Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 5(3): 1-4 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-001 [PDF]  

IN MEMORIAM

Walter Licht

In Memoriam: Alan Dawley (1943-2008)
Labor 5(3): 5-6 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-041 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Michael R. Moore

Imagining
Labor 5(3): 7 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-003 [PDF]  

ARTS AND MEDIA

Ian Gordon

Read from the Left: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Labor 5(3): 9-12 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-002 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Alan Derickson

"Asleep and Awake at the Same Time": Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters
Labor 5(3): 13-44 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-004 [PDF]  

Edmund F. Wehrle

"Partisan for the Hard Hats": Charles Colson, George Meany, and the Failed Blue-Collar Strategy
Labor 5(3): 45-66 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-005 [PDF]  

Michael Hillard and Jonathan P. Goldstein

Cutting Off the Canadians: Nativism and the Fate of the Maine Woodman's Association, 1970-1981
Labor 5(3): 67-89 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-006 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Jonathan Prude

The Slave Ship: A Human History
Marcus Rediker New York: Viking, 2007 434 pp., $27.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 90-92 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-007 [PDF]  

David Montgomery

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Michael K. Honey New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007 xviii + 619 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 93-94 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-008 [PDF]  

Moon-Ho Jung

Becoming Free in the Cotton South
Susan Eva O'Donovan Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007 xii + 364 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 95-96 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-009 [PDF]  

Susan E. O'Donovan

Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia
Daina Ramey Berry Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007 xvi + 224 pp., $40.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 97-98 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-010 [PDF]  

Mary H. Blewett

The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
Marla R. Miller Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 xiv + 302 pp., $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 99-101 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-011 [PDF]  

Premilla Nadasen

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor
Dorothy Sue Cobble, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007 vii + 327 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 101-103 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-012 [PDF]  

Marc Simon Rodriguez

Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960; Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
Robert Courtney Smith Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005 385 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 104-107 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-013 [PDF]  

Michael C. Pierce

Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Joseph Gerteis Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007 x + 274 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 108-110 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-014 [PDF]  

Randi Storch

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
Bryan D. Palmer Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007 xviii + 542 pp., $50.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 110-112 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-015 [PDF]  

William Jones

For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953
Daniel J. Opler Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007 270 pp., $49.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(3): 113-115 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-016 [PDF]  

Thomas F. Jackson

Why America Lost the War on Poverty—And How to Win It
Frank Stricker Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 360 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 115-117 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-017 [PDF]  

Paige Raibmon

The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis, eds. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006 xix + 210 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 118-120 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-018 [PDF]  

Esyllt W. Jones

Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
David Goutor Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007 273 pp., C$85 (cloth); C$32.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 120-122 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-019 [PDF]  

Anne S. Macpherson

Cold War in a Hot Zone: The United States Confronts Labor and Independence Struggles in the British West Indies
Gerald Horne Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007 262 pp., $74.50 (cloth); $25.95 (paper)
Labor 5(3): 123-124 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-020 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 5(3): 125 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-5-3-125 [PDF]  

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