ARTICLES

Leon Fink

Editor's Introduction
Labor 5(4): 1-4 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-021 [PDF]  

THE COMMON VERSE

Jeanne Bryner

Moments in the Kitchen
Labor 5(4): 5 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-022 [PDF]  

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS

Steve Early

Labor Law Reform Thirty Years Later: Back to the Future with EFCA?
Labor 5(4): 7-16 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-023 [PDF]  

UP FOR DEBATE

Bruce Laurie

Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective
Labor 5(4): 17-55 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-024 [PDF]  

James L. Huston

Model Defects: A Review of Bruce Laurie's "Workers, Abolitionists, and the Historians: A Historiographical Perspective"
Labor 5(4): 57-64 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-025 [PDF]  

Joanne Pope Melish

Workers and Whiteness Revisited
Labor 5(4): 65-68 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-026 [PDF]  

Brian Kelly

Mapping Alternate Routes to Antislavery
Labor 5(4): 69-73 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-027 [PDF]  

Bruce Laurie

Response
Labor 5(4): 75-82 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-028 [PDF]  

ARTICLE

Joan Sangster

"Queen of the Picket Line": Beauty Contests in the Post–World War II Canadian Labor Movement, 1945–1970
Labor 5(4): 83-106 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-029 [Abstract] [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

Ken Fones-Wolf

Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
Steven High and David W. Lewis Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2007 193 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 107-109 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-030 [PDF]  

Tobias Higbie

Tied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking
Wilson J. Warren Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007 xi + 206 pp., $39.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(4): 109-111 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-031 [PDF]  

Adam Fairclough

Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Laurie B. Green Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 415 pp., $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 112-113 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-032 [PDF]  

Solsiree del Moral

From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912–1982
Anne S. Macpherson Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007 xviii + 408 pp., $55.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(4): 114-115 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-033 [PDF]  

Neville Kirk

Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922
Malcolm Campbell Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008 xiii + 239 pp., $65 (cloth); $29.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 116-118 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-034 [PDF]  

Colin Davis

Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
Peter Cole Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007 x + 227 pp., $40.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(4): 118-120 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-035 [PDF]  

Rosanne Currarino

Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the American West
Geoff Mann Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007 xviii + 245 pp., $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 120-122 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-036 [PDF]  

A. Tom Grunfeld

Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933
Josephine Fowler New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007 xiv + 272 pp., $27.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 123-124 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-037 [PDF]  

Mark A. Lause

Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
David R. Meyer Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 328 pp., $49.95 (cloth)
Labor 5(4): 125-127 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-038 [PDF]  

Seth Wigderson

Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America
Kevin L. Borg Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 viii + 249 pp., $50.00 (cloth)
Labor 5(4): 127-128 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-039 [PDF]  

Jack Metzgar

U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below
Kim Moody London: Verso, 2007 247 pp., $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper)
Labor 5(4): 129-131 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-2008-040 [PDF]  

CONTRIBUTORS
Labor 5(4): 132-133 (2008); DOI:10.1215/15476715-5-4-132 [PDF]  

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