

The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965
Martha Gardner Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005 271 pp., $37.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(1): 116-118 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-063 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Jameson

Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community
Marc S. Rodriguez, ed. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2004 xiii + 418 pp., $80.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(1): 118-121 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-064 [PDF]  

Brian Thorn

Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades; A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
Faith Johnston Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006 xi + 361 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Labor 5(1): 121-125 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-065 [PDF]  

José Ricardo Ramalho

Nós do Quarto Distrito: A Classe Trabalhadora Porto-Alegrense e a Era Vargas [We of the Fourth District: The Working Class of Porto Alegre and the Vargas Era]
Alexandre Fortes Caxias do Sul/Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Universidad de Caxias do Sul/Garamond, 2004 459 pp.; R$36,00
Labor 5(1): 125-127 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-066 [PDF]  

Brodwyn Fischer

Greves e repressão policial ao sindicalismo carioca: 1945-1964; Trabalhadores em greve, polícia em guarda: Greves e repressão policial na formação da classe trabalhadora carioca
Marcelo Badaró Mattos, coordinator Rio de Janeiro: Bom Texto/FAPERJ, 2004 200 pp. (paper)
Labor 5(1): 128-133 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-067 [PDF]  

FILM REVIEWS

John D. French

Lula's Brazil: The Management of Hope
Directed by Gonzalo Arijón Paris: Dissidents & Arte France, 2005 Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films, New York 62 minutes; $390 (DVD)
Labor 5(1): 134-136 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-068 [PDF]  

Andrew Boeger

The Devil's Miner
Directed by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani Urban Landscapes Productions, 2005 Spanish and Quechua; subtitles 82 minutes; $19.99 (DVD)
Labor 5(1): 136-137 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-069 [PDF]  

Lawrence B. Glickman

An Unreasonable Man
Directed by Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan IFC Films, 2005 122 minutes, $26.95 (DVD)
Labor 5(1): 138-139 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-070 [PDF]  

Madeline Y. Hsu

Golden Venture: A Journey into America's Immigration Nightmare
Directed and produced by Peter Cohn Hillcrest Films Production, 2006 70 minutes, $95.00 (DVD); $105.00 (VHS)
Labor 5(1): 140-141 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-071 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 5(1): 143 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-5-1-143 [PDF]  

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