Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 5(2): 1-3 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-072 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Renny Christopher

Shaping
Labor 5(2): 5 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-073 [PDF]  

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

Stephen Brier

R. L. Davis on Interracial Unionism: An 1886 Letter
Labor 5(2): 7-12 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-074 [PDF]  

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

Roger Horowitz

"That Was a Dirty Job!" Technology and Workplace Hazards in Meatpacking over the Long Twentieth Century
Labor 5(2): 13-25 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-075 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael J. Broadway and Donald D. Stull

"I'll do whatever you want, but it hurts": Worker Safety and Community Health in Modern Meatpacking
Labor 5(2): 27-37 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-076 [Abstract] [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Daniel J. Tichenor

Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform
Labor 5(2): 39-60 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-077 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Barry R. Chiswick

Commentary on Daniel Tichenor, "Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform"
Labor 5(2): 61-64 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-078 [PDF]  

Nancy Foner

Immigration Policy: Bringing in the City, State, and Region
Labor 5(2): 65-69 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-079 [PDF]  

David G. Gutiérrez

Citizens, Noncitizens, and the Shell Game of Immigration Policy Reform: A Response to Dan Tichenor
Labor 5(2): 71-75 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-080 [PDF]  

Daniel J. Tichenor

Getting the Full Picture: Immigrant Social Rights, Subnational Politics, and the Mobilization of Noncitizens
Labor 5(2): 77-81 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-081 [PDF]  

ARTICLE

Dave Burns

The Soul of Socialism: Christianity, Civilization, and Citizenship in the Thought of Eugene Debs
Labor 5(2): 83-116 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-082 [Abstract] [PDF]  

ARTICLE AFTERMATH

John Womack, Jr.

On Labor History, Material Relations, Labor Movements, and Strategic Positions: A Reply to French and James (as Nice and Civil as I Can Make It)
Labor 5(2): 117-123 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-083 [PDF]  

John D. French and Daniel James

Polemics and an "Army of One": Responding to John Womack Jr.
Labor 5(2): 125-129 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-084 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Kitty Krupat

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants
Kathleen M. Barry Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 xiii + 304 pp., $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 130-132 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-085 [PDF]  

Franca Iacovetta

Gendering Labor History
Alice Kessler-Harris Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007 352 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 132-135 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-086 [PDF]  

Lisa Levenstein

Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880 - 1939
S. J. Kleinberg Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006 xiv + 230 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(2): 135-137 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-087 [PDF]  

Alicja Muszynski

Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability, Domesticity, and the Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939 -1947
Jennifer A. Stephen Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007 x + 299 pp., C$75.00 (cloth); C$29.95 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 137-139 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-088 [PDF]  

Joshua B. Freeman

Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II
Andrew E. Kersten New York: New York University Press, 2006 xiii + 274 pp., $42.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(2): 139-141 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-089 [PDF]  

Ron Schatz

Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900 - 1950
Rosemary Feurer Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006 xix + 320 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 141-144 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-090 [PDF]  

Robin Dearmon Jenkins

Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California
Peter La Chapelle Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007 xiv + 350 pp., $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 144-146 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-091 [PDF]  

Robert D. Johnston

Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005 vii + 384 pp., $45.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 147-149 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-092 [PDF]  

John P. Enyeart

Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
Clayton Sinyai Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006 ix + 292 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper)
Labor 5(2): 149-152 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-093 [PDF]  

Alex Lichtenstein

White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa
Jeremy Krikler Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 xiv + 455 pp., $59.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(2): 152-154 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2007-094 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 5(2): 155-156 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-5-2-155 [PDF]  

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